Woodruff County news., 1901-05-23
 CONDENSED TELEGRAMS


 Turkeys desire to re-establish the status quo ante in the postal question and her intention to send high functionary, probably the foreign minister himself, to apologize for the violations of the foreign mail bags. Stranger, which arrived at Kingston, Jamaica, on the 18th, from Colon, re- ported the suspension of hostilities on the part of the Colombian rebels, and that the Colombian government was believed to be negotiating to end the revolution.
 The Oregon Christian Endeavor union closed it's state convention at Salem on the 18th. Francis E. Clark, of Boston, president of the National Union of Christian Endeayor societies, was present at the convention, and delivered several addresses.
 All rumors regarding the abdication of King Alexander of Servia, the 'es- ignation of the cabinet, and the ban ishment of Queen Draga, growing out of recent sensational experiences of the Servian royal family, are declared to be without foundation.
 The revolutionary groups of Paris celebrated, as usual, on the 18th, the anniversary of the Commune, march ing in patches to the cemetery of Pere LaChaise and depositing wreaths at the foot of the wall where the com munists were shot.
 The elections to the new chamber of deputies were held in Spain on the 18th. At Bilbao there was quarrel between a ministerialist and a social ist, ard the latter was killed. Anoth- CT person was killed at Cuence, q suburb of Bilbao.
 A cabinet crisis in Peru is reported to be imminent. It is said that the minister of finance, Domingo Amen ara, has threatened to resign as he disagrees with his colleagues on the details of the salt monopoly.
 According to advices from Seoul, the Corean government has leased to Japan 430 acres of land to form set clement at Ma San Pho. The laud in question was formerly anxiously sought by Russia.
 Gen. Chaffee, at midnight of the 18th, issued his farewell order ending the American relief expedition in China.
 M. Pichon, the French minister, left Pekin, on the 18th, for home.
 Funeral services over the remains of Mrs. Lyman J. Gage were held, on the 20th, at the secretary's residence on Massachusetts avenue in Washing" ton. Rev pr. N. D. Hills, of Fly mouth church, Brooklyn, conducted the services, which were exceedingly simple. At ten o'clock the body was placed on the Pennsylvania limited train for transportation to Chicago for interment in Rose Hill cemetery.
 Among the features of the dedica ton of the Pan-American exposition, at Buffalo, N. Y., on the goth, was the simultaneous release of several thousand carrier pigeons. Confused at first by their own numbers, they circled low in wild flight, and then gradually scared upward on graceful wing. High up, where they got their bearings, they parted and took flight to every quarter of the compass.
 Mrs. Elmer Cuimby, wife of farm CT living near St. Louis, Mich., on the night of the 18th, gave morphine 10 her two children, a boy aged seven <l ,c<1 next day. Mrs. Quimby then took the drug herself, but she will recover. Family trouble is said to have induced the woman to commit the crime. She is under arrest on the charge of mur- der.
 In the presence of vast concursc of people, with ceremonials both con ventional and novel, the Pan-Ameri- can exposition at Buffalo, N. Y., was formally dedicated on the goth. The day was fair, and the industrious, energetic men who planned the great enterprise rejoiced in tiattering sue cess.
 Approximately fifty thousand ma chinists throughout the country struck, on the goth, for a nine-hour day, scale of wages equal to the present ten-hour per day scale and other demands. A large number of employees conceded the demands, and thus averted threatened trouble.
 The sovereign camp Woodmen of the World at Columbus, O., on the goth, decided that in the future if a member engage in the liquor business he shall be expelled, and camps refus- ing to take this action shall have their charters revoked.
 Esther Cleveland, the nine-year-old daughter of the former president, is suffering from diphtheria at her home in Princeton, N. J. The physician in attendance anticipates no serious de- yelopment in the case.