Woodruff County news., 1901-08-22
NEWS IN BRIEF
Compiled from Various Sources.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL,


 son Ulysses s. Grant.
 Hon. ThoS. Carter. of Montana, president of the St. Louis Worlds Fair national commission, and ex- Gov. Francis, of Missouri, chairman of the board of directors, arrived at Canton, O., on the 18th, and called on the president. In response to their earnest request, the president prom ised, in a few days, to issue his proc lamation inviting the nations of the world to participate in the exposition. On the 18th, under proceedings in voluntary bankruptcy, the Chicago Title and Trust Co. was appointed temporary receiver for the George II. Phillips Grain Go. Bond in the sum of $100,000 was given.
 The official Handelsblad, of Amster- dam, while incredulous regarding the story that an attempt is being made to persuade Mr. Kruger to sign a doc ument authorizing privateering against Great Britain, on the 18th, warned the Boer leaders that mo civ ilized power would approve of the
 
 val system of warfare like privateer- ing.
 The government of Denmark. hav- ing determined to return the visit of the United States training ship Hartford the cruiser Nalkyrien, in command of Prince Waldemar, the kings youngest son, will sail for New York in January, and afterwards visit other American portss.
 B. Mollison, inspector of agricul- ture for the British Indian govern ment, is in this country Investigating the methods of the agricultural de- partment and it's work among the farmers, with view to applying a similar system in India. He is espe- cially interested in the cultivation of cotton, tobacco and sugar cane. Mir. Mollison, after completing his in- quiries in Washington, will inspect the agricultural experiment stations in some of the states.
 MISCELLANEOUS.
 Kansas population, according to the assessors census, is 1,467, sos, a net increase in one year of 23, 100. The largest gain was 6,519, in Wyandotte county; the largest loss, 2,059, in Cherokee county.
 On the 18th nearly five hundred ca dets from West Point arrived at Buff falo, N. r., and went into camp with in the Pan-American exposition grounds.
 On the 18th the first motor funeral Coventry, on the occasion of the in torment of an old employe of one of the automobile companies. The hearse was a special, constructed siX-horse- power car. All the three cars used were draped with black.
 On the 18th 704 exiled persons, many of them being women, started from Constantinople for Yemen, Arabia. The prisoners include those who were implicated in the recent fire at the harem of the Yildiz palace.
 On the 18th three additions to the United States navy were christened and launched at the shipyards of the y They are torpedo boat destroyers, and will be known as the Whipple, Truxton and Worden.
 On the 18th the entire town of Lan- dess, Ind, was destroyed by fire. There was no fire protection what ever. The town had a population of 300. No casualties were reported.
 Crop reports from Italy indicate the wheat prospect as slightly in ex- cess of last seasons harvest of 42,- OOO,OO0 hectolitres. For the first time in several seasons the olive crop will be good, and the prospects for hemp, corn and rice are uniformly bright.
 A party of geologists of the Asso- citation for Advancement of Science started from Denver, on the 16th, on a ten days tour of the state of Colo rado. They go first to the quarries near Canyon City; thence to Aspen, Salida and other points of geologic interest. Prof. c. R. Van Hise, pro- lessor of geology in the University of Wisconsin, is leader of the party. The statement of the treasury bal ances in the general fund, exclusive of the $150,000,000 gold reserve in the division of redemption, issued on the 16th, showed: Available cash bal ance, $175,407,072; gold, $103, 59,6s7.
 On the 16th, State Building and Loan Inspector Mauck, of Ohio, swore out a warrant for the arrest of J. A. Blodt, late secretary of the Guaran- tee Savings and Loan association, of Cleveland, upon the charge of em- bezzling funds from. the latter insti- tuition. Blodt recently resigned his position with the bank as the result of an investigation by state o@cials. On the 16th detectives arrested Gerhart Terlinden, alias Theodore Giraffe. at boarding house in Milwau- kee. He is charged with embedding 1.50O,000 marks from a large manu- featuring concern in Germany which is capitalized at 1s,ooo,ooo marks. Ter linden, it is alleged, duplicated the concerns stock, had it stamped and