Woodruff County news., 1901-12-21

An American Dank IS to pc eSIaD- lished at Pelin, China.
 c. l.. Magee, a noted physician of Pittsburg, claims to have discovered cure for lockjaw.
 Miss Stone, the American mis- sionary, is still held captive by Bull garian brigands.
 A. c. Spalding has been elected president of the National Baseball Association to succeed M. E. Young
 The war between the Western Jockey Club and the Turf Congress has been settled by consultations
 Andrew NJ. Lawrence, managing editor of Hearst's Chicago Ameri- can, and H. s. Garfield, a reporter, who were sentenced recently by Judge Hanecy to forty and thirty days, respectively, in the county jail for contempt of court, were dis charged from custody by Judge Dunne last week upon a writ of ha- beas corpus. Judge Dunne, before whom the writ was heard, held that there is no law or reason why judges should be offered different remedies in grievances than other officials.
 In his first annual report to the war department, Gen. Chaffee, mil itary governor of the Philippines, sums up the situation from a mili- tary point of view by stating that the provinces of Batangas and Lagu- na, in Luzon, and the islands of Samar, Mindora, Cebu and Bohol constitute the area now disturbed by any embodied force of insurgents. He says that to the physical charac ter of the country; to the nature of warfare of the rebels, who are amigo and foe in the self-same hour, to the humanity of the troops which is talk en advantage of the rebels and in habitants who sympathize with them, and to the fear of assassination on the part of the friendly disposed, if they give information to the Ameri- can forces, is due the prolongation of the guerrilla warfare.
 Mrs. Frye, of Maine, introduced a new ship subsidy bill in the senate on the 9th. The new bill differs in form from the subsidy bill of the past two sessions, and is divided into -four titles and fifteen sections. The isections> Nder the title "ocean mail Steamships" are devoted to amend ments to the ocean mail act of 1891. The postmaster general is required to consider the national defense and the maritime interests of the United States, as well as postal interests, in providing for transportation of American ocean mails. The present limit of ocean mail contracts, ten years, is increased to fifteen years. The title general subsidy" contains the general subsidy for all vessels, steam or sail, which are not under mail contracts. This general subsi- dy is uniform, 1 cent per gross ton per 100 nautical miles for not ex- ceeding sixteen entries in one year. To promote the building of Ameri- can vessels, an additional allowance of one-fourth cent per gross ton is made for five years
 The report of MT. George B. Rob- erts, director of the mint, upon the operations of the mint service during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1901, has been completed. The coinage of the hints during the fiscal year amounted to 176,999,132 pieces, of the value of $136,340,7S1. Of this, $99,065,715 was in gold, $24,298,- $50 was in silver dollars, $10,966,- GAS was in fractional silver and $2,- 009, ,56S was in minor coins. There also were coined at the Philadelphia mint 225,oo0 gold pieces, of the value of $349,O14, for the govern ment of Costa Rica. The estimated production of gold in the United S+o+ac d,,rinr Tho oalnndor voor QOO