Woodruff County news., 1901-11-16

Jennings, La, caused a loss ot SllI,- 900.
 Chas. Thompson, supreme finance keeper of Knights of Maccabees, headquarters at Port Huron, Mich, has confessed to being a defaulter to the order in the sum of $57,000 The order is protected by a surety l bond.
 The massacre of the American garrison at Moncada, Island of Lu. zon, P. l., was averted by the wife of one of the plotters. Several of the town officials are implicated in the murderous scheme The wo- man who revealed the plot hid de- teetive beneath house in which the leaders of the conspiracy were meet ing. Arrests followed and many in- eliminating papers were seized. The plan was to set fire to a house close to the barracks, after dark, and when the soldiers came out to assist in extinguishing the flames, 150 con- spirators, armed with bolos, were to rush on the guard, capture their arms and proceed to massacre the garrison.
 Ii Hung Chang, the grand old man of China," died on the Eth inst. It is the belief among government officials at Washington that Lis death will not affect the execution of the undertakings imposed upon China in the protocol. A change in the Manchusian situation is ex- pected and the United States has a very considerable interest in the outcome of the matter. But it is possible that his death, and the com- ing into power in China as the di- rector of foreign affairs of another prince less friendly to Russia, might hasten the day when Russia might relax her hold upon Manchuria and allow the country to be opened up to the commerce of the world.
 The annual report of Second As sistant Postmaster General Shallen- berger shows that on June 30 last there were 267,357 miles of star route service, 183,358 of railroad routes, 45,779 of railway postoffice car routes, and almost 5000 miles of electric and cable car routes in the country The annual rate of expenditure for all classes of domes- tic mail transportion service has in- creased $6,940,285 since last year. It is contemplated that the new con- tracts for star mail service beginning next July shall provide for deliver- ing mail into boxes along nearly all of the routes. The practice of grant ing to contractors general permission to sub-let their star-route service has been discontinued.
 The census report on school, mi litia and voting age for all states and territories shows the following sum- mary for the country as a whole :: Person of school age, to 20 years, 26,110,788, of whom 24,891,- : 130 are native born, 22,490,211 are whites and 13,086,1 160 are males !; males of militia age, 16,360,363, of whom 13,132,260 are native born and 14,495,396 are whites; and males of voting age, 21, ,329,819, of whom 16,22T,285 are native born and 19,036,143 are white. Of the total number of males, 21 years of age and over, 2,326,255 are Hitter ate. Of the 16,227,2S5 native born males, 21 years of age and over, l. 706,293 are illiterate, and of the 5,1o2,5 foreign born, 62O,OO2 are illiterate. Native white males of voting age who are of foreign par entage show a relative increase in their proportion since 1890, while the colored males of voting age have increased throughout the northern and western sections with few ex- 1 centions like Califnrnia where thnro