Woodruff County news., 1902-03-06
NEWS OF THE WORLD.


 at 100000 pounds.
 Eggs have been retailing in the cities at from 30 to 40 cents per doz- en the past month.
 Lord Kitchener reports for the week ending February 22 the capture of l64 Boers in the Transvaal col ony.
 Despite the report of victories by government troops, the revolution ists in Venezuela are gaining in strength.
 Dudley Johnson, white, and Ben Foster, colored, were legally hanged at Asheville, N. o., last week for burglary.
 Admiral Schley will accept the verdict of the court of inquiry and President Roosevelt's disposition of the case.
 J. W. Edwards, D. R. Mann, Flu gene Bangs and NJ. T. Moore per ished in fire which destroyed a lodging house at Spokane, Wash.
 Owing to the depression in in dustrial lines throughout Germany, thousands of idle mechanics are focking to the country districts to take up agricultural pursuits.
 Crazy Snake, the troublesome Creek Indian, and nine of his fol lowers, have been sentenced to two years each in the Leayenworth pris- on on the charge of conspiring against the government.
 Harry c. Marquand, at one time vice president and part owner of the Iron Mountain and Southern rail road, died in New York last week. In 1883 lIr. Marquand donated $5,000 for the establishment of public library for railroad men in Little Rock.
 The special committee appointed to formulate a proposition for the punishment of Senators Tillman and McLaurin for their recent offense In the senate recommended that the punishment be limited to a severe censure, and the recommendation was adhered to.
 Lieut.. Gov. Tillman, of South Carolina, a relative of Senator Till man, has requested President Roose- velt to withdraw acceptance of an invitation to present a sword to Major Jenkins, a volunteer officer, at Charleston. It is now believed President Roosevelt will decline to visit the Charleston exposition after this alfront from state official.
 The most important event in the visit of Prince Henry of Prussia to this country took place at Shooters Island, New York, February 25, when the schooner yacht Meteor, built for the princes brother, the German emperor, was launched. The christening ceremony was performed by Miss Alice Roosevelt, in the pres ence of the president. the prince, German Ambassador Von Holleben and a brilliant assemblage. The launching proper vast without mis- hap and presented graceful and beautiful picture, though it was ac- complished in a drizzling rain and other inauspicious atmospheric con- ditions.
 The senate February 24 passed the Philippine tariff bill by a vote of 43 to 29. As passed, the measure pro- vides that articles imported into the Philippine archipelago from the United States shall be required to pay the duties levied against them by the Philippines commission, and paid upon like articles imported into the archipelago from foreign coun- tries; that articles imported into the United States from the Philippines shall pay a duty of 75 per cent of the rates fixed by the Dingley law, less any export taxes paid upon the archipelago, as required by the Phil ippine commission. All articles now imported free into the United States shall be hereafter exempt from export duty imposed in the