Woodruff County news., 1902-07-10
NEWS OF THE WORLD.

Congress adjourned on the 1st inst.
 Aguinaldo was given his political freedom July 4.
 On the 4th snow fell for two hours over the mountainous region of Wyoming.
 Chas. M. Schwab, the steel trust magnate, is to build home in New York City to cost $3,350,000.
 The Georgia democratic conven- ton failed to mention in its plat form the national platform of 1900, and no reference was made to Bryan.
 J. H. Kent is under indictment at Fort Worth charged with cutting the throat of brother lodge mem- Der at a meeting of Woodman of the World camp.
 The first loss of life from law lessness since the beginning of the coal strike in Pennsylvania about two months ago occurred on the 1st inst. near Wilkesbarre, when a striker named Giuseppe, who was endeavoring to enter stockade, was shot dead.
 Robert Galz, a St. Louis shoe maker, went into the basement of his home to investigate a gas leak and lighted match An explosion immediately followed which wrecked the building, burying Galz's wife and child in the runis. Galz him. self was badly injured.
 Reports to R. c. Dun & Co. show commercial failures for the half year 6,165 in number, with $60,374,856 liabilities, against 5,759 insolvencies in the correspond ing months of 1901, involving $55,- 804,690. Of this years aggregate, 1,418 were in manufacturing for $24, ,145,622, and 337 in other com mercial lines for $6,289,214; as compared with 1865 in manufactur- ing last year for $21, 1,691, ,04S, 4,- 189 in trading for $24, ,864,207, and o0S ,o;oonlIopoo,,o ,,;4L l;ohi1;+;oc of $9,249,435. Defaults of banks and other fiduciary institutions num- bered 34, with an indebtedness of $16,797,763, against 45 in the cor responding six months of 1901, in volving $15,S39,389.
 A statement prepared by Senator Allison, chairman of the committee on appropriations, shows the total appropriations by congress at the session just closed, as follows :: Agriculture, $5,2OS, ,960; army, $91,- 530,136; diplomatic and consular $1,957,925; District of Columbia, $S,647,526; Notifications, $7,92S,- 955; Indian, $91, 1,439, ,902; legisla- tive, $25, ,39S,3S1; military academy, $2,627,324; navy, $78,67S,963 {; pension, $139,842,23O; postoffices, $13S,416 ,59S; river and harbor, $26, 6,726,442 (exclrsive of contracts authorized) sundry civil, $60,125,- 359; deficiency, $28,O39,911; mis- cellaneous, $2,6OO,000; isthmain canal, $50, ,130,0O0; permanent an- nual appropriations, $123,921, ,220 ; grand total, $SOO,193, 1887. The total last year was $730,3SS,575.
 Tobacco manufacturers and deal CTS will be considerably affected by provision which has been passed by congress without attracting much attention, as a part of the bill re- rating to the tax and rebate on to- bacco. The provision is that no package of manufactured tobacco, snuff, cigars or cigarettes shall have attached any representation or promise of ticket or chance in any lottery or an immoral picture. The provision will end a system of ad- vertising upon which tobacco manu- lecturers have expended thousands of dollars. It is believed by internal revenue officials that the provision will prohibit the prizes that are offered by nearly all manufacturers of plug tobacco and cigarettes, awarded by presentation of a specl- fled number of tags or box wrappers.