Woodruff County news., 1902-04-24

tenth ot the new British loan of $16O,OOO,0OO.
 Brigadier Generals Isaac De Dus- sy, Andrew 5. Burt and Michael V. Sheridan, recently promoted, have been placed on the retired list after
 The Chinese exclusion act Is meet ing with opposition from some of the republicans in the senate, who argue that the measure will hurt our trade in China.
 In his testimony before the sen ate committee on military affairs, Gen. Schofeld declared that Presi- dent Roosevelt and Gen. Miles are not on speaking terms.
 Chas. T. Roberts, a Mississippian, smashed $500 plate glass window of Memphis millinery store, giv- ing as his reason that wax figure in the window was immorally draped in fine lingerie, unfit for the eye of youth to look upon. Roberts efforts at reform will cost him several hun dred dollars and probably long term in prison.
 Joe Mulhatton, the prevaricator prince of America, has been heard from agani. His latest is that he has discovered a method for con- densing Kentucky whisky to such an extent that he can get all of it's Joyfulness and strength into little pills, fifty of which are equal to d gallon of the prlmest mountain dew ever gathered on the smiling slopes of old Kentucky.
 Eugene F. Ware, of Kansas, has been named as the successor of Pen sion Commissioner Evans. MT. Ware is a veteran of the civil and Indian wars; was member of the Kansas senate and twice delegate to the republican national convention. He is the author of many sketches, pamphlets and legal essays, and un- der the nom de plume of "Iron Quill" has written a number of poems.
 Gen. Wade Hampton, of South Carolina, died on the 11th inst. Gen. Hampton had just passed his S4th birthday. He was the most distinguished citizen of South Car olina To the dead statesman and soldier, Gen. Fitzhugh Lee paid the following tribute: ''Gen. Hampton was one of the most magnificent men in many respects 1 have ever known :; man of great ability, fascinating manners, true and loyal to his friends and an officer of great mer- it and citizen without peer and without reproach. He was a mag nifcent specimen of the southern gentleman and his death will not only be greatly deplored over the country, but more especially by those Confederate soldiers who were accustomed to follow him on so many fields of battle"
 The democrats and the republican insurgents rode rough shod over the house leaders on the Cuban reci- procity bill. They overthrow the ruling of the chair in committee of the whole on the question of the germaneness of an amendment to remove the differential from refined sugar during the existence of the reciprocity agreement provided for in the bill. The motion to over ride the decision of the chair, made by Mr Sherman, of New York, was carried, I'll to 130, 37 republicans joining with solid democratic vote. Having won this preliminary victory the amendment was adopt ed in committee, 164 to Ill, and later in the house by still larger majority, 199 to 105. The bill, as passed, authorizes the president, as soon as may be proper after the es- tablishment of an independent gov- ernment in Cuba and the enactment by said government of immigration exclusion of contract labor laws, as restrictive as those of the United States, to negotiate a reciprocity trade agreement with Cuba by which, in return for equivalent con- sessions, the United States will prant a ra6,,o ofioy, oe on - o~>k