Woodruff County news., 1902-02-27
NEWS OF THE WORLD.

18th, killing two, wounding six and capturing forty men.
 It is now estimated that iewelrv to the value of $500,O00 went down in the fire that consumed the Sani- tarium at Battle Creek, Mich.
 Wm M. Tweed, son of the noto- rious boss of the Tammany organi- zation in New York ill the fifties, fell dead at his home in Standford, Conn, Tuesday
 Valet Jones occupied the witness stand for two days last week in the Patrick murder trial, New York City, and gave damaging evidence against the accused.
 The theft of .$40,O00 by Express Messenger Frank Mccarthy, of the Wells-Fargo Company, near San Louis Potosi, Mexico, is reported. He jumped from the car as it was leaving the town and boarded a freight following, and was making his way to Sonora when last heard from.
 Gen. Greedy, chief of the signal service of the war department, who has charge of telegraphic lines own ed by the government, the report says, estimates the entire cost of 6 Pacific cable, including ships and all possible contingencies, at $10,- 0O0,000, and places the annual ex- penses at $25,000.
 The severe winter so far has se- riously crippled the oyster and fish business in Delaware, the rivers and most of the bay being frozen over. Wild fowls eongregate in swarms wherever there is a break in the ice or snow for food and water. Fur key buzzards are perishing. Many partridges and rabbits have starved or frozen.
 Fire insurance men met in New York last week and agreed to ad- vance rates throughout the United States east of the Rocky mountains, with the exception of New York and its Immediate vicinity 25 per cent on mercantile stocks and buildings occupied for such purposes. The reason given for this action is the heavy losses during the year 1901.
 Secret societies in the Philippine islands have been interdicted by the commission which had felt that they were one of the most fruitful aids to the war, and had taken the should be confined to open meetings and prevented in oathbound socie- ties. At least one of the societies had for one of it's main purposes assassination, being thus like the Mafia.
 James W. Tufts, the millionaire soda fountain manufacturer of Bos- ton, provided in his will for nearly 500 of his trusted employees, the sum aggregating $80,000. To each of the three hundred and twenty married men who were in the employ of the company four years ago un- der Mir. Tufts the sum of $200 is left, and to about eighty single men $100 each.
 Cornelius Roosevelt. the only sur viving son of the late $. Weir Roose- welt and cousin to President Roose- welt, died of heart disease in New York City last Sunday, MT. .Roose- welt was born ffty-four years ago, and was educated at the Troy Poly technic Institute. Shortly after completing his course there he went abroad and had lived since that time chiefly in Paris.
 Gov. Taft, before the senate com mittee, testified that the expenses of conducting the government of the Philippine islands are much higher than under Spanish rule and that the increase would be greater this year than it had been last year. For instance, while the annual expense of conducting the government of Manila under Spanish rule was from $50O,O60 to $1,000,000 Mexi can, the present expense is about s1,5O0,000 in gold The increase in the total was, he said, due to the in crease in salaries and to the im- provement the government afforded
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