Woodruff County news., 1902-01-09

Senator Quay, of Pennsylvania, whose health is fast failing, will probably resign in a few weeks.
 Georgia populists propose to re- organize and place a state ticket in the field at the coming election.
 A prominent member of Presi- dent Roosevelt's cabinet states that there is an understanding between Germany and this government as to affairs in Venezuela.
 Rudolf Grossman, editor of a Hungarian paper in New York city, has been arrested on evidence fur nished by his wife to the effect that he IS an anarchist, and has repeated ly threatened to assassinate Presi- dent Roosevelt.
 Robert Hatfield, one of the fa- nous Kentucky feudists, was recent ly shot and killed by an officer in Arizona. After his family was all most wiped out in Kentucky, Robert moved to Arizona, where he met the fate so many of his kinsmen had met.
 Thos. Estrada Palma has been elected the first president of the republic of Cuba. The adherents of General Maso, democratic candi- date, who recently withdrew from the campaign, not only withdrew their candidates, but refused to go to the polls. A remarkable light vote was boiled throughout the island. La Discussion ascribes this indiffer- ence to the certainty on the part of the Palmaites of being voctorious, and that consequently the majority of them remained at home and did not vote
 The London war office has issued a list of the British casualties at zeefontein December 24, when Col. Firmark's camp was successfully rushed by a force of Boers under Gen. De Wet. Six officers and if ty men were killed, eight officers were wounded and four are missing. It is presumed that the missing of fcers were taken along with the cap tured guns. The number of non- commissioned officers and men wounded is placed at 15O. Kitche- ner reports that the Boers behaved we'll, leaving men behind to look after the British wounded.
 The monthly statement of the di- rector of the mint shows the coinage executed at the hints of the United IsStates during December, 1901, to have been $l4,649,321, as follows: l Gold, $I2,309, ,327 silver. $i, ,966, ,- 514 minor coins, $373 400. The total coinage for the calendar year ended December 31, 1901, was $134,- 693,770, of which $101,735,197 was gold, $30,03S, ,460 was silver and $2,- 120,122 was minor coins. Of the years coinage $34, ,52O was in double agles, $46,O36,16O in eagles, $21, 1,320,20 in half eagles and $22S,- 307 in quarter eagles. Of the silver coined $22, ,566,S13 was in standard dollars, $3,119,92S in half dollars, $2,648,306 in quarters and $2,507,- $50 in dimes. There were also coined $1,324,O10 in nickels and $796,711 in pennies.
 The monthly comparative state ment of the government receipts and expenditures show that for the month of December, 1901, the total receipts were $47,061 ,964, which is an in crease, as compared with December, 1900, of $215,456 The expendi- lures for the month amounted to 1 $37, ,31S,99S, which leaves a surplus for the month of $9,742,966. The expenditures for the month were nearly $3,OOo,o0O less than for December 1900 The surplus for the first six months of the present fiscal year is ap- proximately S1S,OO0,0OO The re- ceipts from customs during the last month amounted to $21 ,039, ,S27, as against $1S,496,634 for the corre- spending month last year; from ln- ternal revenue $23,194,575, as against $25 5,26O,693 for December, 1900, and from miscellaneous sources s2, ,S27 ,561, as against $3,oS9, ,l79 for December, 1900. The expenditures