Woodruff County news., 1902-02-13


 Japan has reconsidered her form CT determination and will make an exhibit at the St. Louis fair.
 A highway robber was killed at Tipton, Ind, by two dogs, whose master the thief attempted to hold up.
 On the Sd inst. a gale wrecked number of vessels along the New England coast and many lives were lost.
 Dick Gould, cashier of bank which failed at Bellwood, Neb., narrowly escaped lynching at the hands of depositors
 Fitzsimmons and Sharkey have agreed to battle again for the cham pionship, and the meeting will be place some time in April.
 Rollin Bingham, for ten years a fugitive from Kansas City, where he uttered forgeries amounting to $2O,- 900, surrendered last week.
 The mills of the American Wool Company at Providence, R. l., have been closed down, throwing out of employment 5000 operatives.
 
 President Roosevelt has notified the republican leaders in congress that he IS strongly in favor of grant ing tariff concessions to Cuba.
 The amount of gold in the treas ury on the 1st inst. was $545,876,- 305, the highest point ever reached in the history of the government.
 It is. estimated 20 per cent of the white voters of Alabama have been disfranchised under the new consti- tuition by failure to pay poll tax.
 The treasury bureau of statistics, report large increase in the move ment of trade staples in the west for the year 1901 over all previous years.
 A bill increasing salaries of sena- tors and members of the house of congress to $6,700 per annum was defeated in the senate by vote of 15 to A.
 Mrs. Elizabeth Eastwick and her 35-year-old daughter, of Chattanoo- ga, Tenn, both fell dead at their home from heart disease within an hour of each other.
 Gen. Yung Lu, who led the Boxer attack on the foreign legations in Pekin, has been chosen senior grand secretary of the Chinese empire, the place held by Ii Hung Chang.
 Otto Trostle, his wife and five children, of Chicago, were killed and their home blown to pieces by an ex- plosion of Illuminating gas, which escaped from jet that had been left turned on.
 The French Academy of Science has decided that Prof. Branly, a Frenchman, and Prof. Lodge, an Englishman, were the first to invent wireless telegraphy, and not Marco nj, as is generally supposed.
 The monthly statement of the public debt shows that at the close of business January 31, 1902, the debt. less cash in the treasury, amounted to $1,0O5, ,926,S9S, which is a decrease for the month of $5,- 701, ,3SS, which is accounted for by the increase in the amount of cash on hand and the retirement of bonds purchased for the sinking fund. In addition to its overtures to Great Britain to bring about peace in South Africa, the government of the Netherlands has informally ap- preached the United States govern ment with the understood purpose of securing its aid to induce Great Britain to consent to treating with the Boers. So far England has de- clined all offers of friendly interyen- tion
 Gov. Taft, in his evidence before the senate Philippine investigating committee, stated that the opposi- ton to American soldiers is kept up principally by the educated class of Filipinos, who use their influence with the masses to further their im- mediate interests. The Jolo sultan had, he said, refused to recognize :. Il 41 l,o