Woodruff County news., 1902-01-09
NEWS OF THE WORLD.

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 Frank Peavey, one of the best known grain men in the county, died in Chicago last week, aged 52 years. His life was insured for S1,- 376,OOO.
 Conductor Charles King, who had charge of freight train, was blown from his train into a deep gorge by a fierce storm which was raging near Missoula, Mont.
 The Steamer Walla Walla, which sailed from San Francisco on the list, collided with an unknown yes sel at sea and went to the bottom. Twenty of the passengers and crew perished, among them Capt. Hall, who heroically stayed by his ship to artist in saving the lives of those on board.
 At Keithville, La, one life was lost, two persons were seriously in jured and part of a car of valuable race horses en route from the winter meeting at New Orleans were de- stroyed in a disastrous collision be- tween Texas Pacific fast freight No. 67 and a Houston East and West freight.
 While the civil service commission CTS are elaborating a set of regula- tions that have for their purpose the dropping of a number of employees in the different departments who, from age or other reasons, are not capable of performing the amount and char acter of work required by the public service, a number of congressman have been pressing plan to place an age limit on service in the depart ments and to retire on pensions all who have reached the ages prescribed and to provide them with pensions.
 The boiler of an engine of the Georgia Central exploded in the shops at Macon, killing five men out right and iniuring eleven others. The dead are: John Mcdonald, white, machinist; Thomas Hodges, white, engineer; Uriah Cornelius, colored, helper; James O'Neill, white one unidentified. The explo- sion wrecked the round house. It is supposed negro helper, finding the water in the boiler too low, sud- denly injected cold water on the red hot crown sheet, which caused the explosion.
 January reports to R. G. Dun 6 Go. show that failures for the year 1901 were 11,002 in number and $113, 3,092,376 in amount of liabil- ities, while of banking and other f- duciary institutions, there were 74 insoiyencies, involving $1S,018,774, a total of 11,076 defaults and $751; 111,150 liabilities. These figures compare very favorably with the 10,- S33 failures in 1900, with liabilities of $174,113,236, of which 59 were banks for $35,617,5 ,563. Manufactur- ing disasters in 1901 numbered 2,441, with an indebtedness of $44,- 970,9S3, compared with 2,409 in the previous year, owing $51, 1,702, 142, while there were 7,965 suspensions of trade of 52,06O,64O, against 7,844 in 1900, with liabilities of $59, 9,415,- 592.
 The following shows the number of employees in the several depart ments of the government at Wash lngton January 1: State depart ment, 109; treasury department, 5,54T; war department, 2,711; navy department, 3,O77; post office depart ment, l,049; interior department, 7,672; department of justice, 212 department of agriculture, 9S2 gov ernment printing office, 3,691; exec utive office, 28; department of labor. S4; fish commission, 67; interstate commerce commission, 133; civil service commission, 61; industrial commission, IF; Smithsonian insti ute, 359; bureau of American re- publics, 22; local post office in dis trict, 629; senate officers and em- ployes, 3S5; house of representatives, 272; capitol police, 65; library of congress, 367; United States botani- cal garden, SS; supreme court of the United States, 12; court of claims, 27