Woodruff County news., 1902-01-23
NEWS OF THE WORLD.

short of the average.
 Hon. H. c. Payne, of Wisconsin. assumed the duties of postmaster general on the 18th, vice Hon. Chas. Emory Smith, resigned.
 A dispatch from Washington says the Isthmian canal commission has reported in favor of the purchase of the Nicarauguan canal.
 It cost Perry Belmont, of New York, $14,837, or $2 for every vote he received as a candidate for con gress, and then he was defeated.
 Senator Hanna is reported as fa- voring the Panama canal route, and against the Nicaraguan outlet as proposed in the bill passed by the house.
 Schwab, president of the steel trust, is visiting Monte Carlo, the famous gambling resort, and is said to have recently won large sums at that place
 In a recent review promulgated by the Dun Commercial agency an ex- pert states that the cost of living in this country has increased 40 per cent since 1897.
 James Booth, an aged farmer, was murdered at his home near Ot- tawa, Kas., and his wife and four children are under arrest charged with the crime
 The pension appropriation bill re- ported to the house carries $139,- 842,230, exactly the amount of the estimates, as against $145,245,230 appropriated last year.
 Gen. Wood, military governor of Cuba, in an exhaustive magazine ar ticle, makes a plea for trade reel proeity between the United States and the Cuban republic
 A commission representing labor unions, commercial organizations and institutions of learning of Eng land will shortly visit this country to study the labor question:
 The. British war ship Loudon, which left Victoria December last, has been given mp as lost, and it is believed all the crew went to the bottom of the sea with the vessel
 President Roosevelt is said to be seeking way by which he can fur ther reward Capt. Charles E. Clark, the commander during the war with Spain of the famous battleship Ore gon.
 It is the general opinion of the ''knowing ones' at Washington that Secretary of the Navy Long will re- tire as soon as the Schley case is finally disposed of by the president and congress.
 Mir. Oscar s. Straus, of New York, formerly United States min ister to Turkey, has been appointed as permanent member of the com mittee of arbitration at The Hague. The appointment is to fill the va cancy caused by the death of ex- President Harrison
 The total output of coal for the state of Illinois last year was l26,635,319 tons, an increase of about million and half tons over the output of 1900. This increase was had despite the fact that there was a decrease of two hours day In the time put in by the miners.
 South Dakota's building at the Louisiana Purchase exposition at St. Louis in 1903 will be duplicate of the original corn palace at Mitch ell. The corn palace held its first exposition in 1893, and each year since that time the handsome build ing, erected at a cost of $15,OOO, has been coated with split corn ears, and ten days fair held.
 The state supreme court of Kan sas has handed down a decision sus- taining the eight-hour law. The de- cision was by Justice Smith, and was in the case of W. w. Atkin, of
 
 Kansas City, Kan, who, in filling a street-paving contract for the city, worked his men more than eight hours a day. He was convicted in the district court of violating the