Woodruff County news., 1902-01-16
NEWS OF THE WORLD.


 on the 9th.
 The war department is preparing to send 200 more teachers to the Philippines
 Miss Stone, the American mission ay, is still held captive by Bulga- rian brigands.
 The new battleship Maine, now under construction, will not be com pleted until 1903.
 The German government will make an extensive industrial exhibit at the St. Louis fair.
 It is estimated the boil weevil de- stroyed a quarter of a million bales of cotton in Texas last year.
 Four men robbed the bank at Mo- berly, Mo, of $5,000, blowing the safe open with nitroglycerine.
 The St. Louis worlds fair board offers a prize of $200,000 for the best air ship exhibited at the com ing exposition.
 One hundred thousand dollars was recently paid for a seat as a member of the New York stock ex- change.
 Hon. J. B. McCreary, democrat, has been elected United States sena- tor from Kentucky, to succeed Sena- tor Deboe, republican.
 The senate committee on com merce has reported fayorably on a bill creating a new cabinet office, the member to be known as secretary of commerce.
 Gen. Gordon has officially an- nounced that all arrangements have been completed for holding the next Confederate reunion at Dallas, Tex, April 22 to 25.
 There are but three countries which now have a greater popula- ton than the United States, viz, China, the British empire and the Russian empire.
 A special committee from the sen ate has reported on the Philippine hemp scandal, exonerating all the of fiecrs of the United States from the charges preferred.
 A committee of noted experts, af- ter thorough examination, have re- ported that Czolgosz, the assassin of President Mckinley, was undoubt edly of sound mind.
 Secretary Root, before the house committee on military affairs, de- clared that it is absolutely necessa- " that the present armed force b, maintained in the Philippines.
 The census bureau has issued re- port announcing that the popula tion of the entire United States, in- cluding all outlying possessions, was S4,233,069 in the census year 1900. Mr. Gallinger, chairman of the committee on pensions, announces that the committee has decided to present to the senate for considera- tion none but meritorious applica- tions.
 Official statistics of the foreign | trade of the United Kingdom for 1901 show a decrease, both in i'm ports and exports. The years i'm ports were valued at e522, ,23S,9S6, a decrease of eS36,117 and the ex- ports at f2S0, ,49S,SS9, a decrease of 91O,693,107
 Cotton seed products have ad- vanced in price from January l, 1901, to January l, 1909, as fol- lows: Cotton seed meal, from $19 to $25 per ton; baled hulls from $3.50 to $l0 per ton; loose hulls from $2.50 to 80. and cotton seed meal from $l to $1.30 per sack.
 The value of mineral products of the United States in 1900 exceeded for the first time the billion-dollar mark according to the geological sur vey report on mineral resources which has just been issued The figures were Sl ,0S7 ,603,606 as com pared with $971, ,900,S94 in 1899, gain of $95, ,702,112, or 9;S5 per cent.
 A formal offer to sell the Panama canal properties to the onltea States for the sum of S4o,ooo,ooo