Woodruff County news., 1902-07-24
NEWS OF THE WORLD.

The Texas democratic state con- vention indorsed the national plat form of 1900.
 An increase in the price of hops will either reduce the size of the beer glass or cut the profits of the brewer.
 A bolt of lightning struck the fag-pole on Tammany Hall build ing, New York City, but did only slight damage.
 Gen. Chaffee has been relieved of command in the Philippines and or dered to the command of the depart ment of the East.
 The leading circuses of the United States have entered into an arrange ment whereby they will route them selves so as not to come into compe- tition with each other. Those in- terested are the proprietors of Fore paugh < Sells Bros. circus, Barnum < Bailey's circus, and Buffalo Bills wild west show.
 The department of agriculture is making chemical analytical in- vestigation of imported foodstuffs from Germany, with view of de- termining their purity. The out come of this investigation may re- suit in retaliative legislation on ac- count of Germany's discriminating against American meats.
 The municipal health board has decided to remove 40,000 natives from the slums of Manila to subur- ban camps, in an effort to check the spread of cholera. The object is to clean and disinfect the disease cen ters. The camps will be sanitarily conducted The municipality rents the grounds, builds the camps and feeds the indigent persons.
 The strike of Chicago freight handlers and teamsters lost the mer- chants and railroads affected on an average of $1,000,000 per day The amount in increase of wages de- manded by the strikers averaged less than one-half cent per hour, or about $500 per day. The teamsters, who struck and gained their de- mands previous to the freight han dlers' strike, disregarded their agree ment and went out through sympa- thy.
 The British transport service, which for so many months conduct ed an active trade at Port Chal- mette, is to reopen its camp there for the shipment of horses, mules and cattle to South Africa. It is found that the American animals are the hardest for the veldt work and the British government will need a great number under it's agree ment of restocking the farms of the Burghers who suffered in the re- cent war.
 It is believed J. Pierpont Morgan is planning a financial scheme more far-reaching than anything he has yet achieved Rumor has it that he Is considering the unifcation of the Turkish debt. The sultan knows that he who unifes this debt will have Turkey in the hollow of bis hands, hence he thinks the safe hands are those of the Americans, whose country can have no designs upon the Ottoman empire. The Ot- toman debt is 1,100,000,000 francs.
 Sir Liang Chen Tung, formerly secretary to Minister Chang Yen Huang, who was beheaded in 1900 after being exiled to Turkestan, has been appointed minister to the United States in succession to Wu Ting Fang. New ministers to Rus sia, France and Italy have also been named. The selections for these posts show that the dowager empress continues to regard the diplomatic service as unimportant. None of the appointees have ever before held an important office. The newly ap- pointed successor of Minister Wu was educated in this country.