Woodruff County news., 1902-01-16

1He IldbcdS corpus case DelOre CLe United States supreme court of o. M. Carter, serving sentence in Leavenworth for defrauding the gov ernment while in charge of the pub lie works at Savannah, Ga., has been decided against the plaintiff, and he will have to complete his term.
 The British was office gives the number of Boers killed, wounded, taken prisoners and the surrendered at 18,320 men during the year 1901. The British losses for the same pe- riod are placed at 9,113 killed, wounded and taken prisoners; 4,090 died of disease, 15 officers and 342 men were accidentally killed and 25,S00 men were invalided home.
 The United States supreme court has confirmed the judgment of the Ohio supreme court in the case of the Capital City Dairy company vs. the state of Ohio, involving the va lidity of the Ohio statutes regulat- ing the manufacture and sale of oleomargarine. The case was de- cided in favor of the state, on the ground that the olecmargarine stat utes are police regulation.
 The United States supreme court handed down an opinion holding as valid the state constitution of Ken lucky concerning long and short hauls by railroad companies and statutes enacted under the provision of the constitution. The case on which the decision was rendered was a proceeding against the Louisville and Nashville railroad company. which company was indicted under the law upon the charge of making a greater charge for a short than for a long haul, and fine assessed.
 The war department has received from the Philippines copies of a re- markable proclamation signed with the names of nine Americans, seven of them stated as being in the Unit ed States military service, inviting American soldiers to desert and join the ranks of the Filipino sol diery. It has been discovered that the signers were forced to af1ix their names to the document while held prisoners by insurgents One of the men had been found guilty of trea- son, but when the true facts were made known Gen. Chaffee set the verdict aside.
 The state department has receiy- ed from Consul Monaghan, at Chem nitz, under date of November 27, a report on the worlds shipbuilding for 1900 The total number of ves- sells of 100 registered tons and over built during that year, according to German returns, was 319 sailing and 966 steam vessels, with a total tonnage of 2,26S,93S. England and her colonies head the list of ship building countries at the close of 1900 with 69S ships, the United States ranks next with 197, and then follow Germany with 90, France with 65 and Italy with 37.
 The French protectorate of Tunis will shortly issue many thousand cir culars for circulation among the southern negroes of the United | States, through the agency of the society for the encouragement of em- igration to Tunis, which hopes to attract to that country class of skilled agriculturalists. The French colonizers' society, which has lately been making great efforts to per suade unemployed French youths to emigrate to Tunis, believes that there are hundreds of negroes dissatisfied with the United States and longing for an opportunity to emigrate to some new and profitable field
 The lower house of congress pass ed the Hepburn Nicaraguan canal bill by vote of 30S to 2. An effort to incorporate an amendment au- thorizing the president to purchase and complete the Panama canal failed The bill authorizes the pres ident to secure from the states of Costa Rica and Nicaraolla in behalf