Woodruff County news., 1902-01-30

Sharkey and Mayer engaged in three-round fake fight at Phila- delphia, which was decided draw.
 The senate committee on com- merce has made favorable report on Senator Frye's ship subsidy bill.
 The value of the products of southern factories in 1900, accord ingto preliminary figures of the twelfth census, was $1, ,466, 1869, ,495, which was greater by nearly $450,- 900, ,000 than the value of products of manufacturers in the United States in 1850. The total for 1900 shows an increase of $549, ,440, ,469 over the total of 1890 in the value of products and of $404,8T4,237 in the amount of capital invested, which in 1900 amounted to 1,153, ,670,097, against $65S, ,795, ,S60 in 1890.
 Having failed, after two years strife, in subduing the insurrection in Batangas province, P. l., which lies just south of Manila, and having satisfied himself that lenient treat ment to the insurgents is productive of no good results, Gen. J. Franklin Bell, the military commander in that province, has determined on the enforcement of the war in the mos! vigorous and determined fashion, in volving recommendation in a modified form, the application of martial law in all directions and the unsparing pursuit and punishment of the na- tives who act as spies and traitors to the United States.
 The census report shows that the large cities taken collectively are growing nearly twice as rapidly as the rest of the country The per cent of the population of northern states living in large cities in nearly three times as great as the core spending per cent in the south; the north has a rate of increase nc greater than that of the south The cities in the north are growing mucl faster than those of the same size 1T the south, but this difference is bal. anced by an extremely rapid growth of small towns and cities in the south, and especially by the high rate of increase of southern rural population.
 The interstate commerce commis- sion last week transmitted to con- gress its fifteenth annual report The commission renews its recom- mendations for increased powers Referring to recent investigations made into the movement of packing house products and the movement of grain and grain products, the commission says: ''That the lead ing traffic officials of many of the principal railway lines, men occupy ing high positions and charged with the most important duties, should deliberately violate the statute law of the land, and, in some cases, agree with each other to do so; that it should be thought by them neces- sary to destroy vouchers and to so manipulate bookkeeping as to obliter- ate evidence of the transactions :; that hundreds of thousands of dol lars should be paid in lawful re- bates to a few great packing houses :; that the business of railroad trans portation, the most important, but one, in the country today, paying the highest salaries and holding out to young men the greatest induce ments, should to such an extent be conducted in open disregard of law, must be surprising and offensive to all right-minded persons. A prelim- mary report of railways operating probably 99 per cent of the mileage that will be covered by the final re- port for the year, shows the passen- ger earnings were $426,909,21O and the freight earnings $1, 114, ,740,770, The total earnings were $l,57s,164 2O5, or $s,211 per mile The gross earnings for 1900, as shown in the final report for that year, were $1,- 4s7 ,044,S14. The operating ex- penses for 1901 amounted to 1,O23,- 2s1, or $5,323 per mile of line, the net earnings of the roads included in this advance report being $555,- Oo7, ,924, or $35,557,s1S in excess of tbo;, oorp;prc duripr tho f,coa1 voor