Woodruff County news., 1902-11-06

ed a bill imposing a duty of $3.5O per double hundred weight on inn ported cattle.
 October 29 was observed in the anthracite coal region as Mitchell Day." all the miners taking part in the celebrations.
 A measure will be introduced in the next congress to extend the cur rency laws of the United States over the Philippines.
 The steamer Korea recently made the trip from Yokohoma to San Francisco in ten days, averaging 47O miles day, the quickest time on record.
 Schwab, of the steel trust, who is in Europe, is astonishing the natives by his lavish expenditures, one cor respondent reporting that some consider that he has become daffy.
 Archie Woodin, who murdered Mir. and Mrs. Joseph Gulick, his wife's parents, and then shot his own baby October 16, at MollA Pleasant, Mich, was last week sen- tenced to Jackson prison for life!
 Martin Cornelius, saloon keeper was held up and robbed at Apple ton, Wis, of $8,00O by two masked men. Cornelius drew the money from bank to pay for some real estate and was robbed while op his way home.
 Emerson Etheridge, the last of the political giants of the old south ern school, died at Dresden, Tenn, last week. Etheridge was the last whig who sat in congress, and was considered the most powerful orator in Tennessee fifty years ago. Passengers arriving at New Or leans on steamer report the vol cano of Izalco, in Salvador, in a state of violent eruption. Many houses in its vicinity have been de- stroyed, and the people were com pelled to flee for their lives.
 In report by the United States geological survey, on the Texas Louisiana oil fields, it is claimed that the Spindle Top oil rock con- tains about one-fourth its volume of oil, which forecasts a yield greater than any other oil field in the world.
 John D. Rockefeller has given $500,O00 to the teachers college of Columbia University ''as a thank offering to Almighty God for the preservation of his family from death'' when his home at Pocantico Hills, N. r., was recently burned.
 Hon. Allen Hyden, county judge of Owsly county, Ky, was murdered by an assassin while driving along a public highway. The dead man was recently defeated for the republican nomination for judge, but ran as fusionist candidate and was elect ed.
 Between 10000 and .50,00O colo nists have gone into the far west ern, northwestern and southwest ern states during the months of September and October. The move mentt of hcmeseekers and settlers has never before been so great in the history of western railroads.
 Attorney General Knox has de- cided that if the United States should accept the offer of the new Panama Canal Company, submit ted last spring, for the sale of the canal for $40,000,00O it would re- ceive through the parties in interest a valid and unincumbered title to the property. This decision was ar rived at after thorough and ex- haustive investigation of the situa- tion in Paris, first by Special Attor- hey Charles W. Russell and later by the attorney general himself.
 In his efforts to relieve the mon- ey market Secretary Shaw, during the past five weeks, has put into circulation nearly $100,000,000 of government money. This enormous sum has been released on the fol- lowing accounts, according to fig ures furnished by United States Treasurer Roberts: Additional de-