Woodruff County news., 1902-03-13

announced that the Panama Canal | Company will not be allowed to l transfer its concessions to another nation without the assent of Colom- bia.
 The population of Ireland, by last years census, was 60,187, as against 65,563 in 1891 and 72,852 in 1881, | showing a steady decline. The cen sus shows 31,065 males and 29,122 females. The families numbered 12,377, with an average of AZ per sons to family. They occupied 12,- 692 houses, being an average of AS persons to a house.
 Representatives of the Boers had an interview with President Roose- welt last week and requested that some action be taken by this gov ernment to prevent the shipment of supplies to South Africa for the British army. President Roosevelt pointed out to the committee that the attitude of the United States in connection with the South Afri- can war had been strictly neutral and that the government had done nothing to prevent shipments of commodities to the Boer forces as well as the British.
 Chas. B. Rouss, the blind million aire merchant of New York City, is dead. Mr. Rouss was 66 years old He served in the Confederate army, and erected at his own expense a monument to the dead Confederate soldiers buried in a New York cem- etery, founded the physical laborato- ry at the University of Virginia and gave $100,000 for the Confederate Battle Abbey to be located at Rich mond, Va. Some years ago he be- came blind. He offered $1,000,000 to anyone who could restore his sight, but the reward was never sue cessfully claimed.
 It Is announced that there has been organized in New York City an association to promote southern education to be known as the gen eral education board, and that more than a million dollars has been placed at the disposal of the board of trustees. The underlying princi- pie of the association is stated to be recognition of the fact that the peo- pie of the southern states are ear nestly engaged in the promotion of public education and that in this eff for they should receive generous aid and to this end and in pursuance of this and kindred objects, the asso- citation will seek gifts large and small from those in sympathy with its plans.
 The monthly statement of the government receipts and eXpendi- lures shows that for the month of February the total receipts were $41,159,739 and the expenditures $39,099, 200, leaving a surplus for the month of $2,060,449. The re- ceipts from the several sources of revenue are given as follows: Gus toms, $20,213,929, an increase as compared with February, 1901, of $1,500,000; internal revenue, $1S,- 55,790, decrease $3,500,00O; mis- cellaneous, $2,490,O00, decrease $2,- 500,000. The expenditures on ac- count of the war department were $S,57S,516; decrease, $2,40O,000 | On account of navy, $5,709,079; in- crease, $1,35O,00O. The total ex- penditures show an increase of $65,- i 900.
 A Galveston, Harrisburg and San Antonio passenger train was wreck ed two miles from Maxon, Tex, on the Eth, in which fourteen passen gers were killed and large num- Der injured. The engine jumped the track and three coaches were piled in a heap about twenty feet from the roadbed. The accident was made more horrible by the wreckage catching fire, and several unfortunate victims who were pin toned down by timbers, and who were not killed outright, were burn ed alive. The names of the dead are as follows: Three children of Mart Riddle, of Chetopa, Kan; Estnrnr, Cnn4rnrnr Dol Rin TnyaS