Woodruff County news., 1902-03-13
NEWS OF THE WORLD.

About 3OO clerks were dismissed from the census bureau March 1.
 J. P. Morgan has given $2 100000 to the University of the South at Sewanee, Tenn.
 Fire destroyed the Palmer stove factory at Poplar Bluff, Mo, entail ing loss of $300,O00.
 An oil well was recently bought in at Decatur, H., which produces 5000 barrels per day.
 An explosion of gas in coal mine near Monongehala, Pa., result ed in the death of five men.
 The department of agriculture re- ports unfavorable conditions as to the wheat crop in many sections.
 A number of strikers said to have taken part in the recent riots in Spain have been shot after trial by court martial.
 Miss Alice Roosevelt, daughter of the president, will not attend the coronation of King Edward, as first contemplated.
 The fight for the removal of Pen sion Commissioner Clay Evans has been renewed by the Kansas con- gressional delegation.
 F. W. Cattle, cashier of the State Bank at Elhart, H., shielded by shooting himself through the head. He was short $32, ,00O.
 The Illinois law imposing a fine of from $10 to $1,000 for dealing in futures has been upheld by the United States supreme court.
 The senate passed a bill appro- priating $25,000 for the establish ment of a fish culture station at Mammoth Spring, this state.
 The Turkish government, in re- ply to demands of the United States denies all responsibility and liabili-. ty in the Kidnapping of Miss Stone.
 The next national populist con- vention will be held at Memphis, it having been decided to transfer the convention from Louisville to the latter place.
 While two citizens were watching them, burglars footed the First Ma tional bank at Montgomery, Ind, and escaped with $3,5OO in money and bonds.
 It is the opinion in diplomatic cir cles at Washington that the outcome of the Anglo-Japanese agreement will be the abandonment of Manchu- ria by Russia.
 The fines imposed on soldiers for breach of discipline during the Span ish-American war, amounting to $100,000, Is to be distributed among the national guards.
 Members of the National Whole sale Lumbermen's Association de- clare the high price of lumber is due to scarcity of the product, and not to any combination of agreement.
 Spot cotton jumped to 9 cents per pound on the New York exchange on the 5th. The advance in cotton is due to actual shortage of the crop, which has now passed out of the hands of the producer to the middle men, or speculators.
 The river and harbor bill before congress carries the following amounts for Arkansas: Arkansas river, general improvement and re- moving Instructions and operating snag boats, $110,OOO; Ouachita and Black rivers, $114,O0O, continuing contract of $353,954 upper White, $7O,o00; White, Cache, Black and Current rivers, Arkansas and Mis- souri, $52,000.
 The Kansas cities and towns which tolerated Carrie Nation and her raiders will be obliged to pay for the saloons which were wrecked The supreme court of Kansas, in a recent decision, declared that joints, operated in violation of the prihibi- tory law, were, nevertheless, the property of the owner, and entitled to police protection just as much as the property of the merchant.
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