Woodruff County news., 1902-07-24

handlers and teamsters has been settled. The merchants of the city lost at least $10,00O,OOO by the strike, while the men gained an in- crease in salary of $60,421 per month.
 Josh Anderson, a white farmer, in jail at Owensboro, Ky, on the charge of murdering his wife, was taken from prison by masked mob of about forty men and hanged to the beam over the city scales, on one of the most prominent streets of the town.
 Details of an important move by Russia which have evidently been suppressed hitherto by the censor have transpired in London This move is no less than a proposal by the imperial government for an in- ternational conference to deal with trusts.
 The acting commissioner of inter- nal revenue has issued instructions suspending temporarily the collec- tion of taxes on undivided profits of national banks under the war reve- nue act The banks fought the con- tention of the government that un- | divided profits were part of the sur plus of banks, and the Leather Manufacturers National bank of New York brought suit against Collector Treat to prevent the col lection of the tax. The circuit court decided in favor of the government, and an appeal is pending in the SUI preme court.
 During a storm lightning struck 8 row of oil tanks at Jennings, La, setting them on fire The flames eat away a portion of the tanks, al lowing the oil to escape, which flowed over the surface, forming a lake of fire. The blaze soon reached the pipe to well Mo- 3, in the Acadia field, and the flames shot high into the air. The sight of the burning well at night Is indescribable The own CTS offered a reward of $10,000 to any one who would extinguish the fire and control the gusher No. 3 is the only well affected, the others being covered with dirt and mud.
 The report of Chief Examiner A. E. Scrven, of the civil service com mission, for the year 1901, has been made public. The following ex- tract gives an idea of the extent of this branch of the work done by the commission:
 "In this period 4S,699 competi- tors were examined. Of these 21,- OPS were for the departmental branch of the service, of whom 15,- 779 passed and 5,249 failed; 3,433 were for the custom houses, of whom 2,S56 passed and 577 failed; 449 were for the internal revenue i service, of which 252 passed and 1St failed; 1 1,70S were for the force of the public printer, of whom 1 ,554 passed and 155 failed; and 20,9O1 were for appointment in the differ ent classified postof1ices, of whom 12,749 passed and S,152 failed. There were 252 persons, already in the classified service, who were eX- amined for transfer, of whom 173 passed and 79 failed. There were 321 persons examined for promo tion, of whom 15S passed and 163 failed, making a total of 4S,093 persons examined for the classified service, of whom 33,521 passed and l4,572 failed During this period 166 persons were examined for the District of Columbia service, of whom 49 passed an 117 failed, and 439 were examined for service under the Philippine commission, of whom 169 passed and 270 failed This is an increase of more than 1 per cent over the total number examined in the previous year, which was 46,- 602." Mir. Serven urges an increase of the facilities of the commission, and says: During the past five or six years the number of appoint ments through examinations has in- crpaspd from about 1 GOO to more