Woodruff County news., 1902-02-20
NEWS OF THE WORLD.


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 Young Roosevelt is recovering from an attack of pneumonia.
 Fourteen persons, most of them firemen, were seriously injured in fire at Brooklyn, N. Y.
 Fire destroyed the Champion Chemical Company plant, entailing loss of half million dollars.
 The lower house of congress pass ed resolution favoring the election of United States senators by direct vote.
 Gen. Funston, whose leave of ab- sence from duty expires March 10, has asked an extension of three months.
 The majority of the house con- mittee on elections has agreed on a resolution providing for an investi- gation of elections in several south- ern states.
 Fighting in Venezuela between government andrevolutionary forces occurred at several points last week, and in a naval battle a Venezuelan ship was sunk.
 England and Japan have entered into a new treaty, the objects of which are to stop Russia's territo- rial advance upon China, Korea and the seaports of northern Asia.
 The Indian appropriations bill be- fore congress carries $8,844, 800. The item for support of schools is $3,- 247,920; for fulfilling treaty stipu- lations, $2,102,157. The Dawes commission is reduced in member ship from four to three, as its work will be occupied in two years. Among the general provisions is one forbidding the withholding of rations because of attendance at a non- government school; also requir- ing Indian Territory judges to re- side at Muskogee.
 The house of congress passed the a bill which makes oleomargarine or imitation butter or cheese, trans ported into any state or territory for use, sale or consumption therein, subject to the laws of such states or territories, notwithstanding that it may be introduced in ori ginal packages, and imposes tax of 10 cents per pound on oleomargarine made in imitation of butter of ''any shade of yellow" When not made in such imitation the tax is reduced to one-fourth of one cent per pound.
 A favorable report was made by the senate committee on pensions on the joint resolution construing the pension law of 1890. The resolu tion was intended to give pension able status to those who served in the Confederate army and subse- quently joined the United States army and are now denied the bene- fits of the act of 1899 on the ground that they gave relief to the rebel lion. The committee expresses the opinion that it was the intention of the framers of the act of 1890 to in- clude such persons within its provis- ions.
 The Central Coal and Coke Com pany, of Kansas City, has purchased all the properties and business ot the Kansas and Texas Coal Company of St. Louis. The deal involves more than $3,O0O,OOO and makes the Central Coal and Coke Compa- ny the largest concern of its kind west of Pennsylvania. The com pany will now own 45 coal mines in operation, employing 10000 men, twenty-three company stores doing a mercantile business of $2,0OO, ,O00 a year; twenty-five hundred compa- ny houses, used as homes for the miners and lumbermen; 50,000 acres of coal lands in Missouri, Kansas, Indian Territory, Arkansas, Louis jana, Texas and Wyoming; lumber mills that produce 1SO,000,0OO feet of lumber yearly and offices and agencies in every large city in the United States. The capital stock of the new company will be in