Woodruff County news., 1902-01-02
NEWS OF THE WORLD.

dead. Gov. John R. Rogers, of the state of Washington, died December 26 of | pneumonia. Secretaries Gage and Long, it is reported, have notified the president of their desire to retire from the cab inet.
 In street fight at Muldrow, 1. T., between Officer Mayberry and Chas. Scheiler, both men were mortally wounded.
 Gen. De Wet surprised camp of British at Zefontein, Orange River colony, Christmas eve, and after a bloody attack captured three com panies of yoemanry and three guns.
 Judge Carter, of the Indiana su- perior court, has decided the case of the state against the Commercial Insurance company, sustaining the company's demurrer and holding that the act under which the state auditor seeks to examine the books of special charter insurance compa- nies Is unconstitutional.
 Three killed and $7O,0O0 fire is the record at Shreveport for Christ mas day. The three killings report ed were those of Jack Ryan, color ed, who was shot by an unknown man; Hesah Ewell was shot and killed by Charles Bell, and the body of an unknown negro was found in an alley in the rear of saloon
 The Pacific Hardware and Steel company, capital $1o,O00,0O0, has been incorporated under the laws If New Jersey. The stock Is divided into $7,000,000 common and $3,- O00,00O preferred, bearing 6 per cent cumulative dividend. The com pany is authorized to manufacture and deal in every kind of iron, steel and hardware.
 Edgar Stanton Maelay, whose connection with the Schley case led President Roosevelt to request his resignation as special laborer in the navy and who was dismissed, has made formal demand for trial by usual naval procedure. Discussing the case, Maclay said: "The presi- dent cannot have me dismissed un- der the law as 1 see it. 1 do not see how he can force me out. 1 am protected by the civil service laws enacted by congress, whose enact ments the president is bound to ex- ecute."
 A statement exhibiting the extent of the cotton manufacturing indus try of the United States for the year of 1900, as compared with 1890, by the census bureau, places the total  value of cotton manufacturing prod ucts at $336, 6,974,SS2, a gain of over 25 per cent since 1990 The num- Der of establishments in 1900 was 1,O51, a gain of Is per cent; the capital employed $467,24O,157, a gain of 32 per cent; salaried offi- cials, 4,967, gain of S4 per cent :; amount paid in salaries, $7,535, ,129, a gain of 117 per cent; average number of wage-earners, O2,S61, a gain of 3S per cent; total wages paid, 0,394,532, gain of 36 per cent. Cost of materials used, $176,- 551, ,527, gain of II per cent.
 The jury at Jeffersonville, Ind, in the case of N. c. Rathbun, charg- ed with murdering Chas Goodman, returned verdict of guilty of man. slaughter and fixed his punishment at from two to twenty years. Charles Goodman, Rathbun's alleged victim, was lOtllQ uedu ldoI llOiltll III d llO- tel at Jeffersonville, after he had spent some time with Rathbun. His body was shipped to Little Rock, where. Rathbun's wife lives, as that of Rathbun, on whose life an insur- ance policy for $4,0oo had been is sued. Following the discovery that the body was not Rathbun's came Rathbun's arrest at Louisville, where he had enlisted under another name in the United States army. The corpse was later identified as that of Charles Goodman, wanderer. who went to Louisville from Evansville, Ind, and met Rathbun
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