Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1902-03-29

NSSiA huOueS was weaker.
Otherwise his condition was un-
changed.
An oil gusher was brought in at
Shanut@ Kas., on the s1st, and threw
OIL hundred feet. The drillers were
unable to control the flow.
R. G. Dun & Co., of New York, re-
ported on the 21st: Failures for the
week numbered 200 in the United
States, against 224 last year, and 81
in Canada, against 80 last year,
=
The election of Maxime- Cork to be
an honorary member of the academy
Of sciences, has been annulled Cork
has been summoned to appear before
tribunal to answer for political Of
The rules committee of the New
York state assembly, on the 10th, fa-
vorably reported bill appropriating
100000 for New York states repre-
sentation at the Louisiana Purchase
exposition at st. Louis.
The, New York stock exchange will
be closed on Good Friday and the
following day. The board of man
ayers of the New York produce en-
change also voted to close the ex-
change on Good Friday, March 9s.
The annual report of the Ameri-
can Telephone Co., of Boston, just is
sued, shows total earnings of $11,-
6O6t816, against $9,534,440 in 1900; net
revenue $7,39S,2S5, against $5,4s6,O57
in 1900. Surplus, after dividends, 81
34S262, against $1,4O7, ,456 in 1900.
Letters received from Port-au-
Prince, Hayti, say that "the whole
country is disturbed owing to the
bad political situation. The govern
ment is making numerous arrests in
several quarters, principally Jacmel,
where it is feared a revolutionary
outbreak in imminent"
The Cologne Gazette says that a
four-volume autobiography of Rich
ard Wagner, beginning in 1864, has
been privately printed at Basel and
Bayreuth. Thirteen sets of the worle
have been issued before general pub
ffcaTion, supposedly for the criti-
cisms of iudcious friends.
of ha cf4 -, !,
medical history of Lacrosse, Wis, ter
minated, on the 23d, in the death of
Mrs. Frank Wichmann, who had been
in a trance for seven days. During
that time she had taken no food or
water, and was apparently dead. Her
case l flied the physicians,
During quarrel at the supper ta-
BILE, on the 23d, Liberty Kempf,
well-known business man, of WASH
ington, Ind, brutally choled his wife.
The woman managed to get revol-
yer and fired five shots at her hus-
band, one bullet penetrating the
brain. He died within a few mo-
ments.
The political situation in Hayti is
critical. The authorities continue
making arrests. The prisoners of inn
portance are taken on board the
Haytien war ship -Pierot. The
authorities at Port-au-Prince believe
the disturbances will be quelled be-
fore tehy reach the stage of being
considered revolutionary.
The Frmeo-Russian note relative
20 China, which was published, on
the goth, was handed to Secretary
Hay1 by Ambassador Cambon, for
Fr9nee, and Count Gassini, for Rus
sifk The note is regarded officially
aE simply another pledge on the part |
0s the signatory powers to maintain
the open door" in China.
The secretary of the treasury, up
on further Consideration of the
Question, has informed the Danish
minister, through the secretary of
state, that if sugar is shipped from
the DanlSh west Indies to the United |
States prior to the ratification of the
treaty ceding the islands to the Unit
ed States and deposited in bonded |
it can be Withdrawn for
consumption only upon the payment |
of duty.
President Zelaya of Nicaragua has
accepted an. invitation from the pres
ident of Costa Rica, Senior Iglesias, to
visit Limon, Costa Rica, in order to
confer on matters pertaining to the
proposed Nicaragua canal. The ac-
ceptance of this invitation is con-
tingent upon the passage by the
United States senate of the Mica
eagna canal bill. The date of the
proposed visit has not yet been de-
cided upon,
"The American exporter should not
rest unG, impression that Ger
many or any other country can drive