Woodruff County news., 1902-01-23
The government of Nicaragua has

1He government or Nicaragua mas arrested Gen. Vasquez, the former president of Honduras The gener- al is charged with attempting to in- cite rebellion in Venezuela against President Zelaya, of Nicaragua, who drove Gen. Velasquez from the presidency of Honduras in 1894 for the same offense.
 Nellie Corneilson, a 11-year-old girl, who killed her baby sister at Wichita, Kan, with a razor and chairged her 5-year-old brother with the crime, finally confessed that she did it, but was unable to assign any reason for the act. She said the notion to kill her sister came into her head, and that she could not re- sist it.
 As a result of a collision between a passenger and freight train on the Southern Railway at Rome, Ga., Mime. Lillian Nordica, the singer, was injured her accompanist, E. Romayne Simmon, sustained a bruised hand, an engineer was kill ed and three other employees of the road were injured. Frank Tracey, passenger train engineer, residing in Atlanta, was the one killed.
 An Indianapolis inventor who at this time refuses to have his iden- tity divulged, through a sworn affi- davlt by his attorney, says he will shortly give to the world a device called "The Kaleidoscope" where by man using a telephone may see and be seen as well as talk, hear and be heard. The telectroscope, it is said, has reached a stage where perfection is practically assured. It only remains to add an improve ment or two before the mechanism will be in shape to be put on the market.
 According to a report of the cen sus bureau, for the first time in the history of this country the popula- tion of the south has increased some what more rapidly than that of the north. The east, geographically, is included in the term north. Off, cial announcement divided the coun- try as follows: The west from the Pacific to the eastern boundary of Montana, Wyoming, Colorado and New Mexico; north and south, the respective lines of a line formed by the Potomac and Ohio rivers and the southern boundaries of Missouri and Kansas. The percentage of increase from 1860 to 1880 was 61.9 in the north; 48.4 in the south, and 1856 in the west, while in the last twenty years, 1SS0-1900, it was 4S.1 in the north, 4S.0 in the south and 1915 in the west.
 pr. Daniel c. Gilman, president emeritus of the Johns Hopkins Uni versity, and who will be the execu- tive head of the board of trustees of the Carnegie institution at Wash  ington, gave important information concerning the scope of the institu- tion in an address to the faculty and students of the Hopkins. As out lined by Dr. Gilman Mir. Andrew Carnegie's plan is more universal than the university and is broad enough to cover the whole field of human effort and achievement. It involves no rivalry with existing in- stitutions, nor yet the establishment of a new one in the sense of sep arate college or university with res ident faculty. Its privileges will be extended to anybody, young or old, white or black, man or woman, grad uate or undergraduate, native or foreign.
 The report of Hon. John W. Yer kes, commissioner of internal reye- nue, shows that the cost of collec- tiOn of tho internal rnyenup for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1901, was 1.55 per cent This Is the lowest cost of collection in the history of the internal revenue bureau The cost for the year ended June 30, 1900, under the administration of Commissioner c. w. Wilson, was 1.5S per cent, the lowest up to that