Woodruff County news., 1902-06-12
NEWS OF THE WORLD.

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 Gen. Gomez has declined to ac- cept a pension of $6,oO0 voted by the Cuban legislature.
 Cotton mill owners of the United States will organize a mutual com pany to carry their own insurance.
 President Roosevelt has been pc titioned to appoint commission to investigate and if possible settle the coal miners strike
 Senator Hanna spoke for three hours in opposition to the Nicara- guan canal route and in favor of the Panama route.
 James Black, one of three negroes who murdered young married wo- man near Columbia, $. C., was talk en from jail by mob and hanged.
 On the Sd inst. the town of Joliet, H., was flooded by cloudburst, and the property loss is placed at $750,- GOO. Three people were drowned.
 Western Union and Postal tele- graph operators are said to be pre- pairing to demand an increase of wages and readjustment of hours.
 Miss Stone, the missionary cap tured by Bulgarian brigands, has been sued for $20,00O damages by lecture bureau for alleged failure to carry out contract.
 The Chicago packing house team sters won a partial victory after one of the most exciting contests known among labor strikes. For days rioting was continuous and the off cers were unable to handle the mobs.
 There is a possibility that an American battleship will be sent to Venezuela to enforce the collection of sum of money due Texas man from that government. The clai- mant Is Ford Dix or San Antonio, who claims that the government named unlawfully deprived him of a valuable herd of cattle some five CT six years ago.
 The Boer-British war which is now at an end lasted for two years and seven months. At the outset the total fighting force of the Boers was estimated at less than 60,000. The total number of British troops engaged in the conflict from begin ming to end was half million. The British lost 1,065 officers, 1,142 men and sent home invalided 3,030 officers and 70,952 men. At the close of the war the fighting strength of the Boers was reduced to about 5000 men, while 10000 had been taken prisoners and confined at St. Helena. Bermuda and in the Cape. The number of Boers dead will nev- CT be definitely known, neither will the world be accurately informed of the financial cost to the Burghers It Is conservatively estimated it cost England $1, ,250, 100000 to sub due the two Dutch republics. By the terms of the treaty of peace the Boers gain restoration of farms to the condition they were in before the war; restoration of confscated property, remuneration for property destroyed and stock taken, equal rights of citizenship and suffrage with the British, and revocation of the banishment order. On the oth- CT hand the British subjects gain equal rights of suffrage with the Boers, which they did not enjoy be- fore war was declared, and the Boers lose their independence and the South African republic and Or dnSe Free StaIe become crown cOlO- nies of Great Britain. The terms which the Boers accepted are, on the whole, less liberal, and their future rights and privileges ase more strict lv curtailed than in the offers of which they might have availed them selves earlier in the war. The ex- planation is that the Boers strug gled throughout the negotiations not for their own interests, but for those of their allies from the Cape | Colony, who, in their character of rebels, were liable to grievous pen alties.
 Peace prevails between the Brit |