Woodruff County news., 1902-04-10

month are reported in India from Bubonlc plague.
 James R. Garfield, son of the late president, has accepted the po- sition of civil service commissioner.
 Hon. J. M. Griggs, of Georgia, has been chosen as chairman of the national democratic congressional committee.
 The handsome residence of Gabe Meyer at Pine Bluff was destroyed by fire. Loss $15,OOO, with $1O,OO0 insurance.
 Hon. c. F. Greenlee, of Brinkley, has been appointed member of the state board of charities, vice Ed Barton, resigned.
 The magnificent Catholic church at Evansville, Ind, was struck by lightning. The structure took fire and was completely destroyed.
 A mob of four thousand people took Walter Allen, an alleged negro rapist from jail at Rome, Ga, and hanged him to telephone pole.
 The civil service commission will shortly institute system of annual, examinations of its employees, which, if proven practicable, is designed to be extended to all branches of the government service. These exami- nations will be required of all, re- gardless of whether they are seeking promotion or not, and the employees will be reduced in grade and pay if they fail to score 70 per cent in the examination.
 The packers of Kansas City an- nounce that hereafter the price of beef to retailers in that city will be II cents. Retailers say that means IS cents for round steak, 25 cents for sirloin and 35 cents for porterhouse.
 Chas. Woodward, white, convicted of murder and granted a reprieve to enable his attorney to take an appeal to the supreme court, was taken from jail at Casper, Wyo., by twen- ty-four masked men and hanged on the scaffold erected for his legal exc cution.
 The United States steel corpora ton has completed the first twelve months of its existence. The net earnings of the corporation for the twelve months were over $115,OOO,- 900, which is ample to pay the divi- dends and pile up a substantial surplus.
 Efforts are being made by the frinds of Estes c. Rathbone to se- cure a pardon for him from the sen- tence of the Havana court. Senator Hanna has requested the president to issue pardon for Rathbone, but this the latter has declined to do. The president, however, has prom lsed to send for the papers in the case, and have them thoroughly re- viewed. It is stated that unless he finds something radically wrong he will allow the verdict to stand.
 Wm. H. Lane, the negro servant, | who, on the 1st inst, murdered | Ella J. Jarden and her daughter, Madeline, at Philadelphia, and so badly wounded another daughter that she died, was convicted of | murder in the first degree on the 9th after a trial lasting less than one and one-half hours. Lane pleaded guilty. Because of his plea of guilty no jury was drawn and only three witnesses were called for the purpose of determining the de- gree of murder.
 Reports from all the national banks of the country, received by the comptroller of the currency, show that on March 25 the total re- sources of these institutions ,357 Tn number-amounted to $5,S43,- )4s,72O. The total deposits of in tlyiduals in the banks are $2,9S2,- iS9, 1900, an increase of more than S4OO, O,000,00O since February 5 of asst year and of more than $120,- 100000 since the reports of about -wo months before the last call. The capital stock of the banks has