Woodruff County news., 1906-12-06
NEWS OF THE WEEK
AM eplTOME OF THE MOST I'M. poRTANT EVENTS AT HOME
 AND ABROAD.
NORTH, EAST, WEST, SOUTH
A Carefully Oigestad and Condensed Compilation of Current News
 Items, Domestic and Foreign.
MISCELLANY EOuS.

Sir Thomas Lipton, who recently visited this country, and who knows the business situation here far better than the majority of Americans, on his return home to England wrote a London newspaper that the American people are enjoying a period of pros perity greater than cver known in hu- man industry. He says that even we'll informed English writers have little idea of what is happening in the United States. All this is due, he says, to our solid industries, while the general confidence is such that nobody is afraid to spend lavishly."
 So large is the demand for struc- tural iron in this country that the importations are greater than for years, the American mills being un- able to meet the eXigencies. Great buildings are in course of conStruc- tion in New York, Chicago, St. Louis, San Francisco and other cities, which, together with the demand for bridges, will consume the output of the Amer ican mills until the fall of 1907, indeed the output has been contracted that far ahead. In Glasgow, Scotland, the Americans are buying everything in sight.
 A Cincinnati trade journal estimates that there is 220,000,000 bushels of wheat in this country available for ex- port
 Money recently has been jumping jack in Wall street. It startetd at 6 per cent, paused at 10, and then up to 27, and down to 6. The millionaires were playing with the little fellows.
 Americans attending the great wool auction in London are buying superior grades, England and France getting the leavings.
 The only sore spot in the general business situation of the country is the congestion of railway traffic.
 To meet the exigencies of the occa- sion pig iron is being shipped from Chicago to the Pittsburg district, thus reversing the usual order of things.
 The death of President Spencer of the Southern railway had no apprecia- ble effect on the market value of stock of that road
 The president is receiving many let ters, the majority from the north, commenting his action in the dismiss sal of negro troops for shooting up'' Brownsville, Tex.
 St. Andrews society celebrated it's loOth anniversary at New York. Let ters of congratulation were received rom President Roosevelt, former President Grover Cleveland and King Edward.
 At Bendena, Kas., J. w. Har- rls, a farm hand. entered bank and attempted a hold-up. A clerk escaping and giving the alarm, liar rls placed revolver to his head, pulled the trigger and died.
 The funeral of the late Samuel spencer, president of the Southern Railway system. was held in Wash ngton, D. c. The active pallbearers were the ten oldest colored porters on the road, and the honorary pail bearers were officials of the road, J. r. Morgan and other financiers
 Dean Roscoe Pound of the law school Of the University of Nebraska, mas posted letter from Chancellor E' Benjamin Andrews, ordering the expulsion of students who chew to- bacco.
 secretary of the Treasury Shaw snapped his fingers in the face of H. D' w. England, millionaire, and president of the Pittsburg chamber of uolnmerce, and altogether stirred up 'ne annals when he notified the menoers Of the chamber that they uiu not amount to so much. The row is over the location of a new post office.
 me president of the British board VI uade, in reply to a question, as- 1uiel the house of commons that the Oodrd or trade was carefully watching
 scheme being organized in the Unit .u otates to regulate the price of cot eon py means of storage and gradual sale
 lhe coasting steamer J. H. Jones was wrecked on Cape Cocker, in ,ueoislan bay, Canada, and at least 28 nves were lost.
 ne Moroccan situation has reached nsh degree of tension, and war is aiirost sure to follow
 oheioy M. Cullom, clerk of Arizona C Supreme court, nephew of Senator ilom or Illinois, died at Phoenix, Ai,z, or consumption, aged SS. s 4 report is current in London that ,ne aritlsh South African Co. has of. the Salvation Army 100000 es oi land in Rhodesia for coloniza. han purposes, with the stipulation, iaoNeVer, that in the event of coloniz. .sh scheme proving failure the land '1Aouia revert to the company.