The Tupelo journal., 1902-09-26
NEWS OF THE WORLD.

months, has reported for duty.
Early frosts have caused a big
loss to truck farmers of Missouri,
Illinois, Indiana and Kansas.
Justice Gray, who retired from
the supreme bench last spring, died
at his home in Lynn, Mass, of par
alysis. !,
King Edward of England has en-
tirely recovered from the illness and
operation which caused much anx-
iety throughout Europe.
1t is reported hat between 800
and 1000 Chinese converts to the
Catholic faith have been killed the
past month by Boxers in the prov
ince of SEE Chuen.
President Roosevelt, on the 18th
inst, entertained between six and
seven thousand friends and neigh.
bors at Oyster Bay. 1t was the
first reception of the kind eve CIV
en- by a president, and all classes,
white and black, rich and poor, were
in attendance.
Twenty lives have been reported
lost in fighting forest fires in Ore
gon and Washington, and it is esti-
mated So, 100000 worth of property
has been destroyed during the last
few weeks. Many more people ara
missing, but it will not be known
how many are dead until report,
from remote districts come in. The
estimate Of the property loss does not
include standing timber, but cover
sawmills, houses, barns, shops, cord
wood and farm implements.
An explosion in the Big Four mine
at North Fork, W. Va, caused the
death of fifteen miners. The ex-
plosion is said to have been caused
by. an accumulation of gas catch
ing on fire from the lamp of a mi
ner who was going to work, and this
in turn fired six kegs of blasting
powder that had been stored back
in the mines. The explosion knock
ed down all the brattices for a quar-
ter of a mile back toward the mine
entrance, thus cutting out all Of
the air from the men imprisoned be-
hind the debris.
Corners in grain are forever rem
dered practically impossible by a
decision handed down by Judge Chy-
traus, of Chicago, if sustained by
the higher court. The case was for
an injunction asked by Waite, Thor
born & Co. against prominent COM
mission houses in the recent July
oats corner The most important
ruling is that the Chicago Board of
Trade loses the power to pass on
property rights where margins are
involved, and denying its authority
to discipline members for refusing
to put up all called margins.
China is on the verge of another
boxer uprising, which may equal
d.. that of 1900, according to advices
received from Minister Conger. The
troubles appear to arise principally
from eXtortionate taxation, COM
bined with resentment against the
presence of missionaries, thus JUS
tifying the judgment of the depart
ment of state which pointed out to
the powers that the demand for ex-
cessive indcmnities would result in
serious internal troubles in China.
Mr.. Conger's first advice bears date
of August 5, from Pekin, and he re-
ports serious anti-foreign riots neal
ChenTu, in the province of SEE
Chuan, in which a number of native
Christians had been massacred and
chapels destroyed.
1t is feared the Mississippi river
will In a few years cut a new chan
mel above Memphis and leave that
city, unless something is done to
hold the stream in its present course.
Discussing the situation the Com
mercial Appeal says: I'Should the
river do its worst it would mean that
Memphis will be without a water
highway. 1t will mean that the
present bridge of the Frisco system
will be useless, and that a new one
will have to be built. In addition
to these great and almost incalcula-
BILE injuries to the prosperity and fu-
ture OF the city, and the annihila-
ton of profits or the part of the rail
road, it would mean the devastation
of fertile plantations, and hundreds
of other ills which would naturally
follow IN the wake of such disaster"
Within the past three months over
1000 Jews have left Roumania for
the United States.
: Transportation facilities have been
greatly crippled in the state of