The Tupelo journal., 1902-10-03
NEWS OF THE WORLD.

I1dIu Codl lS selllHS LII NeW LoAh
City at $40 per ton.
Over 700 people were killed by an
earthquake in Eastern Turkestan
August rs.
Connecticut democrats, in their
state platform, ignored the Kansas
City platform.
The republican state convention
of Michigan Endorsed Hon. R. A.
Alger for the United States senate
Congressman Cannon, of Illinois,
will probably succeed Col. D. B.
Henderson as speaker of the house.
Stanly Spencer, a London invent
or, recently sailed in an airship of
his own construction a distance of
thirty miles.
1t is announced the Pacific cable
between San Francisco and Homo
lulu will be in operation within
ninety days.
Queen Henrietta, of Belgium,
died suddenly at Spa. She was sit
ting at a table eating dinner when
stricken, and died in a few moments.
President Roosevelt has appointed
Hon. Charlemagne Tower, present
ambassador to Russia, to succeed
Mr.. White as ambassador to Ger
many.
The Boer generals have issued an
appeal to Europe and America for
aid to assist in restoring their de-
vastated country to its former con
dition.
The railroads will probably estab-
lish a central bureau in st. Louis to
advertise the southwestern section
of the country during the Louisiana
purchase exposition.
The state republican convention
of New York renominated Gov.
Ddell, and adopted resolutions in
dorsing President Roosevelt as the
party nominee in 1904.
Three hundred miners employed
lea Birmingham have refused to
work because one of their number
failed to pay the 81 per week assess
ment for the anthracite strikers.
For the first time in several years
what appears to be a case of leprosy
has been discovered in a patient at
Belleville hospital, New York City.
The victim is a Chinaman, who has
been IN the United States seven
years.
The "a department has been in
formed that Gen. Chaffee will sail
from Manila for San Francisco on
the transport Sumner in about eight
days. The command of the Philip
pines is to be turned we to Gen.
. Davis.
President Roosevelt recently IN
derwent a successful operation on
one OF his knees for an abscess,
caused by a bruise sustained in the
trolley car accident at Pittsfield sew
eral weeks ago. The trouble is not
serious, but necessitated President
Roosevelt abandoning his western
tour.
Six of the eighteen members and
ex-members of the st. Louis house
of delegates, under Indictment for
boodling, have not been captured.
Some of the men at large, it is al
legged distributed the Doodle fund
and officers believe they are being
protected by givers of the bride, who
fear punishment.
The report of the surgeon general
of the army for the year ending
June 30 last, shows a gradual i'm
provement in the condition of the
health of the troops, notwithstand-
ing many were subject to exposures
OF the tropical service in the Phil
ipplnes. The date of discharge for
disability was 1895 in 1901, as com
pared with 1880 in 1900 and 1859
for the decade, and the death rate
from all causes was 1894 per 1000
men, as compared with 22.74 and
11.91 respectively. Deaths from
disease constituted 9.5S per 1000 of
the mean strength, as compared with
1879 in 1900, and deaths from in
jury 4.36, as compared with sos.
J. O. Williams, an insurance
agent of Auburn, ILL.,, abducted his
~2-year-old son from his divorced
wife, and when closely pursued by
officers murdered the child and blew
out his own brains.
United States marines are guard
ing the railway trains and line of
transit across the isthmus of Pana-
r.