Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1902-09-20

of Colorado has endorsed Henry M.
Teller for reelection to the United
States senate.
G. A. Percy has invented a boat
on the order Of skif in which he
made the trip safely through the
rapids of Niagara Falls.
Fire in the Beaumont oil field de-
stroyed several large tanks filled
with oil and caused great consterna-
ton. The financial loss is placed
at 100000.
The president and general freight
agent of the Ann Arbor and Michi-
gan railway have been indicted by
the federal grand jury at Indianap-
oils for manipulating rates by
means of rebates.
This promises to be a notable year
for morality on account of malig-
nant diseases. Pestilence of one
kind OF another is raging in nearly
every quarter Of the globe. Asiatic
cholera is devastating China, west
ern Russia and has extended into
the Philippines. Egypt is threaten
ed with a scourge Of Asiatic chole-
IA, United States G onsul Long hav-
ing reported from Cairo that the
authorities are making desperate eff
forts to keep the disease in check.
1t has broken out at Maucha, about
$50 miles south of Cairo, and
strong military Gordon has been
placed around the infected district.
Plague is also prevalent in certain
parts Of Egypt, and the same disease
is taking the people off in consider
able numbers in Odessa, Russia, in
British India and in Cape Colony.
Japan also has many cases of chole-
"a, and the plague has even been re-
ported by Sol. Berliner, United
States consul at Teneriffe, Canary
islands.
A statement from President
Mitchell at the close Of the seven
teenth week of the coal strike places
the loss to those concerned at $780,
100000. President Mitchell says
"The strike began May II. It may be
prolonged indefinitely unless there
is legislative interference. The mi
ners are sustained with a stream of
gold and silver that flows into the
headquarters one day and out the
next day for the defense of the
strikers. Under these circumstances
the miners can hold out as well as
operators. The story Of the hun
dred million loss can be obtained
from the following figures; Length
of strike, II weeks; number of
miners involved, 143OOO; average
weekly wages of miner, 81; aver
age weekly output of mines, 1885,
600 tons; normal market price of
anthracite, $3.50 a ton; normal cost
of production, $1.50 ton. If op-
Grated the mines would have pro-
duced approximately S1,S5O,OOO
tons in the period covered by the
strike. At $3.50 ton the market
value of the coal would have been
$93,625,0 900. The total weekly
wages of the strikers is approx
mately $I02O,O0O. In seventeen
weeks the miners would have earned
$17,493,000 The total cost of pro-
ducing the coal ready for the market
would have been $31,875,O0O. This,
taken from $93, ,625, ,0OO-the market
yalue-would leave $63,75O,OOO for
the operators. From this, however,
must be taken the cost of transpor-
tation Of the coal from the mines to
the markets to get the loss of the
operators-as operators-as four
railroads practically control the en-
tire production of the region. The
loss to the business men of the dis
trict is approximately $14,OOO,OO0,
on the basis that the strike would
have spent three-fourths of their
weekly wages for the actual necessi-
ties Of life. The loss to the mining
property from idleness, according
to estimates sent out from the an
thracite region, will be more than
$6,0OO,00O. The operators have
spent nearly $1,OOo,OOO in policing
their property and importing non
union men, while the state Of Penn
sylvania has spent more than 49,
100000 keeping troops in the field"
A man named Ginsberg, claiming
to have been chief of the Boer re-
public secret service, created a SEN
sation at Kansas City by demand
ing of Webster Davis the sum of