The Tupelo journal., 1902-12-12
News Of the World

A sack of mail, containing $4,000
in currency and $4,000 in drafts
and checks was stolen while being
transferred from Danville, KY, tc
Cincinnati.
Chas. W. Tucker and Ernest
Damns, rivals for the affections OF
a young lady, fought a pistol duel
a few miles from Kansas City,
Damns receiving a mortal wound.
In his message to congress Presi-
dent Roosevelt recommends nation
al laws to control and regulate So
called trusts. He also asks for an
appropriation for the better enforce
ment of the present antitrust laws.
Rules and regulations for a pen
sion system, which will go into eff
feet January l, 1908, have been
completed by officials of the Union
Pacific Railroad, by which it's old
employees will be retired on pen
sions.
Fifteen men we're instantly kill
ed and others badly injured by an
explosion on the steamer Progresso,
under repairs at San Francisco. The
workmen were engaged in changing
the vessel from a coal to an oil burn
er, when one of the oil tanks caught
fire and exploded. The vessel was
almost totally destroyed, and men
working quite a distance On shore
were injured by flying glass and
timber.
The coal situation in Washington
city will be made the subject of an
inquiry under the supervision of
the commissioners of the District of
Columbia. These officials appoint
ed a committee to take up the SUBJ
ject and make a thorough investi-
cation. The city is now practically
suffering from a fuel famine, and
the finding of this committee will
be embodied in a memorial to con-
gress with the object of obtaining
legilation to prevent a recurrence of
such conditions.
General Manager Harding, of the
Missouri Pacific, has issued an or
der to the effect that heads of de-
partments shall not practice nepo-
tism in making appointments. No
official announcement has been is
sued to the effect that many radical
changes will be made, but it is ex-
pected that the first of the year will
see a thorough readjustment among
the employees. This means that
changes are contemplated. Relatives
Of the head of a department will be
transferred to other departments !;
there must be no relatives in the
same department.
The final report of the statisti-
clan of the department of agricul-
ture shows the actual growth of
cotton in the United States in the
year 1901-02 to have been 9,966,47S
commercial bales, of which 1850
bales were marketed before Septem-
Der 1, 1901, and 9,696,336 bales be-
tween September l, 1901, and Aug
ust 81, 1902, 1852 bales being
carried forward to the year 10000.
The commercial crop of the year
amounted to 1O,663,224 bales, thus
exceeding the amount actually
grown by 500, 74O bales. This ex-
cess was due in the main to the very
extensive marketing of cotton held
over from previous years.
Secretary Moody's annual report
on the navy shows that there were
on June 80 last 21,433 enlisted men
in the service. Many of these came
from the middle western states, and
at the time of their enlistment were
unacquainted with the new life
upon which they had entered.
Their progress has been eminently
satisfactory. All men now enlisted
are required to be either citizens Or
to have declared their intention to
become such. Eighty-nine per
cent of the enlisted force are now
citizens and 76 per cent are native
born. Ninety-three and three
tenths per cent of the landsmen are
training and 81 per cent of the APP
prentices r native born. Secretary
Moody recommends a continuance
of the increase of ships and the es-
Enlistment of a naval station in the
Philippines, and one in West In
dian islands or the Caribbean.
A boiler in the Swift factory
plant in Chicago exploded, killing
thirteen workmen. Sheets of flame
sprang from the ruins and the spec
tators realized that it would be i'm