The Tupelo journal., 1902-11-14
News Of the World
Oklahoma went republican at the

Order is being restored in Co
lombia, and the revolution is prac-
tically at an end.
Robbers who blew open the vault
Of the Bank of Greenwood at Green
wood, Wis, secured $1,000.
The director of the mint places
the amount of gold mined in Alas
ka the past ten months at $18, no.
O75.
Ralph Espy, a young college stu
dent of Chicago, has become insane,
the result of a kick received in a
game of football.
Bar silver was sold in London
last week at % SIG cents per
ounce, the lowest price in the his
tory Of the metal.
Bert Casey and Jim Sims, two
notorious outlaws, we're shot and
killed in a battle with officers in
Woods county; Oklahoma.
A convention of delegates from
river towns throughout the Missis-
sippi valley has been called to meet
at Quincy, ILL.,, November IA.
Gen. Fred Grant recently APP
pointed commander of the depart
ment of Texas, with headquarters
at San Antonio, has assumed COM
mand.
Considerate trouble is being ex-
perienced at New Orleans in en-
forcing the new state law requiring
separate coaches for whites and
blacks.
A negro named Sam Harris was
shot to death at Salem, Ala, by a
mob of $50 people. He was iden-
titled by Miss Meadows as the muir
derer of her mother, the daughter
also being assaulted and badly
wounded, the weapon used being an
axe.
The admission of Oklahoma, Ar
iona and New Mexico to state
hood will be one of the first ques-
lions considered by the senate when
congress meets in December. A
committee from the senate will
shortly visit the penitentiaries to
view the conditions.
Several American school teachers
and a number of natives favorable
to American rule, have recently been
murdered in Central Negros, Phil
ippine islands. The American
troops find but little organized OPP
position, but the murderers adopt
the tactics of an assassin, and their
victims are generally caught una
wares.
In its annual report the civil SER
vice commission urges that congress
provide for the Redistribution of
the entire department service. The
commission says hal until such re-
classification is made it does not
feel justified in attempting to en-
force any uniform system of regu-
lations for promotions. 1t urges
that each department. adopt a sys-
tenn of promotions Of its own.
1t is reported that the Frisco has
purchased the st. Louis and Gulf
railroad. This will give the. Frisco
a Memphis outlet for their new pur-
chase, the Chicago and Eastern Hi
nois railroad, which has its termi-
mails across the river at Thebes. The
st. Louis and Gulf was formerly
known as the Houck system, con-
sisting of 1913 miles in three divis-
ions.
The highest per capita of money
in circulation in the United States
was reached on November /, when
the amount was $29.36. The fig
ures for October l were $2S.64, and
the lowest for recent years 1888
on March 1, 1900. The total stock
Of money of all kinds in the Unit
ed States November l was $2,627,-
963,267, which was an increase OF
$30,S6S,332 during the month, and
the amount in actual circulation or
that date was 81, 336,111,992, being
an increase of $50,425,341 for the
month, and of $S9,s11,450 compar-
ed with the same date last year.
Col. J. F. Holden, general traffic
manager Of the Choctaw, has been
appointed assistant freight traffic
manager Of the Rock Island system,
with headquarters in Chicago.
Gerhardt Burchler, a German
farmer neal Columbus, Neb., was
murdered by his ~14-year-old boy.
who then dragged the body