The Tupelo journal., 1902-10-31

Protestant Episcopal church has
appropriated 100000 to be ex-
pended in missionary work in the
south.
Attorney General Knox is to
take steps to put a stop to sure
thing gambling and general taking
in Alaska.
William Haislip, of Donaldson,
Mimi, drank a quart Of liquor at
n time on a wage and died in a
few moments.
The Belgian coal miners have
made a demand for a Is per cent
advance in their wages. They have
also decided to call a convention of
French, English, German, and Aus
trian miners for the purpose of tax
ing international action.
The United States government
will probably be called upon to pro-
vide food for a portion of the Phil
lppine inhabitants owing to failure
of the rice crop, which is the prin-
cipal product on some of the is
lands.
-Four of the big Hawaiian sugar
plantations are to form a $12, O00,-
900 trust. 1t will be organized un-
der the laws of New Jersey and
shares will be a 500 each. Sep
arate plantation corporations will
be preserved.
Officials of the stationary engi-
neers union threaten to order all
members to refuse to handle an
thracite coal unless all the men,
bers of the organization who went
on strike with the Pennsylvania
coal miners are reinstated in their
old jobs.
The coal strike commissioners
held a conference with President
Roosevelt last week, when their
line of work was pointed out. Most
of the non-union men in the str.-.e
region + leaving and all the old
men are taking their former places
with bue few exceptions.
As a result of a head end COLI
sion on the Iron Mountain neal De
Soto, Mo-, several persons were in
jured, as follows: Engineer F. w.
Strothman, scalded, probably fatal;
Foreman Gus Lynch, seriously;
Conductor F. B. Halle, Engineer
Peter Constant, Frank Stevens, of
st. Louis, leg broken; Harry Sny-
der, of Philadelphia; S. W. Poe, of
st. Louis.
The Soufriere volcano on st.
Vincent island, has been active
since October Is, keeping the peo-
pie in the Windward district in a
state of continuous unrest. Evil
dence gathered in the district proves
that the eastern crater was chiefly
operative during the last eruption.
and the population is leaving as
fast as they can get away.
The cash receipts by the govern
ment from the sale of public lands
for the year ended June 80 last ag-
gregated $6,500,000. This is the
largest amount derived in a single
year from the sale of homesteads
within the public domain in the his
tory of the government. Last year
receipts on account of public lands
reached a total of $5,O00,000. The
bulk of this money was paid by set
tiers in the south and west.
The annual volume on the MINER
al resources of the United States
for 1901, prepared by DR.. David T.
Day, of the geological survey, has
been sent to press and will be is
sued soon. An interesting feature
is a compilation of statistics show
ing the number of working days
lost in strikes in the coal industry.
The total number of days lost for
the present year is placed at 90
100000 days, compared with the
33,s02 days in 1901, 4,s7S,1o2 in
1900 and 2,124,154 in 1899.
Officers have discovered that a
regularly organized gang of grave
robbers have been operating
throughout the gas belt of Indian
for some time. The headquarters
of the grave robbing industry was
located at Indianapolis. In three
years it is estimated that over 1900
graves have been despoiled and the
bodies taken from the collins and
shipped to the ~dissecting rooms of
colleges.
The war department has adopted