The Tupelo journal., 1902-10-31
NEWS OF THE WORLD.

Louis hospital.
The National Fire Association
Agents, in convention at Louisville,
unanimously adopted a resolution
calling upon the national govern
ment to create a commission to gen.
orally supervise and pass upon the
reliability of insurance companies.
The issues between the United
States, Germany and Great Britain,
growing out of the Samoan rebel
lion of 1899 has been decided by the
arbitrator against the former
country which set up a claim to
damage on the ground of treaty vio-
lation in the Samoan governments
failure to properly protect Ameri-
can interests.
When the cast of Clarence Peake.
convicted of murder and sentenced
to ten years, was called in the SUI
preme court of Tennessee on appeal,
Silas Hulin, the man he was &C
cused of having killed, appeared
and announced his identity. Hulin
disappeared about the time the kill
.ng was supposed to have occurred.
and did not learn of the case until
a short time ago. Peake is now
confined in an asylum, a raving
maniac, as the result of his trou-
bles.
The annual report of the COM
missioner of education, just sub
mitted to the secretary of the inte-
rior, shows that the grand total Of
pupils in schools, elementary, sec
ondary and higher, both public and
private, in the United States for the
year ended June 30, 1901, was H.
?99,230, an increase of 27S,520 pu-
pills over the previous year. Of this
number the enrolment of pupils in
institutions supported by general
and local taxes furnished by states
and municipalities was 15,71O,394,
as against 15,443,462, the number
reported for the previous year.
Representatives of the coal mi
ners of Pennsylvania, in convention
at Wilkesbarre, declared the strike
off and accepted the proposition to
leave their differences to the COM
mission appointed by President
Roosevelt. The vote on the uues-
ton of declaring the strike off was
unanimous. After the miners had
called the strike off, they unani-
nously adopted resolutions thank
ing all national, state and munich
pal governments, all organizations
and individuals throughout the
world, for assistance rendered the
miners during their great struggle.
President Mitchell expressed him
self as highly gratifed at the ac-
ion of the convention. He will act
as attorney for the miners before
the commission.
The annual report of the COM
missioner of immigration shows
hat of the GAS, 743 immigrants
who arrived in the United States
during the last year, 466,369 were
males and 1884 females. Of the
1ntire number of arrivals, Italy sup
piled 1885, an increase of 1889
vel the number for 1901; Austria
Hungary, 1888, an increase Of
$500, and Russia 107,347, an in
crease of $4,000. Most European
countries showed an increase, but
there was a falling off in the arriv-
ais from Ireland amounting to
1923, the total from that country
being 29,13S. The figures concern
ing Asiatic immigration show a
decrease from China of $40, the to-
tai being 1,649, and an increase
from Japan of 9,0O1, the total be-
ing 1920, or 40 per cent. Of
the entire number arriving, 1928
were unable to read or write, but
74,063 were under IA years of age.
The total number of aliens refused
permission to land was 4,947, or
about two-thirds of l per cent of
the total arrivals. Of these 1914
were paupers, 100 had loathsome
diseases, 8 were convicts and 275
contracted laborers.
In a row between whites and
blacks at Littleton, Ala. half a
dozen negroes were wounded and
one white man killed. The row
started over the blacks crowding a
woman off a walk.
A second Indictment has been
found against Col. Ed Butler by
the st. Louis grand jury, charging
bribery. 1t is said the indictment
is based on evidence furnished by