Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1902-09-20
NEWS OF THE WORLD.

Brig. Gen. Forwood, surgeon gem
eral of the army, has retired under
the age limit and is succeeded by
Brig. Gen. Robert O'Reilley
On September 8 the amount OF
gold in the United States treasury
was $57s,936,194, the largest sum
on hand at any time in the history
OF the country.
President Roosevelt delivered an
address to the convention of locomo-
tive fremen at Chattanooga, and
was elected an honorary member of
the brotherhood.
The navy department is planning
to place all Americans on board the
new vessels as they are built, and to
eventually retire all foreign born
persons from the naval service.
Gen. Chaftee, since repeated un-
looked for attacks on American pick
cts, has inaugurated a vigorous
campaign to subdue the hostile Moros
in the province of Mindanao, P. I.
A revolt against the sultan Of
Morocco, headed by the sultan's
brother, has grown to such proper
tions as to alarm the monarch in
power, who is collecting large
army for defense.
Prosecuting Attorney Folk, Of st.
Louis, who is prosecuting the mu-
nicipal boodlers of the above city.
has been threatened with assassina-
tion. Mr.. Folk says such threats
will have no effect upon him, and
that he will send every guilty man
to the penitentiary.
Mrs. Joseph Leslie, aged 2S, was
shot and killed at Bloomington, ILL.,,
by Miss Daisy Carlton, aged 90
Mrs. Leslie had come into possess
sion Of some endearing letters writ
ten to her husband by Miss Carlton
and was administering punishment
on her with a cowhide when shot.
Catholic missionaries of the Ger
man colony Of Togo, west Africa,
have appealed to the kaiser, ''be-
cause their own and the labors of
other Christian missionaries among
the blacks are IN vain, as the Ger
man schnapps barons flood the coun-
try with cheap fusil, turning the ma
tives into drunkards." The report
says that on an average 1889 quarts
of rank potato schnapps are intro
duced into that small colony, con-
tanning 118 Europeans, all told.
"Rum," say the missionaries, "ac-
companies the German black from
the cradle to the grave; when com-
ing into the world he is saluted by
schnapps orgie; the young buck
buys his bride with German
schnapps; sehnapps makes brothers
out of the chief and the wicked fe-
itch priest, schnapps is used to rob
the blacks of their land and sehnapps
plays leading part at their canni-
bal festivals. The black is getting
more and more demoralized by the
wholesale Introduction of schnapps.
j. K. Murrell, one of the m mbers
of the municipal assembly under in
dictment in st. Louis for bribery,
and for five months a fugitive from
justice, has returned to st. Louis
from Mexico and made a complete
confession, which caused the arrest
of eighteen other members and ex-
me1nL 2rs of the house of delegates.
In his confession Murrell states that
a majority Of the delegates, compos-
ed OF men under arrest, formed
combine, and sold their votes for
the passage of numerous franchise
and contract bills, notably the light
ing bill and the suburban railway
bill. To secure the support Of the
combine for the lighting bill $47, 500,
or $4,000 each, was paid the bood-
lers, and $4,000 was deposited in
a safety deposit vault, to be delivered
when the suburban franchise was
granted. Each of the parties under
arrest is held in $4,000 bond. and
only few have been able to make
the bond. The men under arrest
belong to both the democratic and re-
publican parties.
A farmer in the Indian Territory
applied Paris green to his cotton
with the idea of destroying the
boil wevil, and when the pickers
began gathering the crop they in
haled the poison and several died.
Owing to heavy rains the past two
months the grain harvest in Great
Britain will be the worst since 1879.
Hon. Geo. P. Burkitt, of Pales-
tine, is the republican nominee for
q m mn