The Tupelo journal., 1902-11-21
News Of the World

President Roosevelt will visit
Memphis on the 18th inst.
The French arbitration board has
decided against the striking coal
miners.
A. L. Pennock and Pat Doyle,
railroad laborers, were instantly
killed by the premature explosion
of a charge of dynamite near I'm
ion, Nc.
Marshal Nicholas Hofferton, of
Independence, KY, was killed in
a desperate battle with a farmer
named William Rice, who was him.
self fatally wounded.
Striking girl employees of a WOOL
en- mill at st. joseph, Mo-, attacked
four n%on-union girls while they
were on their way to work and al
most stripped them of their cloth
ing.
DR.. G. A. Charlton, an eminent
p%athologist of Montreal, claims to
have discovered a serum for the
cure of scarlet fever. Out of fifteen
eases recently treated with the SER
UNI, thirteen recovered.
Secretary Hay has informed the
navy department that conditions on
the isthmus of Panama have as
sumed so favorable a phase that
he no longer has any suggestions
to offer as to the further DISPOSE
ton of the American sailors ano
marines who have been doing guard
duty at the terminals and on the
railway line itself for many weeks
past.
The exports of manufactures
from the United States in the nine
months ending with September,
1902, are larger than those in the
corresponding period Of any other
year in the history of our country,
with the single exception of 1900.
The total for the nine months is
$311,302,441, against $298,660,55
in the corresponding months of last
year, and $35S,67S,243 in the cor
responding months of 1900.
Roland B. Molineaux was set
free by a jury in New York City,
after having once been sentenced to
death and after spending four years
in prison. Molineaux was accused
of numbering Mrs. Katherine
Adams by forwarding poison
through the mails. The Ease has
been one of the most sensational in
the history of the country, and at
tracted unusual attention on ac-
count of the prominence of the ac-
cused and his accusers.
Col. Ed Butler, the millionaire
politician of st. Louis, on trial
charged with attempting to bride
DR.. Chapman, of the st. Louis
board of health in order to infu-
ence his vote on the endorsement
of a garbage contract with the city,
has been found guilty by the jury,
which assessed the punishment at
three years in the penitentiary. Al
appeal has been taken to the ST.
preme court, and Col. Butler was
released on $4,000 bond.
The preliminary estimate of the
average yield per acre u corn, as
published in the monthly report of
the statistician of the department
Of agriculture is 26.S bushels, as
compared with an average yield of
1877 bushels in 1901; 25.3 bushels
in 1900 and 1899, and a ten year
average of 23.4 bushels. The aver
age yield by states shows Missouri
in the lead with 80 bushels per acre,
Ohio next with 80 bushels per acre,
while tie lowest in production is
Texas, with 5.01 per acre.
The executive board of districts
IA, p and 25, representing coal mi
ners of Missouri, Kansas, Arkansas,
Indian Territory and Texas, held a
secret conference at Pittsburg last
week, the object being to formulate
plans by which they can make joint
demands on the Central Coal and
Coke Company, the Western Coal
and Mining Company and the
Southwestern Coal and Improve
ment Company for recognition of
the union. These are the only COM
panies in the west that have not
signed a union contract.
President Roosevelt arrived in
Mississippi on the 18th to partici-
pate in a four days bear hunt.
The Albany Argus charges the
defeat Of the New York democratic
ticket to David B. Hill who forced