The Tupelo journal., 1902-10-24
NEWS OF THE WORLD.

On the 18th inst. the government
held in gold reserve the sum of
1894, 564, 1875, the largest sum in
its history.
Arrangements are being made to
heat the house of congress during
the coming session with oil from
Beaumont.
Russell Sage's physicians have
advised that he retire from active
business, if he would prolong his
life. Mr.. Sage is now Sc years of
age.
General James T. Smith of Cali
fornia has been appointed a mem
Der of the Philippine commission,
to succeed Bernard Moses, who is to
retire January l.
Three persons were killed and
much property destroyed by a storm
which swept over Columbia, Mo.
The storm extended into Illinois
and did great damage.
The presence of federal troops in
the Indian Territory probably pre-
vented a clash between the Duke and
McCurtain factions, when the vote
of the recent election was canvassed
and the latter was declared duly
elected governor of the Choctaw
nation.
The Virginia grand division of
the United Daughters of the Con-
federacy has decided to purchase the
home place of Gen. Stonewall jack
son at Lexington for use as a me-
mortal hospital, and will appeal to
the society as a whole for aid in the
undertaking.
A c., B. & @. express train was
held up by three masked men four
miles east of Lincoln, Neb. The
robbers used explosives on the ex-
press car, SCATTERING it badly, and
after wrecking the safe rifed it of
its contents, securing an amount
thought to be about $1,000.
Mrs. Carrie Nation, of saloon
smashing fame, was bodily thrown
from a saloon at Austin, Tex. She
went into the place of Bill Davis
and began to reprimand him. Da-
Wis requested her to leave, and when
she refused he took her by the arms
and shoulder and threw her into
the street. After being elected,
Mrs. Nation spoke on the sidewalk
until the crowd was dispersed by
the police.
The street car strike at New Or
leans, which lasted for nearly two
weeks, has been settled by the COM
pany employing all the old men and
conceding their demand for 20 cents
per hour, ten hours to constitute a
days work. All efforts to run the
cars with non-union men proved I'M
successful, and a number of strike
breakers were shot and dubbed
whenever they attempted to take out
cars. After the trouble was settled
it was necessary for officers to es-
cort the imported men to trains to
prevent crowds mobbing them.
An interesting array Of statistics
on the coal mining and the labor
conditions in the mines will appear
in a volume now in press from the
geological survey on the mineral re-
sources of the United States for the
year 1901. From 1898 to 1901, in
elusive, the statistics of coal produc-
ton were as follows: In 1898 the
average number of men employed
was 401,221, and they averaged 100
working days during the year, pro-
ducing 219,974,667 short tons of
coal, valued at $2O9, 900, $50; in
1899, 410,365 men working 214
days produced 253 ,739, 1892 short
tons, valued at $256,O77,434; in
1900, 1850 men working PIP days
produced 269,6S2, 1927 short tons.
valued at $306,671,364; in 1901,
485,544 men working ZIG days pro-
duced 293,29S,516 short tons, val
ued at $348, 910,469. In 1898 the
average price of coal per ton was 95
cents; in 1899 it was $1,01 in 1900
1t was $1.14; in 1901 it was $1.19.
A general strike of workingmen
is on in Switzerland. The strike
was ordered out of sympathy for
striking street car men in Geneva,
and even the newspapers were com
PEELED to suspend publication.
The live stock growers of western
Arkansas and Indian Territory have
organized a protective association,
the object of which is to afford
protection from theft of live stock
and to aid in the recovery of strayed