Woodruff County news., 1902-10-30
NEWS OF THE WORLD.

nurse, has fallen herr to $50, 0,O00, left by a man she nursed at St. Louis hospital.
 The National Fire Association Agents, in convention at Louisville, unanimously adopted a resolution calling upon the national govern ment to create 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 arbitrators against the former country which set up claim to damage on the ground of treaty vio lation in the Samoan governments failure to properly protect Ameri- can interests.
 When the case of Clarence Peake. convicted of murder and sentenced to ten years, was called in the su- preme court of Tennessee on appeal, Silas Hulin, the man he was ac- cused of having killed, appeared and announced his identity. Hulin disappeared about the time the kill ing 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 papils in schools, elementary, sec ondary and higher, both public and private, in the United States for the year ended June 30, 1901, was IT, 299,230, an increase of 279, ,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 15,710, ,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 ques- tion of declaring the strike off was unanimous. After the miners had called the strike off, they unani- mously 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- tion of the convention. He will act as attorney for the miners before the commission.
 The annual report of the com missioner of immigration shows that of the 64S,743 immigrants who arrived in the United States during the last year, 466,369 were males and 1S2,374 females. Of the entire number of arrivals, Italy sup piled 17S,375, an increase of 42,379 over the number for 1901; Austria Hungary, 171,9S9, an increase of 5S,599, and Russia 107,347, an in crease of 22,090 Most European countries showed an increase, but there was falling off in the arriv- als from Ireland amounting to 1,423, the total from that country being 29,13S. The figures concern ing Asiatic immigration show a decrease from China of S10, the to- tai being 1,649, and an increase from Japan of 9,001, the total be- ing 149,27o, or ITO per cent Of the entire number arriving, 162,1SS were unable to read or write, but 74,063 were under 14 years of age The total number of aliens refused permission to land was 4,947, or about two-thirds of 1 per cent of the total arrivals. Of these 3,944 were paupers, 109 had loathsome diseases, 9 were convicts and 275 contracted laborers.
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