The Tupelo journal., 1903-05-15
News Of the World

States have been declared off.
Extensive forest fires in the lum-
Der region of Pennsylvania have de-
stroyed billions of feet of timber.
Judge John II. Rodgers of Fort
Smith has been selected as orator at
the Confederate reunion to be held
in New Orleans.
San Miguel, a fanatical Filipino
insurgent chief, who has given the
Americans muchs trouble by carry
ing on a guerilla warfare, was re-
Gently slain in battle near Caloocan.
after being shot down, San Miguel
continued to fire at his foes until
life was extinct.
1t is reported in foreign diplo-
matte circles that Austria and Rus
STA have entered into a secret I'M
derstanding as to plans against the
sultan of Turkey. The Albanian
revolutionary party is growing
stronger and nothing but absolute
autonomy will satisfy the Alba
mans.
1t is asserted eastern capitalists
are planning to get control of all
the coal lands in the Choctaw ma
ton. H.. 0. Prick and John W.
Gates are supposed to be at the
head of the syndicate. There are
100000 acres in the Choctaw ma
ton, which will be sold at public
auction, and the proceeds divided
among the Choctaws in accordance
with an act of congress. The price
agreed upon by the Frick-Gates
syndicate is $25 per acre.
While standing in the court house
at Jackson, Ky, Hon. James B.
Marcrum was shot down by an as
sassin from the rear, and died be-
fore any one reached him. The
murdered man was just in the act
of leaving the court house after FL
ing papers in an election contest
for the fusionists for the offices of
county judge, sheriff, etc. For over
a year reports of plots to assassinate
Marcrum were circulated, and since
that time he was generally accom-
panied when he left his residence
either by some of his children or a
member of the family. He stood
high as an attorney, and was a
trustee of the state university and
a United States commissioner.
Tom Morris, who, with Bob Bry-
ant, both colored, was hanged from
a railroad bridge by a mob near
Vicksburg, Miss, for the assassina-
ton OF a prominent planter, escap-
ed death in a miraculous manner.
When Morris was pushed off the
bridge the rope about his neck
broke and he dropped sixty feet to
the water below, which is only a
few feet deep. Thinking that if
the fall had not killed him he
would drown, the mob paid no fur
Their attention to him. His shoes
and the moose in the rope end were
found on the bank a hundred yards
below the bridge the following
morning, and prints of his bare
feet leading into a swamp gave con-
elusive evidence of his escape.
The census bureau has made
public the final figures of cotton
production obtained from the re-
ports Of cotton ginners. The guam
tity of cotton ginned from the
growth of 1902, exclusive of lint
erS, amounted to 11,O7S,SS2 run
ming bales. Bales as pressed at the
gins are equal to 10,630,945 bales
of a 500-pound standard, or, count
ing round bales as half bales, TO-
588,528. During the four years
covered by the ginning reports of
the census Office the average crop,
exclusive of linters, has been o.
9o2,277 bales of 500 pounds. The
crop Of 1902 shows an increase of
728,66S bales over the average,
while the crops Of 1899 and 1901
show a decrease of 356,ss6 and
49,, bales respectively. For the
crop of 1902 there has been a gen.
eral increase in all the states both
east and west Of the Mississippi
river with the exception of Ala
bama and Texas.
Edward Page, a millionaire bro
ker Of New York City, has welded
Miss Alga Bender, a trained nurse,
whom he met at the home Of a
friend, when she was attending a
sick child.
A fast passenger p~loughed
through a mass of excursionists
that had assembled on the track of