The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1903-05-15
News Of the World

Danish West Indies to the United
States have been declared of.
Extensive forest fires in the lun-
Der region Of Pennsylvania have de
stroyed billions of feet Of timber.
Judge John III. 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 much trouble By carry
ing on 4 guerilla warfare. was re-
Gently slain in battle near Caloocan.
after being shot down. San Miguel
continued 10 fire at his foes until
life was extinct.
1t i reported in foreign diplo-
matte circles that Austria and Rus
STA have entered into n secret I'M
derstanding as To plans against the
sultan Of Turkey The Albanian
revolutionary party is growing
stronger and nothing but absolute
autonomy viii satisfy the Alba
mans.
1t Is asserted eastern capitalists
are planning to got control Of all
the coal lands in the Choctaw ma
ton III. .. Prick and John W
Gates are supposed To be at the
head Of the syndicate. There are
10000 acres in the Choctaw ma
ton. which viii 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 SO per acre
While standing in The court house
at Jackson, Ky, Hon. James b.
Marcrum was shot down hv an as
>asSin from the rear, and died hc-
fore any one reached him. The
murdered man was iust in the act
Of leaving the court house after fl
ing papers in am election contest
for the fu=ionists for the offices Of
county Judge. sheriff. etc. For over
a year reports Of plots to aSsassinatc
Marcrum were circulated. and since
that time he was generally accom-
panied when ne left his residence
either by some Of his children or a
member Of the family. lie stood
high a. an attorney. and was q
trustee Of the state university ard
United States commissioner.
Tom Morris. who. with Bob Bry-
ant. both colored. was hanged from
a railroad bridge by a mob near
Nicksburg. Miss. for the assassina-
ton Of 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
few feet deep Thinking that if
the fall had not killed him ne
would drown. the mob paid no fur
ther attention to him. Ills shoes
and the moose in the rope end were
found on the bank d 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 rc-
ports Of cotton ginncrs. The guam
tity Of cotton ginned from the
growth of 1902. exclusive Of lint
err. amounted to l1,O.S.sS2 run
ming bales. Bales as pressed ut tho
gins are equal to 10.630.9f5 bales
Of 50O-pound standard. or. count
ing round bales as half bales. 10
5SS,52S. During the four years
covered bv the ginning reports Of
the census Office the average crop.
exclusive OF lintcrs. has been O.
9O2,27. bales OF 500 pounds The
crop of 1902 shows an increase Of
rs. COS bales over the average
while The crops Of 1899 and 1901
show a decrease Of 356,SS6 and
393.532 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
friend. when she was attending
sick child
\ fast passenger ploughed
through mass Of excursionists
that had assembled on the track of
the Grand Trunk railroad at De