The Newark journal., 1903-05-15
News of the World

Minneapolis, Ind. has been found guilty by jury of receiving a bribe while in office.
 Archbishop Kain, the venerable prelate of the Catholic church, has been relieved of his duties at St. Louis, owing to failing health. He has gone to Baltimore, to enter a sanitarium. Bishop Glennon has been appointed his successor.
 San Miguel, fanatical Filipino insurgent chief, who has given the Americans much trouble by carry ing on a guerilla warfare, was Ter gently slain in battle near Caloocan. after being shot down, San Miguel continued to fire at his foes until life was extinct.
 It Is reported in foreign diplo- matic circles that Austria and Rus sia have entered into a secret un. 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 nians.
 It Is asserted eastern capitalists are planning to get control of all the coal lands in the Choetaw na- ton. II. 0. Prick and John W. Gates are supposed to be at the head of the syndicate. There are 440,000 acres in the Choctaw na- 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 Friek-Gates syndicate Is $25 per acre.
 While standing in the court house at Jackson, Ky, Hon. James B. Marerum 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 fil- ing papers in an election contest for the fusionists for the offices of county judge, sheriff, etc. For over 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 d trustee of the state university and a United States commissioner.
 Tom Morris, who, with Bob Bry- ant, both colored, was hanged from railroad bridge by a mob near Nicksburg, 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 q few feet deep. Thinking that if the fall had not killed him he would drown, the mob paid no fur ther attention to him. His shoes and the moose in the rope end were found on the bank | 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 quan- tity of cotton ginned from the growth of 1909, exclusive of lint CTS, amounted to 11,07S,SS2 run ming bales. Bales as pressed at tho gins are equal to 10,630,945 bales of 500-pound standard, or, count ing round bales as half bales. 10,- 5SS,528. During the four years covered by the ginning reports of the census Soiiice the average crop, exclusive of linters. has been g. 902,977 bales of 800 pounds. The crop of 1909 shows an increase of 726.66S bales over the average. while the crops of 1899 and 1901 show a decrease. of 35G 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 Aga Bender, a trained nurse, whom he met at the home of friend, when she was attending a sick child.
 A fast passenger ploughed through a mass of excursionists that had assembled on the track of the Grand Trunk railroad at De- troit and forty people were instant ly killed, besides a large number were injured.