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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. (RHODE ISLAND.) 



by the great strike of miners in the anthracite 

 region. (See STRIKE OF THE COAL-MINERS.) 



About 70 per cent, of the entire coke product of 

 the country is credited to Pennsylvania, which, in 

 1901, produced 14,355,917 short tons, an increase 

 of nearly 1,000,000 tons over 1900. 



Charities and Corrections. On Sept. 30, 1901, 

 the number of insane under commitment was 11,- 

 748, of whom 6,121 were men and 5,627 women. 

 At the corresponding date in 1900, the aggregate 

 number of insane in all institutions in Pennsyl- 

 vania was 11,249, an increase of 499. The private 

 institutions and sanitariums contained 729 pa- 

 tients at the close of the year, 290 of whom were 

 men and 439 women. Of the insane persons, in 

 all classes of institutions, on Sept. 30, 1901, 11,380 

 were white and 368 colored. 



The number of convicts in the penitentiaries 

 Oct. 1, 1900, was 1,911; to which were added in 

 the year 724, being 29 more than the commitments 

 of the previous year. Number discharged, 1,040; 

 leaving on Sept. 30, 1901, 1,595, being 316 fewer 

 than at the corresponding date of the previous 

 year. The number of juvenile delinquents resi- 

 ding in the reformatories on Sept. 30, 1901, was 

 1,459, a decrease of 94 from the number at the cor- 

 responding date of the previous year. Of the 724 

 convicts sentenced to the penitentiaries in 1901, 

 518 were convicted of crimes against property, 

 and 206 of crimes against persons. 



Lawlessness. Besides the numerous acts and 

 outbreaks of lawless violence during the coal strike 

 of 1902, other deeds of lawlessness were reported. 

 At the end of January 2 murderers, under sen- 

 tence of death, escaped from the jail at Pittsburg 

 by overpowering and wounding the guards. They 

 were assisted in escaping by the wife of the war- 

 den, who fled with them, and was herself injured 

 by the officers who killed the convicts while they 

 were resisting recapture. 



At Chester, in February, a mob attacked the 

 police station in an attempt to lynch a negro who 

 had killed a policeman. The attack of the mob 

 was repelled by the police. 



In June a mob at Harrisburg stoned the police 

 and aided a negro prisoner to escape from their 

 custody. 



A desperate attempt to lynch a prisoner by a 

 mob in Butler County, on Sept. 13, was foiled by 

 officers of the law, who repelled the mob's attack 

 upon the jail. 



In September riots occurred at Lebanon, grow- 

 ing out of labor troubles, and it required the pres- 

 ence of militia to quell the disturbances. 



Mining Disaster. More than 100 men lost 

 their lives in July at Johnstown, through an ex- 

 plosion in the mine where they were at work. 

 The explosion was caused by fire-damp, and all 

 but a few of the deaths were due to effects of the 

 after-damp. 



The New Capitol. The contract for building 

 the new State Capitol has been executed, and 

 ground was broken in November. The cost 

 agreed upon was $3,505,656. 



Political. The Republican State Convention, 

 which met in Harrisburg, June 11, nominated for 

 Governor Samuel W. Pennypacker, of Philadel- 

 phia, whose chief competitor for the nomination 

 was John P. Elkin, Attorney-General of the State. 

 The other State officers nominated were William 

 M. Brown for Lieutenant-Governor and I. B. 

 Brown for Secretary of Internal Affairs. The 

 platform declared hearty approval and support of 

 President Roosevelt, and pledged the convention 

 to his nomination in 1904; it favored immigration 

 laws whereby anarchy shall be driven from this 

 country and the American working man be pro- 



tected against unfair labor from abroad; and it 

 approved the recommendation of President Roose- 

 velt that the United States should enter into re- 

 ciprocal trade relations with Cuba. The Philip- 

 pine policy of the Government was strongly com- 

 mended; adherence to the protective policy was 

 demanded " in so far as it protects and tends to 

 develop the industries and interests of the Ameri- 

 can people " ; and the convention recommended 

 " proceedings to check the growth of unlawful 

 combinations intended to raise the price of com- 

 modities at the expense of the consumer." 



The State Convention of the Democrats was 

 held in Erie, June 25. Robert E. Pattison, who 

 twice since 1883 had been elected to the office, was 

 nominated for Governor, George W. Guthrie for 

 Lieutenant-Governor, and James Nolan for Secre- 

 tary of Internal Affairs. The platform was re- 

 stricted to State issues, ignoring all national ques- 

 tions. Honesty in administration, deliverance of 

 the State from the evils of lobbying, bribery, cor- 

 rupt franchises, " pinch " legislation for black- 

 mailing, etc., was promised in the event of 

 Democratic success. The conduct of the Re- 

 publicans while in recent control of the State was 

 severely denounced, and the charge was made that 

 " the selection of a United States Senator (at the 

 session of the Legislature in 1901) was accom- 

 plished in a carnival of corruption and bribery." 



The candidate of the Socialist-Labor Party for 

 Governor was William Adams, the Prohibitionists 

 nominated S. C. Swallow, and there were other 

 minor tickets in the field. The tickets nominated 

 by the Union party at rival factional conventions 

 were both declared invalid by a legal decision. 

 Owing to lack of campaign funds the chairman of 

 the State Committee of the People's party an- 

 nounced, on Sept. 30, the withdrawal of that 

 party's ticket. 



At the November election Judge Pennypacker 

 was elected Governor by a plurality of 156,410, 

 and the other Republican candidates received 

 large majorities, while a Legislature was elected 

 with 144 Republican majority on joint ballot. 

 Three-fourths of the congressional delegation elect- 

 ed are Republicans. 



A commission appointed by the Legislature of 

 1901 to compute the vote cast at the November 

 election of that year for State Treasurer an- 

 nounced in January, 1902, that Frank G. Harris 

 was elected to that office by a vote of 435,040 and 

 a plurality of 45,570 over E. A. Coray, the Fusion 

 nominee. Mr. Harris assumed office the first Mori- 

 day in May, 1902, to serve for two years. 



A noteworthy event was the retirement, at the 

 close of the last Congress, of the venerable Galusha 

 A. Grow, of Pennsylvania, at the age of seventy- 

 nine, after a public career of more than half a 

 century. In the early davs of the civil war lie 

 served with success as Speaker of the House. The 

 first important bill drawn by him was the free- 

 homestead act giving land to actual settlers of 

 Government territory. He retired from Congress 

 in 1863, and was returned to the House thirty 

 years afterward as Congressman at Large, and in 

 this capacity has served his State for ten years. 



RHODE 'ISLAND, a New England State, one 

 of the original thirteen, ratified the Constitution 

 May 29, 1790; area, 1,250 square miles. The popu- 

 lation, according to each decennial census, was 

 68,825 in 1790; 69.122 in 1800; 76,931 in 1810; 

 83,015 in 1820; 97,199 in 1830: Kis.sriii in 1840; 

 147,545 in 1850; 174,620 in I860; 217,353 in 1870; 

 276,531 in 1880; 345,506 in 1890; and 428,556 in 

 1900. Capital, Providence. 



Government. The following were the State 

 officers in 1902: Governor, Charles Dean Kimball; 





