Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 July 1903 — IMMIGRATION RECORDS BROKEN. [ARTICLE]

IMMIGRATION RECORDS BROKEN.

Prediction That More Than 1,000,000 Aliena Will Arrive This Tear. More immigrants arrived in the United States during the fiscal year that ended June 30 than in nny other year in the history of the country. The total arrivals for the twelve months numbered 857, ~- 048, being 68,064 above the previous record year of 1882, when restrictive legislation was pending in Congress, and a total of 788,992 immigrants, many of them aliefi contract laborers, were rushed into the United Stater. The Italians held the record for the entire year, as last year, with a total of 280,622 immigrants, an increase over the previous year of 52,247. AustriaHungary is second in the year’s record, with a total of 206,011, an increase of 34,022. The Russian Empire and Finland is third, with a total of 136,093, an increase of 28,748. In a wreck oa the Missouri Pacific, near Lea's Summit, Mo., three negroes were kilted and thirty injured. A fast mail train crashed into an excursion that bad stepped for repairs.