The Tupelo journal., 1902-09-05

Severe earthquakes have occurred
ON the island of Mindanao, in the
Philippines. Twenty persons. all
Moros, were killed by falling walls.
Col. VIM. ii. Hubbell, commander-in-
chief of the National Army of Span
Ssh War Veterans, and a veteran OF
the civil war, died in Brooklyn, N. l..
on the Goth.
Lieut.-Gen. Miles will probably be
accompanied to the Philippines by his
wife and married daughter. The party
will visit Europe on their way back
TO America.
John Reit, a farmer living near
Lewiston, Mont, shot and killed one
man and fatally wounded another, his
n%eighbors, who were preparing to tar
and feather him.
Ex-President Cleveland and Joe
Jefferson, the actor, were among the
speakers at the town dinner, during
the observance of Old Home week, at
Sandwich, Mass, on the 2Sth.
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The department of agriculture, at
Washington, will taxi a leading part
in the good roads convention to be
held in connection with the Minnesota
state isir, September /, 2 and 3.
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DIR. Geo. C. Pardee was nominated
for governor by the California repub-
lican convention, at Sacramento. on
the eth. His principal opponent was
the present incumbent, Gov. Gage.
Congressman r. C.. De Graffenreid,
of Texas, died at Washington, d. c.,
on the goth, of apoplexy. He had
been three times elected to repre-
sent the Third Texas district in con-
gress.
The peoples party of Illinois held
q convention at Springfield, on the
goth, and nominated a state ticket
headed by w. w. Scott, of Marion
county, for clerk of the supreme
court.
The body of the man found on the
river bank near Burlington, Ia, on
the 25th, has been identified as that
of Jordan Stamer, a retired merchant
of Davenport, who has been missing
since early in July.
The Boer generals, now at Amster-
dam, have issued q statement declar-
ing there is no truth in the reports
of differences between themselves and
MIR. Kruger, DR.. Leyds and the noer
delegates in Europe.
Mrs. Kate B. Aultman, who died at
valued at $350,000, most of which she
distributed in public requests, $780,
900 going to establish a home in Can
ton for aged and homeless
The Western Union Telegraph Co.
has decided to discharge all the boys
employed as messengers at its Chi
cage offices, and will use girls and
men in their stead. The boys had
struck three times within the last
month.
At the meeting of representatives
of the American Widow Glass Co.,
tie q pendent Glass Co. and the
Federation Cooperative Glass Co., at
Columbus, O., on the goth, it was de-
cided to reopen the factories on Oc-
tober 1.
According to the Chicago News,
William j. Bartholin is closely related
to a noble Danish family, his father,
who was a younger son, having de-
serted his wife in Denmark to elope
with the late Mrs. Bartholin, who was
found murdered.
The sheriff of San Juan county,
Utah, says 10000 Navajo Indians are
starving in Utah, New Mexico and
Arizona, and fears that unless some
thing is lone to relieve them an up
rising will occur that will not be good
for the white people there.
w. r. Young, a plumber, has sued
the Kansas City Master Plumbers as
sociation for $4,000, ?lleging that his
business has been ruined by members
of the combine who refused to sell
him supplies because he was not a
member. The suit is brought under
the Missouri antitrust law.
Two ocean steamers collided in
New York harbor, on the 27th, in
broad daylight, and a dreadful calam-
fly was narrowly averted, as one of
them carried over eleven hundred
passengers. There were no casualties
on either ship, but the hull of one of
them was cut to the waters edge.
Democratic congressional conven-
tions held in Illinois, on the Goth,
made nominations as follows: Eigh-
teenth district, III. C.. Bell, of Mar
shall, Clark county; Twenty-first dis
frict, Benjamin f. Caldwell, of Chat
ham, Sangamon count. Twenty-fifth
district, James Lingle, of Union coun-
ty.
Mrs. Kimball, a Kansas woman, is