The Tupelo journal., 1902-11-28


Mantle and four men working in the
building were killed.
Senator Cullom, of Illinois, has
announced his intention Of introduce
ing at the next session Of congress
an antitrust bill.
Miss Florence McFarlan, aged
81, was stabbed to death at Roch-
ester, N. T., by Mrs. Lulu Young.
Jealousy prompted the deed.
President Roosevelt did not get
an opportunity to shoot a bear in
his Mississippi hunt, but one ami
NAL was run down and killed by a
guide.
Harry Allemang, the baseball
player who was shot at Mason City,
W. Va, by burglars, will recover.
1t was thought at first that he was
MORALLY wounded.
Capt. Edward Williams, wanted
in Chicago on the charge Of acting
as bride giver for large property in
terests in evading paying taxes, has
been taken into custody.
The Ear has issued a proscriptive
order in regard to foreigners visit
ing Turkistan the object being to
keep secret the movements of Rus
sian troops in that territory.
For the first time since the civil
war there is one regiment in the
United States army without an Off
Ger in it who participated in the
great battles between the states.
At the annual meeting Of the
American Federation of Labor held
in New Orleans, a resolution oppos-
ing ship subsidies and in favor Of
the 1sthmian canal was adopted.
Sylvester Richardson, a. 15-year-
old boy, is under arrest at Mays
field, Ky, on the charge of attempt
ing to wreck a fast mail train by
placing distractions on the track.
The Baptist state convention ap-
pointed a committee to confer with
the other faction, known as the
Baptist State Association, and it is
probable peace will be declared and
the two bodies united.
The Northern Central and Phil
adelphla, Baltimore and Washing
ton Railroad Companies have an
nounced an increase of 10 per cent
in wages of all employees receiving
less than $50 per month.
W. J. Lomasney, a young bank
teller, committed suicide in a Justice
of the peace court at St. Louis,
where he was in attendance as a wit
ness. An investigation of his ac-
counts revealed no shortage.
A vast vein of ore, running S44
per ton Of gold and silver, has been
discovered half a mile from Silver
Cliff, Col. The ore is lying just be-
low the surface, Oh government
land, and everything for miles
around has been staked.
-Four masked men held up a pas
senger train on the Colorado and
Southern near Trinidad, but secur-
ed no money on account of the re-
sistance of Messenger Sherwick.
One Of the robbers was shot by the
plucky messenger, when the other
kicked him up and disappeared in
the woods.
An italian anarchist fired three
Intellectual shots at King Leopold
while he was passing through the
streets of Belgium. The would-be
assassin was rescued from a mob by
the police. The unfired cartridges
in his revolver were found to be
blank, and it is thought those dis
charged were also harmless.
Not until thew went to attend
his funeral at Marion, Ind, did the
two wives of Thos. n. Davis know
that he was leading a dual life.
Both women were mentioned in the
deceased's will. One lived at Ma
and the other at bowling
Green for years without any knowl-
edge of the 7 lations of each to Da-
Wis.
Representative Babcock, of Wis
c%onsin, has declined to permit )the
use Of his name for speaker of the
next house, and the Wisconsin ode
cation decided to vote for Mr.. Cam
non, Of Illinois.