The Tupelo journal., 1902-09-26

are over the present priuSe
at that point.
The democratic convention of
Massachusetts, repudiated the Kan
sas City platform and nominated
VIM. A. CASTOR, a gold standard
man, for governor.
Lieut.. Peary and party, who in
1901 sailed on the steamer Wind
ward on an Arctic expedition, has re-
turned. Lieut.. Peary reports
important discoveries in natural his
tory.
The prize fight between Terry Nc
Govern and Young Corbett, sched-
uled to take place at Louisville, did
not come off in that city, as an in
junction was granted against the
club promoting the battle.
In a fit of jealousy, Mrs. Emma
P~oindexter shot and killed her hus-
band at Rockford, la. The woman
crept into her husbands room when
he was asleep and emptied the con-
tents of a revolver into his body.
Secretary of the Treasury Shaw
says the scare of a financial strieng-
ency in the east, on account of the
necessity of large sums needed in
the south and west to move crops is
groundless. That there will be no
rurther drains on the eastern banks
is shown by the large sums being
sent to New York from the west for
investment in call loans and secur-
tiles.
A settlement of the Pennsylvania
miners strike seems to be as remote
as at the beginning of the trouble.
The operators say the only way to
settle affairs is for the men to return
to work, while the officials of the
miners union declare they will hold
out indefinitely. In the meantime
the price of fuel is soaring skyward,
and at many points is beyond the
reach of a large class of people.
Speaker Henderson has declined
to accpet a denomination for con-
gress from the third district of Iowa.
This action of Mr.. Henderson was
a great surprise to politicians all
over the country, as well as to those
in his district, especially since a re-
nomination was rendered unani-
mously. Mr.. Henderson gives as
his reason for the course he pursued
that his views on treatment of trusts
are not in accord with the views of
his party in command in Iowa.
Two women, disguised as negroes
and in the act of robbing a neighbor,
after numbering his wife, were them
selves killed near Ashland, La. 1t
seems the husbands of the two wom-
en- burglars enticed the husband of
the murdered woman from home at
night, and his dead body was found
the next day in the woods. The
women, disguised in mems attire,
were ransacking the house when a
peddler, who was sleeping in an ad-
joining room awoke and opened fire,
killing both of them. When he
aroused the neighborhood and an
Investigation was made the two bur-
glars proved to be the wives of the
white men who had persuaded the
husband of the murdered wife to 90
hunting. The wives killed the wo-
man to secure $500 pension money,
in the house.
The mystery surrounding the dis
appearance about ten years ago of
George Nipper, a wealthy cattleman
of Claremore, I. T., has at last been
cleared up. Nipper left home for
Texas with a large sum of money,
and as his people could find no
trace of him it was concluded that
he had been murdered and robbed.
His wife collected a portion of his
life insurance, and in a few years
married again. A few weeks ago
a mar who had known Nipper well
at his old home recognized him on
the streets of Denver in the person
of a cripple mendicant. An inves-
tigation brought to light the fact
that Nipper, shortly after leaving
home, was stricken with paralysis,
and for seven years was a public
charge On a poor farm, being unable
to make known his name. When
discharged from the hospital he be-
came a wanderer, still a mental
wreck, eking out a miserable exist
ence. He has been taken back to
his home, and with the proper care
and treatment it is believed will re-
cover.
Alonzo Tucker, colored, was hang
ed by a mob at Mansfield, Ore, for
assaulting a white woman.