The Tupelo journal., 1902-11-21

HIeHt VI leAdS, Will ueduqudrleIS
at San Antonio, has assumed COM
mand.
Secretary of War Root, in his an
nual report, will recommend the re-
establishment of the army canteen,
abolished by act of the last con-
gress.
A general fight followed an at
tempt to force negro workmen to
leave Beaumont, Texas, in which
Max Weylich, a white man, was
killed.
Rev. Charles Cox, aged IS, pastor
of a church at Morehead, KY, elop-
ed with a 17~-year-old girl, a mem
Der of his congregation, DESERVING a
wife and five children.
President John Mitchell, of the
miners union, refused to stand for
election as president of the Amer
lean Federation of Labor, to sue
coed Mr.. Gompers.
Henry Youtsey, now serving a
life sentence under conviction
of completely in the murder of Gov.
Goebel, of Kentucky, is alleged to
have made a confession, implicat-
ing several parties not heretofore
suspected in connection with the
crime.
The st. Louis city school board
has decided to supply free text
books to the children of that city.
j. H. Bingham, collector of rev.
enue for Alabama, has been re-
moved from office, it is claimed, on
account of his activity in what is
called the lily white movement to
exclude negroes from the councils
of the republican party.
The reply of President George F.
Baer of the Philadelphia and Read
ing Coal Company to the charges of
President Mitchell of the United
Mine Workers, as presented to to
the arbitration commission, ignores
Mitchell as an official of the union.
and suggests hat the commission
exclude the union from any recog-
milton in their conclusions of the
matters in dispute.
1t is stated on the authori-
ty of a man who has the closest
personal and political relations
with the Ohio senator that Mr..
Hanna will not be a candidate for
reelection to the senate; will not,
under any combination Of condi-
tions, be a candidate for the repub-
lican nomination for the presidency
in 1904 and will not, if he can pos
sibly avoid it, continue as chair
man of the republican national
committee after the meeting Of the
republican national convention in
1904.
A lone bandit, attired in Indian
costume and streaked with war
paint, held up the village of Oak
land, Ind, in broad daylight. The
stranger rode down the main street
of the town, firing right and left
through the windows of the bust
ness houses. He ordered every one
he met to hold up their hands, and
when he reached the principal store
of the village he entered and rid
died the glass front with bullets.
He then helped himself to all the
money in the cash drawer and rode
out of town.
That the anthracite coal-mine
owners will resist to the utmost
every effort to make the recognition
of United Mine Workers of Ameri-
ca an issue in the arbitration which
is now in progress is made evident
by the replies to the statement of
President John Mitchell of the mi
ners' organization, which has been
filed with the strike commission.
There are five of these answers, in
addition to that Of President Baer,
and all dwell with especial empha-
sis and marked unanimity on this
point. They also agree in resisting
the demands of the miners for an
increase Of pay for piece work, a
reduction of hours for time work
and for the weighing rather than
measurement of coal.
Speaker Henderson will probably
be a candidate for the republican
nomination for governor Of Iowa
next fall.
Vice Governor Luke Z. Wright,
of the Philippines, and Gen. Chat
fee, in command of the army on
the islands the past year, arrived at
San Francisco on the 18th inst.
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