The Tupelo journal., 1902-10-24

IacCOrleS De dismissed.
Emile Hartman, one of the fugi-
tives wanted in st. Louis to answer
charges of bribery, was captured last
week at South McAlester. /. T.
Hon. Allen Hyden, county Judge
of Owsly county, KY, was murdered
by an assassin while driving along a
public highway. The dead man was
recently defeated for the republican
nomination for judge, but a as
a fusionist candidate and was elect
ed.
Earl Whitney, a young white
man, has confessed to numbering A.
B. Chinn, a prominent merchant,
and seriously wounding his son
while burglarizing his house at
Lexington, Ky, duplicating Claude
O'Brien. The murderer escaped
lynching by being removed to
Louisville.
Gen. Grant, who arrived in San
Francisco a few days ago, says of
one of the most rebellious islands in
the Philippines: "Samar is enjoy
ing the first period of peace it has
ever known, and / am entirely salts
fed that the inhabitants of the is
land vii not attempt to make any
further trouble for our govern
ment."
The trial of Ed Butler, the St.
Louis politician, on the charge of
bribery, mas been postponed to No
vember 10. The case was called at
Columbus, when attorneys for the
defendant made a motion to quash
the indictment. This motion was
overruled after several days of argu-
ment, when a motion to postpone
to November was granted.
The formal sale and transfer of
Bouvoir, the home of jefferson
Davis, by Mrs. Davis, to the Sons
Of Confederate Veterans, was con-
summated last week at the opening
session of the reunion of the Mis-
sissippi division Sons of Confeder-
ate Veterans, held at Jackson. The
home will be used as a home for in
digent Confederate veterans. Mrs.
Davis received $4,000 for the
home property.
The prolonged Pennsylvania coal
miners strike has been settled, Off
cials of the miners union having
accepted the proposition of the
operators for the appointment by
President Roosevelt of a commits
sion to arbitrate the grievances, af-
ter securing some minor concessions
in the naming of the personnel Of
the commission, which is composed
of the following persons: Brig.
Gen. John M. Wilson, u. S. A., re-
tired, late chief of engineers, U. S.
A., Washington, D. c., as an officer
of the engineer corps of either the
military or naval service of the
United States; e. W. Parker,
Washington, d. c., as an expert
mining engineer. Mr.. Parker is
chief statistician of the coal divis-
ion of the United States geological
survey and the editor of the Engi-
neering and Mining Journal of
New York; Hon. Geo. Gray, Will
mington, Del, as a judge of a
United States court; E. E. Clark,
Cedar Rapids, Ia, grand chief of
the Order of Railway Conductors,
as a sociologist, the president as
Stunning that for the purpose of such
a commission the term sociologist
means a man who has thought and
studied deeply on social questions
and has practically applied his
knowledge; Thomas Fl. Watkins,
Scranton, Pa, as a man practically
acquainted with the mining and
selling of coal; Bishop John L.
Spaulding, of Peoria, Ill, Hon.
Carroll d. Wright has been ap-
pointed recorder Of the commits
sion. Immediately upon reaching
an agreement, President Mitchell
notified the district officers to call
conventions, and recommended that
all strikers return to work as early
as possible. This strike, which last
ed nearly six months, was probably
the most stubbornly contested bat
tie ever waged between capital and
labor. It is estimated 81 $500
miners were out of work during the
contest, and the total loss to opera
tors, miners and the general public
is placed at $780, 0O, 900.
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