The Tupelo journal., 1902-10-17
NEWS OF THE WORLD.

Will be held at San Francisco.
France is threatened with a fuel
famine, owing to a general strike OF
coal miners.
Rhode Island Republicans, in
state convention, Endorsed President
Roosevelt for nomination in 1904.
Some of the railroads are con-
verting their locomotives into wood
burners, owing to the coal famine.
President R~oosevelt's physicians
report that he is fast recovering
from the operation recently per-
formed on his knee.
Mrs. Josie Carson Squires, daugh-
ter Of Kit Carson, the famous scout,
died last week in an insane asylum
at Las Vegas, N. M.
Emile Hartman, one of the fugi-
tives wanted in st. Louis to answer
charges of bribery, wa captured last
week at South McAlester, I. T.
The Mississippi building at the
st. Louis worlds fair will be a re-
production of "Bouvoir," the home
of Jefferson Davis at the time of
bis death.
President Roosevelt was able to
review the G. A. R. parade at Wash
ington from his carriage. Twenty
five thousand veterans were in the
line of march.
Ten bodies that had been stolen
from a graveyard were found in the
basement of a medical college at In
~diapapolis, Ind. Several arrests
have been made.
As a large amount of coal con-
sumed in Canada is shipped from
this country, there is much CON-
plant as to high prices, and great
suffering is already reported.
The attorney general of Illinois
has ruled that it is unconstitutional
to lease state convicts, and steps
will be taken to annul several con-
tracts for convict hire entered into
with manufacturers.
Gen. E. S. Bragg, consul general
at Havana, has been transferred to
the post of United States consul
general at Hong Kong, taking the
place of VIM. A. Rubiee, transferred
to the Havana consulate. The
change was made on account of 9
letter written by Gen. Bragg crit.
cling Cubans.
UT Duncan, colored, was taker
from jail at Columbus, Tex, by .
mob and hanged. Duncan entered
the telephone Office at a small place
near Columbus, where a young lady
was alone, and insulted her. The
negro was frightened away by tbs
young lady's screams, but was cap
tured in a few hours.
In a quarrel between a school
teacher and the board of trustees at
Altoona, N. d., six persons were ia
tally wounded. The teacher first
shot down three directors of the
school and then attacked the 8 and
10 year old daughters of Director
Kuhler. With the last bullet in his
pistol the enraged teacher took his
own life.
According to the annual report Of
the paymaster general, army ex-
penditures decreased during the
past fiscal year $918,s19, as com
pared with the preceding year, part
ly owing to decrease in the pay Of
the army and in part owing to a re-
duction of claims for extra pay by
volunteers. The total expenditures
made by Paymaster General Bates
were $52,523,479.
Mr.. Root, secretary of war, will
recommend that congress at its next
session repeal the law prohibiting
the sale of intoxicating beverages
on military reservations. He will
urge that the canteen system, which
has been a source Of agitation for
many years, be re-established. The
secretary will make this recommen-
dalton upon the strength of reports
made by department commanders
and upon Investigations which the
war department has conducted rel
alive to the effect of the abandon
ment of the system.
The establishment of additional
rural free delivery routes will neces-
state an additional expenditure for
the next fiscal year Of 5,126,4 400
over last year.
John A. Sheridan, one of the st.
Louis boodlers, was taken into Gus
tody in the above city on the 4th.
Sheridan had been at large since
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