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The Tupelo journal., 1902-12-26
DINNER AT THE WHITE HOUSE
The First Formal Evening Function at tho
White House Since 1t Has
Been Remodied,

Washington, Dec. 19.-The president
and Mrs. Roosevelt gave a dinner at
the White House Thursday night in
honor of the cabinet, to which a large
number of other guests also were in
vited. 1t was the first formal evening
function at the White House since it's
remodeling, and gave the guests an
opportunity to view the many
changes which have been made in the
interior of the mansion. The table
was set in the new state dining room,
which has been considerably enlarged,
thus ~obviating the necessity of hold
ing large dinners in the east room
The guests found many changes
had been made in the interior of the
house since last summer. The great
est object Of interest was the east
room, which had been finished in
white enameled woodwork with CO.
rinthian plasters and panels, the win
dows being draped with curtains of a
subdued yellow. The old chandeliers
have been removed, and in their place
are others designed in the form of a
cascade of crystal in loops and fes-
toons of cut glass, each chandelier be-
ing composed of 1000 pieces. In the
orne of the roonfare golden stands
surmounting which are clusters of
Roman electric lights, while the old
fashioned mantelpieces have been sup
planted by others of vari-colored mar
BILE.
Will Accommodate Large Crowds.
The red, blue and green parlors also
have undergone complete renovation,
and make a rich showing in their re-
spective colors. Each room has been
supplied with new furniture of ex-
quisite workmanship. The main fea-
ture of the alteration loticed as one
enters the house is tho removal of the
staircase partition which separated
the vestibule from the long corridor
large open space and giving a free
space for moving and accommodating
the large crowds which attend the
evening receptions. Clusters of Rom
an lights or golden stands also adorn
this portion of the house. The old
mirrors in the vestibule have been re-
moved and larger ones, reaching al
most to the ceiling, have been put in
their places. The general effect of
the lower portion of the house, with
the exception of the state dining
room and the several parlors, is white,
conforming to the outside appearance
of the house and in keeping with the
name of the mansion itself.
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TAKEN TO HIGHEST COURT.
The United States Supreme Court to
Pass Upon the Missouri Eel
low Servant Law.

Jefferson City, Mo-, Dec. 19.-The
constitutionality of the Missouri rail-
road fellow servant law will be tested
before the supreme court of the
United States. Last week the Missou-
ri supreme court, in deciding the
chants Bridge & Terminal Railroad
Co., of ST. Louis, held hat the law
applied to all classes of railroad en-
ployes. John II. Overall, for the rail-
road company, sued out a writ of err
ror in the federal court and appealed
the case to the supreme court of the
United States.
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SHOT BY HER SWEETHEART.
VOItairine LIE C1eyre, n Female An
archist, Fatally In the
Streets of Philadelphia.

Philadelphia, Dec. 20.-Voltairine
LIE Cleyre, a noted anarchist and a
teacher of languages, was shot and
fatally wounded by Herman Helscher,
a former pupil, Friday. The woman
is dying in a hospital, and Helscher
is in custody. Unrequited love is said
to have prompted the deed. When
arrested Helscher's only explanation
was the following: 1--WE were sweet
hearts, she and I. She broke my
heart and deserved to be killed"
Miss LIE Cleyre is SO years old and
her a~ssailant is "a. The shooting oc-
Cured on the street, and was witt
messed by a number of persons.
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THE WATTS KIDNAPPING CASE.
Jury Discharged After Taking
Twenty Ballots and Being Unable
to Agree On q Verdict.

Springfield. Ill. Dec. 20.-After a
deliberation of 65 hours, the jury in
the case against John Watts, charged
with kidnapping his child. was dis
charged by Judge Shirley in the San
canon circuit court, Friday. The
jury took 20 ballots, the final n
standing eight for acquittal and four
for conviction.
The Tupelo journal., 1902-12-26
THE ANDIJAN EAR THQUAKE.
One Hundred and Fifty Lives Lost
and of Natives and
Soldiers Injured.

Tashkend, Asiatic Russia, Dec. TO-
Three officials, two soldiers and $50
natives, mostly children, were killed
by the earthquake which destroyed
the town of Andijan, Russian Central
Asia, Tuesday. In addition, 800 ma
tives and II soldiers were injured,
and 100 Russian residences were de-
Stroyed.
The Tupelo journal., 1902-12-26

San Jose, Costa Rica, Dec. 1S.-Two
violent earthquake shocks were ex-
perienced here at four o'clock Thurs
day morning. The people of the city
were greatly alarmed, but there were
no casualties. Several other shocks
followed at intervals. These, however,
were of diminishing severity.
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TO REPRESENT SAXONY.
SaxOny Appoints n Special Commits.
siOner to the Louisiana
Purchase Exposition.

Berlin, Dec. 20.-Secretary Won Nos
tiz, of the Saxon legation in Berlin,
has been appointed Saxony's special
commissioner to the St. Louis EXPOSE
ton. He will cooperate with Herr
Lewald, the German imperial com
missioner to the exposition, In induc-
ing the manufacturers of Saxony to
participate in the fair.
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is DEATH to BEASTS ALSO.
Complaint Against the Poison Used
to XIII Water Hyacinths In
Florida Waters.

Tallahassee, Fla, Dec. 19.-Gov. Jen.
nings has received a telegram from S.
J. Sillburn, of Palatka, Fla, stating
that the fluid being used by the Unit
ed States authorities in it's efforts to
kill the water hyacinths in the ST.
Johns river and tributaries, by spray
ing from a boat, is daily causing the
of hundreds of cattle on the
bordering upon these waters.
The Tupelo journal., 1902-12-26
Extreme Northern Mail Service.

Seattle, Wash, Dec. 20.-The United
States government has doubled its
Copper river and American-Yukon
mail service. From this time on the
mail will leave Valdez for Copper riv-
er, the lower Yukon and Nome four
time a month.
The Tupelo journal., 1902-12-26
LEFT HOME LAST MAY.
Edward BittIe Left For the West, In
May Last, to Buy Land.

Cedar Rapids, Ia, Dec. 19.-Edward
Bittle, whose dead body was found
near Mountain Home, Idaho, left
here, May 81, to buy land. He was
known to have left the train at
Granger, Wyo., which was the last
heard of him. He was a wealthy
young farmer, living at Lisbon, IS
miles east of Cedar Rapids.
The Tupelo journal., 1902-12-26
NOTIFICATION TO ITALY.

Foreign Minister Prinette Notified
With Regard to Minister BOWEN. \
Rome, Dec. 20.-Ambassador Meyer
visited Foreign Minister Prinetti at
the foreign Office, Friday, and COM
municated to him a cable message
from Secretary Hay saying the latter
was disposed to consent to the in
vestment of Minister Bowen will full
powers to settle the Venezuelan con-
troyersE. if agreeable, to Germany,
Great E.itain and Italy.
The Tupelo journal., 1902-12-26
THE FRENCH NOTE.

1t Is n Mild One, Only Asking for
Most Favored Nation Treatment.
Caracas, Venezuela, Dec. 20.-The
French note to Venezuela has abso-
lutely nothing of the character of an
ultimatum, although its text is still
unknown here, in consequence of de-
lay in it's transmission by cable.
Therefore Charge d'Affaires Quiev-
reux has not been able to present it.
It's terms are similar to those of Bel
GUM and Spain, asking for the most
favored nation treatment in the pay
favored nation treatment.
The Tupelo journal., 1902-12-26

Thompson Morton, a civil engineer,
stabbed and killed John w. Barriger,
Jr., office engineer of the St. Louis,
Memphis & Southeastern, in St. Louis,
on the 10th, and afterwards made an
attempt on his own life by the use
of poison. No cause is known for the
act.
The Tupelo journal., 1902-12-26

Buffalo, N. Y, Dec. 20.-Albert e.
Swift, aged SO years, a well known
business man and the originator of
the "Johnstown flood" at the Pan
American exposition, died suddenly in
a Turkish bath, Thursday, of heart
failure.
The Tupelo journal., 1902-12-26
Freight Rates to Be Advanced.

London, Dec. 19.-At a conference
of shippers trading with Canada, held
this week at Liverpool, it was decid-
ed that the freight rates were not re-
munerative and it was agreed to in
crease them by five per cent. to ten
per cent. in 1908.
The Tupelo journal., 1902-12-26
Five Convictions in Bribery Cases.

St. Louis, Dec. 20.-John A. Sheri-
dan, Charles T. Denny, T. Ed AL
bright, Charles Gutke and Edmund
Bersoh, on trial in this city charged
with bribery in connection with the
Suburban railroad deal, were found
guilty, on Friday, and sentenced each
to five years in the penitentiary.
The Tupelo journal., 1902-12-26
An Old and Rich Reciuse Dead.

New York, Dec. 20.-Owep McCar-
ton, a rich recluse of Oceanic, N. j.,
70 years old, is dead. Although he
had spent 40 years at Oceanic, he
was scarcely known to anyone except
the members of his own family.
The Tupelo journal., 1902-12-26
THE BRITISH FLEET.
1t VIII Blockade a Number of Ports,
Commencing Tonight.

C~OmmenCfnE TO-N1Sht.
Port of Spain, Trinidad, Dec. 90
The British cruiser Alert left here
Thursday night for Carupano and the
British torpedo boat Rocket sailed
from here Friday afternoon for Gu
dad Bolivar. The British cruiser
Fantome, which started for the Grin
oco river December 9, had not reached
Barrancas on the 18th. The reason
for this delay is not known.
Admiral Douglas, of the British
fleet, has ordered the blockade of La
Guayra, Carenero, Quanta, Cumana,
Carupano and the mouths of the
Orinoco river. This blockade is to go
into effect at midnight, December 20.
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HAD BEEN DEAD FOR MONTHS.
Body of a Supposed Former
Resident of Cedar Rapids, Ia,
Found in Idaho,

Boise, Idaho, Dec. 19.-The body of
a man believed to be either Earl Bit
tie or Andrew Bittle, of Cedar Rapids,
Ia, vas found near Mountain Home,
Idaho. The man is supposed to have
been dead several months. In his
pocket was a railway ticket from &C.
dar Rapids to Portland, Ore, and a
purse containing 500. The purse
bears the name of Andrew Bittle.
The Tupelo journal., 1902-12-26
Annroyed Bx tine Bundesrnth.

Berlin, Dec. 19.-The b~undesrath
has approved the tariff bill in the
form in which it passed its third
reading in the reichstag.
The Tupelo journal., 1902-12-26

Fred E. Kelley, of Buffalo, N. Y,
was found dead in his room in a hotel
at Detroit, Mich, on the 18th, with a
bullet wound in the head and a re-
volver grasped in his right hand.
The Tupelo journal., 1902-12-26

Nels c. Matson, postmaster at Mid
dletown, Ia, was arrested at Pekin,
Ill, on the 18th, on a charge of en-
bezzling government funds. He ac-
knowledged his guilt, and in default
of $4,000 bond he was remanded to
the county jail.
The Tupelo journal., 1902-12-26

A canal is being dug in Indiana to
drain the Kankakee marshes and re-
claim hundreds of thousands of acres
of land o regarded as worthless.
The cost will be about a million dol
lars.
The Tupelo journal., 1902-12-26

Four hundred thousand people are
reported to be destitute and starving,
I'm Finland, as a result of the crop
failure.
The Tupelo journal., 1902-12-26
To Buy Coal For the Poor.

New York, Dec. 20.-A committee
from the Democratic club of this city
has handed to Mayor Low $4,000, to
be used in purchasing coal for the
DOOR,
The Tupelo journal., 1902-12-26

Gen. Francisco Sanchez Hochavar-
ria, the provincial governor, died at
Santiago, Cuba, on the 18th.
The Tupelo journal., 1902-12-26

Fearing he had failed to pass his
examination at the Iowa Wesleyan
university, at Ottumwa, Ia, Everett
Hartman, of Malcolm, Ia, committed
suicide, on the 10th, by cutting his
throat with a razor,
The Tupelo journal., 1902-12-26

Matthias Utzler pleaded guilty to the
murder, on the 18th, of Mrs. Garrison,
at Johnstown, Mich, and on the 18th
was sentenced to hard labor for life
and taken to the penitentiary the
same day.
The Tupelo journal., 1902-12-26

Miss Elizabeth Parkinson, of Kan
sas City, Mo-, made her debut in
opera in Paris, France, on the 18th,
before a large and fashionable audi
ence, and was much applauded.
The Tupelo journal., 1902-12-26

Russell Sage, the New York finan-
cier, was in his Office, on the 18th, for
the first time since he was taken i'll,
two months ago.
The Tupelo journal., 1902-12-26

Miss Elizabeth B. Foulks was
burned to death in a fire which de-
stroyed a hotel at Gazelle, Siskiyou
county, Cal, on the 18th.
The Tupelo journal., 1902-12-26
4 Throne Nobodv want..

Madrid, Dec. 19.-The Heraldo says
that Don Carlos purposes to
his claim to the throne in favor of
his son, Don Jaime.
The Tupelo journal., 1902-12-26

John Knapp, a business man of
Bruce, ILL.,, committed suicide, on the
10th, by cutting his throat.
The Tupelo journal., 1902-12-26
A revenue Cutter for Hawaii.

Washington, Dec. 19.-The senate
BILE action on Senator Perkins bill for
a revenue cutter for the Hawaiian is
lands.
The Tupelo journal., 1902-12-26

In his testimony before the strike
commission, on the 10th, Samuel
Gompers accused the coal operators
of importing illiterate foreigners to
work in the mines.
The Tupelo journal., 1902-12-26
Suicide By Cutting Throat.

Stewardson, Ill, Dec. 2O.-John
Knapp, a business man Of Bruce, Ill,
committed suicide, Friday, by cut
ting his throat.
The Tupelo journal., 1902-12-26

The steamer st. Paul, which sailed
s460,615 in money orders, payable in
IS countries of Europe, as Christmas
presents.
The Tupelo journal., 1902-12-26

AS the result of a quarrel over a
load of wood, at Decatur, Ala, on the
18th, Casey Holland, a young farmer,
struck Rev. S. A. Archer, a Baptist
preacher, over the head with a stick,
causing death in a few hours.
The Tupelo journal., 1902-12-26

President Harper of the University
of Chicago, on the 10th, announced
the gift by John D. Rockefeller of an
other million dollars for that institu-
fion-
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Three sufferers from bubonic
plague arrived in New York on a
steamer from Durham, South Africa,
on the 18th, and were placed under
treatment in quarantine.
The Tupelo journal., 1902-12-26

Mrs. Florence Maybrick was visited
by her mother, Baroness De Rouques,
I'm Aylesbury prison, England, on the
18th. The prisoner, who is in delicate
health, was cheerful, and through the
~interposition of friends her prison
duties nave been materially lightened.
The Tupelo journal., 1902-12-26

r. c. Whayne, q business man of
Louisville, KY, who was found dead
near a park in that city, on the night
of the 18th, with a gunshot wound in
his breast, carried insurance on his
life for $340, 900. The manner of his
death is unknown.
The Tupelo journal., 1902-12-26

Miss Birdie Woodland. an Nmploye of
a basket factory at Met opolis, Ill.,.
was made seriously i'll, On the 18th,
by putting tacks in her mouth, for
use in her work, taken from a dish
in which some unknown person had
placed ~strychnine.
The Tupelo journal., 1902-12-26

Eighteen gypsies were frozen to
death in their camp at B%laseney, Fun
gary, during the present intensely
cold weather prevailing in hat coun-
try. Many deaths from the same
cause have occurred in other sections
of the country.
The Tupelo journal., 1902-12-26

In answer to a letter from Daisy
Lawrence, ten years old, OF Norfolk,
Neb., Gov. Savage of that state gave
her, as a Christmas present, a pardon
for her father, who was serving a
three years sentence in the peniten-
tiary for embezZlement.
The Tupelo journal., 1902-12-26

Col. r. e. Bobo, of Bobo, Miss, died
of blood poisoning at a Chicago hos
pital on the 18th.
The Tupelo journal., 1902-12-26

The opera house at Huron, S. D.,
valued at $4,000, was destroyed by
fire on the 18th.
The Tupelo journal., 1902-12-26

Charles J. Denny, John A. Sheri-
dan, t. Ed Albright, Edmund Bersch
and Charles A. Gutke, tried jointly in
st. Louis on charges Of bribery in the
Suburban railway deal, were found
guilty, on the 10Th, and sentenced to
five years each in the penitentiary.
The Tupelo journal., 1902-12-26

The japanese midget known as
seen. Peanuts" who travelled with
c~ircuses for a number of years, died
in New York on the 18th. He was 3S
years old, and two feet one inch in
neight.
The Tupelo journal., 1902-12-26

Three men made an attempt to rob
a bank at Alvord, Tex, on the 18th,
but the officers had been warned and
were prepared. The attempt resulted
in the death of one of the would-be
robbers, the desperate wounding of
another and the capture Of the third.
New-York tribune., 1902-06-08

above the tops of the basement windows. Ihe
bank walls partly standing when the trst Visitors
came were hardly recognizable The Hotel oe
Vile or City Hall could scarcely be FOUND ana
the beautiful tropical trees which grew IN the
large square about it been uprooted or stripped
of their branches
The Jail and the lyceum for boys across the
street were almost obliterated- The walls OF the
Palais de Justice were identified only by two
arches and bit of the walls scarcely one story
high High up under Morne dOrange. in the
southeast corner of the Moulage part of the city.
the first story walls the Civil Hospital of Nine.
des Champs could barely be seem
The Government House, in Rue Bouillet at the
foot of Rue Able Gregoire, could only be found
by means of the large open space which had been
its gardens The bonded warehouses. further up,
were almost obliterated- The Church OF the Cen
tre further up Rue Able Gregoire, was a mass
of ruined Gothic architecture, in which the stand
ing portions were almost buried by those which
had fallen Over the Mouage or Roxellane River
could be seen only the half buried ruins of the old
or fort part of the city The fort church was
scarcely distinguishable from the other frag
nentary walls
The Battery Notz. an ancient terrace, where the
people were accustomed to sit in the evening
overlooking the sea, razed to the earth and
buried in ashes and cinders. This. with the garden
behind It, was one Of the most picturesque places
in the city, but now it was only a barren waste
New-York tribune., 1902-06-08

dust Mans agents of mercy halted, biancned and
fed from fate like that which had called them 70
St Pierre a pan of darkness covered the ruined
city for day. and when it lifted those who
that the dead had been both shrouded and
buried in volcanic dust Pelee's rock ribbed sides
rent in a hundred places. Yawning chasms
crossed each other at every conceivable angle and
proved plainly enough thai in the volcanoes great
ouiburst Of wrath he had literally disembowelled
himself. He sIumbered itfuy for few hours
and hurst forth again. ashes and small stones de-
scending even Fort De France. twelve miles
away the flies
The United States ship Dixie reached Fort de
France about O'Clock in the morning Of May 2-
The bells on the churches were rung. and there
were on shore many other manifestations of joy.
At O'Clock. however. when the colors were run
given. The Dixie's guns gave q salute which
must have startled the scared natives in the in
terror The fort replied and then respects were
paid 10 the Dutch man-of-war. Formal calls fol-
lowed
Captain Berry. mindful of the needs and wishes
Of the newspaper men, had placed well manned
boats al their disposal almost soon as the
ship was anchored, and most Of them were ashore
during the formalities preceding the discharge of
the relief stores
BY Ia O'Clock everybody aware that the
United States naval tug Potomac. already at
chor in the harbor. would convey the officers of
the Dixie and the Cincinnati. the scientists and
the newspaper men 10 the ruins Of St Pierre.
New-York tribune., 1902-06-08
LeBonflher Brothers
West Tyenty-third Street.

pIicab BILE things be in ha-hour II tne CITY
of the dead once queen of the Lesser Antilles
The statue of the Virgin Mary. more conmoIy
known as Notre Dame de la Garde. was hurried
from its pedestal distance of about forty Iset-
where it lay unbroken-
The visitors had not seen half tee . aces
thew intended TO see. when a hoarse shr-l& from
the siren of the Potomac called all TO the ooa
The expected had happened Without shoek
a detonation loud enough to disturb the &
silence of the of the dead, Pelee was aSall t
ERUPTION The members of the party ran as Las
as they could. Over high piles OF runs tle
Clambered. their feet dropping into holeS coSeIs
with ashes 1t seemed hour, that flight OF ne
blocks and in the sultry. tropical ar running e
ali is task not TO be desired The cloud was
near-frightfully near. As the vessel moved. Jets
Nearer and nearer came these geySerS. ike SEN
tfneIs giving warning of the advance OF great
army. Some shot into the air twenty feet some
ffty. some a hundred. and few even higher
Now the boat the nearest seemed to burst from
the beach not more than four hundred yards away
These skirmishers of Pelee's fourth charge upon
the city were not pleasant company Two men
were still ashore and three OF the boats had put
off On came that death laden white cloud OF gas-
The Iaggards had reached the beach, and the
prov of the boat was not a hundred feet trom II
I'VE shall stand by, said Captain Mclean TO
the luckess ones. and the hearts of those in the
boat sank as realized that. whatever their fate
the same. The cloud within a block. The
suItry air suddenly took life A breath from
the northwest famed the perSpiring brows and
bore the gases backward across the city against
the bluff. Pelee belching forth great cloud
of smoke and steam II spread out ike an UNI
New-York tribune., 1902-06-08

The eruption of May 16 altered the character OF
the ruins so much that they were scarcely recog-
nizable from the photographs previously made.
Those photographs showed some of the walls two
of three stories high On the day OF the visit there
was no wall in the city more than one story high.
and many had been thrown down even to the
foundatioEs.
In the lowlands along the Roxellane the mud had
covered the ground to a depth OF several feet. The
arched stone bridges the river almost
buried from sight
At the top of the high blum back of the ruined
city poised on the brink that IL overhung the
declivity by nearly half its bulk. lay bowlder
weighing several tons. How IL had paused in its
flight at such a place one OF the many mex
New-York tribune., 1902-06-08

first story. and nearly half that was bureo III
debris sand and volcanic ashes Taking the ruins Oh
the lighthouse as a starting point from the beach'
had no difficulty by the aid of map IN nhuilis
the sites of the prominent buildings IN the
''Mouage of anchorage" and central portions OF
the city; but what sight met his gaze. All was
ashes! The stone walls were gray with then the
trunks and larger branches of the fallen trees
were covered with them snow in this climate
covers similar objects in winter All was ashen!
Ash color the only hue in sight There was
no shady side, and sunny side. The deathy
paor of the landscape was even reflected In the
clouds which hung low above it. The hills wore
the same pallid hue ard, as the cloud from Pelees
crater drifted across toward the southwest, its
glstenfng mud streams. too, became gray-the
same CHASTITY gray that covered the ruins of St
Pierre The Treasury in Rue Lucie. had been
levelIed to the earth. The great military hospital
at the head of the same street and of Rue d Ho-
pital was only vacant terrace, with few twist
ed fragments of iron fence clinging to the wall
Only a trace of the foundations was left.
The Mouillage cathedral was down to the base
ment walls. The towers stood until the second
eruption on May 16, but all was levelled