The Tupelo journal., 1902-12-26
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

ney general of Massachusetts, died at
his home at Marion, Mass, on the
18th.
In a shooting ARRAY at Beaumont,
Tex, on the 18th, John Breach was
instantly killed, II. H. Mathews was
fatally wounded, and a policeman
shot in the leg.
While on his way to the White
House, on the 18th, to see the presi-
dent, Postmaster General PAYNE suf-
fered an acute attack of indigestion.
He was driven to his hotel and two
physicians were summonded who re-
lieved his suffering.
According to the approved plans,
proposed by Admiral Dewey, the prin-
cipal fighting ships of Dewey's fleet
will rendezvous at the Island of Trim
idad, right off the coast of Venezuela,
and at st. Thomas, near Porto Rico.
Raising men from the dead is the
goal toward which a Chicago physi-
sian is striving. He has already prac-
tically terminated a maltese cat.
What the next step may be he himself
hesitates to predict.
A material increase in the cases of
pneumonia and sever colds among the
people of Washington, D. c., is at
tributed to the coal famine, accord
ing to a number of physicians inter
viewed. They say that in most of the
houses they visited only a few of the
rooms are heated.
A disease which is killing off cattle
in the eastern part of johnson coun-
ty, Mo-, is pulling the farmers and
the veterinary surgeons, who are I'M
able to diagnose it. Unlike blackleg,
it attacks old cattle, which sicken and
die in an hours time.
The British parliament was pro-
rogued, on the 18th, until February
7, the kings speech being an extern
sive review of the events of the year,
including the Venezuelan contro-
versy.
City Marshal Coulter and Justice
of the Peace Musgrove were fatally
wounded, at Pennington, Ia, on the
10th, by George Stillwell, who fled,
but was pursued by a posse and shot
to death after a desperate fight.
In a fire that destroyed the Sollinger
apartment house, in Chicago, on the
10th, a number of people had narrow
escapes from death, being rescued by
fremen only a few minutes before
the outer walls collapsed.
William Mabee and John Wallace,
fremen, were killed and Engineer
James Stenard seriously injured in a
collision of trains at Little Ferry
Junction, N. j., on the 10Th.
The jury in the case of John Watts,
on trial at Springfield, Ill, on a
charge of kidnapping his child, failed
to agree on a verdict, and was dis
charged, on the 10th.
Two negro dishwashers ofught a
pistol duel in the basement of a totel
in ST. Louis, on the 10th, in which
n "a killed and the other serious
ly wounded.
The Venezuelan situation, on the
goth, stood thus: Great Britain will
welcome arbitration, and will not in
sist on the United States guarantee
ing payment by Venezuela. Germany
will accept arbitration, but wants
some sort of guarantee as to pay
ment. Italy will do as the other fell
lows say.
The Standard Co., on the 10th,
raised the figure for refined kerosene
n cent a gallon, making the prevail
ing price 1914 cents to .iobbers, the
highest the commodity has reached
in more than twenty years.
A special dispatch received in Lon
don from Brussels, on the 10th, said
the Dutch minister to Venezuela, DIR.
Van Leyden, had been recalled and
that Dutch interests in Venezuela
had been committed to United States
Minister Bowen.
The pure food bill passed by the
house of representatives, on the 10Th,
prohibits the introduction into any
state OF territory or the District of
Columbia from any other state or
territory or the District of Columbia,
or from any foreign country, or the
shipment to any foreign country, of
any article of food or drug which is
adulterated or misbranded.