The Tupelo journal. (Tupelo, Miss.) 1876-1924, 1903-10-23

a dentist. on trial for the murder of
Albert Sechrist. failed to agree on a
verdict and was discharged.
Mrs. Sidney Strong, priminent Con-
gregational organizer. of Chicago, died
of heart disease, at Naples, Italy, on
the 14th, on the German steamer Pres
ident. which arrived there from East
Africa.
The most destructive fire in the his
tory of Aberdeen, Wash, on the 10th,
wiped out ten business blocks and res
licences, causing four deaths and six
seriously injured. and loss of over
$1,000,000.
Most Rev. John Joseph Glennon, who
> becomes archbishop of the diocese OF
st. Louis following the death of Arch
bisnop Kahn, is one of the most inter-
esting figures in the Roman Catholic
church in America.
Frank Pavlik created q dramatic
scene in a Chicago court, on the 10Th,
by pointing an accusing finger at his
father and declaring that the latter was
guilty not only of wife murder, but
also that of parricide.
Mexican cotton boil weevils have
cost the cotton planters OF Texas nc
less than $60,000000 this season, &C.
cording to Mr. E. S. Peters, of Cal
vert, Tex, the president of the Texas
Cotton Growers association
Col. G. M. Watson, the commissioner
general from Great Britain to the
st. Louis Worlds fair, arrived in st.
Louis, ON the 18th. A large delegation
met the distinguished guest at Union
ception.
After having been mourned as dead
since early in September, Guy Jones,
IL years old, of Chicago, turned up, on
the 18th, alive and well. In grave
at Graceland cemetery is the body of a
boy which was buried as that of the
missing lad.
Albert L. German. alleged defaulting
clerk of the Third national bank, of
Louisville, KY, was adjudged insane,
on the 10th, by jury in the federal
court German was charged with a
shortage in his accounts of between
$40, 10 and 100000.
Ex-Gov. Henry L. Mitchell died at
Tampa, Fla, on the 14th, of general
debility. He was 70 years old, and
his health had been failing for year
past From 1883 to 1890 he was justice
of the supreme court of Florida. He
was governor from 1893 to 1897.
Gov. Dockery of Missouri, on the
14th, made formal request on Secre-
tary of State Hay for the return Of
Charles Kratz, the fugitive st. Louis
boodler, who fed to Mexico following
his indictment in connection with the
St. Louis & Suburban railway franchise
bill.
Most Rev. John Joseph Kahn,
archbishop of st. Louis, died, on the
18th, at the st. Agnes sanitarium, in
Baltimore, Md, where he had been a
patient since May IL. Death, which
came peacefully, had been hourly ex-
pected by his attending physicians for
several days.
One of the most important develop
ments of the American visit of the
Honorable Artillery Company of Lon
don was its announcement that a mon
ument to the memory of the late Queen
Victoria is to be erected in Boston,
Mass. Intelligence of this plan was
cabled to King Edward.
The United States supreme court,
on the 18th, extended the time for the
completion of the taking of testimony
in the case of the state of Missouri
versus the state of Illinois, involving
the right to empty the waters of the
Chicago drainage canal into the Mis-
sissippi river, until January l next.
Army circles are greatly interested
in tie fight which will be made dur
ing the coming congress for the re-
establishment of the army canteen, or
post exchange. The plan is said to be
to attach a rider to the military ap-
preparation bill, repeating the anti
canteen law, which was enacted two
years ago.
The members of the Honorable Ar
tlllery Company, of London, said fare
well to American shores, on the 18th.
after a stay of nearly two weeks in
this country as the guests of the An
cient and Honorable Artillery Com
pany of Massachusetts, The English
men sailed by the Dominion line steam
er Columbus.
The Doylestown naional bank. of
Doylestown, Pa, which was closed on
July 30, 1903, was, on the 18th, author
lied by the acting comptroller of the
currency to resume business, the stock
holders of the bank having raised $780,
600 by voluntary assessment, and other
conditions imposed by the comptroller
having been complied with.
Railroads can not afford to grant
any further increase in wages, and if
they are forced to take such action,
over 100000 employees in the eastern
half of the country will be laid off in
definitely" This ultimatum was issued,
in Chicago, on the 18th, to the heads
of labor organizations that were plan
ming to demand higher pay.
The acquittal, at Lexington, S. c.,
on the 18th, of James H. Tillman. who