The Tupelo journal., 1903-08-07


W. G. Buchanan, a trusted book
keeper of a st. Louis advertising
firm, is missing and SO is $4,000 of
his employers money.
B. G. Hill, who murdereds his
wife last November at their home in
Washington, was hanged last week.
Hill was a grand army veteran.
The st. Louis fair appropriations
in the states and territories amount
to Sc, 07,500, or $707,969 more
than the total from similar sources
at the Chicago exposition.
Figures recently published in
Christiana show that the amount of
money sent home from the United
States by immigrants from Norway
last year vas $4,000, 900.
The body of a woman, apparent
ly a German, was found in a sewer
pipe in the outskirts of Mi. Yer
non, N. Y. On her throat were fin
ger marks and bruises as if she had
been strangled.
John Howe, a st. Louis fireman,
entered a burning building and res
cued Mrs. Nicholas House, but will
lose his eyesight, being badly burn
ed about the face as he rushed
through the flames.
Depreciation in stock values
caused a panic in Wall street and
two firms, T. j. Taylor & Co. and
W. L. Stow & Co., were forced to
close. James R. Keene, the well
known stock manipulation, lost ST.
100000 by the failure of Taylor &
Co., whose liabilities are placed at
100000. Stow & Co.'s liabili-
ties are estimated at So, 5000 DOC
A statement just issued gives the
collections for the fiscal year by the
collector of internal venue in the
middle west as follows: Arkansas,
$109,322.32; Colorado (including
the state of Washington), $685.
1887; Illinois, $50, 562,455.25;
Iowa, $S35,4S7.90; Kansas (includ-
ing Indian Territory and the terri
tory of Oklahoma), $311,4O3.23;
Missouri, $s,94S, 547.13; Nebraska,
s2,343,931.26; Texas, $667,67o.22.
The navy department is in re-
ceipt of a report from Capt. Hemp
hill, giving some interesting details
of battleship Kearsarge's recent run
across the Atlantic. The report in
part is as follows: "Kearsarge
steamed 1855 nautical miles in
nine days, four and one-half hours;
average speed 1910. Experienced
variable head winds, force three to
eight, slowed four hours on account
of the washing of seas over turrets ;
slowed to ten knots on account of
frogs and icebergs; consumed l.
14S tons coal, average daily con-
sumption 125 1-2 for all purposes;
average speed for engines 1850"
Postofice inspectors within the
last year have made no less than
twenty arrests of supposed real es-
tate dealers, charged with using
the mails to defraud by advertising
and selling lands located in Scott
county, Tennessee, to which they
had no title or that did not exist.
The investigation started in De
cember, 1902, upon complaint made
by W. H. Cohen of Pine Bluff, that
he had answered an advertisement
in a st. Louis paper stating that
W. L. McAlpine of Whittemore, Ia,
owned 1000 acres of heavily tim
bered and coal-bearing land in Scott
county, Tennessee, that he would
sell for 5000. Cohen told the au-
thorities that he wrote to McAlpine
and that the latter referred him to
John A.. Cobb of cambridge, Ohio,
as one familiar with the land. Co.
hen claimed that upon representa-
tons made by McAlpine and Cobb
he bought the land and received a
deed made by George P. Sanders.
Investigation showed that the deed
was fraudulent, Cohen claimed, and
that Sanders was a myth. The
above fraudulent sale is only one
among many others ferreted out by
the inspectors.
United States officers Of the dis
trict bordering on the Rio Grande
claim that there is more smuggling
of Chinese into this country from
Mexico going on at the present time
than ever before, owing to opera
ton of a new steamship line now
plying direct between China and
ports on the Pacific coast Of Mexico.
Senator Joe Bailey Of Texas is