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The Tupelo journal., 1903-04-17
THE NATIONAL PACKING co.
A License to Transact Business I'm
Illinois Has Been Issued by
the Secretary of state.
Chicago, April 1.-THE Tribune

Chicago, April 1.-THE Tribune
says:
The National Packing Co., recently
incorporated in New Jersey, has ac-
quired from Secretary of State Rose
a license to transact business in Hi
nois. Its New Jersey capital was $751;
100000, while in Illinois it has a cap
ital stock of 81, 000, 900. The company
secured its Illinois license just before
the ruling of the federal court at st.
Paul, Thursday, was known. What
the outcome will be no lawyer pro-
fesses to be able to predict, but it is
assumed that the anti-merger decision
will have direct bearing on this pre-
liminary beef merger as well as on
the greater one in contemplation.
The National Packing Co. is to as
sumo charge of and operate through
out the country all the competitive
plants acquired by the packers. These
are the Omaha Packing Co., the G. H.
Hammond Co., the Hammond Packing
Co, the Hutchinson Packing Co., the
Anglo-American Packing Co., the
United Dressed Beef Co., and the Fow-
Ter Packing Co.
The president of the new company
is j. p. Lyman and the secretary and
treasurer, b. ID. Standish.
The Tupelo journal., 1903-04-17
HINTS OF A BIG SCANDAL.
Congressman SOuthard Begins an
investigation of Methods EN-
plOyed in Shipping Bodies.

Toledo, O., April 11.-Congressman
j. H. Southland, of this city, has start
ed an investigation which may bring
to light a scandal among United
States officials at Havana, Cuba. The
charge is hat eXorbitant charges are
being made for the disinterment and
shipment of the bodies of dead sol
diers from Cuba, when it should be
done free of cost, according to Mr..
Southland. Honor Pugh, who enlisted
in the navy last August, died at Ha-
vana on April 3. His mother here
was notified on April Z. Two days la
ter she received a cablegram stating
that the body would be exhumed, en-
balsled and shipped to New York for
1925. The mother brought the mat
ter to the attention of Congressman
Southland, who has started an investi-
CATION.
The Tupelo journal., 1903-04-17
GIGANTIC REAL ESTATE DEAL.
East Chicago Company Buys n Tract
of Land Including Cities of East
Chicago and Indiana HarbOr.

Chicago, April 11.-One of the larg-
est deals in real estate ever made by
Chicago and New York capitalists,
partial details of which were pub
lished recently has just been closed
and the final papers drawn. The East
Chicago Co., with a capital stock of
So, 800 600, has purchased the property
of the Lake Michigan Land Co., the
Standard Steel and Iron Co. and the
Calumet Canal and Improvement Co.,
corporations whose combined capital
was nearly $4,000, 600. The purchase
gives the company control of the
tract covering more than five hundred
acres in Indiana, II miles southeast of
Chicago, and extending from Lake
Michigan to the Grand Calumet river,
and comprising the cities of East Chi
cago and Indiana Harbor, a deep ship
harbor at the latter place, and the
projected Calumet canal connecting
the harbor with the Calumet river.
The Tupelo journal., 1903-04-17
TORNADO CROSSES KANSAS.
No Tidings Received from AItamOnt,
a Village Near OswegO, Which
Lay in the Storms Path.

Kansas City, Mo-, April 1o.-A spe-
cial to the Times from Joplin, Mo-,
says: 1T is reported here that a
tornado passed over southeastern
Kansas at four o'clock Thursday aft
ernoon, from which Altamont, a small
town so miles west of this city, suf-
fered much damage. A telephone
message from Oswego, Kas., seven
miles east of Altamont, stated that
there was a severe storm in the vicin-
ity of Altamont, but nothing is
known as to its extent. Passengers
on an east-bound Frisco train stated
that it was reported at Altamont as
the train passed through at seven
o'clock that a tornado had passed
over the town and had done much
damage in the country near there.
No further particulars can be learned.
The Tupelo journal., 1903-04-17
A DEFECTIVE SHELL FUSE.
The Cause of the Accident on Board
the Battleship Iowa.

Pensacola, Fla. April 11.-An inves-
tigation of the explosion on the bat
tleship Iowa, which occurred in the
gulf neal this port, Thursday after
noon, resulting in the death of three
seamen and the serious injury of five
others, shows hat the accident was
caused entirely by a defective she'll
fuse, which, it is stated, burned fast
er than was calculated. 1t is under
stood hat the shell exploded fully
60 seconds before it was timed to go
off.
An examination of the ship shows
that the bursted gun is beyond repair,
and the 12-inch forward turret will
have to be repaired. A number OF
supporters are also sprung, and it is
stated that portions of the deck will
have to be replaced where pieces of
the heavy gun tore through.
The funeral of the three men who
were killed in the accident took place
to-day. The dead were buried in the
national cemetery here with military
honors, companies of ~bluejackets
from all the ships of the squadron
participating in the exercises.
1t is understood hat all of the in
jured men are almost entirely out of
danger except First-Class Seaman
Paul Gought, who lost an eye, and is
in a critical condition. The Iowa
steamed into the navy yard Friday
morning.
The Tupelo journal., 1903-04-17
REV. WIN. d. MILBURN.
Death OF the Venerable Blind Chaplain of
the United States Senate at
Santa Barbara. Cal.

Washington, April 11.-Rev. VIM. III.
Milburn. the venerable blind chaplain
of the United States senate, died in
Santa Barbara. CAL, Friday. Word to
this effect has been received here by
Col. ID. A. Ransdell, the sergeant-at-
arms of the senate. Mr.. Milburn, ac-
companied by his two ~nieces, the
Misses FINLEY, left Washington for
the Pacific coast about a year ago.
The chaplain was in broken health.
The change brought no great i'm
provement in his condition, and when
congress met in December he for
warded his resignation to Washing
ton, but it was never acted on.
The deceased was a native of Phila-
delphia, where he was born in 1923.
When he was five years of age, q
playmate accidentally struck him in
the left eye with a piece of glass. 4 or
two years he was confined to a dark
room under medical treatment, and
when he came out one of his eyes vas
entirely blind and little sight was left
in the other. He, however, pursued
his studies at school and college for
about twenty years, the sight grow
ing DINNER until gradually he be-
came totally blind. In the spring of
1888 he vent with his fathers family
TO Jacksonville. ILL.,. and in 1S43 he be-
came n travelling preacher of the
Methodist Episcopal church, serving
charges in various sections of the
country.
Mr.. Milburn was twice elected chap
lain of congress-" the first time in
1s45, when a little over twenty-five
years of age; vas twice chaplain of
the house of representatives and last
ly chaplain of the senate, to which
office he was elected in 1898. While
serving a charge at Mobile, Ala, Mr..
Milburn underwent a trial for
heretical teachings. He was widely
known as the blind preacher and lee
turer, his ministry and lecture field
touring many parts of the United
States, Canada, Great Britain and Ire
land. He was also known as an au-
The Tupelo journal., 1903-04-17
STOCKMEN READY TO FIGHT.
Will BE Resisted All Along
the Line When Attempt Ia
Made to Combine.

Denver, Col, April 10.-A meeting
of live stock men has been held in
Denver, with representative men pres.
en- from a dozen states west of the
Mississippi river, in response to q
call made by President John w
Springer of the National Live Stock
Association of the United States, who
presented the latest information CON.
corning the packing house merger
scheme.
"It was determined" said Mr.
Springer, 'to fight the packers ali
along the line and to prevent if pos
sible the contemplated merger for
$500, 000, 900. Offers were made to or.
ganize y new line of packing houses
under pledge from all the big cattle
producers to stand by the new pack.
ing houses if built. The federal gov.
eminent only awaits another move to
prosecute criminally the officers OF
the combine, as proposed, for DISC
bedience of the injunction of the fed.
eral courts at Chicago, and all the
states stand ready to suppress unlaw.
full conspiracy against interstate com.
merce.'
The Tupelo journal., 1903-04-17
CREDITS THE ATTORNEY GENERAL
Doubt Resolved Into Certainty Con-
corning Limits of combination

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Doubt Resolved Into Certainty Con-
corning Limits of Combination.
Washington. April 10.-Assistant AT.
torney-General VIM. A. Day, who took
a prominent part in the argument be-
fore the United States circuit court
sitting recently at st. Louis in the
Northern Securities merger case, in
speaking of the decision of the court.
announced Thursday, said:
"The judgment of the court in the
Northern Securities case is one of far
reaching consequences and reaffirms
the right of the people to be free
from monopoly and establishes for all
time the high purpose, courage and
legal wisdom of Acknowledgement
Knox. By this decision doubt has
been resolved into certainty, and all
may know the limits to which combi-
nations in restraint of may
go, and the combination is resolved
into its original elements, with the
decree of the law that they shall COM
pete. One afternoon in February.
1902, Acknowledgement Knox publicly
announced that he had given an opin-
ion to the president that the Northern
Securities Co., which had secured con-
troll of the Great Northern and North
ern Pacific railways, was an unlaw-
full combination, in restraint of com
merce between the states, and a mo-
nopoly, and that he would at once
prepare a bill for its dissolution.
when the Northern Securities Co.
was formed it produced great alarm
among the people of the northern tier
of states, lying between Lake SUI
perior and the Pacific ocean. These
states are entirely dependent upon
the two roads in question for the
transportation of their crops and
products to market. 1t vas regarded
as such a menace to their prosperity
that the governors of those states met
at Helena, Mont, to take such steps
as were practicable to prevent the
consummation of the proposed mo-
nopoly, and they invoked the aid of
the federal government to that end.
Prior to that appeal the presidential
asked the opinion of the attorney gen
eral whether the Northern Securities
Co. was in violation of any federal
law. 1t was his judgment that the
Sherman antitrust law had not ex-
hausted the power of congress in con-
trolling and regulating combinations
in restraint of commerce. This case,
from the original opinion to the pres
ident, step by step, through every
phase, has been conducted with the
advice and direction of the attorney
general. The patient and exhaustive
labors involved in his uncompromis-
ing attitude can only be appreciated
by those whom the attorney general
selected as his aides in this great
work.
The Tupelo journal., 1903-04-17
KELLEY DID NOT APPEAR
The Alleged Baking Powder Trrst
Legislative Agent Has Pit
IDENTIFY Ducked.
THE LAUGH ON MISSOURI OFFICIALS.
They Flushed Their Game Before
They Were Ready to Bag 1t and
Now They May Have Trouble I'm
Finding Him, Even with n Requi-
sitIOn.

New York, April 11.-Daniel j. KEEL
ley, who is wanted in St. Louis for
the attempted bribery of Lieut.. Gov.
John A. Lee, did not appear in court
when his case was called before Mag
istrate Poole, nor is il at all certain
that he will appear later.
The chance of Kelley's going to Mis-
souri, is as uncertain as his appear
ance in the New York courts, or more
SO.
III he wishes to evade arrest when
the warrants reach New York. he has
~ hours the start of the St. Louis Of
ficer, who is expected to arrive in New
York Friday night. He has not been
seen since he was released after his
second arrest.
Another difficulty in the way of his
being taken to Missouri is that he
has a very shrewd attorney in Clar-
ence j. Shearn, who may be depended
on to bring as many obstacles in the
way of his being taken back as posi-
bic. Mr.. Shearn is thoroughly ac-
quainted with the status of the case
in Missouri las Missouri officials talked
very freely about the case before they
did anything definite.
Mr.. Shearn says that the requisition
papers will be of value when a copy
of an indictment against Kelley is
filed with them before Gov. Odell. Be-
fore that he is not anticipating that
his client will be given any special
trouble by the officers, or hat he will
be arrested and held pending the find
ing of an Indictment.
The Tupelo journal., 1903-04-17
ILLINOIS MILITIA ORDER.
antry Detailed to to
Worlds Fair Grounds.

Springfield. Ill, April ia special
order was issued from the adjutant
generals Office Friday afternoon as
follows:
Col. j. Mack Tanner, Fourth in
fantry, Illinois national guard, having
rendered the services of his regiment
for duty at ST. Louis, Mo-, during the
dedication of the buildings of the
Louisiana Purchase exposition, he and
his regiment are hereby detailed to
proceed to Forsythe, Mo-, April %,
1908, reporting for quarters and sub
sistance at the Varied Industries
building on the fair grounds"
The Tupelo journal., 1903-04-17
AJealous Woman.s Deede.

Lead, S. D., April 1o.-Martha
Guinan attempted to take the life of
David Kenny, Thursday, and then
committed suicide by taking a dose of
strychnine. Henry, who is employed
at a local saloon, went to work after
eating luncheon. He soon became i'll,
and his life was saved only by prompt
work of the physician. Miss Guinan
admitted beforehand that she had put
poison in Henny's tea and then taken
a large dose of the poison herself, and
stated that jealousy was the cause
for her action
The Tupelo journal., 1903-04-17
Moorlsh Insurxcnts RepuIsed.

Madrid, April 1o.-A dispatch from
Melilla, Morocco, gives details of the
fighting at Frajana. It says 5000 in
surgents made a desperate attack on
the fortress of Frajana, April s. After
the customary prayers the tribes
men advanced with q wild rush to the
accompaniment Of religious exhorta-
tions. Twice they attempted to car
ry the fortress by assault, but were
repulsed by well-directed fusifades,
During the attack the reserve pow
der supply of the tribesmen explod-
ed, killing many Of them.
The Tupelo journal., 1903-04-17
THE MOTIONS OF THE MOON.
Prof. Frank E.. Ross VIII Make Them
q Special study in Behalf of
the Carnegie Institute.

Berkeley, CAL, April 1o.-Prof.
Frank E. Ross, a graduate of the
University of California, has been APP
pointed by the Carnegie Institute at
Washington to the position of re-
search assistant in astronomy. His
special study will be the motions of
the moon. He will pursue his search
in the capacity OF assistant to Prof.
Simon Newcomb.
The Tupelo journal., 1903-04-17

Carbondale, ILL.,, April 11.-Wm. H.
Turley, who shot and killed Frank
Murray on May 80, 1899, in Johnson
county and escaped, is dead. He was
killed by a train at Martel, O., ac-
cording to word received here. He had
been going under the name of Will
lam Henry and was an employee of the
Bibb Hoop Co., of Larue, O.
The Tupelo journal., 1903-04-17
KEENE GETS OUT OF POOL.
Southern Pacific Deal Falls Through
and Its Promoter Decides on .
Trip to Europe.

New York, April 1O.-OAicial an
nouncement was made Thursday of
the dissolution of the Southern Pa
cifc pool which has been engineered
by Mr.. Keene aud the firm of Talbot
j. Taylor & Co. Mr.. Taylor made the
announcement. He said, also, that
the stock in the pool had been distrib-
uted. Mr.. Taylor confirmed the re-
port that Mr.. Keene is to go abroad.
The Tupelo journal., 1903-04-17
Flood Fightnrs Give I'm.

New Orleans, April 1O.-Hope OF
closing the Hymelia crevasse has been
practically abandoned by Senate:
Brady and those who have been as
ISOLATED with his. All day Thursday
a terrific current swept around the
broken ends of the cribbing and
through the great 7Oo-foot gap in the
levee undermining the light pilina
which it had taken 10 days and nights
to build. The levee board has prac
tically reached the end of its rs
sources, and planters are pulling
away their hands
The Tupelo journal., 1903-04-17
NEW LINE TO EAST ST. LOUIS.
Milwaukee and Southern Railroad
Company Files Articles of Or
ganixatiOn in Wisconsin,.

Madison, Wis, April 1.-THE Mil
waukee & Southern Railroad Co. has
filed articles of organization with the
secretary of state, its purpose being
to construct and operate a railway
from Milwaukee to East st. Louis.
The motive power is not specified, but
il is understood that an electric line
is proposed. The company is capital
lied at $4,000 for the present.
The Tupelo journal., 1903-04-17
Team Medal shoot in Missouri.

St. Joseph, Mo-, April lin the
state association team metal shoot at
Lake Contrary, Friday, the Kansas
City club won the medal; Students
club, ST. Louis, second; Washington
Park club, Kansas City, tied; Metro
politan club, st. Joseph, fourth; Belt
Line club, Kansas City, fifth. The
winning team killed Al out of 60 birds.
The Tupelo journal., 1903-04-17
WAS SHARP AND BLOODY.
Bacolod, the Moro Stronghold in
Mindanao, Captured by Capt.
Pershing's Force.
100 MoROS KILLED AND MANY WOUNDED.
After u Gallant barge the Ameri-
cans the Moro- Hand co
Hand, B~ayonet. Against kri..e.-
The Dntto of Pnnandangen KffIed
Americans Wounded.

Manila, April 1o.-Capt. Pershing's
force captured Bacolod, island of
M~indanao, Wednesday, killed 100
Moros and wounded many others.
Three Americans were wounded.
Capt. Pershing's force consisted of
Shaw's battalion of the Twenty-sev-
enth infantry, Kilpatrick's troop of
the Fifteenth cavalry and MeNair's
battery. " s.
Pershing was surveying the west
shore lands when the Bacolodians OPP
posed his advance and provoked the
fight. Pershing's force surrounded
and attacked their stronghold, first
Smelling them and, rushing his troops
forward, charged CALAMITY. After
crossing a deep moat and entering the
fort, the Americans engaged the
Moros, bayonets against krisses. A
hundred of the defenders were killed,
including the datto of Panandungan
and many were wounded. Only three
Americans were wounded. After the
capture of the fort it was destroyed.
The Bacolod leaders and the major
ity of the people of that district had
been hostile to the Americans and en-
couraged attacks on American camps.
They rejected the tenders of friend
ship.
1t is expected that the defeat of the
B~acolodians will result in all the
Moros acknowledging American SOW
e%reignty.
Pershing's column is going to Hara-
hue, which is also hostile.
The Tupelo journal., 1903-04-17
ADVERSE TO THE COMPANY.
Appeals Decides Against the
Northern Securities Co.

st. Louis, April 10.-A decision was
handed down, al 81. Paul. Ihursday.tn
the United States circuit court ~ APP
peals in the Northern Securities mer-
ger ease. J. Pierpont Morgan and
James J. Hin lost their suit. the court
holding thai the combination formed
by the Union Pacific aud Northern Pa
cifc railways under the Securities
company was in restraint Of trade
and. therefore. illegal The court
gave the company permission 90 re-
turn the stock 80 original owners, but
restrained Ia from performing the
functions for which IL was organized
The opinion was written by Judge
Thayer. OF 81. Louis. aud Is ~concurred
in by Judges Caldwell. Sanborn and
Nandeyenter. The language of the
pertinent part Of the decision is:
The decree In favor of the United
States will accordingly be entered to
the following effect: Adjudging that
the stock of the Northern
Pacific and of the Great North
ern Railway companies now held
by the Northern Securities Co.
al acquired by virtue of a combina-
tion among the defendants in re-
straint of trade and m in
such states as the antitrust act de-
nounces as illegal; enjoining the
Northern Securities Co. from acquir-
ing or attempting to acquire further
stock of either of the said companies;
also en~joining it from voting such
stock at any meeting of stockholders
of either of said railroad companies
or exercising or attempting to exer-
else any control, supervision or direc-
ton over the acts of said companies
or either of them by virtue of the
holding of such stock, likewise en-
joining them from paying any divi-
dends to the Northern Securities Co.
on account of said stock, or permit
ting or suffering the Northern Secur-
tiles CO. to exercise any control what
soevef over the corporate act of said
companies, or to direct the policy of
either of said companies, and finally
permitting the Northern Securities
Co. to return and transfer to the
Northern Pacific and the Great
Northern railroad any and all
shares of stock of both corporations
which it may have received from
such stockholders in exchange for its
w shares, or to make such trans
fer and assignment to such persons
as are now the holders and owners of
its w stock originally issued in ex-
change for the stock of said COM
noniacs
The Tupelo journal., 1903-04-17

Horror and CONSERVATION were
aroused in London, on the 18th, by
the report from Sofia that the Chris
tian population 1000 souls) of Ok
hrida, the scene of a recent Bulgarian
outbreak, have been massacred by AL
banians.
The Tupelo journal., 1903-04-17

Gov. Yates sent to the Illinois as
sembly, on the sth, a message urging
appropriating $25O,0O0 for the cree
ton of monuments to mark the posi-
tons occupied by Illinois troops in
the seige of Nicksburg.
The Tupelo journal., 1903-04-17

Prosecutor Ruckelshaus, announced,
on the 10th, at Indianapolis, Ind, that
the second trial of DR.. j. c. Alexander,
charged with connection with grave
robbing, has been indefinitely post
poned because negro ghouls refuse to
testify.
The Tupelo journal., 1903-04-17
GALLAGHER is THE MAN.
Prisoner Mt Seattle, WASH, Positive
ly Identified as Principal In Crime
Committed i'm Massachusetts.

Seattle, Wash, April 10.-John E
Gallagher. alias George Holmes, alias
John E. Dunno, who has been in the
city Jail for more than three weeks,
suspected of murder committed in
Taunton, Mass, nearly four years
ago, was. Thursday, positively identi.
fed as the man wanted. When con.
fronted by two policemen of Taunton
he broke down and confessed.
The Tupelo journal., 1903-04-17

Russell Sage was called upon. on
the 10th, to pay $4,000 because he
made loans at a disadvantage to him
self and those he represented. as
chairman of the finance committee of
the German-American Real Estate
Title Guarantee Co, of New York.
The Tupelo journal., 1903-04-17
Asylum Buildings Destroyed.

Parsons. Kas., April 1.-THE wind
storm here Thursday night caused
more damage than at first reported.
Nearly all the temporary buildings at
the state asylum were destroyed, and
the walls of the powerhouse, which
was ready for the roof, demolished.
The Tupelo journal., 1903-04-17

Polygamy was denounced in strong
terms by Elder w. f. Larue, pastor of
a Mormon congregation in Philadel-
phia, at a session of the annual ron
ference of the Latter Day Saints at
Independence, Mo-. on the 9th.
The Tupelo journal., 1903-04-17
Ont Of Touch with Their Chi eff.

Cinnabar, Mont, April 11.-No
word was received from President
Roosevelt Friday morning. Secretary
Loeb and Assistant Secretary Barnes
left early for a trip to the Mammoth
Springs, not expecting to return UNI
til late in the evening.
The Tupelo journal., 1903-04-17
sympathetic strike in Chicago.

Chicago, April 11.-Five hundred
employees of the Peoples Gas, Light
and Coke CO., were ordered out, FRI
day, on a sympathetic strike with the
Gas Inspectors union, the members
of which organization have been OF .
strike for tl.. pest Inonth.
The Tupelo journal., 1903-04-17
salvation Army Arrested.

Paterson, N. j., April 11.-Maj. Dun
ham and all his Salvation army band
have been arrested while holding q
street meeting here. They were taxi
en- to the police station, where they
were charged with ~disorderly con-
duct.
The Tupelo journal., 1903-04-17

The executive board of the United
Mine Workers of America closed its
session in indianapolis, Ind, on the
9th. and a campaign of organizati IN
will be conducted in Colorado and
West Virginia under the direction of
President Mitchell.
The Tupelo journal., 1903-04-17

F. V. r. Hull, aged rs, died at Lex
ington, KY. on the 9th. He was one
of the most-noted harness horse train
ers in the United States, having bruk-
en- and trained Maud S, We1gewoDd.
Belmont and others.