The Tupelo journal., 1903-03-20
NEWS AND NOTES..
A Summary of Important Events.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

cTdiy ucHieu all diicSdlloHS.
The democratic judicial convention
in Detroit, Mich, on the 10th, nomina'
ted Judge George L. Yaple, of Men.
don, for supreme judge for a tern
of ten years, to succeed Judge Franz
A. Hooker.
Mrs. Arthur Penne4l, who was in
iured in the automobile -ccident il
Buffalo, N. Y, which caused the deatl
of her husband. died, on the nth
without regaining consciousness. Al
examination of the automobile dis
proved the suicide theory.
John Gill and Charles Schley were
found not guilty on a charge o.
larceny at Springfield, H., on thu
18th, and were Immediately rearrest
ed on fugitive warrants from Butte
Mont, where they are wanted OF
charges of forgery.
The Cloth Casket. Workers ant
Trimmers' union began a strike fo1
higher wages in Chicago, on the 10th
and six of the leading concerns tha
manufacture undertakers' supplies
were tied up.
Arthur r. Pencil, a prominent fig
ure in the Burdick murder investiga
ton at Buffalo, was killed in an auto
mobile accident on the 10th. His wifi
was fatally injured.
Two hundred machinists employed
in shops of the Kansas City Southern
railroad at P%ittsburg, Has, qui
work, on the 18th, as the result of The
failure of the company to accede tt
a demand for an increase in wages.
In a collision between a passenger
train and a freight at Rankin station
Ky, on the 18th, Engineer E. w. Bon
ham, Fireman Ben Myers, Conductor
E. S.. Bramwell and Mail Clerk james
Nolan were injured.
Announcement was made at Wash
ington, on the 18th, at a meeting hell
by South American diplomats, tina
Andrew Carnegie was ready to tinan
cially aid the inter-continental rail
way project.
Five hundred students engaged il
Il class battle at Purdue university
Lafayette, Ind, on the 11th.> Police
filed a patrol wagon with ringleader:
among the belligerent students.
At Kansas City, on the 18th, police
us~ed'revolvers in quelling iiots result
ing from the strike of transfer drivers
for higher wages. No one was seri
ously injured.
Thn hill nrnnfIn~ n nnyv tayf hnnl
commission to select books for pub
lie schools for the next six years wa!
defeated in the Missouri Legislature
on the 18th. So also the Jim Grow
car bill.
Five small boys lighted a stick o.
dynamite at Buffalo, n. Y, on the
18th. Three of the boys are not ex
pected to live.
The Cuban congress, on the 18th
ratified the reciprocity treaty witt
the United States.
Ice gorges in the Platte river broke
on the 18th, thus improving the foot
situation.
Mike Karlosky was killed, JohI
Foegk was fatally crushed and tive
other workmen were seriously hurt ii
an explosion at the Republic iron ant
steel mills at East Chicago on the
10th. 4
The Kansas senate, on the 10th, de
cided to make an investigation of the
supposed merger of the Frisco rail
road lines.
President Roosevelt's formal accept
ance of the invitation to attend the
centennial anniversary of the pur
chase of the Louisiana territory was
received in ST. Louis on the 18th.
The Arkansas house failed to pass
on the 10th, the senate bill to appro
pirate $4,000 additional for an Arkan
sas exhibit at the Louisiana Purchase
exposition.
The Kansas house. on the 10th
passed the senate bill prohibiting thu
use of slot machines IN Kansas. Gov
Bailey says he will sign the bill.
Fourteen bodies were recovered, or
the 10th, at Clean, n. Y, where an oil
train exploded the night previous
Fourteen persons are seriously in
jured.
Carrot Hedeen, a notorious moon
sinner, was stabbed to death by his
brother, Riley Hedeen, in Polk coun'
ty. Tenn, on the 10th. /.
Two women, Mrs. G. B. Evans and
Mrs. H. S. Myers, took the places OF
their husbands, non-union men, and
drove trucks about Kansas City, on
the 18th, in defiance of the striking
transfer company's drivers.
Mabel Green, aged 27, whose home
is believed to be at Lacon, H., com
mitted suicide in Chicago, on the 18th,
by inhaling gas. A broken engage
ment is said to have led to the sui
eide.
Gov. Yates of Illinois received an
appeal for aid for the flood sufferers
at S-hawneetown, on the 18th, and
sem Assistant Adjt.-Gen. Ewart to
that place with 100 tents.
Adelbert A. Ames, former mayor OF
Minneapolis, decided, on the 18th, to
return to that city and stand trial on
a charge of bribery.
Eight men were killed in a battle
between rival turpentine camps neal
Orange Springs, Fla, on the 18th.
The bodies of Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur
r. ( ennefl killed in an automobile ac.
| cident at Buffalo, N. Y, were shipped
to Mr.. Pencils old home in Maine
on the 18th.
Mrs. Seth T. Paine, whose name has
been mentioned in connection with
the Burdick murder case in Buffalo,
N. Y, quietly left that city on the
18th.