The Tupelo journal. (Tupelo, Miss.) 1876-1924, 1903-08-21

TUPELO. MISSISSIPPI
BY order of the president, on the
18th, Col. Robert L. Meade OF the Unit
ed States marine corps, will be retlreo
October 3, next, in his present grade.
The report OF Secretary Coburn OF
the Kansas board of agriculture, issued
en- the 18th, shows the wheat yield 10
be 90,270,000 bushes, the greatest III
The states history by $4,000 bushels.
Mount Vesuvius continues In ac'iVo
eruntion A new crater seems 10 ha'o
heen opened, but, on the l2th' l. woo
impossible to ascertain thls iao.
,nitely. owing to the smoke Which so'
rounded the top of the mountain
An imposing public fune: al was neiu'
80, tho 13tb in PARIS, Of 10 more OF the
victims of the tunnel catastrophe. fre-
mier Combes delivered short aouresS
An which he promised measures oi To-
lief for me ldLlliASo Va
p,s;ness houses at Durand, Mlcn''
o,osad for an hour. on the 18th, whlie
tbe funeral services were hcio oEei 'ns
bodies of ten unknown ana uhoiaiAneo
victims of the collision between 'he
two sections of Wallace Brothers cii
Gus train.
At a meeting i'll Chicago, on the lo.h'
of general passenger agents Vi .ne
roads west OF Chica @ II was reconi-
1nended that for the Chicago centeh-
NAL. September &c to October l, rate
of one and one-thi,d fare Tor the
round trip be made.
The combined North Atlantic fleet,
under Rear-Admiral Barker, sailed, on
18th, for Long Island sound, where.
after tactical exercises, President
and Admiral Dewey will inspect it, on
the 18th, off Oyster Bay, N. Y.
Judge Douglas, at St. Louis, on the
14th, passed sentence on Harry A.
Faulkner, ex-member of the house OF
delegates, convicted of perjury in con-
nection with the Suburban Doodle deal,
Faulkner's punishment was fixed at
three years in the penitentiary.
John Schroers, director of the St.
Louis Worlds exposition, Al a confer
ence with Secretary Shaw, at Wash
ington, d. c., on the 11(h, assured the
secretary that the exposition will be
opened to all visitors in May, 1904, all
reports to the contrary notwithstand-
ing.
Princess Radziwill, who was SEN
fenced to two years Imprisonment by
the South African supreme court on
April &c. 1902, for forgery, in connec-
ton with notes purportirg to have been
Endorsed by the late Cecil Rhodes, was,
on the 18th, liberated from prison at
Cape Town.
Pope Plus X had Iainting fit on
the morning of the 18th, while cele-
brating mass, but soon revived The
pope has been over-eXerting himself to
such an extent that his naturally
strong constitution was unable to bear
the strain put on by the recent cor
Cnation ceremonies.
1t has transpired that Willard S. AL
len, the embeZzling treasurer of the
Methodist Preachers A.G society of
New England, in addition to the funds
of the society, took $4,000 of the funds
OF the Methodist Historical society, and
also borrowed $4,000 from friends be-
fore leaving Boston.
A 100000 combine WIS effected in
Chicago, on the 18th, by the consolida-
ton of the Hammond Refrigerator,
Anglo-American Refrigerator, Kansas
City Refrigerator, Omaha Packing and
St Louis Dressed Beef and Provision
companies car lines under the name
of the National Car Line.
The Farmers and Merchants bank,
of Montgomery, 11inn, was not opened
for business on the 14th, and the where
abouts of the cashier, B. A. Brainerd, is
unknown to the depositors. The de-
posts run from $4,000 to 100000, and
the liabilities are estimated at $50, 900.
Gen. Chas. F1tzsimons 4 prominent
contractor, formerly brigadier-general
of the First brigade illinois national
guard, WIS reported critically ILL., on
the 18th, from recent fall. 1t was said
that his trouble, which baf.ed the ply
sicians, must result in his death in a
short time unless spee-y relief was
found
contract was awarded at Balti-
more, Md, on the 18th by the Balti-
more & Ohio Railroad CO. for addi-
tional passenger equipment, involving
an expenditure of about 100000, and
with this new rolling stock the COM
Dany will be equipped to handle the
Worlds fair business to and from st.
Louis next year.
The effects of the hurricane upon the
island of Jamaica, on the 18th, were
greater than at first believed Port
Antonio, on the north coast, was COM
pletely overwhelmed. Only six houses