The Tupelo journal., 1903-12-11
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

died at Fond due Las. Wis, OF the I'd.
He was a native of Ireland.
At the plant of the Passaic IN. j.
Steel Co, on the I'd, a reduction of ten
per cent in wages was made. The
workmen were at first inclined to re-
fuse lower pay, but on the advice of
John H. Cooke, superintendent, they
decided to accept the cut.
A reduction from five to ten per cent.
in wages was ordered, on the I'd, in all
the wire mills of the United States
Steel Co., at Joliet, Ill, affecting H.
600 men.
The men employed in the blacksmith
ing department of the Reading Railway
Co.'S car shops. at Reading, Pa, who
had been working eight hours a day,
were notified, on the I'd, that their days
work would be ten hours thereafter.
A great gathering of the Dowieites
was held in the tabernacle at Zion City,
ILL.,, on the night of the I'd. 1t was
called by Dowie for the purpose Of
starting a fund of 81, 000, 900, with which
to pay off the Indebtedness of Zion
City and himself.
Commissioner of Pensions Ware, on
the Sd, received a letter from Gov.
Bliss of Michigan voluntarily relin-
gushing his pension.
Hosting engineers in coal mines in
the Illinois district were granted an
advance of $40 per month in their pay,
on the Sd. This, in substance, was de-
cided by the arbitration board hat
heard evidence, in Chicago, on the de-
mands of the engineers, who had
asked for In increase of SIS.
The saloon of Thomas UT, at Bick-
nell, Ind, was demolished with stones,
on the Sd, by Mrs. Thomas Dant, wife
of a coal miner, who said she was de-
termined to stop drunkenness in her
home if she had to smash every saloon
that sold her relatives liquor.
Twenty-Five hundred men were laid
off, on the Sd, when they reported for
work at the Bellaire (O.) plant of the
National Steel Co. The works were
closed down for an indefinite period
on orders from Pittsburg. No explana-
ton was given for the order.
Typhoid fever claimed it's thirty
fourth victim, at Butler, Pa, on the
Sd, in the person of Father Daniel
Walsh, pastor of st. PauFs Catholic
church.
Mrs. Sarah Ellis, of Bronough, Mo-,
on the Sd, started a fire with kerosene
oil to prepare breakfast. Her cloth
ing became a mass of flame, and she
was so badly burned that she died
in a few hours.
Frederick Drew, superintendent of
the Chicago & Great Lakes Dredging
& Dock Co, was struck by a Chicago
suburban train, on the Sd, and in
stantly killed.
An improvement was noted, IN the
I'd, in the case of Miss Mabel Mckinley,
who was i'll at Owensboro, KY. 1t was
thought that she would be able to leave
her room within a week.
Representative Burgers, of Texas. in
troduced a bill in congress, on the 4th,
to lessen the damage of the cotton boil
weevil, directing the secretary of agri-
culture to appoint a commission in his
department., to include residents of the
states of Texas and Louisiana, to study
the problem.
Mrs. Mary E. Boswell, the m
who wrote letters to Senator M. A.
Hanna and 2. l.. White, a Columbus
(O) merchant, demanding hush money
on pain of some terrible exposure, was
fined $500 and costs, on the 4th. by
United States Judge Thompson, on a
plea of guilty.
Mystery surrounds the death of Mar
tin Rael, a wealthy citizen of Belen, N.
M, who was found dead, on the 4th,
near his ranch. six miles south of that
city, where he had been shot in the
breast. His wife was arrested.
In the destruction of the home Of
George Wright, of Whatcom, Wash, by
fire, on the 4th, his eight-year-old son,
Reuben, was burned to death. In try
ing to save the boys life, his sister,
Maggie, aged II, was terribly burned.
Gen. Reyes, the Colombian envoy,
was presented to President Roosevelt.
on the 9th. at the White House, by
Secretary Hay.