The Tupelo journal., 1903-06-12
NE VS. AND NOTES.
A Summary Of Important Events.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

An excursion tram on the Atlantic
Coast line was wrecked neal Sumter,
S. c., on the Sd. Conductor Glenn
ents and four negro passengers were
killed.
The treasury department, on the
Sd, announced the appearance OF a
new counterfeit, a Photographic re-
production of the $50 issue of the Ma
tional State Bank of Metropolis.
President Roosevelt put in a busy
day in Illinois on the Sd, making nine
speeches at different places, in spite
of transforms.
The ocean race of PAS miles for
schooner yachts of the Atlantic Yacht
club, was won, on the Sd, by the
Kiawassa On time allowance. The kia-
wassa finished at 4:57:27 a. m.
The Millers' National federation
convened, on the Sd, in Detroit, Mich.
Transportation rates are to be con
sidered.
Twenty-eight houses were de-
stroyed by fire at Hull, Ont, on the
Sd.
High water p%aralyzed the street car
service at Hannibal, Mo-, on the Sd,
and left the city in darkness. The
Mississippi river went nine feet above
the danger line.
The war department is advised thai
the gap which separates the two
Alaskan telegraph lines is almost
closed and the wires should be in OPP
Grafton by the middle of June.
In a cIoudburst southwest of Nez
Perez, Idaho, on the Sd, hail fell to a
depth of 20 inches, and two persons
we're drowned by a food of water
which poured through Lawyers can
yon.
The first conference of the state
and national boards of health, under
the act of July 1, 1902, began at Wash
ington on the Sd. Surgeon-General
| Wyman of the Marine hospital service
presided.
Pope Leo NH. has ordered the
Vatican printers to carefully repro
duce all his encyclicals and different
pontifcal acts, and forward them as
a gift to the president of the United
States.
Grand river broke through the levee
at Funston's slough, near Brunswick,
Mo-, on the 4th, with a roar that
could be heard for a mile, and the wa
ter spread into a body even miles in
width.
John Dennis, a negro, vas lynched
in G~reenville, Miss, on the 4th, for
assaulting a young m The
lynching was witnessed by many
women who We're out shopping.
James Wright, alias Charles Mailer,
was arrested at Wilburton, 1. T., on
the 4th. 1t is alleged that on Febru-
airy 16, 1895, at Salt Lake City, Utah,
Wright murdered three boys.
Secretary Hay, on the 4th, received
a cablegram stating that 1000, 900
Chinese in Kwang-Si province were
starving to death, and appealing for
help from Americans.
J. d. Fay rowed from Columbia,
Mo-, to Jefferson City, on the 4th, the
feat being made possible by high wa
ter. Columbia is ~ miles from the
Missouri river.
Seven dead bodies were found at
Topeka, Kas., on the 4th. All were
victims of the flood. A railway sta
ton was converted into a morgue.
Myron T. Herrick, Senator Hanna's
neighbor, was nominated, on the 4th,
for governor of Ohio, by republicans
in oonvanfiop at Columbus
The Milliken university at Decatur,
ILL.,, was dedicated on the 4th. The
principal address was delivered by
President Roosevelt.
AT P~iccadilly, n. b., on the 4th, two
men were burned to death while try
Forest fires in Aroostook county,
Me-, on the 4th, destroyed IA miles of
the Bangor & Aroostook railroad.
The fire situation in the Adiron-
dacks, on the 4th, was more serious
than at any time since tn, fires be-
gan.
The receding waters at Kansas City,
Mo-, on the 4th, exposed $500 hogs
and 300 cattle that had been drowned.
August w. Machen, former superin-
tendent of the free delivery service of
the post Office department, was indict-
ed in Washington, on the 5th, charged
with sharing profits OF government
contracts.
VIM. Boston, aged %, was found
dead in the yard of his home near
Lexington, KY, on the 5th, with a bull
let in his forehead. The presumption
is that he was shot by burglars.
Colonial Minister Doumergue at
Paris, France, received a dispatch
from the governor of Martinique, on
the 5th, announcing that Mount Pelee
is again active.
Mrs. Robert Scatter, at Seattle,
Wash, was chloroformed and robbed
of about $1,000, on the 5th, in her
apartments in the McCombs block.
Rev. Jacob Chapman, the Oldest
alumnus both of Phillips Exeter acad-
envy and Dartmouth, died in Exeter,
N. Y, ON the 5th, aged 90.
The laundry strike, which begun in
Chicago May 1, vas settled on the 5th.
All grievances are to be submitted to
a board of arbitration.
The forest fires in the vicinity of
Lakewood, N. j., somewhat abated on
the 5th. Large tracts of timber land
have been ruined.
Gen. VIM. M. Patton, a prominent
railroad contractor, died at his home
in Columbia, Pa, on the 5th. aged 81.
VIM. M. Bell, an eccentric bachelor