The Tupelo journal., 1903-05-29
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary Of Important Events.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

IhirteeH HunuTeu sloU SamDliHS
machines, captured in raids and val
ued at 1925, 600, were publicly burned
in Philadelphia on the 10th.
The United Confederate Veterans
held memorial services, at New Or
ltans, on the Goth. to their departed
comrades, as an incident of the an
nual reunion. Gen. Young and Gen.
Challarondelivered eloquent addresses
and the services closed with the
sounding of taps"
The management of the Louisiana
Purchase exposition at ST. Louis is
being literally overwhelmed with APP
plications for space, and even now
some of the exhibit palaces, are, fig
uratively speaking, choked with pros
p~ective installations from all parts of
the world.
A Berlin dispatch of the Goth says:
without the shedding OF one drop of
blood Manchuria is now actually a
part of Russia. All solemn pledges to
the contrary have merely been ruses
to stave off foreign interference"
The court of appeals at Frankfort,
Ky, on the Goth, affirmed the judg-
ment sentencing Claude O'Brien and
Earl Whitney to be hanged for the
murder of A. Il. Chinn, a merchant at
Lexington.
Hugh j. Murdoch, editor of tn
United Presbyterian, and prominent
in church circles, died at Sewickley,
Pa, on the goth, of fatty degenera-
ton of the heart.
A duel at ~Sanderson. TEX, on the
Goth, resulted in the killing of H. S.
Biggs, magistrate and school teacher;
Ed Bell, a citizen, and II. c. McMa-
hon, deputy sheriff. The men quar-
relied owe a letter.
The annual convention of the ma
tional council of the Junior Order of
United American Mechanics was con-
vened, on the Goth, in Pythian castle,
San Francisco.
Lee Turner shot and killed his half
brother, Gen" Turner. on the goth,
at Jacksboro, Tenn. 1t is claimed tina.
he acted in self-defense.
The strike of the trainmen and
switchmen of the Mobile & Ohio rail-
road was declared off, at Mobile, Ala,
on the goth.
The Ohio brigade, uniform rank,
Knights of Pythias, in twenty-irst
annual assembly at Columbus, O., on
the Goth. decided to meet next year,
in August. in st. Louis.
Large numbers of refugees from
Macedonia, fearing massacre, entered
Bulgaria on the goth.
The monitor Arkansas arrived in
the Cairo Qll.) harbor. on the 21st.
She coaled and continued her journey.
A score or more persons were in
jured by the explosion of the gasoline
tank of an automobile in New York
on the 21st.
A special from Granger, Wyo., on
the 21st. said snow had been falling
almost continuously in that part of
Wyoming since the 10th.
The Master Plumbers association
international convention in San Fran
cisco, on the 21st, decided to hold the
next meeting in ST. Louis.
President Roosevelt. on the 21st,
laid the cornerstone of the Lewis and
Clarke monument, which is to be
erected in the City park at Portland,
Ore.
A heavy storm swept over Indiana
on the DIST. Wire service was para
lyzed and damage to buildings and
crops will reach many thousand dol
lars.
T%ornadoes passed over sections of
Kansas. Oklahoma and Texas, on the
21st. Several persons were killed and
a large amount of property was de-
stroyed.
Fred Lefty, a laborer, and his wife
were found in their home at indie
pendence, Mo-, on the 21st. with their
threats cut. Mrs. Lefty had threat
ened suicide.
George Francis Train was. on the
sister, Helen NJ. l.. Gulader. in
Stamford, Conn. suffering from a
mild case of smallpox.
Five barrels of hydro carbon ex-
ploded in the Mott Haven yards of the
New York Central road, at New York,
on the 21st. One man is Lead and two
others are in the hospital.
Roy Chenoweth. a student of De-
paw university, whose parents live
at Nevada, Mo-, was drowned near
Greencastle, Ind, on the 22d.
Martin Kaiser, a farmer living near
Manchester, Ind, and his daughter
Anna, aged II, were assaulted by a ne
gro on the 22d. Kaiser was later
found, near the Big Four track, I'M
conscious. The birl was not found.
Frank Harms, a farmer, his sister,
Mrs. Edward Puhlke, and her six-year-
old child were drowned, on the 22d,
while attempting to cross a bridge
near Sterling, Neb., which had been
weakened by high water.
Gov. Beckham, on the 22d, issued
an order for one battalion of the
Kentucky militia, with one Calling
gun, to do duty in jackson during
the grand jury investigation of the
Marcum assassination.
E.. I'll. Branch, secretary of the Bush
ness Mems association in Omaha, Neb..
was, on the 22d, cited for contempt of
court for refusing to produce the as
sociation's books.
Woodmen of the World, at Milwau-
kee, Wis, on the 22d, made an appro-
priation of $1,000 toward the fraternal
building at the Louisiana Purchase ex-
position.
The monitor Arkansas departed