The Tupelo journal., 1903-04-03
Ne VS. AND NOTES.
A Summary Of Important Events.
PERSONAL AND GENERAE

LIS tssiNN - MIL - T.
pointed eastern press representative
of the st. Louis Worlds fair, in place
of the late Julian Ralph. Originally
Miss Reasoner was Mr.. Ralph's as
sistant.
\. lone highwayman killed an armed
messenger on a stage ear Mendocino,
Cal, on the oath. The driver, amid a
rain of bullets, escaped with the
treasure chest.
Judge Halsey, in the circuit court
at Milwaukee, on the gath. rendered
an opinion to the effect that so-called
blacklists are privileged communities
tons.
Louis Kohl, aged 30 years. shot and
killed his mother-in-law, Mrs. Kate
Stacktole. and dangerously wounded
his brother-in-law, Harold Stacktole.
II years old, at the Stacktole home in
Cincinnati, on the 24th, because his
wife refused to see MIN.
The president decided, on the 25th,
to appoint +. NJ. Steinhart. an Illinois
man, to be consul general at Havana
General Auditor H. c. Clements of
the Texas Southern railroad, and of
the Delaware d Western Construction
Co., died at his home in Kansas City,
Mo-, on the 25th, aged 81 years.
jefferson III. Jones. 4 retired naval
officer, died in his apartments in
Philadelphia, on the 24th, aged 70
years.
Ruth Zeigler, aged 25 years, lately
a public school teacher of Minneapo-
lis, Mimi, committed suicide near
Saratoga, Cal, on the oath, drowning
herself because her fiance had re-
quested the breaking of their engage
ment.
Moses Fowler Chase, the central fig
ure in an Indiana will case, was found
in a private sanitarium in France on
the 25th. He is pronounced incurably
insane.
Former County Surveyor Louis En-
RIGHT and f. c. Deuscher, an attorney.
were arrested in Chicago, on the 25th,
charged with making fraudulent land
deals.
A broken rail wrecked a Santa Fe
passenger train at Lakin, Kas., On the
25th and every car except one left the
track. Conductor Pond was badly II
jured.
The Woman's Suffrage association
adjourned at New Orleans. on the
25th, after selecting Washington as
the next place of meeting.
Dr.. r. c. Flower was indicted for
grand larceny in New York, on the
18th. and locked up in the Tombs in
default of $4,000 bond.
George Nelk, who killed his mother.
was declared sane and convicted of
murder in the first degree in Phila-
delphia on the 25th.
Five hundred barrels Of burgundy
wine were shipped from San Jose,
Cal, to Antwerp and London on the
25th.
President Roosevelt was invited, on
the 25th, by representatives of the
Typographical union in Washington
to open the internatio nal convention
on August 10. The president pre-
ised to do so, if in the city at that
time.
A brother of Sir Hector MACEDONIA
the British officer who committed sui.
that city on the Goth, and decided to
bury the remains in French soil.
The National Council Of Wcmen OF
the United States convened in New
Orleans on the Goth. No trouble arose
over the color question IS nc negro
delegates were in attendance.
Rev. j. c. Grimes, attempted to kill
himself with a revolver while attend
ing a Methodist conference at AL
toona, Pa, on the Goth. He was suf-
fering from melancholia.
An anti-cigarette bill passed The
Wisconsin assembly on the Goth. 1t
prohibits the manufacture of or sale
of cigarettes or cigarette paper, and
takes effect July L next. +.
Louis A. Monette was sentenced to
the ~penitentiary for two years, at
T~eXarkana, Ark, on the Goth, for
breaking into the Jail there while
hunting for a friend.
Robert WinScott was married to
Mrs. Mary Harmon at Bowling Green,
Ky. on the Goth, and died while re-
ceiving congratulations Immediately
after the ceremony.
The plants of the American Bicycle
Co. and the India Rubber Co. were
totally destroyed by fire at Akron, o..
on the goth. The total loss is est.
mated at $250,000.
Francis Hare. a political leader
among the Chickasaw Indians, and his
wife were assassinated by al un-
known person at Ravia, /. r., on the
night of the Goth.
Senator Parker introduced a resolu-
ton in the Illinois legislature. at
Springfield, on the Goth, to investigate
the expenditures of Acknowledgement
Hamlin's office.
The inquest into the death of Edwin
L. Burdick, at Buffalo, 4. Y, closed,
on the Goth, without discovering evil
dence sufficient to point out the MUIR
derer.
Gov. Yates, on the Goth, appointed
William NJ. Mounte, of Carlinville, a
member of the Illinois commission to
the Louisiana Purchase exposition.
A strange plant at Glcnwood, Ia,
killed two children IN the Goth. They
ate the roots. A third child was in a
critical condition.
Peter Luttrell and wife, both past
eighty. were murdered by unknown
persons near McMinnville, Tenn, or
the Goth.
DeleUateS from educational inStitu-