The Tupelo journal. (Tupelo, Miss.) 1876-1924, 1903-10-09
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

leader of the September cotton corner,
is said to have cleared, at the least
calculation, between 100000 and S.
000,00 on the September option alone
| The Northern Pacific railroad on the
10Th, had 400 men patrolling its traces
and guarding bridges and tunnels be-
tween Livingston and Missoula, Mont
The force was being added to as rapid
ly as reliable men could be obtained to
prevent more dynamite outrages on the
line. $40 tftA
Miss Julia Dent Grant, daughter of
U. S. Grant, met with serious injuries
on the 10Th, at San Diego, Cal, in a
runaway accident. r
Official Washington learned with
profound regret of The death of Sir
Michael Herbert, British ambassador
to the United States. The state depart
ment cabled Mr.. Choate, the American
ambassador at London, instructing
him to convey to the British foreign
office an appropriate expression of the
| Washington governments sympathy.
The condition of Archbishop Kahn, Of
st. Louis, who has been i'll at the St.
Agnes sanitarium in Baltimore, Md,
was reported, on the 10Th, as being
critical and grave doubts of his recov-
cry expressed.
The dead body of Tom Madison, the
slayer of the Smith county (Kansas)
family of three women, was found, on
the 29th, in a field near Cowles, Neb.
He had been shot by himself, and had
apparently been dead number of
days.
Harry HI. DevereuX, mayor of Spring
field, ILL.,, has been indicted by the
grand jury of Sangamon county, on
five counts charging malfeasance in Of
flee in permitting the operation of
gambling houses, slot machines in sa-
looms and other places, and poolrooms.
w. w. Armstrong, a Lake Erie &
Western freight brakeman, whose home
is in Lima, o., was killed in a freight
wreck, on the 29th, at Newly Crossing,
two miles west of Elwood, Ind.
The total net revenues of the United
States for the last fiscal year were
$3.50, 390,674, an increase of s3S,9SS, 439,
over the year preceding, and the total
expenditures s506,099, O07. an increase
of $35, 1882 ,034 The surplus was $54,-
297 ,667, as compared with $91 ,2S7 1915
in 1902 H--. a..
In all the states which comprised
the Southern Confederacy the gov
ernors are assisting the govern
ment in its attempt to collect a
complete record of the confederate
troops, and persons have been desig-
mated to supervise the work in all
these states, except Florida. .
A tentative agreement was reached
at Pekin, on the Both, providing for
the signing of the commercial treaty
between China and the United States
at Shanghai on October 8. Mr. Conger
is sanguine that the matter will go
through on the date mentioned.
Inc biggest day in the history of
the Illinois state fair was witnessed on
the list, with $4,000 people ON the
grounds. Excursion trains ran from
the furthest limits of the state, and
the city contained the largest crowd in
its history. The weather was ideal
The coal miners of Colorado Springs,
Col, numbering about 800, at a mass
meeting. on the LIST, voted to strike
because of the refusal of the operators
to grant an eight-hour day and 20 per
cent increase in wages. Six coal mines
are idle as a result
| President Roosevelt was deeply
grieved to learn of the death of Sir
Michael Herbert, British ambassador to
the United States, for whom he had
warm feeling Of personal regard He
sent a message of coincidence on the
LIST to Lady Herbert.
| Daniel H. Ogden, prominent bust
ness man of Ogden, Utah, was shot and
instantly killed while duck hunting
on the LIST, IA miles west of Ogden.
The wound was inflicted by stray
shot, the one firing it being unknown.
| The three Van Wormer brothers
were electrocuted at the Dannemora
| IN. Y.) state prison on the LIST for the
murder of their uncle, Peter A. Hallen-
back, on December "a. 1901. f#
| The jury in the case of Mrs. Julia
Edwards VS.. the Alton Light &
Traction Co., in a $1,000 damage suit,
at Alton, ILL.,, for alleged injuries re-
ceived, disagreed, on the LIST, and an
asked by the justices of the peace. The
Fifty thousand locomotive firemen
employed by the american railway COM
panies have started a movement for a
wage increase and uniform agreements.
The increases asked run from ten to
twenty per cent. ~
George B. Mcclellan was nominated
by the New York city democracy, on
the night of the 1st for mayor. The
scenes around Carnegie hall, where the
convention was held, are said to have
been without parallel in the citys po-
litical history.
At the close of September, 1903, there
were in active operation 5,096 national
banks, with an aggregate capital Of
$761, AIT ,095, net increase In number
since March IA, 1900, of 1,479 banks
and $l45. 1Os. 600 capital
The large hay barn of Thomas Cur
| tbs, in Posey county, Ind, was de-
stroyed by fire, on the LIST, entailing a
loss of several thousand dollars. This
makes SO barns burned in Posey coun-
ty, since the first of the year, and all
of the fires are supposed to have been of
incendiary origin.
/ William Rockefeller, of New York,
on the I'd, received warning that he
would be the next victim of the men
who assassinated Orlando P. Dexter
| in the Adirondack mountains
| Word from Ra1mnra1 rncniyad IN III