The Tupelo journal., 1903-08-28
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE
PERSONAL AND GENERAL,

| Kruger Dy PreSlQcnt FRANKLIN Pierce
and has been in continuous service
since that time.
Throughout the northern and eastern
portions of the corn belt the weather
has been too cool for maturing corn
which is unusually late. The crop, how
ever, has generally improved. especial
ly in the central and western districts.
Sixteen of the rs men indicted on the
charge of attacking the Jail at the re-
cent riot in Danville, ILL.,, were ar
raigned in the circuit court on the 18th.
They pleaded mot guilty." and attor-
neys have been engaged to defend
them.
Ten thousand survivors of the civil
war passed in review. at San Francisco,
on the 10Th, marching to martial tunes
that inspired them to endeavor 40 years
ago. Above the national colors, borne
by every marcher, proudly fioated torn
and tattered flags. These, with empty
sleeves and limping gait, were eloquent
reminders of the sorrow and glory of
war.
| The concentration and nearly the en-
tire plant of the Kentucky-Ver
Mining and Concentration Co., at YER
million, Mont, was destroyed by fire
on the 18th. Loss estimated at $685.
900 to $150,000, with $4,000 insurance
| Directors of the new Indianapolis
Southern railway opened bids at In
dianapolis, Ind, on the 10Th, for the
construction of the line between In
dianapolis and Sullivan, Ind, 10 miles
The estimated cost will be $5,0O0000
Secretary Root left Washington, D.
c., on the 10Th, for New York, and
sailed for Europe to take his seat as
chairman of the Alaskan boundary
commission, which meets in London,
| September 3. Until the first of Sep
TENDER the war department will be
under the direction of Col. Sanger, the
assistant secretary, at which time Gen.
| Oliver will succeed him.
The remains of the late Judge John
G. Long, United States consul general
| and diplomatic agent at Cairo, Egypt,
who died as the result of an accident
| in Dunbar, Scotland, July 2S, arrived
at Washington, d. c., on the 10Th.
The Topeka, Lawrence & Kansas
Electric Co. applied for a charter at
Topeka, Kas., on the 18th, with cap
ital stock of $4,000,000. T. S. Salathiel
is the promoter. The line will be rs
miles in length.
| Gov. Dockery of Missouri, on the
18th, appointed Senator H. W. Johnson,
of Montgomery county, Mo-, judge of
| the circuit court of that county, to fill
the vacancy caused by the resignation
of Judge R. D. Rogers
The wooden ore steamer Queen of the
West, from Cleveland, O., sank in Lake
Erie, on the Goth. The crew of Is men
and two young women, daughters of
the engineer, were rescued by the
Anchor Line steamer Codorus, bound
for Cleveland. The steamer was val
ued at $45 600
The Wyoming supreme court, on the
goth, refused new trial to James Kef-
fer, who killed S. ]. Warren at Derby,
December 20, 1901, and re-sentenced
him to be hanged September 25.
Field Marshal Lord Roberts and his
staff, on the Goth, booked passage on
the steamer Mayfower, which will sail
from Liverpool, September %, for Bos-
ton, Mass.
The Missouri, a sister ship of the
Maine, built for the International Mer-
camille Marine Co., was successfully
launched at Baltimore, Nd, on the
Goth.
The Conecup Lumber Co.'S plant at
fire on the goth. Loss, $4,000; insur-
ance, $4,000
Gen. Nelson A. Miles left San Fran
cisco, on the goth, to meet an engage
ment in New Hampshire August 26.
w. ]. Edwards, of Plains, Kas, was
shot and killed on the goth. His sons
John and Roy surrendered, and admit
ted that they did the shooting. No
cause was given.
Fire partially destroyed the building
occupied by the \. S. Aloe Optical Co.,
CT Broadway, st. Louis, on the morn
ing of the 21st. Losses were also sus-
tanned, by water, by the Simmons
Hardware Co., adjoining, and by T. J.
Reid Shoe Co., opposite, a water tower
falling against the third-story window
and flooding the building before it
could be shut off.
The first of the Americas cup yacht
races was started, but not finished, on
the goth, there not oeing sufficient wind
to enable the yachts to cover the
course within the time limit Reliance,
the cup defea lei, demonstrated her SUI
periority as 4 light wind craft, being
nearly two miles IN the lead when the
race was called off. sF
The Grand Army of the Republic ma
tional encampment, on the Goth, selected
Boston as the place i'll which the en-
campment of 1904 will be held. Gen.
John C. Black, OF Illire is, was chosen
commander-iIl-chief.
An unknown young man from In
diana was shot in the side by one of
four tramps, on the morning of the
21st, 20 miles east of Wichita, Kas. He
died several hours later.
David Stafford, an Emporia (Kas)
business man, left, on the 21st, for
Sheridan, WyO., to investigate the mys-
terious disappearance of his son,
Lloyd Stafford, non-commissioned Of
ficer in the United States army, sta
toned at Fort Mckinney, near Sheri-
dan.
Hazel Avery, self-confessed kidnaper
of two-year-old Olive Furlong, in Chi
cago, was, on the 21st. sentenced to
three years in the penitentiary The
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