The Tupelo journal., 1903-08-07


Eleven people were seriously in
jured in a collision of two st. Louis
street cars.
Two men were killed and several
injured as a resalt of a railroad
wreck at Springfield, Va.
Under the new apportionment
Florida now has three members Of
the house of representatives.
The Rock Island system has ac-
CURED control of the Evansville
and Terre Haute railroad and its
subsidiary lines.
King Edward and Queen Alex
andria were accorded a great recep-
ton on their recent visit to Lon
donberry, ireland.
John G. Long, United States
consul general at Cairo, Egypt,
died in Scotland, where he had
been visiting friends.
Thirteen notorious conyicts es.
capped from the Folsom, Cal, pris-
on by empowering officers and u.s.
ing them as shields from the fire OF
the guards. f{B tys
The medical fraternity of Mexi-
co City is interested in the dis
covery by a Mexican physician fol-
the cure of dropsy without a sur
gical operation.
Disappointed because he was de-
MED the privilege of a buggy ride
with his sweetheart, Byron Doug
las, aged Is, of Effingham, ILL.,, sui
cided by shooting himself through
the heart with a target rifle.
Almost a riot was caused during
the delivery Of an address at Bos-
ton by Booker T. Washington, on
account of a number of negroes in
sisting on asking the speaker in
sulting questions. The police had
to be called upon to eject the dis
turbers.
Jerry Jernagin, a collector for a
brewery, was shot and killed at La
Toilette, Tenn, by John L. Smith.
who was in turn fatally wounded
by Jernagin. Taylor Smith, a son
of John l.. Smith, was also killed
by an officer, who was trying to ar
rest him. A dispute over a beer bill
led to the trouble.
The American protective tariff
league has begun it's fight against
the ratisfcation of reciprocity with
Cuba and Canada at the coming ses-
sion of congress. 1t will be some
months before the senate meets, yet
this organization is out with a de-
nunciation of the Cuban treaty and
a howl against the proposed treaty
with Canada.
While playing with a dozen COM
panions, Otto Rain, aged 10, of
Chicago, narrowly escaped hanging.
The boys were enacting a mock
tragedy. RAIN took the part of the
william, and the catastrophe was Sc
realistic that RAIN faced a williams
punishment. A neighbor, hearing
the noise made by the "actors," ar
rived just in time to cut the rope
by which Rain was suspended to
prevent him strangling to death.
John c. Ludwig, believed by his
wife and family to be dead and
buried in the family lot, created
CONSERVATION in Chicago by appear
ing bronzed and healthy. He had
no difficulty in establishing his
identity. Ludwig's story reads like
a romance. Sent to an insane asy-
lum, he managed to escape. In the
country he built up a business and
accumulated a fair-sized fortune. A
year ago a man was killed in a rail
road wreck who bore some papers
containing Ludwig's name. His
wife and family at once thought it
a he, held funeral services over
the remains and buried the body in
the family lot. Then they proceed
ed to collect the life insurance. Mr..
Ludwig did not know that he was
supposed to be among the dead
until a week ago, and then he came
Immediately to Chicago. First he
went to see his niece, who works in
a State street department store.
The young woman screamed in ter
ror and thought for a time that she
saw an apparition, until Ludwig
established his identity.
Three men were killed, one was
fatally injured, two we're seriously
injured and twelve were more or
less hurt in a collision between a
Vandalia accommodation train en-
route to st. Louis, and a car on the