The Tupelo journal., 1903-04-10
NE VS. AND NOTES.
A Summary Of Important Events.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.


New York, was injured.
Police at Cuzco, Peru, on the 31st,
prevented the lynching of Fernando
Seminario, the candidate of the Lib
eral alliance for the presidency.
Miss Alice Roosevelt sailed for New
York from San Juan, p. r., on the
31st. Thousands of people gave her
an enthusiastic farewell.
The food situation in the lower
Mississippi valley began to improve
on the 31st.
The strike of smelter men at Colo
RADIO Springs, Col, was settled on the
31st.
The grand jury at Seattle, Wash,
on the 1st, presented majority and
minority reports. Both reports rec
commended the resignation of the
mayor and chief of police and init
mated that the public would be bene-
flied by the resignation of a majority
OF the council.
Former President Cleveland, on the
list, denied that he would visit Colo
RADIO and the Pacific coast after at
tending the Worlds fair dedication in
ST. Louis. He said he would return
direct to Princeton. N. j., his home.
Mrs. Sturms shot and fatally
wounded Albert Tatro, an ex-convict,
and shot Charles Forkner through the
thigh, at Concordia, Kas., on the 1st.
The men were trying to break into
her house.
A man supposed to be a Chicago
clerk was found murdered at Belle
PLANE, Ia, on the 31st. His throat
was cut, his head crushed and his leg
broken.
Several students were injured at Eff
fingham, Ill, ON the LIST, where a bat
tie was fought between the college of
photography and Austin college for
the possession of a n
In the Illinois senate, on the 1st,
Parker's resolution for the ~investiga-
ton of the office of the attorney gen.
eral, H. j. Hamlin, was laid on the
table by a vote of 81 to 2.
Dr.. Theodore j. Bluthardt, of Chi
cago, was appointed, on the list, Unit
ed States consul at Barmen, Germany,
vice Max Bouchsein, of Illinois.
Col. Edmund C. cambridge, U. S. A.,
retired, died in Washington, D. c., on
the LIST, of heart trouble and compli-
cations incident to old age.
The Henry James-Ten Eyck prize
at Yale was awarded, on the 1st, to
William Pickens, colored, whose home
is in Little Rock, Ark.
Minister Merry, on the list, reported
to the state department in a cable
gram that martial law has been pro-
claimed in Nicaragua.
Mrs. Olivia: Worden, widow of Ad-
miral John L. Worden, died at her
home in Lakewood, N. j., on the 1st,
aged SO years.
President Roosevelt began his $4,000
mile tour, on the LIST, in one of the
finest special trains ever run out of
Washington.
The award of the anthracite coal
strike commission went into effect on
the LIST throughout the anthracite
coal region.
Col. Jonathan II. Miles died sudden
ly at his home at Miles Station, Ma
coupin county, ILL.,, on the I'd, aged IS.
Col. Miles "a at one time a business
associate of former Gov. Stanard, Of
Missouri.
Ten American fishing vessels which
have been frozen into the ice field
since January II, at Bay Island, N. F.,
were reported in a perilous position
on the I'd. Provisions were running
low.
A mob attacked Gov. Reyes of the
state of Nuevo Leon, Mexico, at Mon
terey, on the I'd, and stoned him. Po-
lice were called, and four men were
killed during the riot.
A severe snowstorm began early on
the I'd in Colorado. Many snow and
landslides occurred in the mountains,
doing much damage to railroad and
mining property.
A fight broke out in a mission hos
pital in Seattle, Wash, on the I'd, and
three men are at deaths door as a
result.
One person was killed and eight
others injured in a panic in which %
families were driven into the street,
caused by fire in n New York tene-
ment on the I'd.
Iowa democrats gave a Jeffersonian
banquet at Des Moines on the I'd. W..
j. Bryan and former Vice-President
Stevenson were the principal speak
ers.
Philip ii. Sternbergh, vice-president
and treasurer of the Kansas CITY
(Mo.) Bolt & Nut Co., died there of
pneumonia, on the I'd, aged 3S years.
B. E. Reed, right eminent grand
commander of the Masonic order of
Wisconsin, died of Bright's disease at
Chippewa Falls on the I'd.
John McQuade, for 33 years t~reasur-
er of Tammany Hall, died in New
York on the Cd.
George Edward Mills, business part
ner of the son of Dr. Richard C. Flow
err, was arrested in New York, on the
Sd, on the charge of attempting to
bride Assistant District Attorney
Garvan, who is the prosecutor in the
case against DR.. Flower.
Herbert Bowen, representing Vene-
zuela, emphatically rejected, on the
Sd, a clause in the arbitration pro-
tocol which sought to make Venezue-
la pay the cost of the blockade. Mr..
Bowen's reply was cabled at once to
Europe.
Prof. B. F. Marsh died in Helena,
Mont, on the Sd, aged ss. He made
the first survey of lands within the