The Tupelo journal., 1903-04-03

TUPEI.O. /: : . MISSISSIPPI.
Cardinal Gibbons, on the Goth, &c
cepted an invitation to attend the in
augural ceremonies of the st. Louis
exposition, and win offer the opening
prayer.
The top of a mountain near Daw-
son, w. Va. slipped off, on the goth,
burying. the Baltimore d Ohio rail
road tracks under rocks as large as
box cars.
Judge James n. Tyner. assistant at
torney general for the post office de-
partment, resigned, on the goth. to
take effect on the appointment of his
successor
Advices were received. On the 9th,
that the explorers led by w. n. Mac
MILAN had reached Harrar, East At
rica. a town noted for its ugly men
and
Advices from Honduras. on the 25th.
stated that President-Elect Bonilla
had captured the entire Atlantic sea
board of Honduras and was marching
On Tegucigalpa.
The worst break in the history OF
the Mississippi levee system. occurred
five miles below Greenville, Miss, on
the eth. and 16 feet of water shot
through a gap 600 feet wide.
Senior Ojeda, Spanish minister, on
the Goth. accepted the invitation OF
the ST. Louis fair commissioners to
deliver a formal address at the eX'
position dedication on April 80.
A jury at Indianapolis, Ind. on the
26th, decided that the loss of her scalI
by Josephine Stephens while employed
in the Tacoma laundry was worth 81,
300. Her hair caught in a machine.
The National Council of Women. in
session in New Orleans on the 27th.
elected Mrs. Mary Wood Swift, of San
Francisco, president and Mrs. Flc
Jamison Miller. of Illinois, secretary.
A new schedule granted to the
freight handlers of the New York
New Haven & Hartford railroad, on
the 9th, gives them virtually a ten
percent. increase and a nine-houI
day.
William Miller Collier. of Auburn
n. y. was appointed special assistant
to the attorney general, on the gath
and assigned to duty in connection
with the enforcement of antitrust
laws.
Mrs. Alice Hull Burdick, widow OF
Edwin T. Burdick, was called to test.
fly in the murder inquiry at Buffalo
on the I'D. Letters received by he1
from Arthur Pennell We're read in
court.
Senate and house committees on
military affairs at Springfield, ILL.,, de
cided. on the oath, to ask for $4,000 tc
defray national guard expenses to the
ST. Louis Worlds fair dedication
April 30.
All efforts to fill the quagmire on
the northern edge of Great Salt lake
have failed. and a train was wrecked
there, on the 25th, The track having
dropped six inches. Fireman Watson
was killed.
Mai.-Gen. Leonard Wood started tc
the Philippines ON the 25th. He will
stop at several points on the way and
study the methods of other powers
in employing natives and report 1o
the war department.
An actor, Gilbert Warfield, pleaded
guilty. on the 18th, to the charge of
stealing $2,700 from the treasurer of
the Sylvia opera company and was
sentenced to two years in the house
of correction at Milwaukee.
Policeman j. t.. Sawyer shot an
killed VIM. Wheeler while the latter
was trying to escape arrest in Wash
ington, ID. c.. on the 25th. The po-
liceman then collapsed, and was taken
to a hospital in a serious condition.
Estes c. Rathbonc, former director
of posts of Cuba, appealed to Presi-
dent Roosevelt, on the Gath. from the
action of Secretary of War Root in
dismissing the charges filed by Mr..
Rathbone against Gen. Leonard Wood.
The parents of Miss Flo Cross, in
Carbonate, H., received a letter from
her, on the 25th, dated in Manila. in
which she stated that her fiance, Prof
John Barrow had refused to marry,
after she had travelled 10000 miles to
meet him.
In connection with the discovery of
the opening of the Russian espionage
bureau at Lemburg, Galicia, DR.. Os-
solinski, a high official in the Austrian
revenue department., and three Aus
trian officers were arrested as spies
on the 9th.
A portrait of the late President Nc
Kinley, painted by w. d. Murphy,
was accepted by Col. Bingham, super
intendent of public buildings and
grounds, on the Goth, as the one that
will be hung in the White House at