The Tupelo journal., 1903-12-18

The TuPELO JOURNAL
PUBLTsHED WEEKLY.
TUPELo. . MISSISSIPPI.
Oliver Perry Ludlow, a prominent
Indiana whig before the war, and since
then a leader in the republican party,
died, on the 9th, at La Porte, Ind, aged
SO years.
Secretary Shaw, on the Sth, trans
mitted to congress a request for $751;
900 additional for the department of
justice for enforcement of the anti
trust laws"
Representative Gillett, of Massachu-
sets, introduced a bill in congress-, on
the Sth, ito protect anti-gambling laws
from notification by interstate gam
bling by telegraph.
Senator Hoar introduced a bill in
congress. on the 18th, providing for
a site and authorizing the erection, in
Washington, D. c., of a monument to
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
Cora, dowager countess of STAFFORD
formerly Mrs. Samuel G. Colgate, of
New York;, and NJ. T. Kennard were
married, on the 9th, at st. Georges
ah,,rah lIonNro~ er,,ora andon
Commander Cameron MGR. Winslow
was designated, on the 9th, as naval
aid to the president, to succeed Capt
W. S. Cowles, who had been assigned
to command the new battleship Mis-
souri,.
Chairman j. X. Jones, on the 9th,
issued a call for the meeting of the
democratic national committee, naming
January IL as the date and the Shore
ham hotel, Washington, D. c., as the
place,
Mrs. Everett Mallory Culver, daugh-
ter of Senator Clark, of Montana, was
granted a divorce, in New York city,
on the 10th, from DR.. E. M. Culver,
by Justice Maddox, of the supreme
court.
Half an hours hearing in the divorce
court, in London, on the 10th, suficed
to secure for Countess Mabel Russell,
who sued her husband, William Brown,
a former coachman, for divorce, a de-
cree nisi.
The British cruiser Flora, which
crashed into the rocks at Village
Point, B. c., was floated, on the 10th,
the vessel having meantime been light
ened until she was a mere shell. She
was leaking badly.
Cardinal Herrera Y Espinoza, arch
bishop of Valencia, died. on the 9th,
at Madrid. Cardinal Herrera y Es-
pinoza was 81 years Did. He was Gre
ated a cardinal by the late Pope Leo
Kill, on June % last.
Minister Thomas, at Stockholm, Swe-
den, cabled the state department at
Washington, D. c., on the Sth, that the
government of Sweden and Norway
had recognized the Republic of Panama
as an Independent state.
The United States Potters' ~associa-
ton, in session at Washington, D. c.,
on the Sd, reelected the following Of
ficers: President, Joseph G. Lee; Secre-
tary, H. A. Keefer; treasurer, James G.
Goodwin, all of East Liverpool, o.
.-
Eight human skeletons, supposed to
be the remains of continental soldiers
who persisted during the revolution,
were uncovered, on the 18th, by work
men ~eXcavating in City Hall park,
New York. near the old hall of records.
In the presence Of $4,000 reople, and
with elaborate ceremonies, Gov. ]. c..
w. Beckham. at Frankfort. KY, on the
Sth, was for the second time inaugu-
rated as governor of Kentucky, making
the third time he had taken the oath
in that Office.
The New York state board of can
vassers, at its meeting, at Albany, N.
Y, on the 18th, declared the SOL, 000,-
600 barge canal project carried, by a
vote of 245,312. There were 673, 01O
votes in favor of the proposition, and
427,69S against it.
The jury in the case of Mrs. Mary
Mcknight, who was on trial at Cadil-
lac, Mich, for the alleged poisoning
of her brother, John Murphy, on the
10th, brought in a verdict of murder,
and Mrs. Mcknight was sentenced to
life imprisonment.
The president, on the 8th, accepted
the resignation o. Second Lieutenant
John f Doyle, Ninth infantry. now in
the Philippines, for the good of the
service. He was graduated from the
military academy in 1850. He was ap-
POINTED second lieutenant in October,
1902.
Hal T. Lewis, prominent throughout
the state, and formerly associate JUS
tice of the Georgia supreme court,
died at Greensboro, Ca, on the 10th,