The Tupelo journal., 1903-10-02
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE.
Personal AND GENERAL.

u the eAtTtlOTuludIy ScSSion WiA w
comparatively brief. The call for the
extraordinary session will not be is
sued until about the middle Of Octo-
ber
Dr. Charles Gardiner, one of the
most prominent surgeons in the state
of Kansas, died of heart failure, on the
24th at Emporia, Kas while performing
a serious operation. The patient whom
he was operating on suffered a severe
hemorrhage before another physician
could be summoned.
Arrangements were completed at
Oyster Bay, l.. l., on the oath, for the
return of President Roosevelt and his
family and the executive force to
Washington D. c., on the 2Sth. The
president then will have been absent
from the capital 10 weeks and two
days. .e
The Atlantic express on the Oregon
Railroad 4 Navigation Co.'s line,
which left Portland, Ore, on the night
of the 23d, was held up at Corbett, 2C
miles east of Portland. 1t is said En-
gineer Barrett was fatally shot.
The coroner at Cleveland, o., on the
Esd, held an inquest over the remains
of Olive Rayl, whose body was found
on the railway tracks at Gordon Park
on the 22d. Nothing was brought out
tending to show that the girl had been
murdered.
In an attempt to regain possession OF
a bundle of clothing that he had
dropped from the rail of the steamer
Lotus Simms, Charles Davis, aged IS.
fell into the Mississippi river at St
Louis, on the 23d, and was drowned
Sixty unions, having a membership
of nearly $4,000 affiliated with the
building material trades council, de-
cided, on the 23d, to support the mar
BILE workers union of Chicago against
the effort of the national marble deal
ers of that city to maintain open
shops"
After a continuous session of nine
days the grand jury at Eminence, Mo-,
on the 23d, indicted George Johnston,
charged with the murder of Della John
ston, his young niece, at Winona, Mo.
The Osservatore Romano, the or
chosen Mgr Giuseppe Wilpert, the
apostolic prothonotary, to be secretary
of state.
The United States squadron under
the command of RearAdmiral Evans,
arrived, on the 22d, at Kiao-Chou the
hn CT n
China
Walter Isselhardt, the seven-year-old
son of John Isselhardt, a farmer liv-
ing on the Jefferson road, about five
miles southeast of Belleville, H., met
a horrible death by jumping, while at
play, into cauldron of boiling apple
butter, containing about thirty gal
Ions
Secretary Shaw announces that,
owing to the scarcity of two per cent.
bonds, he will resume refunding opera
tons to the extent of s20,000000. He
bonds due in February, 1904, paying in
terest to maturity
Hon. Seth Low, mayor of New
York city, Comptroller Grant and
President of the Board of Aldermen
tosnes were renominated by the re-
publican city convention and Endorsed
by the Citizens union convention, on
the night OF the 23d.
Statistics of the imperial health Of
fee show that the total amount spent
on alcoholic liquors in 1902 through
out the German empire was about
$685. ,00O,0 900, an average per head for
persons over Is years of age of $135.
The city marshal at Jacksonville,
Tex, on the oath, telegraphed Gov.
Pardee of California that he mad ar
rested Red Shirt Gordon, the notori-
GUS convict who escaped from olson
(Cal) prison in July last.
Superintendent J. D. Hawkins an
nounced, on the Oath, that the Stand
ard NIL at Colorado City, Col, owned
by the United States Reduction and
Refining Co., would resume operations
October l.
The state convention of the League
of Republican Clubs, at Wilkesbarre,
Pa, on the oath, heartily Endorsed
President Roosevelt's administration.
Mrs. Jefferson Davis, widow of the
president of the southern confederacy,
was taken seriously ill, on the oath, in
Buffalo, N. Y.
The coroner's jury in Chicago, on
the nth, in the case of Harriet Eliza
beth Weber and Inocenti Talimini, who
were found dead there on the 22d, re-
turned verdict to the effect that the
woman was killed by Talimini, who
then committed suicide.
The state bank of Roberts, Wis, was
robbed, on the oath, of more than three
thousand dollars, with no clew to the
thieves.
When a car of lumber which had
been shipped from Michigan was
opened at Brownsville, Pa, on the
25th, the dead bodies of two men were
found. 1t was thought they crawled in
to steal a ride, were locked in and
starved to death. ~
Maj. Ross Guffin, agent of the Sac
and Fox Indians in Oklahoma, died, on
the 25th, at Stroud, Okla, aged 66
years. Maj. Guftin was prominent at
torney. and, under President Harrison,
was surveyor of customs at Kansas
City, Nc.
Mrs. Jefferson Davis, widow of the
president of the confederacy, was, on
the oath, still in critical condition.
Mrs. Davis was at Castle Inn, Buffalo,
N. Y, once the home of President Mil
lard Fillmore