The Tupelo journal., 1903-05-22
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary Of Important Events.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

pines, succeeding Gen. J. M. Lee.
Noah Spradling, bartender, was, on
the 18th, placed under heavy bond at
Lorain, o., to secure his testimony il
the Reichlin murder case.
VIM. L. Congdon, a wealthy lumber
dealer, on the 18th, committed suicide
at his home in Chicago by shooting,
owing to i'll health.
Six hundred men were thrown out
of work at the Mueller factory, in
Decatur, ILL.,, on the 18th, by a strike
Of 80 ore makers.
President Roosevelt, on the 18th, de-
livered an address in San Francisco on
trade and expansion to several thou
sand Californians.
Miss Laura Strickler, s~tenographer,
leaped from the third story of a hotel
in Chicago, on the 18th, to escape, as
she says, from a broker who had ia
ken her to the hotel. Her condition is
critical.
Horace p. Taylor, president of the
Oakland national bank, died, on the
18th, at his home in Chicago. He was
IS years old.
S. f. Middleton, assistant secretary
of Il , treasury under President Lin
coin, died suddenly at st. Paul, Mimi,
on the 18th, presumably of heart dis
ease
William II. Jackson, member of
congress from the First Maryland dis
frinf onnn1,aA. th,t h. -.n a.l- Co.
the discontinuance of the post Office
at Quindocquia, in Somerset county,
to which Andrew j. Day, a negro, was
recently appointed.
The Commonwealth, the largest bat
tleship afloat, was launched at Govan.
on the Clyde, on the 18th. She will
carry a crew of 755 men. The Com
monwealth is of 1880 tons displace-
ment and her engines are to be of 49,
600 horsepower.
Miss Katherine Martin, the dauch-
ter of one of the swell social families
of Washington. d. c., has been sus-
pended by the faculty of the cathedral
school, n of the exclusive schools
for females, because she wrote a par
ody on the Mr.. Dooley" song, but
worked the names of members of the
faculty of the school into the lines.
George f. Spencer. a clothing mer-
chant. recently from Birmingham. Ala,
shot and killed at Kansas City,
Mo-, on the 18th, by Patrolman FLAME
gan while resisting arrest. Flanagan
was also chn+ Cna,,nor Ill hoo -,
noying
w. w. Montgomery, an alleged biga-
mist, shot and killed Jailer Jerry EN-
erson, at Guthrie, Okla. on the 14th.
and was in turn shot by Emerson's
wife. Montgomery, though wounded,
escaped.
Judge Lee Estelle. of Omaha. Neb.,
was, on the 18th, elected state COM
mander of the G. A. r., and John
Lett, of York, senior vice-commander.
Ten women were badly injured in a
car collision at indianapolis,
Ind, on the 18th. Mrs. Winnie Field
er, of Peoria, ILL.,, was hurt seriously.
The Federal Salt Co. was fined ST.
600 in the United States court at San
On the 14th, for violating
the Sherman antitrust law.
S. c. Allen, a pioneer of Honolulu,
died, on the 18th, of heart disease,
aged ~ years. Aliens fortune was es-
at SIS, 90 900.
Gov. Yates Of Illinois, on the 18th.
vetoed a measure increasing the sal
aries of circuit court judges on the
ground of
Joseph Riley, of Hot Springs, Ark,
was killed and at least twenty per-
sons injured, one fatally, in a wreck
on the Choctaw, Oklahoma & Gulf
road near Hot Springs, Ark, on the
18th.
Gen. Shafter was. on the 14th, elect
department commander of the G..
Il. for California and Nevada.
The strike at the Deering harvester
works in Chicago was settled on the
l4th.
Detective j. A. Sweeney, of Cincin-
natl, reached Memphis, Tenn, on the
18th, with a warrant charging Mrs.
Lizzie Mccormick with the murder of
an express company employe who died
from the effects of drinking poisoned
George Kettler, who, as Baron Won
was worth half a million dol
-ars in Hanover, Germany, was found
lead in bed, on the 18th, in his shoe
in Argentine, Kas. Indications
point to murder.
Among the effects of the man who
sent the Internal machine to the Gu
nard line dock in New York was a
piece of paper on which was written
n French: 1.-The destruction of the
Naronic was complete. Mr.. LeBrun,
who made the box, has this moment
gone to Chicago" The Naronic was
never heard from after leaving Liv-
erpool February IL, 1893.
The memorial arch erected to the
memory of the Is missionaries of the
American board of foreign missions
who suffered martyrdom in China in
300, was dedicated at Oberlin, o., IN
he 14th. The dedicatory address was
delivered by Rev. Frank S. Fitch, d.
D., of Buffalo, n. Y.
Frederick w. Hollis, of New York, |
who vas rendered, by President
Roosevelt, the position of umpire to
act in the settlement of the claims of
Germany and Italy against Venezuela, |
las declined the appointment, owing |
10 pressure of private business.
Shortly after four o'clock in the af-
5ernoon of the 14th, the post. office at