The Tupelo journal., 1903-10-30
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
NEWS FROM
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

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signed. The salary of the position is
$4,000 a year.
President Roosevelt issued his proc.
lamation, on the Goth, converting both
houses of the Fifty-eighth congress In
extraordinary session at noon of No
vember 8, to take action on the reci-
procity convention with Cuba.
John Philip Sousa, the weil-known
bandmaster, was seriously injured, IN
Washington, on the Goth, by being
thrown from his horse and landing on
his head.
Father Thomas Ewing Sherman, son
Of the late Gen. W. T. Sherman, re-
quests the press to present the thanks
of the relatives of Gen. Sherman to all
those concerned in the erection and
dedication of the equestrian statue of
his father in Washington, for which
they feel profoundly grateful.
Scores of congratulatory messages
from persons prominent in the theat-
rical profession were received in Bos-
ton, Mass, on the 22d, by Mrs. G. H.
Gilbert, upon her eighty-third ami
versary. Among those who sent con-
CALCULATIONS were Sir Henry Irving
and E. H. Sothern.
Bernard Lynch, the saloon keeper
who was one of the witnesses for the
defense in the trial of Sam Parks, the
labor leader, for extortion, pleaded
guilty of perjury, in New York city, on
the 21st, and was remanded for sen
tence.
The report of Fourth Assistant Post
master-General Bristow on the investi-
cation Of the post Office scandals has
been completed and handed to Mr..
Payne. The Tulloch charges are sus-
tanned and Machen's Office recommend
ed to be abolished. Merritt is to be
asked to resign and acts under Heath's
administration are criticised.
The Canadians are terribly chagrined
over the award OF the international
boundary commission, which upheld
the United States contentious except
on n minor point, and already there
are thinly-veiled threats of secession
from the mother country.
Patrick O'Shay, agent of the St
Joseph & Grand Railway, at Morey
Kas., "a found unconscious, on the
22d, at the bottom of a 50-foot ravine
near the Rock Island roundhouse
South st. Joseph, Mo-, where he had
fallen from a passenger train Is hours
before. His condition was critical.
Felix Hall, colored, was hanged at
Birmingham, Ala, on the 22d, for the
murder of Norwood Clarke, a white
man. When the drop fell the rope
slipped, and the man breathed heavily
for ten minutes, when he was hauled
up and hanged a second time.
Seven hundred employees of the
American Car G Foundry Co., of JEFF
fersonville, Ind, who struck sever
weeks ago., returned to work, on tht
22d. Both sides made concessions, but
the men got an increase in wages.
The National Municipal Improve
ment association. in session at Indian
apolis, Ind, on the 22d, selected st
Louis for the meeting next year. G
M. Ballard, Newark, N. j., was elected
president.
The president, on the 21st. appointed
Horace w. Bailey United States mar
shall for Vermont. to succeed Free
Field, dismissed.
Fire destroyed a four-story brick
building in Omaha, Neb., on the 22d
Loss estimated at between 500, 900 an(
$125, 900.
John Beckett. of Salt Lake City
Utah, former district freight and pas
senger agent of the Denver & Ric
Grande railway, died suddenly, in Chi
cago, on the 22d. of acute pneumonia
James PRESLEY Fleming, one of the
best-known democratic politicians in
western Pennsylvania, and prominent
in G. A. r. circles, died at Pittsburg
on the 22d of paralysis, aged &c.
E. Vaughn, of Cardington, O., a ma.
tional bank examiner. was appointed
by the secretary of the treasury, or
the 22d, to take charge of the First
national bank of Allegheny, Pa.
The Farmers & Merchants, bank
of Leseur, Mimi, a private institution
owned by w. H. and. w. A. Patton,
father and son, closed its doors, on
the 22d. Liabilities, $4,000.
w. H. Lyford resigned, on the 22d
as general counsel for the Chicago &
Eastern Railroad Co.. and was chosen
general counsel for the st. Louis &
San Francisco railway.
On the 22d, Dan Patch paced a mile
at Memphis, Tenn, in 1864, shatter-
ing ali previous worlds records.
The coroner's inquest over the re.
mains of Thomas Hartley, the inmate
of the Bartonville Qll.) asylum for the
incurable insane, who died on the 18th
from injuries sustained in a struggle
with two of the attendants, brought in
a verdict, on the 23d, finding hat the
deceased came to his death as the re-
suit of the injuries, and recommending
that the two guards, Edward Sorrels
and Samuel Flynn, be held without
bail on the charge of murder.
Former Gov. Hogg of Texas, in ar
interview, at Dallas, on the 23d, en-
phatically declared himself out of the
race for the United States senate. He
said: Have you eve been in Wash
ington and watched the proceedings in
congress? There is a senatorial cour
tesy' to the exclusion of the welfare
of the government. l don't want any
of it. l want to feel that l am a free
man"
Another chapter in the struggle be-
tween the Baltimore & Ohio and Wa
bash railroad interests in West Vir-