The Tupelo journal., 1903-01-09
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary of Important Events.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

49, ohNs
for several weeks. She was born in
Ch%illicothe, Mo-, in 1913.
King Edward of England was Off
cially proclaimed emperor of India at
the durbar at Delhi, on the LIST.
Fire in the basement of the capitol
building at jefferson City, Mo-, on
the list, burned some records of the
land department, but otherwise did
little damage.
A message came over the new Pa
cifc cable, on the evening of the LIST,
from Honolulu saying that the cable
was spliced to the shore end at three
o'clock on that day. The message
gave no explanation of the six days
delay in the completion of the con-
nection.
There is no longer the slightest
doubt that the disease now affecting
Mazatlan, Mexico, is genuine Asiatic
plague, for microscopic investigation
proves that bubonic pest bacilli are in
the blood of those afflicted with the
prevailing disease.
Thomas A. Edison promises to have
his new storage battery on the mar
ket this month, and declares it will
solve the traction problem and that
it's introduction will mean that the
horse will have to go.
President Castro's reply to the pow
ers, through Minister Bowen, is sub
stantially an unqualified acceptance of
their proposals to arbitrate, and the
accompanying conditions. \ further
interchange of views, preparatory to
signing the protocol, will take place
in Washington.
President Palma of Cuba celebrated
his first New Years as chief execu-
tive with a public reception at the
palace in Havana, and a diplomatic
dinner at night. There were many
Americans among those who paid
their respects.
Miss Mollie Atchison, the largest
woman in southern Illinois. died at
Ina, a small station 10 miles from
Benton, on the 1st. She was 26 years
old and weighed $50 pounds.
1t is said that the sultan of Moroc-
co has summoned the shereefs and
notables to Fee and made a bid for
their loyalty, offering to. abjure his
European predictions, to break his
relations with Christians and to main
tain Islamism.
Miss Helen Miller Gould received
as a New Years gift q handsome low
ing cup, which was presented to her
by about 300 enlisted men of the
Eighty-first coast artillery, who are
stationed at Fort Slocum.
In a drunken brawl at Santiago,
Cuba, on the I'd, between seven Ital-
ians, two of them were killed instant
ly, two died in the hospital, one was
fatally and one seriously wounded.
The seventh man was unhurt.
Grief over the death of her hus-
band, who fell from a wagon and
broke his neck, impelled Mrs. Eliza
beth Gleich, of st. Louis, to drown
herself in a cistern, on the I'd.
A wild engine crashed into a flyer,
on the night of the I'd, at S%helburne.
Vt, killing both engineers and fire
men and fatally injuring a brakeman.
The American Association for the
Advancement of Science will hold it's
next meeting in St. Louis, from De-
cember %, 1908, to January 2, 1904.
The village of Woodruff, in Mclean
county, H., was destroyed by fire, on
the I'd.
Deputy Marshal Sorrels was shot
and instantly killed and two other
deputies wounded by an unknown
man whom they attempted to arrest
at Coal Creek, 1. T., on the I'd.
l. o. Williams, alleged to have erased
and forged money orders in Ohio, In
diana, Illinois and Kansas, was ar
rested by post office inspectors at
Lima, O., on the I'd.
A new gas well, the largest in tho
state, was struck in Licking county,
O., on the I'd. 1t has a daily capacity
of $4,000, 900 cubic feet.
The headquarters of the Carpenters
and Joiners' union were removed from
Philadelphia to indianapolis, Ind, on
the I'd.
j. N. Castle, a former congressman,
was found dead of heart disease at
his home in Saltwater, Mimi, on the
I'd.
officials of the Pacific Gable Co. say
they will have the cable completed to
Manila by the Fourth of July.
Howard Gould and party, on the
steam yacht Niagara, passed Gibral-
tar, on the I'd.
The cabinet, on the I'd, decided to
permanently close the post Office at
Indianola, Miss, from which the
postmistress, Minnie M. Cox, a ne
gress. recently resigned under COM
p~ulsion, since which it has remained
closed.
The Pressed Steel Car Co., of New
York, proposes to carry for each of
its employees who have been six
months or more in it's employ from
one to twenty-five shares of the pre-
ferred stock. now paying seven per
cent. dividends.
1t is officially announced that the
French government has abandoned
the idea of reproducing the Petit
Trianon as the national pavilion at
the Louisiana Purchase exposition in
SELouis, and will, instead, reproduce
the Grand Trianon, erected by Louis
XIV.
Capt. George Terrell of the Red =
line steamer Zulia has been suspend
ed for having violated the neutrality
laws in giving information to a Ger
man blockading ship that led to the
capture Of the Venezuelan gunboat
Miranda on December 20 last.