The Tupelo journal., 1903-10-02

TUPELO. MISSISSIPPI.
A movement is on foot among la
Dor leaders in Chicago to abolish the
Labor day demonstration and TO de-
vote the money spent on the annual
parade to defense fund.
Sir Thomas Upton, who has been i'll
at Chicago, was able to leave his bed,
on the 22d, for the first time since
his illness. His condition was so good
that carriage ride was planned Tor
him.
Indiana day. at the St. Louis ex-
position will be celebrated on Thurs
day, September 10, 1904. Assistant
Secretary Alexander, on the 25th, asked
Gov Durbin of Indiana to fix the date
and the governor did SO.
Four hundred messenger boys en-
ployed by the Illinois District Tele-
graph Co., in Chicago, stopped work on
the nth This action was decided on
as protest against the employment OF
colored messenger boys.
Mayor Francis M. Menke of Mat
toon. ILL.,, was indicted by the grand
jury, on the 25th, upon 29 counts
charging him with malfeasance in Of
fee He was placed under arrest and
bond was fixed at $1,000.
After trial lasting eight days the
jury in the case of Curtis Jet, charged
with the murder of Town Marshal
Cockrill at Jackson, KY, July Il,
1902. on the 22d rendered verdict OF
guilty and fixed the punishment at
death.
Attorney Todd, for the Chicago SAM
tary district, attempted to show at
hearing in Chicago, on the 25th, that
the sewage of Peoria, ILL.,, and not OF
Chicago pollutes the waters of the Mis-
sissippi river and the water supply OF
St Louis.
Alison S. Sherman, aged go, Chica-
COS oldest living exmayor, died at
Waukegan, ILL.,, on the 22d, Of senility.
Mr. Sherman had been ailing for sew,
eral weeks He was Chicago's eighth
mayor, being elected in 1874, when the
term was one year.
According to an address delivered by
the United States treasurer, Ellis H.
Roberts, to assembled bankers in
Washington, the nation has more gold
in the treasury than any country on
earth; nearly as much as any other
two powers combined.
Cardinal Gibbons arrived in Balti-
more, Md, on the Oath, and was met
by leading citizens, including repre-
sentatives of all the leading Catholic
societies. Mayor McLane welcomed
the cardinal home in a few appropriate
words, to which the latter replied.
Sir Thomas Upton has put a quietus
on the stories of his matrimonial in
tentions by accepting, with thanks, an
honorary membership in the Bay City
(Mich) Bachelors club, with the as
surance that he will not break the
primary qualification for membership
Gen. John c. Black, national COM
mander in chief of the G. A. R., on the
Gath, at Carbonate, H., delivered an
eulogistic address to $4,000 veterans
and their friends at the twenty-first
annual reunion of the Southern Hi
nois Soldiers and Sailors association
The old Grant homestead at Galena,
ILL.,, presented to Gen. Ulysses S. Grant
by his admiring fellow townsmen at
the close of the civil war, will be deed
ed to the city of Galena by the Grant
heirs as historic relic, and will prob
ably be converted into a memorial hos
pital.
Because of trouble near Bluefields
an American steamship company, the
state department has requested the
navy department to send a WarShiI
there for the protection of American
interests. The gunboat Nashville will
be sent.
1t was reported, on the oath, that the
Rock Island company had determined
to reduce expenses by taking over forty
trains out of service. These trains are
in service on the numerous branches OF
The road in Nebraska, Kansas, Mis-
souri,, Iowa and Illinois, and have not
been paying.
The officials of the Renfrow Cotton
Manufacturing Co., of Adams, Mass
on the z5d. announced that their plant
would resume at once full time after
Two months of operation on a four
days-a-week schedule. About twenty
1--WE hundred hands are employed at the
five mills of the company.
The Harris county (Tex) has ap-
proved fee of 100000 for Baker. Bott
Baker & Lovett for legal services rem
cred the estate of w. NJ Rice, the mill
ionaire, who was murdered in New
York several years ago by AlbertT. Pat
rick This is the largest fee ever al