The Tupelo journal., 1903-07-31

A son was born to ex-President
and Mrs. Cleveland on the 18th.
At least 10000 delegates attended
the Epworth League convention at
Detroit.
The territory of Hawaii has ap-
propriated $4,000 for an exhibit at
the st. Louis worlds fair.
John X. Speed, one of the best
known business men in the south,
died at his home in Memphis on
the 21st.
A negro tramp named Adams,
who assaulted a negro woman near
Lake Butler, Fla, was captured by
a mob of negroes and lynched. The
body was cut into shreds by the mob
and severely disfgured.
Fifty Boer families will start
from South Africa for the new Boer
colonies in Mexico next month. A
large supply of farming implements,
wagons, blooded cattle, ETC., have
been ordered. The first colony to
be established will be in the state of
chihuahua by Gems. Snyman and
Viljoen.
Marconi has discovered a new
principle in wireless telegraphy and
has perfected an instrument by
means OF which he no longer needs
high towers for transmitting his
messages across the ocean. He can
now send them skipping thousand
OF miles from wave to wave along
the very surface of the sea.
After being in session since Nav
|, the United States grand jury at
Montgomery, Ala, returned indict-
ments against eighteen persons,
charging them with conspiracy in
OBTAINING persons of their liberty.
1t is claimed a system of peonage
has been carried on through conspir-
acy between justices and planters,
innocent parties being convicted and
sentenced to long terms on farms.
After a session extending over a
year, with the exception of short re-
cesses, the first Cuban congress aG-
journed on the 18th. What is con-
sidered the most important legisla-
ton enacted during the session is
that covering the proposed loan of
$35,OOO,00O and the process of aud
iting and paying the claims of the
revolutionary soldiers, all of which
have been carefully considered and
thoroughly provided.
The first bale Of the season of
1904 raised in the United States
was sold at Galveston ON the 18th
and brought 1898 cents. The bale
came from Zapata county, and was
the first ever raised in that county.
1t was hauled 107 miles to a gin
and railroad station. Eighteen
months ago contributions were tax
en- up in various parts of Texas for
citizens of Zapata county, who were
suffering from drouth.
1t is stated by the secretary of
state that the incident created by
the question of the presentation of
the Jewish petition to Russia is
closed. The correspondence con-
sists of an instruction to Mr.. Rid
die, United States charge at st. Pc
tersburg, reciting in detail the pc
tition and directing him to present
the same to the foreign office if it
were willing to receive it. 1t is stat
ed by Mr.. Riddle that the foreign
Office would not receive it under any
circumstances, and Secretary Hay so
informed the B'nai Birth commit
tee in a brief telegram.
By the explosion of a large guam
tity of dynamite and blasting pow
der stored in a magazine near Pear
ishing, Giles county, Virginia, two
men were killed outright, sixteen
were more or less injured and about
100 others severely shocked. West
bound passenger train No / on the
main line Of the Norfolk and West
ern was going at full speed past the
magazine, which was located 200
yards from the tracks, when the ex-
plosion occurred. The windows of
the train were broken and the coach
es were in other ways damaged. Not
a single person on the train escaped
injury or shock. 1t is not known
what caused the explosion.
The president has given direc-
tions for the preparation of COM
missions for the following promo
tons in the army: Maj. Gen.
Young, to be lieutenant general,
vice Lieut.. Gen. Miles, who retires