The Tupelo journal. (Tupelo, Miss.) 1876-1924, 1903-09-25
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

oAlioA VI the MISSISSIPPI valley fOf
years was. on the 10Th, submerging
thousands of acres of farm lands in the
vicinity of La Crosse, Wis, sweeping
away stacks of hay and grain, drown
ing live stock in fields and doing ines
timable damage. In the lower part of
La Crosse so families were forced to
move out of their homes and whole
sale merchants were moving their
goods from the lower floors.
The eleventh national irrigation con-
gress came to an end at Ogden, Utah,
on the 18th. 1t reelected Senator w.
A. Clark, of Montana, president and
decided to hold the congress in 1904 in
Ell Paso, Tex, and adopted platform
which requested congress to make
needed notifications of the existing
land laws in order that speculation
and monopoly of the public domain be
prevented.
Theodore Roosevelt, president of the
United States, closed the Upton Incl
dent, on the night of the 18th, at the
dinner of the Seawanhaka Corinthian
Yacht club at Center Island, Oyster
Bay, by proposing toast in honor of
the Irish baronet, which was responded
to with cheers and songs for the own
er of all the Shamrocks.
Charles H. Read, aged GO years, is
dead at Waterbury, Conn, after
months of suffering from complica-
ton of diseases which finally culmi-
mated in paralysis. He was the inven-
tor of most of the important machin-
cry used in hat making, through which
industry he accumulated wealth.
Bar Harbor. Me-, is just recovering
from the throes of social sensation
in which figured putative foreign no.
bleman, but who, in reality, was
former servant of the Gerry family in
New York and once waiter in the
Hotel Ritz, in Paris. He disappeared
Immediately after mis- recognition.
One hundred and seventy-six cases
of shoes, valued at $3,000 it has been
discovered, have been delivered to I'M
authorized parties by the Big Four
Railroad Co. at East St. Louis, ILL.,
They were consigned to a ST. Louis
wholesale house and have not been To-
Gated, though the transfer driver who
got them has been identified
Secretary of the Treasury Shaw has
definitely decided to withdraw govern
ment deposits from all banks reducing
their circulation to take advantage of
the high price of United States bonds,
when such banks are already desig-
mated as United States repositories.
The stockholders annual meeting OF
the Chicago, Indianapolis 4 Louisville
Railway Co. was held in Indianapolis,
Ind, on the 10th. Gilbert B. Shaw, of
Chicago; James Murdoch, of Lafayette,
and Volney T. Malott, of Indianapolis,
whose terms as directors expired, were
reelected
1t was reported, on the 10th. that it
had been showing at Eldora, Col, for
four days, and a number of the noun
tain trails and gulches were almost i'm
passable. In Berthoud pass there was
over two and one-half feet of snow.
Six hundred men employed at the
Lorain Coal and Dock Co.'S Crescent
mines. at Bridgeport, o., went on
strike, on the 18th, because a dozen
men in the mines would not join the
union and the company insisted on
working them.
Fire, on the 10th, destroyed the plan
ing mill and contents of the |. S. Har-
vey Planning Mill Co., at East st. Louis.
III. How the fire originated was not
known, but it was believed lightning
struck the building The loss was
about $4,000
Frank Clark. who was arrested in
ILL.,, on the 10th, was taken
to Palmyra, Mo-, on the 18th, and
placed in the Marion county jail. Clark
is charged with an assault atd at
tempted murder of Ollie Hess, a II
year-old girl of Clark county, Mo-, sew
eral months ago.
The national encampment of the
Sons of Veterans adjourned, at Allan
tic City, N. j., on the 18th, after Sc
lecting Boston for the next annual
meeting. Arthur B. Sphinx, Providence
R. l., was elected commander-in-chief.
Seven members of the family of
VIM. Grover, residing near Galesville,
Wis, were poisoned. on the 18th. by
eating canned minced ham One child
lied and the rest of the family were
made seriously i'll.
A heavy fall of snow over James
river valley, N. D., on the 18th, add
ed to the seriousness of the crop situa-
ton. 1t was estimated that the fall
was three inches deep.
The National Association of Next
can War Veterans, in convention at
indianapolis. Ind, on the 18th. elected
James c. Carlton, Bedford, Ind, presi-
lent.
Sir Thomas Upton, who has been
III OF catarrhal appendicitis in Chica-
go, was reported by his physicians,
On the 18th, % be recovering.
A killing frost destroyed the cante-
oupe crop in the vicinity of Rocky
Ford, Col, on the night of the 18th.
The loss may reach $250,000.
Frank Wilkens, a cigar manufacturer
II East ST. Louis and BelleviIle, Ill, was
ound guilty, on the 18th, of having
'aid an employee, George Jines, $3.50
o Durn his factory in East st. Louis
n June, 1902. He was given an in
ieterminate penitentiary sentence.
Since the storm of the 18th off the
coast nothing has been heard
II the fishing steamship Beatrice, from
Sew York, Which carried crew of 80
ishermen. 1t is believed the Beatrice
vent down with all on board.