The Tupelo journal., 1903-07-31

Five persons were killed and a
cor injufed by a tornado which
swept over Streator and Mendoza,
Ill.
The battleship King Edward
VII, the largest in the world, was
launched at Davenport by the
Princess of Wales last week.
Mooney Allen, colored, who shot
and killed Policeman Spensbery at
Beaumont, Tex, was riddled with
bullets by a posse of citizens.
Isaac Ford, a negro confined in
Jail at Fort Worth on a charge of
criminal assault, suicided by hang
ing himself with a rope made of a
blanket.
Two non-union iron workers en-
ployed ON a building at the st.
Louis worlds fair site, were badly
injured in a riot started by union
workmen.
Striking street a men or their
sympathizers at Richmond used dy-
Mantle to blow up two cars oper-
ated by ln%on-union men, and one
was badly injured.
Editors J. NJ. Shepherd of the
Warrenburg (Mo.) Standard Her.
aid, was fined $500 for contempt of
the supreme court of Missouri in
criticising a ruling of that body.
When the citizens of Warrensburg
heard of the courts action the
amount of the fine was at once rails
ed by public subscription.
George Collins, who with anoth-
er young man by the name of Ru-
dolph robbed the Union, Mo-, bank
and later murdered Detective Sch
umacher, who was trying to effect
their arrest, was convicted of MUIR
der in the first degree at Union,
Mo-, last week. Rudolph who es-
capped from the st. Louis Jail a few
weeks ago, is still at large.
Officers at st. Louis had a hard
time to prevent the lynching of
John Davis, colored, by members of
his own race. Davis had just muir
dered his wife, and while the officers
were awaiting the arrival of the
patrol wagon a mob of 700
negroes made a rush to lynch tn
prisoner. The officers used their
clubs and revolvers until reinforce.
ments arrived.
General Cassius Marcellus Clay,
ambassador to Russian under Pres
ident Lincoln, noted abolitionist
and author, died at his home, White
Hall, Madison county, Kentucky,
on the 22d. Death was due to
general exhaustion. Gen. Clay was
born October 10, 1910, in Madison
county. He led a stirring life,
which began to tell ON him of late.
He believed a conspiracy to assas,
mate him had been formed and
some years ago fortified his home,
White Hall, and entered a life of
seclusion that ended only a few
weeks ago when the courts appoint,
ed a committee to take charge OF
him and his effects.
The London Daily Mails Toxic
correspondent sends rather an
alarming view of the situation in
the east to his paper. He says that
the increase of her fleet, the dis
patch of reinforcements to Man.
churia, the southwark movement of
the occupying army in Manchuria
and the defiant conduct ON the 10
rean frontier alarmed the japanese,
many of whom are convinced that it
would be better to fight than
risk the eventual loss of Korea and
the relegation of Japan to a Sec
'ondary position. He says Japan is
accumulating stores and negotiat-
ing for more ships; that a squadron
is off Vladivostock, to which port
Russian ships have been sent as a
precaution, and that both fleets are
ready for action. He says that a
perusal of the Siberian press re-
veals the aggressive spirit of the
Russian military party; that the
Russians believe they will lose pres
tige if they give way now with the
result that the far empire will be
lost and japanese influence will be-
come predominant.
"A strange condition of affairs ex-
lists in the town of Juana Diaz, in
Porto Rico, all the merchants hav-
ing colsed their places of business
as a protest against paying excess
i've taxes.
A tornado five miles in width
naSsad over q section of cOuntrv
near Marion. Ind. Everything in