The Tupelo journal., 1903-08-14
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

ness days, were recorded in New York,
on the 5th, when Sharp & Bryan and
Hurlbutt, Hatch & Co. announced their
inability to meet their obligations.
They were not unexpected and caused
no commotion.
The state department is advised that
the anti-canal party in the Colombian
congress, determined to prevent the
ratification of the treaty, and, fearing
to take the responsibility of defeating
it, have decided to filibuster.
During the violent windstorm that
struck East st. Louis, Ill, on the 9Th,
Mrs. Margaret Riechmann, with the
memory of the tornado Of 1896 wildly
in her mind, became so frightened
that she fell in a faint and died.
Dispatches received on the night of
the 5th indicated that the storm
which struck st. Louis and vicinity on
that day was general owe the major
portion of the upper Mississippi val
ley, at many places assuming almost
the force of a tornado.
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the 9Th, IA the damage done by
lightning, one fire in Louisville from
that cause resulting in losses of $780,
900. Several persons were rendered
senseless from the shocks and consid-
cradle farm property was destroyed.
Andrew Carnegie has made known
his intention to donate 5 $500, 900 in
United States Steel corporation bonds
to Dunfermiline, Scotland, his birth
place. He s%tipulates that the gift
shall be employed in keeping up the
estate of Pittencrieff, which contains
the tower in which Malcolm Canmore
married Princess Margaret.
President Kebler of the Colorado
Fuel and iron Co., of New York, on the
9Th, made official announcement that
j. l.. Jerome, third vice-president and
treasurer, has resigned, the resignation
to become effective at once, and that
A. A. Miller has been appointed assist
ant treasurer. Mr.. Miller will have full
charge of all financial matters.
The attention of Rome is now CEN
tered upon the solemn coronation cere-
mony of Pope Plus X, which is to oc-
u on the 9th, and for which great
preparations are being made. The
throne of st. Peter, which Plus x. will
occupy, will be surmounted by a cano-
Ply 40 feet high.
Willard P. Voorhees, was, on the 9Th,
appointed receiver for the Perth Am
boy Shipbuilding and Engineering Co..
OF Perth Amboy, N. J. The appoint
ment was made on application of A.
K. Ramsey, treasurer of the company.
A thousand laborers employed in
building trades of Minneapolis, Mimi,
struck, on the 9Th, for an increase in
wages. Masons and all skilled laborers
who are dependent on the men who are
out have also been forced to quit work.
At Tifin, O., on the 9Th, Fire Chief
Weimer, Capt. Gregg and our firemen
were overcome by carbonic gas while
investigating a supposed fire in Will
sons cold storage plant. The men
were rescued by the crowd.
Albert Seavis, colored, and Frank
Case, escaped Folsom (Cal.) convicts,
have been captured near Davisville,
Cal. This leaves nine of the 13 a
still at large.
The plant of the Little Rock (Ark.)
the 9Th; loss between SIS, 900 and $780,
900. +.
Conrad Schroeder, one of the wealth
lest contractors and builders in Penn
.sylvania, shot himself in the head by
accident, on the 9Th, at Scranton, Pa,
dying almost instantly.
Advices received at Salonica, on the
9th, said that Bulgarian insurgents
had dynamited the governors palace
at Krushevo, % miles north of Mona
stir, and that so Turks were killed. A
detachment of Ottoman troops had
burned the village of Dihove, nea
Monastir.
The grand jury at Danville, Ill.,, has
returned indictments for rioting and
defacing public property against Har-
vey, Vangundy, Harry Rennick, Cicero
Davis, William Pettis, Isaac Newton
Slade, Horace Murphy, William Red
win, John Kress, John Isom, John Wal
ton, Richard Roberts and Edwin Hart.
A meeting of the grand officers of the
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
was called to order at Cleveland, o., on
the 18th, to eject a grand chief to sue
coed the late P. M. Arthur and also to
choose a first assistant grand chief. Up
to a late hour it was said that no cleo
ton had taken place.
Maurice Runkle, who was Jointly in
dicted with Machen and McGregor in
the post Office investigation, sur
rendered himself before United States
Commissioner Shields, in New York, on
the 7th, and gave SIS, 0 bail for his APP
pearance when wanted.
Whitaker Wright, the arrested pro-
moter and director of the London &
Globe Finance corporation, was re-
leased, on the It'll, from Brixton jail.
London, satisfactory sureties for hia
$3.50. 900 bail having been furnished.
Brig.-Gen. A. e. Woodson, U. s. A.
retired, died at Paola, Kas., IN the 7th.
aged 62 years. He was in the military
service Al years. He will be buried in
the national cemetery at Arlington, Va.
Col. William H. Phelps, the we'll
known lobbyist, declared in st. Louis,
where he was summoned to appear be-
fore the grand jury, that the lobbyist
wouldn't be needed by the corpora
tions, at Jefferson City, wer it not
for the legislative s~andbaggers, who
concoct measures to compel defensive