The Tupelo journal., 1903-11-20
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

On the 18th, Mrs. Nancy jeanette
Food was found guilty of the murder
of John London, at Mrs. Floods farm,
1893. London was insured for 81, 900.
He was eating a meal at Mrs. Floods
table when he was shot to death.
Dispatches received by Armour & Co.
and the Nicola Elevator Co., in Chi
cago, scid that a fire broke out in the
vannah, Ill, on the 18th, and spread
to the Armour building. The loss vas
more than $100, 900.
Notices were posted, on the 18th, in
the cotton mills at Fall River, Mass,
announcing a general reduction of ten
per cent. in wages, to take effect No
vember %. About 10000 operatives
were affected.
State Senator Edward S. Hamilton
died at Tacoma, Wash, on the 18th,
of malignant typhoid fever, resulting,
it was said, from exposure undergone
turing a political trip over the state.
j. NJ. Riney, a farmer near Mexico,
Mo-, Respondent over the loss of $4,000,
committed suicide, on the 18th, by
cutting his throat with a small pocket
knife. He died in a few minutes.
The st. Louis & San Francisco rail-
road, on the 18th, discharged las men
at Springfield, Mo-, mostly shop and
roundhouse employees. 1t was reported
at division headquarters that a sweep
ing order would be made, reducing the
operating force upon the entire system.
After an illness of only one week,
Mrs. Andrew Ewing, mother-in-law of
Henry Watterson, died on the 18th, at
ut. Watterson's country home, Mans
field, KY, at the age of 81 years.
At a meeting of the board of directors
Of the Pennsylvania railroad, held in
Philadelphia, on the 18th, Rudolph
Ellis, president of the Fidelity Trust
Co., was elected a director to fill the
vacancy caused by the death of Will
lam l.. Elkins.
The nomination of Robert Shaw Oil
yer, of New York, to be assistant sec
rotary of war, was ordered to be favor
ably reported, on the 18th, by the SEN
ate committee on military affairs.
After having deliberated for thirteen
hours, a jury in Judge McDonald's
court, in st. Louis, on the 18th, SEN
fenced Theodore Otto to the peniten-
tlary for so years. Otto was charged
With the murder of Frank Langley, on
May 20.
William N. Butler, of Alexander
county, was nominated at Cairo, ILL.,,
on the 18th, for circuit judge by the
republicans of the First Illinois judicial
circuit, to fill the vacancy caused by
the death of Joseph P. Robarts.
The Riverside Glass Co.'S factory at
Wellsburg, w. Va, was burned, on the
18th, causing a loss of $25 5000. 1t was
a branch of the National Glass Co.,
and was one of the most profitable con-
Germs in the combine.
A disastrous fire practically de-
stroyed the immense fertilizer plant of
Nelson, Morris & Co., at the National
stock yards, East st. Louis, ILL.,, on the
18th.
Charles Ball, aged As, a fireman at
the plate mill in Gas City, ILL.,, had
his head blown off, on the 18th, by the
explosion of a cylinder engine.
Jenkins City, Mo-, a town of 400 in
habitants, IL miles south of Aurora,
was entirely destroyed by fire on the
18th. .
Gen. Hamilton B. Dox, for 3S years
cashier of the Hibernian bank, Chicago,
died of pneumonia in that city, on the
18th. Gen. Dox vas "a years of age.
The United States naval repair ship
Iris arrived at San Francisco, on the
18th. from the orient. She had been
on the Asiatic station since 1898.
J.. E. Gunckel, who is interested in
tie organization Of a national news
boys association in the United States.
was notified, IN the 18th, by the man.
ayers of the st. Louis Worlds fair
that August 20, 1904, had been desig-
mated as newsboys' day at the fair,