The Tupelo journal. (Tupelo, Miss.) 1876-1924, 1903-09-18
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
NEWS FROM, EVERYWHERE.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

road, which they Jointly control.
In one of Chicagos prettiest resi-
dence districts United States revenue
officers located, on the 10th, and con-
fiscated an illicit still of 120 gallons
daily capacity, which was doing fine
business. Several barrels of unfinished
product were found Samuel Barron, a
Jew, was arrested.
While walking in her sleep, on the
morning of the 10th, at Oklahoma
City, Okla, Fannie Soper was taken
for burglar and shot in the side by
John Hubetka, a saloon keeper, and
wounded.
The Mckinley memorial statue will
be unveiled at Adams, Mass, on the
afternoon of Saturday, October 3. The
principal speakers will be ex-Secretary
of the Navy John D. Long, Senator
Bates and Lieut.-Gov. Gould. The
statue is the result of public subscrip-
lions.
Stunned by the lightning shock when
the barn in which he was sleeping was
struck, on the night of the 10th, Fred
erick Doerr, % years old, was dragged
to safety by his uncle, William Doerr,
owner Of the barn, near Millstadt, Ill.
After a two days conference at Par
sons, Kas., between officials of the
Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railroad Co.
and committees representing it's en-
ployes, an agreement was reached, on
the 10th, whereby so per cent. of the
employees in the Sedalia shops were
granted an increase of ten cents day.
Wheat jumped, ON the 10th, at
Coshocton, O., to the highest price in
local markets for Is months, Is cents.
Grain dealers said that farmers were
bulling the market.
A report was current in Kansas City,
Mo-. on the nth, that the Kansas City
Southern railway had begun negotia-
lions for the purchase of the Fort
Smith & Western railroad, which has
119 miles of road now in operation, ex-
tending from Fort Smith to Waleekto
Junction, |. T., on the line of the Mis-
souri,, Kansas & Texas railway.
Arthur j. Herbst was arrested and
arraigned in New York city, on the
18th, on a charge of fraudulent use of
the mails. He and julius N. Nilsson, it
is alleged, opened an Office in Chicago
and borrowed the name of the Western
Supply Co., of that place, to secure
goods on the credit of that company.
The responsible officers of the ad-
ministration at Washington, D. c., are
convinced that war between Turkey
and Bulgaria, into which all Europe
may be drawn, is unavoidable. All they
are doing now with regard to Turkey
is being done with view to meeting
such a development of the situation.
Mrs Grace Strohn, who inherits the
property of her sister, Miss Isabella
Clark, who committed suicide in Cali
fornia, on the 10th, is the wife of H. N.
Stronn, an official of the Lagrange
Gll) Gas Co. She received word, on
the 18th, of her sisters death, and left,
with her husband, for the west.
Harold Richard Vynne, newspaper
man, novelist, poet, once editor of
Town Topics, and a queer figure in Chi
cago bohemian life, was declared in
sane and committed, on the 18th, to
the Dunning asylum. Excessive indul-
gence in liquor caused his mental
weakness.
More than two hundred ticket agents,
delegates to the annual convention OF
the International Association of Ticket
Agents, representing practically every
railway system in the country, were in
session at Salt Lake City, Utah, on the
18th.
Two earthquake shocks were felt in
Portland, Ore, at 3:45 o'clock p. m. on
the 18th. No damage was done as far
as known, although the largest brick
buildings were shaken quite severely.
In a wreck on the High line" of the
Katy near Sutherland, Johnson coun-
ay, Mo-, on the 18th, several people
were injured, three of them seriously.
Count Tolstoi spent his seventy-fifth
birthday in strict privacy among his
children at Tula, Russia, on the 18th.
He was in the best of health. The pa
pers printed glowing eulogies of the
count on the occasion of his birthday.
Violation OF the state law against
licensing resorts is the charge against
Claude Winter, mayor of Cairo, and
DR.. E. E. Gordon, prominent physi-
clan of Cairo, ILL.,, who were placed un-
der arrest on the 18th.
Orders granting three years leave OF
absence to Commander Peary, of the
navy, beginning April l next, were is
sued on the 18th. He is now on duty
at the bureau of yards and docks in
Washington, D. c.
William l. Dawson, member of the
Illinois legislature, died, of rapid con-
sumption, on board Rock Island train
near Mankato, Kas., on the 18th. Mr..
Dawson lad been travelling for his
health.
Tricky Jim" Back, George Bollin-
ger and G. C. Adams have been indict-
ed at Cynthiana, KY, for perjury in
having sworn falsely in attempting to
establish an alibi for Curtis Jett when
he was tried for the murder of ]. B.
Macum
A terrific gale swept the British isles.
on the 10th, the velocity being about
20 miles an hour, accompanied by tor
rental rain. Cable communication was
interrupted for several hours. Enor-
is believed to have suffered severely. .
Kerry Williams, who was taken
from the Chester Qll.) prison, on pa
role, by an Alton quarry owner has been
sent back to the prison at his own re-
quest, declaring that he was unable to
do tho work ranuirad Of hin, &c ho xras