The Tupelo journal., 1903-05-08
VS. AND NOTES.
A Summary of Important Events.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

gate charges of bribery in the Illinois
legislature submitted a final report,
ON the 30th, declaring hat no real at
tempt was made TO bride Speaker
John Ii. Miller.
The young ladies of st. Louis jol-
lied Gov. Bailey of Kansas as he
passed in the dedication parade at st.
Louis, on the 30th, and invited him to
come to st. Louis and divest himself
of his bachelors degree.
Russia has apparently backed down
from her demands upon China in re-
gard to the cession of Manchuria,
using the convenient diplomatic sub
terfuge of denial of the accuracy of
the reports sent out by the press
agencies.
Brighten. Fred ID. Grant was east
ly recognized by the old civil val
veterans as he led his brigade in the
dedication parade at St. Louis, owing
to his strong resemblance of his
illustrious father as he was known to
the soldiers in the latter part of the
war. The general had the finest
mount in the parade, Village Boy.
EX-President Cleveland had no
Il to imagine that he had lost his
place in the estimation of the people,
Judging from the manner of his re-
ception by the vast throng that
crowded the building wherein the
Worlds fair dedication exercises
We're held at st. Louis.
Elsie Barrett, who shot Bessie Pal
mer, the actress, in Chicago, last Jan
uary, was, on the Goth, found guilty
on the second count in the indictment
charging criminal negligence.
The case of James Howard. twice
tried and convicted as a principal i'll
the murder of Gov. William Goebel,
was submitted to the jury at Frank
fort, Ky. again on the Goth.
Three persons were killed and four
Others were seriously injured, on the
Goth, by the wrecking of a Vandalia
passenger train in the railroad yards
at Terre Haute, Ind.
Stuart Robson, the veteran come
dian, died of heart disease at the Ho-
tel Savoy, New York, on the goth. He
was 81 years old, and had been on the
stage for 81 years.
King Edward visited Pope Leo at
the vatican, on the Goth, going direct
from the British embassy in a closed
carriage.
The grand jury adjourned, on the
Goth, at jefferson City. Mo-, to the
LIST. because of Worlds fair holiday in
St. Louis.
Six story buildings in the central
part of the Canadian 500 were de-
stroyed by fire, on the 10Th; loss,
100000.
In commemoration of the centen-
NAL of the signing of the treaty of
the cession of the Louisiana territory,
interesting ceremonies were held. on
the 30th, in the old Cabildo, at New
Orleans.
Miss Ada Storey, daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Hampton l.. Storey, was
married, on the 3Oth. at Pasadena,
Cal, to Robert H. Ripley, son of Pres
ident +. 2. Ripley of the Santa Fe
road.
Two masked men grabbed a pack
age containing $4,000 from Agent
Peterson, of the United States Ex-
press Co., while a train was standing
at Britt, Ia, on the 3Oth, and escaped.
Federal court at indianapolis, Ind,
on the 30th, refased to grant a writ
of habeas corpus in the case of Moses
Fowler Chase. The case goes to the
United States supreme court.
The Ottoman and Mytylene banks,
in Salonica, European Turkey, were
destroyed by dynamite on the 30th.
Several arrests have been made.
Paul du Chaillu, American author
and explorer, who was stricken with
partial paralysis, on the Goth, died in
st. Petersburg on the 30th.
Frederick c. Fisher, who confessed
to burning his wife to death, was
sentenced, at Riverside, Cal, on the
3Oth, to be hanged July ID.
The plant of the Cresson powder
works, near Hollidaysburg. Pa, was,
on the 30th, wrecked by an explosion.
Nine workmen were killed.
George L.. Lorillard, a son of the
late Pierre Lorillard, was, on the both,
| appointed second secretary of lega-
ton at Havana.
One life was lost and $4,000 dam
age done by a fire at Loretto, Pa, on
the 30th.
United States Consul Landger was
fined $50 and sentenced to prison for
three days by the judge of a court at
| Bolingen. Prussia, for disorderly o n
present as a witness.
James B. Wilson, editor and pro-
prietor of the Knights of Fidelity
News, national organ of the saloon
keepers, dropped dead, on the LIST, in
his office at indianapolis, Ind, from
a stroke of apoplexy.
The st. Louis, Iron Mountain &
Southern railroad, of st. Louis, on the
list, filed with the secretary of state,
at jefferson City, Mo-, a certificate of
increase of capital stock from sos, 000,-
900 to $119,O 900. 900.
Warrants for the arrest of L. I'll.
| Cox, William Shinn, David Gray, Pike
Brannum, Lon Shaw, Lee jackson and
Carl Palmer were issued at Blooming,
Ind, on the 1st, on charge of white
Gaping.
The grand jury at Jefferson City,
Mo-, began an Investigation, on the
LIST, into alleged attempts to hold-up
stock yards people during the session
of the Missouri legislature.
The barricaded monastery of the