The Tupelo journal., 1903-06-26
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

NittclS III Tic QtGu
at Denver, Col, on the 10th, of con
Mr.. lines Illness was the
result of a cold contracted while at
tending the Corbett-F itzsimmons
fight at Carson City, New.
Pat Donovan, a rancher and poll
tician at Clinton, Mont, was shot and
fatally wounded by three highway
on the 10th. Donovan returned
the fire, killing one robber and severe
ly wounding another. tv.A
]. j. Frey, of Sedalia, Mo-, for sew
eral years general manager. of the
Santa Fe railway, and prior to that
general superintendent of the Nilsson
ri, Kansas & Texas railroad, was pro-
nounced in a critical condition, on
the 10th, with uraemic poisoning. vi
Woodmen in convention at Indian
apolis, Ind, on the 18th, elected as
head consul, A. r. Talbot, of Nebras-
ka; head adviser, ID. B. Horne. Iowa;
head clerk, c. w. Halves, Illinois;
head banker, p. r. Smith, Missouri.
James w. Wilson. a forger who dis
appeared at the Joliet ~penitentiary.
was found concealed inside the walls
the 18th. He was without food for
a week.
President Roosevelt wound up his
tour of the continent, on the 10th, in
a visit to the University of Virginia.
at Charlottesville.
Chauncey Dewey, Clyde Wilson and
w. j. Mcbride, charged with the MUIR
der of the Berry family, at ST. Fran
els, Kas., We're, on the 18th, bound
over to the next session of the dis
trict court without bail.
Acting Gov. Mckenzie of Illinois re-
a message from Mcclure. Alex
ander county, on the 18th, stating
that 1000 people who were victims of
the flood, were homeless and in need
of food and provisions.
David w. Wallace, United States
deputy surveyor and clerk, committed
at his home in independence.
Mo-, on the 18th, shooting himself
through the head. He was respondent
over money affairs.
Memorial university, Mason City,
Ia, founded by the Sons of Veterans,
its first year, on the 18th, and
the first graduate was James Leggett,
a colored man whose parents were
Fire destroyed the Northwestern
Felt Shoe Co.'S plant at Webster City,
Ia, on the 10th. Loss, $4,000; insur-
ance, sac, 1000.
Three outlaws, led by Ben Cravens,
for whom $1,000 in rewards are of,
fered, stationed themselves ina lone
ly wood, on the 18th, near Guthrie,
and held up 100 men and wom-
en-. The robbers secured $500 in mon
ey and selected nine good horses.
The general store of S. S. Sensen-
baugh d Co. at Aurora, Ill, was dam
aged $780, 900 by fire on the 18th. Ad-
buildings were endangered
and four engines went from Chicago.
to assist the local fire department.
The grand jury at Bloomington, H..
on the 18th, returned six indictments
against citizens of Lincoln and Logan
county on charges of buying and sell
ing votes at recent elections.
The secretary of state of Illinois.
on the 18th, licensed the Incorporation
Of the Great Western Glass Manufac.
Co., located at Ottawa. The
stock is $1,000, 900.
Eli Julian was arrested at Benninr-
/. T., on the 18th, charged with
he murder of his father, Solomon
Julian, n well-known citizen living in
he Choctaw nation.
r DR.. Isaac Newton Love, formerly of
Louis, dropped dead on the steam
Aurania, on the 18th, as the ship
vas in sight of New York.
Louis j. Kaufman, vice-president of
he American Federation of Roman
catholic societies, died in New York
IN the 18th.
Two men said to be Bud Fair and
crank Ellis robbed the Adams EX-
Co. at Webb City, Mo-, on the
Sth, of $4,000 consigned to the Car
erville bank. Both men were cap
ured and the money recovered.
Representatives of four great trans
steamship lines held a con-
in New York, on the 10th,
o devise leans for the prevention of
he operations of professional gam
on shipboard.
The ministry of commerce in Wen
Ia, announced, on the 18th, that Aus
ria had decided to officially partici-
'ate in the ST. Louis exposition.
Developments at Heppner, Ore, on
ne 10Th, showed that the Heppner
list will exceed first estimat IS.
t is believed that the number of bod
es actually found and identified will
'asily reach 200.
The pope did not hold an audience,
N the 10th, much against his own
as he said he would immedi-
ytely be reported as dying, (which I
m not he added, emphatically.
Assistant Secretary Armstrong, of
he treasury department, issued a cir
:ular letter, on the 10Th, carrying in
o effect. beginning July 1, the pnre
God act>approved March 3, 1908.
Agatha Stull Barton, who had been
N trial at Sheridan, Wyo., for the
of her father-in-law, James
'tull, was acquitted on the 10Th. The
was emotional insanity.
The king and queen of England en-
500 persons at a ball in
Windsor castle on the 10Th.
An illinois Central passenger train
'olided with a freight at Raymond,
a., on the 10Th, Ten persons were