The Tupelo journal., 1903-07-10
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

county, KY, died of blood poisoning,
on the 27th, resulting from having
been stung on the nose by a wasp.
BY the ov%erturning of a tallyho at
San Diego, CAL, on the 2sth, Lieut..
Mayson of the French cruiser Protet,
now in the harbor there, was severely
injured, and A. Blochman and his son,
L. A. Blochman, bankers, also were
badly hurt.
The executors and trustees of the
estate of former Judge Henry Hilton.
in New York city, reported, on the
goth. that it amounted all told to &c.
249, 500. Its value was computed orig
inally at 10000 900.
j. w. Maxwell, of Dallas, Tex, gen.
eral superintendent of the Missouri,
Kansas & Texas railway, was pro-
NOTED, on the LIST, to be assistant gen.
eral manager of the road.
Givin Alyea, an engineer, of Hitch
cock, Okla, shot and killed his young
wife on the 1st. Jealousy was the
cause. He then shot himself, infict-
ing a fatal wound.
Robert Crosse, the companion of
John Newberry, who was murdered at
Sherman, kas., was arrested at
Hutchinson, kas., on the LIST.
While washing ribbons with gaso-
line at her home in ST. Louis, on the
2Sth, Miss Susie Aff1eck was SO Sc
verely burned about the face and
breast from ar explosion of the fluid
that she died a few hours later.
The action of the American govern
ment concerning the petition to the
car regarding the Kishenetf mas
sacre is watched with the closest at
tention in Vienna On account of it's
possible effect on eastern affairs.
While a mob of over 500 persons
surrounded the Jail at Hot Springs,
Ark, bent upon lynching Jim
Dougherty, the condemned murderer,
who, disemboweled Roger Williams, a
fell-prisoner, Dougherty committed
suicide by opening his jugular vein.
At the recent luncheon in the White
House in honor of Sir Thomas Upton
the latter caused much surprise when
he said that if he should win the cup
this time it would represent an in
vestment of considerably more than
So, 100000. If he again failed to win it,
he said, he had still more millions to
spend in the effort to lift it.
State Comptroller r. NJ. Love was
assassinated in his Office in the state
capitol at Austin, Tex, on the 30th,
by w. G.. Hill, a discharged employe
of the Office. No cause for the deed
is known. Hill was killed in attempt
ing to escape.
Mrs. F. F. Adams, Jr., wife of the
vice-president of the F. F. Adams To-
bacco Co.. was sandbagged by a wom-
an and robbed of $500 while in the
toilet roc on a train en- route to
Milwaukee from Chicago on the 30th.
The railways at st. Joseph, Mo-, on
the 30th. gave in t. the demands of
the striking freight handlers and
agreed to advance the scale Is per
cent. for a days work of eight hours.
The lives of 234 men were snuffed
out, scores of others were injured and
a vast amount of property was de-
stroyed by an explosion, on the 30th,
in a mine at Hanna, Wyo.
Officials of the Union Pacific mine
at Hanna, Wyo., on the 1st, gave up
all hope of reaching the 232 entombed
miners who were caught by an ex-
plosion.
A tornado struck Wilder. Mimi, on
the 3Oth, killing three persons and
doing much damage to property.
Numerous prostrations were re-
ported at Cleveland, O., on the 1st, as
a result of the prevailing intense
heat. The government thermometer
registered So.
1t was semi-officially announced at
Kiel, OF the 30th, as a further demon
stration of the entente between the
imperial government and the United
States, so strikingly emphasized by
the German naval cordialities to the
American squadron, that Prince Adal-
bertand Prince Henry of Prussia, with
their suites, have been authorized to
visit the ST. Louis exposition.
Eugene LinXweiler, editor of the
Labor World and secretary of the
trades and labor assembly of Decatur,
ILL.,, was arrested on the 30th, charged
with sending threatening postal cards
through the mail! Judge Humphrey,
in the federal court at Springfield, re-
leased the prisoner on $500 bond.
A semi-official note issued at st.
Petersburg, On the 3oth, in regard to
the Kishineff massacre makes the po-
sition clear that Russia will brook no
outside interference with her internal
affairs.
Trustees of Rush medical college,
Chicago, have succeeded in raising a
fund of 81, 900 900, thus assuring a gift
of $4,000, 900 or more from John d.
Chicago of the most magnificent
medical institution in the world.
James Henry Ralston, an >alleged
prophet, created a sensation in New
Orleans, on the 30th, by parading the
streets and predicting the destruction
of the city within a few months, and
a famine in the country worse than
that in India.
Mrs. Warren Thorpe and her daugh-
ter, Pearl Mcdonald, were arrested al
Jackson, Mich, on the I'd, on war.
rants charging them with the murder
Of the formers husband, Warren
Thorpe.
A cloudburst, on the I'd, visited the
southwestern section of Texas, caus.
ing the death of several persons and
entailing a heavy property loss.