The Tupelo journal., 1903-11-27
PERSONAL AND GENERAL,

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the 18th, in Louisville, KY, was 1S
degrees. A child was frozen to death
near Newport, Ky.
One thousand dollars a day was the
pay of Representative T. H. Ball, of
Texas, who served but three days in the
present congress, but who was entitled
to draw $4,000 in salary and mileage.
Mr.. Ball resigned to devote his atten-
ton to private business.
President Roosevelt, on the 18th, re-
ceived an invitation to attend the Lin
coin day banquet of the Marquette club,
OF Chicago, February II next. He ex-
pressed regret that he would not be
able to accept the invitation.
James Lynch, convicted of the muir
der of Col. Godfrey Prouse, whose pc
tition for a new trial was recently de-
ned by the supreme court of Utah, was,
on the 18th, re-sentenced 10 be shot
on January Is rcxt.
While preparing for his wedding,
which was to have taken place in Chi
cago, on the 18th, Charles Edmond
Ross, a well-known insurance man
was stricken with acute dementia, and
he was taken by his brother to a pri-
vate sanitarium in Cincinnati.
The Egan (Pa.) State bank was
closed, On the 18th, by Public Exam
iner Heminway. The deposits amount
ed to $40 900 and the loans to S45, 900.
The shutdown was caused by noor col
l~ections.
John K. Brown, the New Holland
(O.) bank wrecker, was taken to the
penitentiary at Columbus, O., on the
18th, by Sheriff Hoover, to serve seven
years. He was given clerical work.
Col. Robert M. Sands, one of the
most prominent surviving officers cf
confederacy, died at Mobile, Ala,
on the 18th, after two weeks illness
aged rs.
Lawrence Davenport was found not
guilty of murder by a jury in the cir
court at Belleville, ILL.,, on the 18th,
after an hours deliberation. He killed
his brother-in-law, Hugh Wilkerson. at
home in East st. Louis in Sep
The National Live Stock exchange
convened at Fort Worth, Tex, on the
18th. The delegates represented ex-
changes in Chicago, st. Louis, Omaha,
Neb., St. Joseph, Mo. Peoria, ILL.,, and
other towns.
A jury at New Orleans, La, in the
case of Lou w. Lyons, for the assassin
alton of District Attorney ]. Ward Cur
ley, returned a verdict of guilty, on the
18th, and sentenced him to die on the
gallows.
Gov. Dockery of Missouri, on the
18th, appointed Frank Hayman, of Hus-
-onia, Mo-, a member of the state board
Of agriculture, to succeed N. H. Gen
Try, of Sedalia, who resigned.
Dexter A. Knowlton died at Freeport,
ILL.,, on the 10th, aged so. He was well
known in banking and religious circles
throughout the west.
Henry Seton Merriman (Hugh Stow
I'll Scott, the novelist, died, on the
18th, in London, from appendicitis.
Judge Halsey, of the superior court
of Milwaukee, Wis, on the Goth, de-
that a newspaper had the right to
the work of an artist so long
it did not personally attack the art
st himself. The decision was in a
case in which a sculptor sued q news
paper for heavy damages because Of a
article published in reference
% a model prepared in the competition
,or the making OF a monument.
The officials of the foreign Office at
st. Petersburg said, on the Goth, that
Russia doubtless would recognize Pan
ANA in due time, and would welcome
he construction of a neutral canal, rs
Ter commerce would share in the gen.
,ral benefit derived therefrom.
united States Senator Charles Diet
Itch started from Washington, D. c.,
or Omaha, Neb., on the 21sts to sur
to authorities because of the
on a charge of conspiracy
n connection with post Office patron
lge.
The National Live Stock exchange,
n session at Fort Worth, Tex, on the
10Th, elected George w. Shannon, of
'hicago, president. st. Louis was
,hosen for the convention of 1904.