The Tupelo journal., 1903-09-04
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

York World, on the charge of illegally
killing game in that state.
Tom J. Johnson, of Cleveland, was
nominated for governor of Ohio, to-
gether with full state ticket, by the
democratic state convention, at Column
bus, on the Goth. John H. Clarke, OF
Cleveland, was Endorsed for United
States senator
The damage to farms in Nemaha and
Marshall counties, Kansas, by the
cloudburst, on the 25th, is placed at
100000. Great quantities of hay,
wheat and oats in stack, besides wheat
and corn in bins, were swept away,
while many farmers lost all their cat
tie and hogs.
Two persons, H. H. Larue, of Corn
ing, and A. r. Fash, a Clinton Qa.)
horseman, lost their lives, on the 9th,
while attempting to rescue a number
of persons from the Council Bluffs
Qa) fair grounds, which were sudden
ly flooded. Larue was electrocuted
while pushing boat under an electric
light wire, and Fash was drowned.
Miss Mary Jenkins, the 17-year-old
daughter of William A. Jenkins, an
steep cliff on climbing eX-
petition, on the 25th, at Decker Springs,
and was killed.
The Fort Smith & Western railroad,
on the 25th, filed with the Oklahoma
territorial secretary first mortgage
for $5,000000 in favor of the Mercan-
tile Trust Co., of New York.
Before a great crowd of spectators at
Readville, Mass, on the oath, and with
the track and weather conditions per-
feet, Lou Dillon paced by Peggy from
Paris" and Carrie Nation, trotted a
mile in two minutes, a new worlds
record.
Two cloud bursts, on the Goth, de-
stroyed hundreds of thousands dollars
worth of property in Council Bluffs,
Ia. The storm turned the streets of
the city into torrents, and hundreds of
families in the lower districts of the
city were removed from their homes
with difficulty.
David G. Williams, aged &c years,
ago, died at Cambria, Wis, on the 26th,
died at Cambria, Wis, on the Goth,
from blood poisoning. which resulted
from the bite Mr. Williams was
member of the lower house of the last
legislature. He served in the civil war.
Rufus Cornell, president of the five
state banks in the KiowaCommanche
country, Oklahoma, is charged with
selling $4,000 forged warrants to the
Guthrie national bank and several
thousand to the Capital national.
| The Northern Pacific liner Victoria,
which arrived at Tacoma, Wash, on
| the 9th, from the orient brought in
consignment of orchid bulbs from Ma
Mia, P. l., which were forwarded to
ST. Louis to be exhibited at the fair.
| These bulbs were sent out from Manila
| by the government, and very rare
specimen of the orchid and worth
many thousands of dollars.
B. F. Davis, president of the First
national bank of Park Rapids, Mimi,
was drowned in Fish Hook lake, on the
9th, while sailing with a party of
| friends. A squall snapped off the mast,
knocking Davis into the water He
drowned before help could reach him.
A Missouri, Kansas & Texas pas
senger train struck a freight train
which had not cleared the main track
at Rhineland, Mo-, on the 9th Fred
Daniels, fireman, of New Franklin, Mo,
was killed, and Engineer Burk serious
ly injured.
At Kent, Ia, on the 9th, the engine
and II cars of freight train on the
Burlington road went through a bridge
that had been weakened by the high
water, carrying down with it the en-
gineer and fireman Both escaped by
swimming to shore
| Capt. Edward Nathan Burton, the
last of the old-time lake captains, who
sailed the "unsalted seas" before many
of the present-day vessel men were
born, died, on the 9th, at the home of
| his daughter, Mrs. H. l. Proctor, in
| Ogdensburg, N. Y.
| David L. Murdoch, once district
judge of San Diego county, Cal, died
| at the home of his sister of a nervous
affection, aged CT years. Judge Muir
| dock was born in Illinois and served
| through the civil war in an Illinois
regiment He leaves two brothers, DIR.
E. P Murdoch, of Chicago, and J. T.
Murdoch, of Streator. Ill.
| A decidedly new turn in the case OF
the United States vice-consul, William
G. Magelssen, at Beirut, Syria, who was
reported to have been assassinated on
the 23d, developed, on the 28th, when
it became known that the report was
| incorrect, and that, although Mr.. Mag
elssen had been shot at he had not
even been injured.
Six suits involving 1000 acres of
land, valued at $4,000, 900, were filed
with the district clerk of Hardin coun-
ty, Tex, on the 18th. The claim is al
legged to be one-fourth interest in sub
divisions of the 1,000-acre Brown tract
on which there are numerous oil wells.
A monster mountain engine explod-
ed at the Southern Pacific shops at
Tucson, Ariz., on the 28th The man
gled remains of c. c. Mayfield, the fire.
man in charge of the boiler, were
found 90 yards away. One entire end
of the shops was demolished.
Southern Pacific passenger train No.
was derailed by defective switch
| near Promontory, Utah, on the 28th.
Eight of the ten cars left the track, the
| baggage, two express cars and a day
coach being completely demolished No
one was killed.
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