The Tupelo journal., 1903-09-04

1T mas Deen discovered that the value
of the estate of the late Mrs. James
G. Blaine will show in excess of ST.
100000.
Carl Rudolph Schultz, q years old
has been elected president of the Ma
tional Equitable bank, of New York
He is the youngest president but one in
the United States.
The richest gold nugget ever found
In Mexico was discovered, recently
by G. T. Robinson, captain of the vessel
Corrigan. The nugget is nearly twenty
inches thick, and is valued at 5000.
Post Office Inspector Flavin, of Spo.
kane, Wash, received advices that the
mail stage between Canyon City and
Whitney City, Ore, was held up, or
the 25th, on Dixie mountain, and al
the mail taken.
Martin Kellogg, ex-president of the
University of California, died at the
Waldeck sanitarium, in San Francis
W, Ol4 Tic NotlI, do lIiC iCoulI VI Oil W
GRAFTON performed several weeks age
to relieve a combination of stomach
and liver troubles.
Miss Helen Keller, the famous blint
deaf mute, a member of the graduating
class of Radcliff college, has accepted
the invitation of President Francis t
take an active part in the deaf, dumb
and blind operating exhibit at the
Worlds fair at St. Louis.
Twenty-one indictments against City
and County Clerk Aichele were report
ed by the Denver (Col) grand jury
on the 2Sth The principle charges re-
late to the destruction of public rec
ords and an alleged shortage of $4,000
in the county clerks Office.
The funeral of Maj Charles E
Smith (Bill Arp), who died on the oath
was held at Gainesville, Ga, on the
Goth, from the First Presbyterian
church. The services were exceedingly
simple, according to the expressed
wishes of the late philosopher.
The department of commerce and
labor at Washington, D. c., has an
nounced the appointment of Edwin w
Sims as special attorney in the bureau
of corporations. He has been prac-
ticing law in Chicago for the past ten
years and has been county attorney OF
Cook county, H., since 1901.
President Roosevelt announced, OF
the 9th, at Oyster Bay, N. Y, that
Henry c. Ide, at present member OF
the Philippine commission, would be
designated as vice-governor OF the
e. Wright, when the latter assumes
the office of governor general.
Senator Hanna was taken suddenly
i'll while in his office in Cleveland, O.,
on the 25th, and a physician who was
called ordered that he go to bed at
once. Mr.. Hanna, the doctor stated
was suffering from stomach trouble
and this, together with the intense heat
prevailing, caused the trouble.
The International Typographical un-
ion has been asked to investigate
charges that George Tracy, who in
stalled the government printing office
at Manila, was forced to resign by John
Leech, the public printer of the Phil
ippines, because Tracy was one of the
organizers of the Manila union.
Standing upon the trap of the gal
lows, his hands and feet manacled and
the sheriff adjusting the black cap,
Samuel Stiles, at Cuero, Tex, on the
26th, was respited by Gov. Lanham of
having murdered Doom Edwards be-
cause of infatuation for his wife.
The fourth contest for the America 6
cup was called off, on the 9th, by the
New York regatta committee, when it
was seen that the Reliance, which was
20 minutes in the lead of Shamrock
III, could not finish the remaining
three-quarters of mile within the 51a =
hour limit set for the 30-mile race.
The French steamer Admiral Coy
don, of 3,013 tons, which sailed from
Marseilles, France, July Is, for Saigon,
French Cochin China, by way of Co.
lomba, Ceylon, which port she left Au-
gust II, has not since been reported,
and has been given up for lost There
were 81 persons on board the vessel.
1t was announced, on the 25th, that
the total paid admissions to the Mis-
souri, state fair were 81 $50, while the
gate receipts were $500 in excess of
last year. Although the amount of
premiums was $4,000 more than in 1902,
the fair had more than $4,000 in the
treasury after all Indebtedness was
paid.
Excitement at Oaxaca City, Mexico,
is at fever heat over the wonderfully
rich gold deposit at Ejutla. All min
ing men, as we'll as many business
men, have gone in wild race there,
and are stalking out claims 1t is prob
ably the richest and most extensive
gold district yet discovered in that
country.
Orris j. Towne, Jr., former deputy
collector of internal revenue for the
eastern district of Massachusetts, was
arrested in Philadelphia, on the 26th,
by government officers, charged
with the defalcation of several thou
sand dollars. He waived hearing be-
fore a United States commissioner. and