The Tupelo journal., 1903-06-12

Inc orators OF the DAY were tHlcl
Justice Whitfield and Bishop Gallo
way.
Prof. j. p. Leslie, the famous geolo-
gist of the University of Pennsyl-
vania, died, on the I'd, at his home IN
Milton, Pa. Prof. Leslie was rated as
one of the most expert biologists IN
the world.
Announcement was auth~orltatIvely
in Washington, on the Sd, that Secre'
tary of the Navy Moody would leave
the presidents cabinet at the close OF
the present term and resume the
practice of law.
Details. received on the 4th, of the
bombardment and massacre at the
village of Smerdash, European Tur
KEY. showed hat hundreds of womer
and children were maltreated anc
murdered by Turks.
Alderman j. Ferd Tellbuescher, OF
Quincy, H., was indicted, on the "a
by the grand jury on two charges OF
offering and accepting brides in con
nection with the passage OF competl
tive telephone franchises.
At Oxford. Miss, on the 4th, Fen
ner G. Baker was fined $50 and costs
and sentenced to six months in jai
for offering Fourth Assistant Post
master-General Bristow $500 for al
appointment as postmaster.
While the west is suffering from +;
superabundance of water, the eastern
states are experiencing the wors
spring drought on record. During thu
month of May less than one-third OF
an inch of rain fell in New York.
A perpetual injunction preventing
any combination of certain coal op
orators in Illinois and Indiana to sci
their wares through n distributing
agency and regulate prices was ISSUED
by Judge Kohlsaat, in Chicago, on thu
5th.
Mai. James Mclaughlin, represent
ing the government. closed a treaty
with the Uintah Indians in Utah, OF
the I'd, as a result of which 1,25O,00'
acres of reservation land will b,
thrown open for settlement in DC
tober, 1904.
Taking advantage of the demand fol
ice in Kansas City and other towns
in the flooded district which have
been cut off from their usual source
of supply, Chicago ice dealers, on the
3D.. raised their prices so cents pei
1000 pounds.
Second Assistant Postmaster-Gener
al Shallenberger, on the I'd, remove
Svend Schibsby, of Kansas City, Mo.
a railway postal clerk, on the charge
of leading a movement of railway
postal clerks to secure payment fol
travelling expenses.
A baseball league in which all play
ers aremembers of Christian churche:
or Sunday-schools, in which no one re
ceives a salary, and whose officers are
ministers, is the unique organization
recently formed by six Christian
churches in ST. Louis.
indictments were returned at Co
1umbus, o., on the 5th, against Johr
A. Cobb, of cambridge, O., and W. II
H. Miller, S. f. Struble and o. w. j
Wolff, of Newark, o., for misuse OF
the mails in connection with alleged
fraudulent land deals.
The law enacted by congress ant
approved March 8, 1908, which prohib
its the naturalization of aliens who
disbelieve in OF who are opposed to al
organized government or who are af
filiated with organizations teaching
such doctrines, went into effect June
The Ferris wheel, one of the mair
attractions during the Chicago World.
fair, was sold at public auction ON thu
I'd. A junk dealer bid in the big
wheel. and the sum paid for the en-
gines, boilers, buildings, etc, was 81,
800. The wheel cost originally 1862,
600.
N-
The district executive boards of the
United Mine Workers of America, or
the Sd. issued a call for a convention
an Wilkesbarre, Pa, June Is, to decid,
whether the miners shall suspend
work pending settlement of the diff
Guilty existing in the cancellation
board.
Postmaster-General Payne has de
cided that the new rural free-deliver,
routes, which were to have gone into
effect, under the Machen regime, Jul,
1, have been held up under stop or
ders, because only in that way car
the deficiency be kept under the 500,
600 mark for the year.
Capt. Thomas B. Sims, owner of the
steamer Lotus Sims, which vessel tn.
officers of the Stacker Lee claim tt
have defeated in the 9o0-mile rae,
from ST. Louis to Memphis and return
last week, has issued a challenge fol
longer or shorter one, for a $1,000
stake.
Thomas w. McGregor, clerk il
charge of the supplies for the rura
free delivery system, and C. Ellsworth
Upton, of Baltimore, one of McGreg
or's assistants, were arrested in Wash
ington, on the 9Th, on the charge O.
conspiracy to defraud the government
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