The Tupelo journal., 1903-09-11
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

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palace be asked for, with a view of
rendering it habitable. The building
is now in a dilapidated condition and
is used as museum. 1t was formerly
the summer residence Of the popes.
In recognition of his work in the
handling of the Reliance in defense of
the Americas cup, Capt. Barr is to re-
ceive an annuity of $4,000 year for
life. Each member of the Reliance's
crew has received handsome bonus.
Mary Gano Bryan-Cobb, step-grand-
mother of VIM. j. Bryan, died, on the
4th, at her home in New London, Ind,
in her one hundred and first year. Mrs.
Cobb was one of the pioneers of How
ard county. She was born in Ken
lucky.
According to trade reviews. general
business conditions are conservative,
Tut the outlook favorable, the dizziness
of speculation having a distinctly help
full influence on legitimate trade.
A general strike of railway express
employees throughout the United States
is threatened because of the refusal Of
six of the largest companies in Chi
cago to consider demands made by the
Brotherhood of Railway EXpressmen.
Veterans of two wars marched
through streets of ST. Paul, Mimi, on
the I'd, thronged with thousands anx-
| ious to do them honor. Swarthy, stall
wart and alert, the soldiers who saw
service in Luzon formed sharp con-
trast to the grizzled old veterans of
Gettysburg, Shiloh and a hundred
bloody battles of the war between the
states.
On the I'd Col w A. Johnson died
at his home in Kansas City, Mo-, of
| Bright's disease. He had been promi-
nent in Kansas politics for 40 years !;
| in 1888, was delegate to the repub-
lican national convention.
Secret service officers at Washing
| ton, D. c., received, on the I'd, new
| counterfeit 500 national bank note, on
| the Mechanics national bank of New
| Bedford, Mass. The series is of 1882,
| check letter B, charter No. 743, Bruce,
register. Wyman, treasurer of the
| United States.
The American squadron reached
Beirut on the evening of the 4th. For
eign marines have landed at Con-
stantinople to protect their embassies.
| The Washington authorities do not
consider the Turkish situation serious,
although the American minister takes
an apprehensive view.
The English swimmer, Montagu Hol-
bein, who left South Foreland, on the
list, in his fourth attempt to swim the
English channel, failed again. He left
the water eight miles from Calais,
France, on the I'd, after swimming II
hours and 20 minutes.
Secretary Hitchcock's Investigations
into the frauds practiced by the triba!
| investment companies in the Indian
territory, by which the Indians were
systematically swindled out of their
holdings, will result, it is said, in the
wreck of most of these companies.
The R. T. Davis Mill and Manufac-
turing Co., of st. Joseph, Mo-, with a
branch house at Kansas City, was de-
clared bankrupt, On the LIST, and
Charles F. Enright was appointed re-
ceiver by B. j. Swoodson, referee in
bankruptcy. This is the pioneer mill
ing firm of northwest Missouri.
Miss May Comstock, of East St.
Louis, ILL.,, was arrested and placed I'M
der 5000 bond on the 3d. The warrant
for hor hxy M,.c
Jennie Brimmer, who declared that
Miss Comstock threatened to take her
life because she named Miss Comstock
as correspondent when she brought
suit for divorce
]. B. Smith, for 80 years chef in a
Chicago, jumped from the fifth-story
window of north side apartment
building, on the Sd, and was instantly
killed. Loss of his position, due to
the walters strike. was believed to
have prompted the act
While returning from the Oaktown
watermelon carnival to Busseron, Ind,
John Langley and Ford Howard went
to sleep on the railroad track. and were
struck by an Evansville & Terre Haute
train, shortly after midnight on the Sd.
Their bodies were found, terribly man.
gled.
Luke Bodin was killed and Thomas
Davis, Jr., fatally injured, on the Sd,
while repairing an air shaft of the
Royal mine, three miles north of Belle
vile, III.
H. c. Miller, eX-deputy county treas
urer of Rock Island county, ILL.,, was ar
rested at Vancouver, B. c., on the Sd,
on charge of having absconded. on
July 5, 1902, with $4,000 of county
funds
King Edward arrived in London, on
the 4th, on his return from Vienna.
The city of Topeka, Kas., has lost its
fight for dollar gas. Two years ago the
council passed an ordinance requiring
the local gas company to furnish gas
at dollar thousand feet. The COM
pany enjoined the city, and brought
suit to annul the ordinance. Master in
Chancery Brock, on the 4th, decided
the rate to be confiscatory, and the or
dinance illegal.
Witnesses in the naturalization
fraud cases in st. Louis claim that
they are being subjected to all manner
of persecution and intimidation at the
hands of the local police. The United
States officials will look into the mat
ter.
Charges made against the agent Of
the Pawnee Indians in the Indian ter
ritory accuse that Official of abusing