The Tupelo journal., 1904-06-17
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary of Important Events.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

the Corning distillery at Peoria, H.,
on the 7th. The remains were found
in a part of the building where the
fire was most fierce, and there was
little Ct the body left.
According to President Francis OF the
louisiana Purchase exposition the first
payment to the United States govern
ncnt by the Worlds fair company on
the federal loan of 81, 500, 100 will be
made promptly on June Is, as tie law
authorizing the loan provides,
The Minnesota building at n
Worlds fair was dedicated with ap-
propriate ceremonies, On the 9Th, Miss
Minnie Sofa Whitney Irfuclins the nag
on the pavilion. The exercises we've
held under the auspices d the Mime
sofa Editorial association.
The trunk hat exploded in the Union
station at Kansas City, Mo, is sup
posed to belong to e. Mccarthy, in
structor in the University of Minnesota
school of mines. There is a party OF
junior mining engineers in the field
near Sacramento, Cal, and it is sup
posed that the trunk was sent home
from there.
The coal yards of the Crescent Coal
& Mining Co. at Chicago were de-
stroyed by fire on the Sth. The Peter
son Hay & Grain Co.'S elevator also
burned. Loss 100000
The National Travellers Protective
association, in session at Springfield,
H., completely exonerated Louis L.
Lebaume, national secretary-treasurer,
who was suspended several weeks ago,
of the charge of embezzlement OF
funds of the association.
Marcus Graham, aged "a years. was
arrested at a st. Louis racetrack on
the 9th, by a United States secret SER
vice agent, charged with passing two
counterfeit 500 gold certificates.
T~wenty-eight of the counterfeits were
found on his person and 40 more in
his room at the Planters hotel.
Levi z. Letter, of Chicago, died at
Bar Harbor, Me-, on the 9th, of heart
disease. The end came quite sudden
ly, though Mr.. Letter had not been
well for some time. He was II years
of age, and though starting life in a
very humble way, left a fortune esti-
mated anywhere from $4,000, 900 to
$50, 900, 900.
The. great organ in Festival hall at
the Worlds fair was formally dedicat-
ed, on the afternoon of the 9th, with an
organ recital by Charles Galloway, of
st. Louis, official organist of the expo
sition. Three thousand persons attend
ed the concert, which lasted more
than an hour.
A special c%ablegram from Che-Foo
on the 9th said that the attack on
Port Arthur by the Japanese had be.
gun that morning. The Russian forces
around the beleagured place were re-
inforced by the troops which retreated
from Dalny and Kin Chau.
A brilliant military ball was given
by the Louisiana Purchase Exposition
Co. IN the night of the 7th, in honor
of tie West Point cadets, in The New
York state building. Abor. 1900 per-
sons were present, including 800 young
ladies' elected to entertain the cadets.
Gen. Miles and Gea Corbin, with their
wives. were among the guests.
Rafael Ortiz, the Porto Rican who
a United States soldier, COM
his sentence of five years in the
pe%nitentiary on the 9Th, and
was released. He will sail for Porto
Rico from New York on the 18th.
The revolutionary Dominican forces
sustained a defeat, on the 5th, at Con-
cepcion de la Vega, leaving a hundred
dead or wounded on the field.
Coroner Hall, at Victor, Col, on the
10th, concluded the inquest over the
bodies of the miners who were killed
by the Internal machine, at Independ-
ence, the jury returning a verdict of
MURDER" and duplicating members
Of the Western Federation of Miners.
According to an official dispatch re-
ceived by the car, on the 10th. from
Gen. Kuropatkin, the Russians were
to retire from Sin-Yen by the
advance of the Japanese. Among
the Russian losses was Cheremissineff,
chief Of Cossacks. The japanese lost
Despondent because he had lost his
position, and despairing of ever being
able to redeem a diamond ring he said
MS mother had given to him, Shirley
A. Baker, formerly president of the
American Confectionery Co., of st.
Louis, which went out of business six
ago, committed suicide by tax
lng poison in a room in the Oxford
hotel in Denver, Col.
King Edward has conferred on Nine.
the decoration for science, art
music. She is the first woman on
whom it has been bestowed.
A cablegram received at the state de-
oartmenr, on the 9th, from Consul
General Gummere, at Tangier, states
hat negotiations for the release of
oerdicaris and Varley are still in prog
'ess, but that the sulta1's reply to
2aisuli's demands as to ransom have
lot yet reached the bandit.
Eleven hundred Thibetans attacked
he British post at Kangna, on the
Dad to Lhassa, with great ~ferocity on
he 9Th. The were repulsed, the British
oss being one sepoy killed and several
wounded. The Thibetans lombard
ayangtse daily.
Arthur Cole and Richard Crommel
we're drowned in the reservoir near
Bunker Hill, ILL.,, while bathing on the
9th. Neither could swim.