The Tupelo journal., 1904-08-12

6SCHdHSe, OH tue ou. tudt JopaheS0 "N
covered $25, 000, 900 in an abandoned
Russian camp.
1t is reported in well-informed cir
cles that NJ. Muravieff, the Russian
minister of Justice, will succeed M. Won
Plehve, late minister of the interior.
The populist national committee has
decided TO have the formal notification
of their party candidates for president
and vice-president at Cooper Union.
New York city, August Is.
After a visit of five days at the
Worlds fair, the Roosevelt boys, Theo-
dore. Jr., and Kermit, and their cousins,
Philip Roosevelt and Alexander Rus
sci. returned TO Washington on the Atm.
Reports from the northwest snow
that the wheat crops of Oregon ano
Washington are slightly under the
early estimates. Oregon will have l3,-
600. 900 bushels and Washington 20
000. 000.
Report, IN circulation that senator
George F. Hoar was seriously III are
denied at the senator's residence IN
Worcester. Mass. He has been troubled
with mmbago all summer, but is not
confined to his
Freiherr Speck Won ~Sternberg, Ger
man ambassador to Washington. has
accepted the presidency of the national
advisory board of the American lnstl-
tute Of Germanics. of Northwestern
university at Chicago.
Detectives have obtained evidence
that the railroads terminating i'll ST.
Louis have been defrauded OF about
$500. 600 since the opening of the
Worlds fair by collision of railway
conductors and scalpers.
BY order of Gov. Mickey of Nebras-
ka. the South Omaha cavalry troop OF
the state militia has been mustered
out. The membership of the troop was
composed largely of stock yards and
packing house employees.
Henry w. Good, director general OF
the Lewis and Clarke exposition, has
been elected president, to succeed H.
W. Scott. Mr.. Scott was compelled to
resign from the presidency on account
of the pressure of private business.
A dispatch to the London Daily Mail
from Geneva says that Miss Ruth Ho-
fer. one of the richest and most beau
tiful girls in Switzerland, will shortly
he married to Gladstone Dowie, the un-
kissed son Of Elijah Ill.," the founder
Of Zion City.
Mrs. Florence Maybrick continues
TO remain in the strictest seclusion in
her mothers. home at Rouen, France.
Neither she nor the Baroness de
Roques, her mother, have gone far
Their thar the garden since Mrs. May
bricks arrival.
Lady Tweedmouth (Lady Fanny o.
L. Spencer-Churchill). 40 years old, po-
litical hostess of the liberal party, and
a sister of the late Lord Randolph
Churchill. died in London on the 9Th.
She was the daughter of the seventh
duke CT Marlborough.
Woodbridge N. Ferris, OF Big Rap
ids, was. on the Sd, nominated for gov
ernor Of Michigan by the democratic
state convention over Justus S.Stearns,
Of Ludington, who announced that he
had bolted the republican party, ma
tional and state.
Efigies of GOV. Jennings of Florida
and Of Isaiah Cooper were hanged and
shot to pieces, on the 9Th, because GER
tain persons resented the action of the
governor in staying the execution Of
Cooper, who had been convicted Of
numbering Marshal Bowman of Punta
Gorda.
The officials of the Illinois Central
railroad have decided to increase the
reward of 81, 600 for the arrest and on
viction of the bandits who held up the
Diamond special, on the LIST, near Mat
teson, Ill, to $4,000, a reward of 81 1000
being placed on the head Of each Of the
robbers.
The post office department has issued
a general order directing that every
railway postal clerk shall give a 81 900
bond TO the United States for "the
faithful discharge of all duties and
trusts imposed upon them by law and
the rules and regulations of the de-
paTtment.
DR.. Bush, a well-known archaeoIo-
gist, has returned to Ell Paso, Tex,
from a trip 700 miles into the interior
of northern Mexico, in the Sierra
Madre mountains, and says he discov-
cred a race of people that prove to his
satisfaction the perpetuation of the
race OF cliff jewellers.
Gov. ]. K. Vardaman of Mississippi,
in a statement issued on the Sd, denied
that he had ever reflected upon the
good name of President RoOsevelt's
mother through the columns of his pa
per, as was charged, and which caused
Postmaster-General Payne to refuse to
name a post office sftert he governor.
The body of F. Kent LOOMS, who is
supposed to have lost his life from the
steamer Kaiser William II. off the
English coast on June 10, arrived at
New York on the American line steam
err ST. Paul, from Southampton on