The Tupelo journal., 1904-12-09

I'll DuSlIlGSS III AlduElu, Ol llS LOT.
Madame JanauScheck, the aged act
ress, died at Amityville, N. Y, on the
goth, after a long illness from paraly'
sis. She was born in Prague, Bohemia
In 1880.
Peter Nessen. who started across
Lake Michigan in his boat, "Foolklllel
No. g." was found dead on the beach
two and a half miles west OF Stevens
vile, Mich, on the list.
1t was reported, on the 30th, that {
Russian ~torpedoboat destroyer, return
ing to V~ladivostok from a scouting eX
petition, was sunk by the guns OF the
Russian forts in error.
japan has made official complain
regarding the attitude of the Spanish
government in permitting vessels o
the Russian second Pacific squadron
to coal and victual at Vigo.
Fred Wittrock, who, under the nam
of Jim Cummings" committed n o
the most daring train robberies in In
history of Missouri, died OF grip II
Leavenworth, Kas., on the I'd.
Gen. John M. Wilson, chairman o
the inaugural committee, on the q
amounted Lieut.-Gen. Adna R. Chaffee
chief of staff, U. S. A., to be granc
marshal of the inaugural parade.
The weather bureaus monthly sum
mary. issued on the 1st, shows ina
crops in all parts of the country arr
suffering from lack of moisture. winter
wheat has been u~nfavorably affected.
The secretary of the interior, Il. A
Hitchcock. has ordered the withdrawal
of $4,000 acres Of land in the Mlno
IN. d. land district, on account OF tne
Buford-Trenton reclamation project.
Gov. Dockery of Missouri, on the "a
offered a reward of $500 for the muir
derer of Nancy Goodwin Gay. INT
murder occurred at Agency, in bu'
chanan county, on November %, 1914
Howell D. Ferguson, of st. Louis
was arrested al Manhattan, kas., or
the list. on a charge of embezZllne
money from the Portland hotel, IN ST
Louis. of which he had been head clerk
Admiral. George Dewey, or the 29th
declined t 0 be a member Of the inter
national commission of inquiry into
the North sea incident, in which a Brit
ish fishing fleet was fired on by the
Russian Baltic squadron.
A little band of actors gathered in
the chapel of an undertaker'S eStab-
lishment in New York, on the I'd, to
take part in the funeral service over
the body of Madame Francesca Ro-
mana Janauschek, once a noted actress,
Miss Nancy Carver Letter, the sec
ond daughter of the late Levi z. Lei
ter, of Chicago, and Maj. Colin Powys
Campbell, of the British army, were
married in Washington, d. c., on the
29th, at the residence of the brides
mother.
Rear-Admiral Charles H. Davis, U.
s. n, has been offered and has ac-
cepted a membership on the interna-
tional court of inquiry, which will in
vestigate the firing by the Russian
feet upon British fishing smacks in the
North sea.
Emperor Francis Joseph has chosen
Admiral Baron Won Shaun, formerly
commander of the Austrian navy, to be
the fifth member of the Anglo-Russian
North sea commission, in case the 9TH
er four members failed to agree upon
the fifth member.
According to a Toxic dispatch to the
London Standard, on the goth, there is
an unofficial rumor that the Japanese
have hauled large calibre guns to the
Ior Of 203-metre hill, from whence
their fire has a sweep of the whole
harbor of Port Arthur.
Reports have reached the state depart
ment of a very unsettled state of affairs
10 Venezuela. Many citizens have been
put in prison for alleged political Of
lenses, public opinion is infamed, and
serious apprehension for their safety
prevails among the foreign element.
The creditors of the D. j. Sully COM
pany, as we'll as the bankrupts, have
withdrawn all objection to the claims
fled against the company, and the
creditors have agreed to accept a 25
per cent. division On the S., 5000, 900 as
sets now in the hands of the receiver.
Eight union miners who had re-
turned to Telluride, Col, since the
strike was called off were placed
aboard an outgoing train, on the I'd,
by Acting City Marshal Geyer and
deputies, who had arrested them, and
ordered to stay away from that dis
trict.
One man is dead, three are in a hos
pital suffering from burns and lacera-
tions, and several others are seriously
hurt as the result of an explosion, on
the 9th, in the generating house of
the Consolidated Gas Co.'S plant in
West Forty-fourth street, New York
city.
William Loeb, Jr., as secretary of the
president, on the 18th, issued N Official
signed statement denying that Presi-
dent Roosevelt's children had cruelty