The Tupelo journal., 1904-07-15

The car of Russia has ordered that
the Finnish language be substituted
for the Swedish in the commercial
school at Uleaborg, Finland.
The comptroller of the currency mas
issued a certificate authorizing the CIT
liens national bank, of Dennis Tex,
to begin with a capital of $50,o0o.
The Toxic correspondent of the Lon
don Chronicle, under date of uly says
that the Japanese captured over teh
guns and SO prisoners near hal Chou'
A waterspout, accompanied by ter
rife wind, passed through CLINTON y
IT and vicinity, on the 9TH, IN whlcn
civ narsons we're killed and several in
jured.
Report says there is no truth In the
story circulated in the United states
bv a news agency that the pope sur
fered from an attack of palpitaioh Oh
the heart on the 9Th.
Gen. Jos. II. Lewis, famous as COM
mander of the orphan brigade IN
the c~onfederacy, dropped dead, on the
9Th. al Frankfort. Ky. He was chlet
Justice of the court OF appeals for more
than twenty years.
On the 9Th. Olvin Gray and Lucy
Pine. children of farmers OF onlon
county. South Dakota, took s~trychnlhe
and died in each others arms. Ihey
were lovers. and their union was not
approved by their parents.
Rev. Silas C. Swallow, on the ftn'
mailed a brief letter to National Chair
man Stewart at Chicago, advising him
of his acceptance of the NOMINATION lot
president by the prohibition national
convention at Indianapolis. June 81.
Capt. A. T. Mahan, United States
navy. retired, was the guest OF honor'
on the 9Th. at the dinner OF the lmperl-
al Federation league in ondon Sir
John Colomb, NJ. p, presided, anu
MANY prominent persons were present.
In the first four days of registration
for Rosebud Indian lands, 10000 people
had registered. COMMISSIONS Rich
ards. of the general land office, stated
To Senator r. ]. Gamble that in k;s
opinion the rush would grow stronger
daily.
Edmund Berscn. former member OF
the house of delegates of st. Louis,
was. on the Sth, given a sentence OF
two years in the Missouri p~enitentiary
by Judge Jesse Mcdonald, for accept
ing a bride of $4,000 for his vote on the
city lighting deal in 1899.
A report received in Washington
from Minister Allen at Seoul points tc
the existence of a great danger to o
belligerent armies in Manchuria. He
says he a learned from a missionary
surgeon that cholera has crossed Man
churia and appeared at Antung.
Two Yale students, William Henry
Goodwin. Of Burnside, Conn, and
Ralph w. Armstrong, of Hayesville, o.,
were drowned in the Connecticut river
at Mortified, Mass, on the 5th. They
were in bathing, and neither could swim.
Goodwin got beyond his depth and
Armstrong attempted his rescue.
Judge Alton Brooks Parker, of New
York, was nominated, on the first bal
lot, for president of the United States,
by the Democratic national conven-
ton, at st. Louis, at 5:35 a. m on the
9th, after an all-night session devoted
to nominating and seconding speeches.,
punctuated by noisy demonstrations.
w. H. Morgan, assayer, president and
general manager of the Grouse Noun
tain Gold Mining Co., was found dead,
on the 7th, in a lodging house in Den
yer. Col. He had committed suicide.
He was one the first number deported
from Cripple Creek. Letters left by
him show that he had been threat
ened.
Charles H. Meyer, president of the
Western Federation of Miners, was re-
leased from custody by Sheriff Bell of
Teller county, Col, on the 5th, after
furnishing bonds for $4,000 on the
charges of murder and melting riot,
filed against him at Cripple Creek.
Bonds were provided by a guarantee
company.
Geo. F. Kroehl, president of the First
national bank of Asbury Park. N. j.,
which some time ago was put into the
hands of a receiver, was, on the 7th,
acquitted in the United States court
of the charge of making false entries
in the books of the bank. The verdict
was found by the jury under direction
of the court.
On the 7th, six miners and union
sympathizers were run out of Victor,
Col, by 25 masked men and ordered
never to return to Teller county. They
declare they were horsewhipped and
told if they were caught in the dis
trict again they would be lynched. The
men boarded a train for Denver, and
will lodge a formal complaint with
Gov. Peabody.
Oliver w. Stewart, chairman of the
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