The Tupelo journal., 1904-10-21
King George Of Saxony is critic

It's usual quarterly dividend OF @1 d
share.
Booker Washington was left
by James Callahan Of Des
Moines.
The total worlds fair attendance
including October s had been 49,
376.456.
In a fight at Calva, Miss, between
a man and woman neighbor, the wo-
man was killed.
The next session Of the Episco-
palian convention will be held in
Richmond, Va.
The interstate commerce commits
sion is probing the secrets of the
private car trust.
A movement has begun looking
to abolishing China's opium treaty
with Great Britain.
Tacoma contractors have refused
to carry mails for the far east dur
ing the Russo-Japanese war.
The Japs are falling back to po-
sitions at Lao Yang as though de-
string decisive action there.
The net earnings of the depart
ment of admissions of the worlds
fair to date has been $4,000, 900.
Merrell L. Joslyn, who was assist
ant secretary Of the interior under
President Arthur, is dead at Wood
stock, III.
A cat attacked Mrs. Cooper at
Evansville, Ind, and had to be
chokcd to death before it would
turn loose her arm.
The letter of acceptance of Thos.
E. Watson, the peoples party cam
didate for president, contains 49,
900 words and is principally devot-
ed to a denunciation of the demo-
cratic party.
Robert J. Wynnc, acting post
master general, has been appointed
to succeed Postmaster General
Payne, deceased. 1t is understood
the appointment will hold until af-
ter the November election.
The house Of deputies of the Epis-
copal general conference rejected
the proposed amendment to the d.
vorce canon which sought to pre-
vent the remarriagc of divorce per-
sons by clergymen of the denomina-
ton.
After the farewell review of the
Baltic fleet at Reval by Emperor
Nicholas the squadron sailed for
,Libau, from whence it is declared
it will within a few days weigh an
Choir for a long voyage to the Pa
cific.
Boston won the American league
1904 pennant. The final standing
with the percentage of each club
was as follows: Boston .61T, New
York 500, Chicago .575, Cleveland
500, Philadelphia .536, st. Louis
.437, Detroit .403, Washington .252.
After running for seven hours,
sometimes at a speed of 60 to 80
miles an hour, faster than many ex-
press trains, George Heath, an
American, driving a nincty-horse-
power vehicle of foreign make and
representing the Automobile Club
of France, finished first in the 800
mile automobile race for the W. K.
Vanderbilt, Jr., cup.
Twenty-Five persons were killed
and sixty injured by a collision OF
two Missouri Pacific trains three
miles east of Warrensburg, Mo-, De-
tober 10. The trains We're the Sec
ond section of passenger train No.
80, which left Wichita, Kan, for
st. Louis, and an extra freight
train. The engineer of the freight
is said to have forgotten his orders.
The main armies of Russia and
Japan in Manchuria continue to be-
engaged in a desperate struggle for
supremacy south of Mukdcn. On
both sides there have been such
losses in killed and wounded as mark
the contest one of the bloodiest bat
ties in history. Already the losses
at Lao Yang have been approx
mated, and that of the Russians is
estimated at $4,000.
Matthew r. W. Ransom, form
erly United States senator from
North Carolina, and once Ameri-
can minister to Mexico, died sud-
denly at his residence in Garys-
burg on his 87th birthday.
The Russians are effectively US
ing hand grenades filled with a high
explosive. The execution of these