The Tupelo journal., 1904-09-23
News Of the World

Wlllle SellS, an auOpleu SoI, 10
to get the major portion Of the
Sells estate.
Reports to the Chicago board OF
trade indicate little damage to corn
and cotton crops.
The international Association of
Fire Chiefs has selected Duluth as
the next place of meeting.
Harroun, the st. Joseph, Mo-,
grain man, surrendered to the sher-
if and was placed under $4,000
bond.
Alive Rivers was killed by the
city marshal while robbing the bank
at Warsaw, O. His two companions
escaped.
Mrs. Henry Hoft, a bride of one
day, was shot to death ear Mead,
Wash, by a rejected lover. Fred
Hoffman, who then committed sui
eide.
Four men were killed in a
in neal Memphis. One was a white
man. They were digging gravel
under a projecting bank which fell
on them.
At Minneapolis, Mimi, Judge
Harrison denied the motion made
by County Attorney Boardman to
nolle the ten indictments standing
against former Mayor A. A.. Ames
for bribery and corruption.
The final session of the execu-
tive council Of the American Fed
Grafton of Labor adjourned to meet
on the train which will carry them
to the general convention at San
Francisco about November /.
At Silverton, Col, Peter Dallas,
a saloon keeper, was killed by an
explosion of dynamite, which wreck
ed his home. The police looked
for Bernardo Fueri, with whom
Dalla had quarreled owe the affec-
tons of a woman.
At Hoquiam. Wash, James Miles
shot and killed the woman with
whom he lived and then fatally
wounded Ole Sand. a logger, and
ended by shooting and killing him
self. Jealousy is supposed to have
led to the shooting.
Within a few days an order will
be effective through the country
which will practically do away with
the one cent stamp. Firms mailing
large numbers of circulars will be
allowed to pay the postage in cash
according to the weight, instead Of
afiXing a stamp to each envelope.
A strike is threatened on the
Fort Wayne system and its branch
es Of the Pennsylvania road. The
| members of the brotherhood of rail-
road trainmen are now taking a vote
on the strike proposition. 1t is
understood that the Pennsylvania
will not accept the new wage sched-
ule.
At Stillwell, MIMI, the bridge
across Lake st. Croix, which is a
half-mile long, extending to the
Wisconsin side, caught Ere. When
the fire apparatus and the crowd
attempted to it, it fell into
the water about 20 feet below. About
with the wreckage into the water
and two were killed and five serious
ly injured.
The immense Pullman car works
at Pullman are shut down and
practically 1000 employees are idle.
About five-sixths of the Pullman
employees are members Of unions.
The plant had been operated on the
open shop basis, however, eyer since
the 1894 strike, when the union
cause was defeated. Union scale
wages have been paid by the com
pany.
The directors of the American
Tobacco Company, the CONSOLIDATE
ed Tobacco Company and the Con-
tinental Tobacco Company have
called a meeting of the stockholders
for the consolidation of the big
pose of putting plans before them
TO rthe consolidation of the big
companies into one corporation, to
be known as the American Tobacco
Company.
Colorado republicans nominated
Gov. Peabody for another term as
governor and adopted a platform
favoring the eight hour law.
The American Bankers Associa-
ton voted down a proposed amend
ment to the constitution for the
adoption Of the fidelity plan.
September IL was an exciting day
in the Chicago wheat pit and yells
were heard of "Wheat $2'a bushel
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