The Tupelo journal., 1904-03-18

TUPELO JOURNAL
PUBLISHED WEEKLY.
. TuPELo. MISSISSIPPI.
Secretary of War Taft has accepted
an invitation to deliver al address at
Topeka, Kas., on May 80.
John W. White, head attorney Of the
Modern Woodmen, is dead of Brights
disease at Rock Island, Ill. He was
81 years of age.
Erastus Low Palmer, the famous
sculptor, died at Albany. N. Y, on the
9th, at his home in that city, in his
eighty-seventh year.
The official copy of the decision OF
The Hague tribunal in the Venezuelan
cases has just been received at the
state department in Washington.
One of the worst dust storms In
many years swept over the central part
of Kansas on the 9th. The wind was
terrific. 1t is believed wheat was badly
damaged.
Maj. William H. Olden, of Spring
field, H., veteran of the civil war and
prominent citizen, was found dead IN
bed on the 9th, at his home. He was
rs years old.
DR.. l. P. Wilson, of Burlington, Ia,
past grand high priest of the Iowa
Royal Arch Grand Chapter, dropped
dead, on the 9th, of heart disease. He
was 67 years of age.
Senator Tillman, of South Carolina,
was operated on to relieve an abscess
of his left tonsil on the 10th. The re-
suit was pronounced satisfactory and
his condition was reported to be much
better.
]. H. Neff, editor of a local stock
paper at Kansas City, Mo, and we'll
known to stock men throughout the
country. was nominated for mayor, on
the 18th, by the republican city con-
vention.
Capt. w. w. Gibson, ordnance corps,
u. S. A, now on duty in the Philip
pines, has been substituted as a repre-
sentative of the United States army
with the Russian troops for Capt. W. B.
Kerr, who has fallen i'll.
Maj. Thomas U. Raymond, surgeon,
has been ordered to st. Louis for spe-
cial duty at the Louisiana Purchase
exposition, with a view to exercising
supervision over the sanitary condi-
tons on the exposition grounds.
DR.. Andrew S. Draper, president of
the University of Illinois, was formally
elected commissioner of education by
the New York legislature, on the 9th,
ratifying the action of the republican
caucus. The term is for six years.
All cases against union miners,
charged with different train wreckings,
the indicator mine disaster and 9TH
ers, have been nolle pressed on request
of District Attorney Trowbridge before
Justice Lewis at Cripple Creek, Col.
The first substantial rain since last
October fell in Wichita, Kas., on the
9th. a 1t will aid the growing wheat and
put the ground in good condition for
blowing for corr and oats. The storm
extended throughout East Oklahoma.
Dr.. A. Mcintosh, of Bloomington,
H., on the Sth, received information of
the death of his father, Col. w. A. Nc
Intosh, general counsel of the Postal
Telegraph Co, who was on his vacation
in Jamaica. Col. Mcintosh lived in
Atlanta, Ga.
The moi spirit again became mani
fest at Springfield, O., on the 8th, on
account of threats made by negroes
against Sheriff Routzahn, for not pro-
tecting the murderer Dixon. A num-
Der of negro residences and saloons
On the ''leyee" were burned. Troops
were called out to dispense the mob.
The steamer Sunshine, plying be-
tween Memphis and Cincinnati, was
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Tenn, on the 10th. The crew escaped,
but both boat and cargo were lost. The
Sunshine was owned by the Memphis
& Cincinnati Packet Co., and valued
at $4,000.
E. Benjamin Andrews, head of the
University of Nebraska at Lincoln, is
at the Chicago Baptist hospital suffer-
ing from the grippe. DR.. Andrews ar
rived in Chicago on the 9th, en- route to
New York, but was compelled to aban-
don the trip, for the present at least,
owing to his illness.
The Pittsburg district delegates to
the joint convention Of coal miners
and operators at Indianapolis returned
home on the Sth. They expressed them
selves as opposed to a strike at his
time, and say President Dolan will go
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