The Tupelo journal., 1904-06-10
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary of Important Events.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

on the 31st, while out walking, in st.
Petersburg, by Prince D~olgourouki,
formerly a pretender to the crown OF
Bulgaria. The prince was arrested.
A dispatch from Che Foo, on the LIST,
said that the final advance movement
of the Japanese was expected to begin
on the I'd. The japanese scouts were
already in touch with the Russian out
posts. A large train of siege guns
had been landed at Kin Chou and
pushed to the front.
Ito Himatsu, a Japanese merchant OF
New York, arrived in Chicago, on the
LIST. with a common split-leather valise
containing S1.12o,000 in United States
money, which be will give to the mi
kado to help defeat Russia. The cash
was all in United States gold notes
and bank bills.
Rainstorms, on the Sd, amounting al
most to c~loudbursts, seriously crippled
the st. Louis street railway service by
flooding the electric cable conduits
and causing the burning out OF the
installations on the feed wires. Ten OF
the Transit Co.'S branches were tenn
porarily shut down.
Mrs. S. H. Unger, aged about thirty
years, of New Martinsville, w. Va, was
instantly killed, and her companion,
Albert H. Wells, aged %, an optician Of
Washington, D. c., SO badly injured
that he will lose both legs, by being
run down by a Wabash train while
walking on the tracks, at st. Louis, on
the Sd.
The long deadlock in the Illinois re-
publican state convention was broken,
on the Sd, by Yates, Hamlin and Sher-
man withdrawing from the gubernato-
rial contest and throwing their
strength to Deneen, as the result of a
mutual understanding. Sherman was
named for acknowledgement.
Rain interfered, to some extent, with
the dedication ceremonies at the Mis-
souri, and Indiana state buildings at the
Worlds fair in st. Louis, on the Sd;
nevertheless both functions were ar
ried out as nearly as possible as
planned. The attendance at both was
quite large.
The Russians. who were defeated by
the Japanese at kin-Chou, admit a loss
of 800 men and claim TO have inflicted
a loss of 20, 900 on the enemy. They do
not, however, vouch for the correct
ness of the latter estimate.
The New York cotton market was
demoralized, on the I'd, Immediately
after the opening, by a slump of 40
points in the July futures, TO 11.51
cents. This was S. a bale lower than
May 81.
pointed chief of the department Of
live stock at the Worlds fair, the ap-
to take effect Immediately.
Col. Mills succeeds F. D. Colburn, who
resigned the position April Is because
of continued i'll health.
Mr.. and Mrs. Sim Price. of st. Louis,
and Miss Moselle Price entertained the
West Point cadets with a reception, on
the night of the I'd, at the Kentucky
building, Worlds fair. About six
souLS 81. I%oulo WOlllCh WCiC
ed to meet the officers and cadets, but
st. Louis men.
Lightning struck the home of John
Gentry, neal Tennyson, Ind, on the
I'd, and killed John Gentry, Jr., aged
IA, and Opal Gentry, aged 10. John
Gentry, ST., Maud Gentry, aged Z; Of
tie Gentry, aged 6. and the infant
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Gentry were
The American Press Humorists called
President Francis of the Worlds
fair. on the list and tried their vari-
Gus brands of hcmor on Dave" who
beat them at their own game. They
gracefully Acknowledged the corn"
and presented Mr.. Francis with a life
membership certificate.
President D. R. Francis has been
notified that the Argentine training
Sacramento had left Buenos Ayres
for New York, carrying a full COM
plement Of sailors and a special crew
of naval cadets bound for the Worlds
fair. The crew will proceed immedi-
ately to st. Louis.
On the LIST a tornado struck the little
town of Selden, west of Norton, Kas.,
IN the Rock Island railway, demolish-
ing a church, five dwellings, and de-
stroying much farm property. A fu-
neral service was being conducted in
the church at the time, and 300 per-
sons were in attendance, A dozen
were hurt, none seriously.
Gov. Odell Of New York called at
the United States embassy, in Paris, on
LIST, and had half ar hours talk
with Ambassador Porter. No mention
was made of the nomination for the
.governorship Of New York.
Gov. Mickey of Nebraska has hon
ored the requisition issued by Gov.
Of Iowa for the arrest of
tom" Denniscn, of Omaha, accused
Of completely in a diamond robbery in
state.
Six persons were killed and a dozen
Or more others badly hurt, on the I'd,
as the result of a collision on the Lake
Shore electric railway between an east
bound fast electric passenger car and
a west-bound package freight" car at
Wells Corners, a few miles east Of
o.
Robert Shaffer, of Milwaukee, was
hurt and seven other passen-
gers injured by the ditching of a Mil
east-bound passenger train
Perry, Ia, on the I'd. The train
into a washout while going 40
miles and hour.
NOT a street car was moved in Hous-