The Tupelo journal., 1904-04-01

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President J. F. M%illspaugh Of the
Winona (Minn.) normal, has accepted
the election to the presidency OF the
Los Angeles normal, and will leave IN
July. !
Eighteen Minneapolis flour mills,
ing to the poor condition of the flour
trade, shut down on the oath indefinite
ly. A thousand people are out Of
work. ,
The comptroller of the currency
has appointed John w. Wilson receiv-
er of the Orange Growers national
bank at Riverside, Cal, which closed
fits doors on the 23d.
Louis Peasant was sentenced to hang
at Chicago on April Is for the murder
of Mrs. Mary Spilka. Peasant, last fall, ,
~strangled the woman to death to pro-
cure $500 which she possessed. :
The senate, in executive session on
the oath, ratified a treaty with France,
extending to Tunis and other French
protectorates, all of the existing treat
les between France and the United
States. !
The grand jury at Bedford, Ind, In
the Sarah Schaefer case, on the 14th
returned two Indictments against
James Mcdonald, the first charging
murder in the first degree and the Sec
ond with assault.
The Iowa senate committee on pen
ftentiaries and pardons, on the 18th,
recommended an indeterminate sent
ence law for Iowa. The recommends
ton is regarded as equivalent to the
passage of the law. :
The Cuban government has discarded
the offer of George Richardson, of Chi
cago, for the raising of the United
States battleship Maine, because he
has neither furnished a guarantee nor
signed a contract for the work.
The final installment of the $22,-
600, 600 called for by Secretary Shaw
from the interior depository banks in
connection with the Panama canal pay,
ment was paid into the depository
banks of New York city on the 25th. .
The preliminary examination, at San
Francisco, of f. A. Hyde and Henry P,
Dimond, charged in an indictment Of.
the federal grand jury at Washington,
D. c., with obtaining government land
by fraudulent means, began on the
22d. !
D. Paul Hughes, secretary of the
Du Quesne Mining Co., and prominent
in Pennsylvania financial matters, shot
himself through the head On the shore
of Malone lake, near Norfolk, Va, on.
the 22d. He is thought to have been
mentally unbalanced. .
The Republican convention of the
Second congressional district of Ala
bama was held at Greenville on the
22d. Delegates to the Chicago conven-,
ton were instructed to vote for the
nomination of Roosevelt. No candi-
date for congress was named.
CulOl pcLllllCIo oLd popCl bdllSOlo (
in Des Moines, Ia, went on a strike,
on the 23d, and an appeal will be taken
to the Trades and Labor Assembly and
q general strike ordered. The employ
ers insist upon an open shop policy,
and the men refuse to work with nom
union men.
William Shaw Campbell, for many
years in the consular service of the
United States, died at Washington on
the 22d, aged Sc years. From 1843 he
was consul at Rotterdam for 20 years,
and later served in the same capacity
in Dresden and at Newcastle-on-Tyne.
He was a native of New York.
Prof. John Underner, of Cleveland,
O., widely known as an organist and
musical director, died on the oath, after
a long illness. Prof. Underner accom-
panied Jenny Lind as an a~ccompanist
during her triumphal visit to the Unit
ed States. He had been a resident of
Cleveland for over fifty years.
At the meeting of the joint scale
SOll1lllLtCS vi t1C liz COd1 1luOI /
and operators, at Springfield, ILL.,, on
the 25th, the question of rating new
mines in Saline and Franklin counties
and at Decatur, Tower Hill and Ray
mond were discussed, entirely new con-
ditions existing at some of these mines. J
Wallace S. Hall, formerly manager
of the Boston office of the American
Surety Co. Of New York and treasurer
of st. Luke's home for convalescents,.
on the 25th pleaded guilty in Suffolk
county superior court to indictments
charging the larceny of $238,000 from
those institutions. He was not sen
fenced.
Orders have been issued to open the
United States-Des Moines rapids canal
for navigation on April l.. Several
small steamers and the big packets
Quincy and Sydney are being repaint-
ed in the canal, and will start out as,
soon as the canal is opened. Steam
boat men are anticipating a heavy traf-
fc this year because Of the fair at
st. Louis.
A party Of wealthy Japanese have
arrived at Seattle, Wash, to visit the
principal centers Of the United States,
inspect rolling mills and factories of