The Tupelo journal., 1904-07-01

TuPELO. MISSISSIPPI.
The steamer Oregon has reached Sc
attic, Wash, from the Nome, gold camps,
bringing four passengers n more
than $500, 900 in bullion consigned to
local banks.
The coroner of New York has caused
the arrest of a United States inspector,
who refused to testify at the Slocum
inquest, on the ground that he would
incriminate himself.
George B. Cortelyou was chosen
chairman of the republican national
committee at a meeting held ON the
23d. in Chicago, just after the adjourn
ment of the convention.
The formal notification OF President
Roosevelt of his nomination will be
made on July q at Oyster Bay. The
notification of Senator Fairbanks Will
occur a week later at Indianapolis.
W. ". Brandon, of Montgomery,
Ala, received notice, on the 24tn'
from Secretary Walsh, Of his appoint
ment as reading clerk of the national
democratic convention at St. Louis.
After an absence of three weeks, Oh
which two weeks were spent in the
Yellowstone national park, William
Loeb, secretary to the president, IL
again at his desk in the White House
There will be no more horse racing
at Washington Park, Chicago, TINS
year, and a report was in clrculatlon,
on the 21st, that the track where SO
many American derbies have been de-
cided will be abandoned.
Gossip among yachtsmen in New
York is to the effect that two chal-
lenges may be expected in the near fu-
ture from England, and that there VIII
be a race for Americas cup next year
If the New York Yacht club accepts.
Commander A. G. Kellogg, U. S. NJ
fell from a fourth-story window in the
Monroe hotel, in Portsmouth, Va, on
the 23d, to the sidewalk below, sus-
tanning injuries from which he died
an hour later at the naval hospital.
A cable dispatch received in New
York, on the 21st, announced that Kent
J. Loomis, brother of Assistant Secre-
tary of State Loomis, had disappeared
from the steamship Kaiser Wilhelm
IL, on which he sailed for Europe
June IA.
A man named Smith, living at Am
Der, Mich, on the 22d killed his wife
and baby, and afterwards committed
suicide. He had been separated from
his wife, and had made frequent threats
to end her life. Domestic troubles is
the cause attributed.
Secretary Dover of the republican
national committee, after an hours
conference with Chairman Cortelyou
at the Auditorium annex in Chicago,
on the oath, announced that the repub-
lican campaign would be formally
opened on August l.
The Citizens alliance of Cripple
Creek, Col, has ordered 5000 buttons
for coat lapels bearing this inscription
'They can't come back" Every man
in the district who is opposed to the
Western Federation of Miners is ex-
pected to wear the motto.
The foreign Office advices say there
is no hitch in the negotiations in re-
gard to the release of Perdicaris and
Marley. The only cause of delay, it is
added, is that Raisluli is DESTROYS of Sc
curing a place for handing over his
prisoners where his personal safety
will not be jeopardized.
Ion Perdicaris and Cromwell Varley,
who were captured by the bandit
Raisuli, arrived at Tangier, on the
25th. Perdicaris was much fatigued
after his long ride, but said he was
glad to get back. He was greatly
pleased with the reception accorded
him by the townsmen, who met him in
great numbers.
The mystery concerning the disap-
pearance of Kent J.. Loomis, brother
of the American assistant secretary of
state, has been cleared up. Mr.. Loo
mis- appeared in Paris, France, on the
24th, and left Immediately on his way
to Northeast Africa, accompanied by
Mr.. Collins, the son of a well-known
American journalist.
At a conference in Philadelphia, on
the 21st, between President A. j. Cas-
satt and Assistant Comptroller Max
Riebenack of the Pennsylvania rail-
road, it was decided that economies
are to be accomplished by putting sew
eral hundred clerks on furlough and by
requiring those retained in the service
to take vacations without pay.
The ~Igorrotes and the Negritos, rep
resentatives of the wild tribes of the
Philippine islands, on exhibit al the
st. Louis exposition, are to be so
clothed that their nudity can not be a
subject of criticism. Directions to
this effect have been given to the re-
sponsible officials at st. Louis by Col.
Edwards, chief of the insular bureau