The Tupelo journal., 1904-08-19
VS. AND NOTES.
A Summary of Important Events.
PERSONAL AMI GENERAL

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rard, Ill, was found in the lily pond
of Lafayette park, in the southern part
of St. Louis, on the 9th. He had COM
mitted suicide.
Mrs. Victoria Moore, aged 40 years,
the wife Of James Moore, a prominent
planter living neal Bells Station, La,
and her sister-in-law, Miss Cora A.
Moore, aged 35 years, were killed, on
the night of the 10th, in st. Louis, by
a trolley car while attempting TO cross
the tracks in the rear OF a car from
which they had alighted.
The Berlin Voossische Zeitung says
that ~Tregubinko, head of the forest
department, and Chief of Police Kuz-
nezoff have been murdered openly in
the streets of Max and Chivan, Rus
STA.
A colored man, believed to be Roy
charged with murder committed July
81, was captured at Murphysboro, H..
on the Sth, after a running pistol duel
with officers.
John Casey, aged 80 years, stabbed
A. G. Mccoy, aged 25, of Paola, Kas.,
on the 9th, Mccoy died Immediately.
When arrested, Casey said he killed
Mccoy through mistake, thinking he
was one of the bosses of the Standard
Oil pipe line, where both men were
employed.
Gov. Dockery of Missouri, upon be-
irr S,fo,nooI Of thu dnoth of Snoafn-
Vest, issued g. proclamation requesting
that flags be half-masted on all pub
lie buildings in the state on the day
Of the funeral and appointing a large
committee Of distinguished citizens to
represent the state at the funeral.
Warrants were issued, On the 10th,
for the arrest of the entire board OF
directors of the State Bank of Pitts
burg, Pa, on the charge of receiving
funds when the bank was known to be
insolvent. The state bank closed it's
doors last February.
President Timothy Healy of the In
ternational Brotherhood of Stationary
Firemen has ordered a sympathetic
strike of the firemen in the New York
packing houses. About s. men will go
u under his order.
There is a rumor that the emperor
of Russia has signed the appointment
Of Minister OF Justice Muravieff, as
minister of the interior, in succession
to the late Won Plehve.
The Russian b~attleship Czariwitz,
no div licoh1oI op1 tho nrJlicpr NnVik
together with a torpedo boat, sought
refuge in the German concession port
of Using Chou on the 18th. The Novik
slipped out, on the 18th, at the expira-
ton of the 24-hour limit.
A report was received at Che Foo,
on the 18th, to the effect that Al
miral Witthoeft, who commanded the
Russian Port Arthur squadron, was
killed in the naval battle on the 10th.
Admiral Togo, in his report to Toxic
on the naval battle of the 10th, said
his casualties reached 10. but that his
fighting power had not been impaired.
Russian reports, on the other hand,
insist that the Japanese cruiser Ka-
suga was sunk with all or board.
The action Of the japanese torpedo
boat d%estroyers in taking the Russian
destroyer Ryeshitelni out of Che Foo
harbor appears to have been a mis-
take due to overzealousDess on the
part of the Japanese which may win
for Japan a sharp international repri-
mand.
The new heir to the Russian throne
will be christened Alexis Nikolauvitch.
He has already been named colonel Of
the Fourth regiment Of the guards.
Former Premier Waldeck-Rousseau
died at Corbiel, near Paris, on the 10th,
as the result Of an operation.
One man was killed and four injured
in the collision south of Fort Scott,
Kas., on the 9th, of a Missouri Pacific
engine drawing a caboose and a heavi-
ly-laden freight train coming down
grade.
The Russian protected cruisers AS
kold and Novik and one t~orpedo-boat
destroyer took refuge in Kia Chau bay,
on the night Of the 18th, exchanging
salutes with the German vessels. If
they remain there they will have to
disarm, and may do so only with the
consent Of Germany.
A boarding party from two japanese
torpedo-boat destroyers entered the
harbor of Che Foo, on the night Of the
18th, and cut out the Russian torpedo
boat destroyer Ryeshitelni, which had
entered that port The breech blocks
Of the Russian vessels guns had been
removed.
Word has been received in st. Louis
that Prince Henry of Prussia, his wife
and eldest son will leave Germany
shortly for a tour of the United States
and will proceed, after his arrival in
New York, directly to st. Louis, where
he will be the guest of DR.. Lewald, the
German imperial commissioner to the
Worlds fair.
1t is now said that Mrs. Florence
Maybrick left, Rouen, France, in good
health, July 25, for America, and that
the stories of her prostration
were given out merely to distract pub
lie attention from her movements.
Justice Blanchard, of New York, on
the 18th, appointed Gilbert M. Mon
tegue temporary receiver OF the real
and personal property of Hannah
Elias, in the action brought against
the negress by John r. Plat, the aged
millionaire, to recover property worth
$685., 900.
Thomas e Watson n~onulist CANDIDA