The Tupelo journal., 1904-06-10

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Henry C. Prick has denied that he
was a candidate for United States SEN
ator to fill the vacancy caused by the
death of M. S. Quay.
The Worcester (Mass.) Spy, n OF
the oldest newspapers in the country,
has suspended publication on account
of financial troubles. The Spy was
founded in ITO, the first issue appear
ing in Boston.
Patrick J. King, alleged head of the
policy ring in Chicago, has been In
dicted for violation of the lottery
laws. Indictments were voted also
against a dozen other alleged promi-
nent gamblers.
Miss Helen Gould is to receive as a
gift all the exhibits of the social econ
omy section of the Belgium pavilion at
the Worlds fair. They will hnd q
place in Miss Gould's social economy
museum in New York.
Rev. Joseph n. Guillard, once the
foremost oblate in the country, died at
the Tewksbury Novitiate at Lowell,
Mass. on the 31st, from paralysis. Fol
II years he was provincial for the
United States Province of Oblates.
Douglas NJ. Smith, paying teller IN
Nr4:.-o T,oJocvpap'c hank 0f
New Haven, Conn, was arrested, on
the I'd. charged with being a defaulter.
He is. said to have confessed a short
ace of between 1922, 900 and $35, 900.
Postmaster-General Payne, as acting
chairman of the republican national
committee, has appointed United States
Senator Boies Penrose as the Pennsyl-
vania member of the national commit
tee to succeed the late Senator quay.
Frank A. Rantze was, on the Sd, ap-
pointed agent at the Usage Indian
agency in Oklahoma. He is a resident
of Enid. Okla, and was captain OF a
company of rough riders during the
Spanish war. His selection was made
by the president.
In response to an inquiry sent to him
that he would become a candidate for
congress from a New Jersey district,
George ]. Gould telegraphed from New
York to that paper: mo truth what
ever in the report"
The supreme court of Missouri, on
the 31st, affirmed the sentence of two
years in the penitentiary fixed upon
Grant Woodward for attempting to
bride a jury in the district court at
Kansas City in a damage suit against
the street railway company.
A terrific windstorm struck Okla
homa City, Okla, on the I'd, doing
great damage to trees and outhuild-
ings. The walls of several partially
finished structures were blown down
and the plate glass front of the
Threadgill hotel was blown in.
All that is mortal of Senator Mat
thew Stanley Quay was carried to the
little burial plot in Beaver cemetery,
on the 31st, and buried beside the bod
les of his children. The services were
as simple as it was possible to make
quested.
Rear-Admiral Chadwick, command
Ing the South Atlantic squadron now
at Tangier, Morocco, has reported to
Washington that conditions remain
unchanged in the case of the kidnap-
ing of the American citizen, Ion Perdi-
carts, and his stepson, Cromwell Var
ley, a British subject.
The wal department has refused to
grant a leave of absence or a transfer
to Lieut.. Sidney S. Burbank to visit
the Philippines. 1t is said that Lieut..
Burbank will be required to remain at
his post until his suit for annulment
Of a ceremony of marriage with Con-
cepcion Vasquez, a Filipino woman, is
settled.
A Toxic dispatch to the Giornale
Dltalia says that the japanese have
occupied the first line of the outer for
tifications of Port Arthur after a fee
BILE resistance. The same correspon-
dent adds that the Russian squadron
attempted a sortie, but was forced to
return, being threatened by the Japan
ese feet.
While trying to escape, John w.
Manning, a prisoner at the. United
States barracks at Columbus. O.. was
shot and instantly killed, on the I'd,
by Private Speck. one of the sentries
at the garrison. Manning was held,
awaiting trial for desertion, having en-
listed ~frauGulently three times and de-
serted twice.
Nine persons are reported to have
been killed and many injured in a col
1ision of passenger trains on the Mis-
souri, Pacific railroad near Martin CITY.
is miles south of Kansas City, Mo. The
trains, which met head-on, were the
west-bound Colorado limited No. 1,
and the east-bound Hoisingon (Kas.)
accommodation No. SO.
! If the voluntary declaration of a dy-
ing man is to be believed, fms has been
written to the historic Smell tragedy Of
Is years ago, and Willie Tascott, the
TO-~ ca,rhf r,,,rJNror co1F ;Jo-&;GaI