The Tupelo journal., 1904-11-18
E VS. AND NOTES.
A Summary Of Important Events.
PERSONAL AMI GENERAL.

Inc tacJlcal aspect Oh the cdHupdlSn
in Manchuria has been altered by the
freezing over of the Hun river, which
is now passable fer men and material
on the ice.
In Raleigh county, Va, Eddie Mes
sick and John Hillard quarreled, on
the Sth, after a political argument,
when Messick pulled a revolver and
shot Hillard dead. A brother of the
latter, who appeared about the same
time, was also shot and killed by
Messick.
AS the result of a quarrel growing
out of stock depredations, York Grover
was shot to death by Henry Virgins
at Caldwell, Tex, on the Sth.
A Toxic dispatch of the morning OF
the 10th said that Gen. Stoessel had
asked for an armistice at Port Arthur
1t is hoped by the Japanese that he
will capitulate before the place is taken
by assault. The object of the armistice
asked for was not stated.
James B. Storm, county treasurer at
Prescott, AriZ., was, on the 9Th, founo
locked in the steel vault OF his office
bound and gagged, with $751; 900 nissine
from the cash funds of the treasury
Mr.. Storm had been in the vault IL
hours when found by his daughter.
There is some talk in Washington OF
probable changes in the cabinet after
March 4 next. 1t is thought that Sec
rotary Shaw may retire, in which case
it is predicted that Hon. George B
Cortelyou stands next. 1t is stated with
confidence that Secretary Hay will re-
main at the head of the state depart
ment, and that Secretary Taft will
continue at the head of the wal depart
ment.
Up to the morning OF the 10th Mis-
souri, appeared to be the only state in
doubt as to the result of the vote or
the national candidates. The repub.
licans claimed that Roosevelt had car
ried the state by $4,000, while the dem
ocrats were insistent that the states
electoral vote would be saved to Par.
ker.
Capt. Kirkwood and 80 members OF
the crew of the Inflated steamer Mine
ola arrived at San Francisco from the
orient, on the 9th, on the steamer Man
churia. The Mineola was wrecked
about three weeks before in Tegil bay
off the coast of Siberia.
Japan, the land of the chrysanthe-
num-, was fairly ~outclassed by the dis
play of those flowers at the Worlds
fair, on the 18th, the opening day of the
flower show in the Horticultural build
ing. japanese visitors declared it the
most interesting display of their ma
tional flower they had ever seen.
Five men were killed and % in
jured in a wreck on the Chicago &
Eastern Illinois railroad near Clinton
Ind, on the Sth.
The body of an unidentified white
man was found in a corntield near
the end of Ohio avenue, East st. Louis
Ill.,, on the 7th, by persons living il
that vicinity.
Richard Gorety, a white soldier a
Jefferson barracks, st. Louis, was ia
tally stabbed, on the 9th, by Walter
barrymore, a colored cavalry corporal
An east-bound freight on the Balti-
more & Ohio road was wrecked, on the
10th, near McKeesport, Pa, and before
passenger train No. 8, from Cumber-
land, could be tagged, it plunged into
the wrecked cars which had been piled
up on the west-bcund track. Engineer
Samuel Bits, Of the passenger train
and his fireman, Samuel McMinn., were
badly hurt.
Three persons lost their lives, &c
were injured, nearly half a hundred
were overcome by smoke, and an equal
number rendered homeless as a re-
suit of a series of fires in various parts
of New York city on the 10th.
One mar was killed and three per-
sons injured as the result Of a collision
between a Missouri Pacific passenger
train from Joplin, Mo-, and a work en-
CINE, near Kansas City, Mo-, on the
10th.
Safeblowers entered the Churchville
U0hht IL WCoI VI ihOSllColCI. ~
Y, on the 10th, exploded seven charges
against the safe and secured $4,000.
There was a light fall of snow at
Kansas City and in southwestern Mis-
souri,, on the 10th, the first of the sea-
son.
The Lokal Anzeiger (Berlin) printed
a Toxic dispatch, on the 10th, saying
that Gen. Nogi, commanding the troops
before Port Arthur, was fully empow-
cred to negotiate with Gen. Stoessel,
the Russian commander, for the sur
render of Port Arthur. The capitula-
ton of the fortress was expected to oc-
cur at any time.
The London Daily T~elegraph's cor
respondent, with Gen. Oku, cables, I'M
der date of November g.: Last night
the Russians made several determined
attacks upon Lamu Ting anu Sin
Ching Pu, but were repulsed with
heavy losses. The artillery laid the
villages in ruins"
A dispatche from Colorado Springs,
Col. at 3 a. NJ, of the 18th, said that
the town of Anaconda, in the Cripple
Creek district. was in danger of de-
struction by fire. One block had al
ready been burned, and the flames at
that time were beyond control of the
local fire department.
At a height varying from 1,400 feet
to two miles, wireless messages were
successfully received by the occu-
pants of the basket of a balloon which
made an ascension from the Worlds
fair grounds in st. Louis on the 18th.
The experiment was the first Of its
kind ever made in America.