The Tupelo journal., 1904-08-12
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary of Important Events.
PERSONAL AMI GENERAL

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The event of the packing house
strike. in Chicago, on the Sd, was a
riot, in which a mob of fully 5000 per-
sons battled with 20 policemen to pre-
vent the officers taking a party of
strike breakers out of the stock yards
district. Several on both sides were
severely hurt.
Charles w. Fairbanks, surrounded by
several thousand friends, neighbors and
political supporters. was,on the Sd, for
mally notified of his nomination for
vice-president of the United States BY
the republican national convention.
Monsignor Falconio, apostolic dele
gate to the United States, was a pas
senger on the steamer Sardegna, which
arrived at New York, on the Sd, from
Genoa and Naples.
The French foreign office denies the
report circulated in the United States
of a rupture of relations between
France and Venezuela.
The Rock Island Railroad &c. and
the United States Express Co.. have Of
fered a reward of $4,000 for the cap
ture OF robbers who held up the Rock
Island train near Tucumcari, Tex, OF
July 80.
Ray Brom, who is said to have killed
Richard Roberts, brakeman, in Deca-
tur, Ill, April 81, and who escaped and
was caught at st. Joseph, Mo-, and
broke Jail there, has been captured
again at Seattle, Wash.
The monthly statement of the public
debt shows that at the close of bust
ness. July 81, 1904, the debt, less cash
in the treasury, amounted to 1886, ISL
Alb. which is an increase for the month
of $13, $40. 639.
Brakeman Vaer was killed, Conduc-
tor Martin was probably fatally in
jured, and several passengers were hurt
by the derailing of a passenger coach
on the Cincinnati. Hamilton d Dayton
railroad at Royersville, near Ironton,
O., on the 4th.
Alton B. Parker ceased to be chief
Judge of the court of appeals of New
York on the 9TH, by handing in his
resignation after a We minute session
of court. in which he m five associate
judges disposed of &C cases remaining
on the calendar.
A telegram from Digby, N. S., says
that a sailboat containing eight or ten
American ~tuorists capsized and sank
off Smiths cove, near Digby, on the
4th, and that all on board were
drowned.
Sol Temple, the Oklahoma outlaw,
who shot and almost murdered Police
Sergeant William Gibson. Of st. Jo-
seph. No, last May, was given a sem
tence of ten years in prison for the
crime.
An engine hauling one baggage car
and two coaches. carrying 40 Pittsburg
miners to take the places of strikers,
arrived at Ziegler, H., on the Sd, es-
corted by 20 armed guards.
A dispatch from Russian sources, on
the 9Th, said that the Japanese attacked
| the Russian position at An-Shan-Shan
(nidway between Hai-Cheng and Lao
Yang, on the I'd, and were repulsed
with heavy loss. The Russian casual
ties are not known.
While teaching a party of little girls
how to swim, Michael Reilly and sever
of his pupils were drowned off a sand
bar in the Mississippi river at the foot
| of Washington street, in Alton, ILL.,, on
the 9TH.
By a comparison of notes it trans
pires that Mrs. M. B. Lichty, of Nor
I'LL Iyor. Nfrc Toe CtiDla1 of Had.
donia, Kas., and E. j. Dair, of Salt Lake
City, Utah, sisters, each gave birth to
q daughter on the same day.
The London Times learns from a
trustworthy correspondent that the Of
icers of the Russian intelligence de-
partment who examined the British
| steamer Malacca, after her seizure, Of
fered her captain $4,000 If he would
declare there was contraband aboard
the vessel.
A st. Petersburg dispatch of the 5th
says: According to the latest advices
from Lao Yang, the Japanese have re-
newed the attack all along the line and
the Russians have been driven back
into their main intrenchments."
The iy-wheel of a rs horsepower
engine in the plant of the Johnson Tin
Foil Co., st. Louis, burst while run
ming, on the 4th, instantly killing
Franz Gamache, assistant engineer,
and breaking the left leg of George
Neumann.
st. Louis weather for the month of
| July, as has been the case for the last
several years, was cool and pleasant,
comparing most favorably with til
summer climate of northern and east
ern states. The average temperature
for the month was 67.9.
A bulletin, issued on the 4th, by the
physicians attending the duchess of
Marlborough, who was considerably
bruised and shaken by being thrown
| from her horse while riding in Blen-
helm park, on the 1st, said that she
was not SO well.
Fire, which broke out on the 5th, in
| the old Pacific hotel at Kendrick, Ida
no, destroyed the whole business part
of the city and many residences. Thir-
ty-six business houses and 20 resi-
dences were burned; loss, $3.50, 600.
At a meeting of the Bloomington (IlI.)
Street Car Mems union, On the 9Th, it
was decided to call off the strike on
the lines of the Bloomington & Nor
NAL Railway Electric & Heating Co.,
which has been in progress since Janu-
airy !.