The Tupelo journal., 1904-10-21

y. w. Jones was shot TO deaCil III
the Mason building in Houston,
Tex.
Ex-President Cleveland will pre-
side at a meeting to be held in Car
negie Hall, New York, October II.
VIII Cochran, a blind man, killed
his wife and mother-in-law with a
dirk. then shot himself at Plano,
Tex.
The stallion Hamburg, n OF
the studs Of the late William G..
Whitney, was sold for $4,000 to
Harry Payne Whitney.
Fresh trouble has broken out In
German Southwest Africa. The
Withois tribcsmen, who had hithcr-
to been faithful to the Germans, are
in revolt.
Robbers. dynamited the Bank of
Freeland, Ind, and. it is reported,
secured 100000. The safe was
blown open and looted and the en-
tire side of the bank building was
blown out.
Il am tired Of ofiice-holding. l
DO not want any more of it" said
Gov. Odell in New York. "Does
this apply to the United States sem
atorship?" was asked. 1T does
replied the governor.
The training ship Intrepid was
successfully launched at the Mare
Island navy yard October s. The
Intrepid is Il of the new steel
training ships provided for by an
act of congress approved March 3,
1908, and for which an appropria-
ton of $4,000 each was made.
Major Delmar, owned by E. +.
Smathers of New York, marked a
new trotting record, when he cir
clcd the Lexington track IN 2:O1
3-4. clipping a half-second off the
record made by Cresceus at Column
bus. Major Delmar used no wind
shields or other speed c%ontrlvances.
The Russian police are convinced
that the whole series of terrorist
crimes, beginning with the assassl-
nation of Minister Of Public In
struction Bogoliepoff by Peter kar-
povich. on February ?, 1901, and
including finally the murder Of NJ.
Plehve last summer, are traceable
to a common inspiration.
A race equality controversy, in
which the name of Booker T. Wash
ington was mentioned, caused a ne
gro to kill a white man at Dallas,
and the tragedy nearly cost the ne
gro his life at the hands of a mob.
The mar who was slain was A.
Riddle, a b~arkeeper, and his slayer
is F. F. Manning, a porter.
Viscount Hayashi, the japanese
minister to Great Britain, in an in
terview, denies that the japanese
losses around Port Arthur have been
heavy, and says there is good reason
to think that the remainder of the
Russian feet will soon make a
sortie. The end Of Port Arthur,
he declared, will then be near.
Five men we're drowned in Pen
sacola Bay by the capsizing of a
sail boat in which they were return
ing from Pensacola to the navy
yard, after a night spent in the city.
The boat contained nine men, eight
Of whom we're members of the crew
of the gunboat Vixen. Four were
rescued bv a crew from that vessel.
James Rumsey, aged ~, was ar
rested at Sedalia, Mo-, charged with
robbing passengers on a Pullman
car. He chloroformed the dozen
passengers in the car, robbed them
of their money and jewelry and
when the train reached Franklin
Junction he jumped from a car
window and escaped with his booty.
He was arrested while attempting to
pawn some Of the stolen goods.
A mob of angry quarrymen at
Marble Cliff, O., chased a negro,
who attempted to assault Mrs.
Charles Fisher, wife of the time
keeper of the quarries. The negro
entered the Fisher yard and asked
for q drink. When Mrs. Fisher
went for the cup the negro entered
the kitchen, and, finding her alone,
grabbed her and tried to throw her
to the floor, tearing her clothing.
In a head-end collision between
the Sunset limited and the New
Orleans express near China, Tex,
five persons were seriously injured.
Col. W. III. Knauss of Columbus,
an ex-Federal soldier, was elected
an honorary associate member of