The Tupelo journal., 1904-07-29
NEWS AND NOTES..
A Summary of Important Events.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

4oNA
of New York, who have been locked
out by the Building Trades Employers
association, have decided to remain
idle indefinitely.
A requisition from Gov. Beckham OF
Kentucky on Gov. Bailey Of Kansas
for the return of William Payne to
that state has been honored. Payne
is accused with attempting murder in
Kentucky eight years ago.
A charter was issued, on the goth,
by the secretary of state of Missouri,
to the st. Joseph, Albany & Des
Moines Railway Co., of st. Joseph,
Mo. The company has a capital OF
$500, 600, with which to build and OPP
crate a railway from st. Joseph, Mo.
to Des Moines, Ia, a distance OF 80
miles.
A st. Petersburg dispatch of the 18th
says that a Russian torpedo boat and
a German vessel struck mines at Vlad-
ivostok and sunk, their crews %perishing.
"Pittsburg Phil is said to be dying
at a retreat near Saranac lake, in the
Adirondacks, where he is afflicted
with lung trouble. "Pittsburg PHIL in
his days of activity, was the greatest
plunger the American turf has ever
known.
Positive proof that the train robber
who was killed on Divide creek, Col,
June 8 last, was not the notorious ban
dit, Harvey Logan, has been secured
by an examination of the body by DIR.
R. X. McAllister, of Denver.
Col. George Wilson, a retired United
States army officers, who lived in Paris,
France. fired several shots from a revol'
yer at Mile. Charlotte Murmann, p
years old. Col. Wilson subsequently
shot himself through the head, and ex-
pired while being taken to a hospital.
All carpenters employed in New York
by the Master Carpenters association
have beer locked out by order of the
board of governors of the Building
Trades Employees association. The
lockout ties up the carpenter work on
every large building.
A charge of m%anslaughter has been
preferred against VIM. T. Richards, the
station agent at Midvale, N. j., and
Ernest Keller, 1agman on the excur'
sion train which was wrecked neal
Midvale, July 10.
The Cripple Creek (Col.) Mine Own
ers' association has issued 1000 recon-
mendation cards, which are absolutely
necessary to obtain employment in that
district.
The cloud that appeared on the hor-
lion between Russia and Great
Britain has been dissipated by the re-
lease by Russia of the British steamer
Malacca, captured by the Russian vol
unteer cruiser st. Petersburg, in the
Red Sea, because the British master
refused to produce her manifest.
Gen. Kuroki, after a severe fight, oc-
cupied Kiao-Tung on July 10. The
place had been fortified by the Rus
SLAMS, who defended it stoutly. In the
fighting the japanese troops
drove the Russians from their strongly
fortified position on the Chi River.
The st. Louis grand jury, in a par
tial report, made on the 22d, returned
an indictment against Edward Butler.
the political boss, charging him with
inducing a states witness to absent
himself by the gift of money.
DR.. Silas c. Swallow, of Harrisburg,
Pa, and George w. Carroll, of Texas.
respectively candidates for president
and vice-president of the United States
on the prohibition ticket, were formal
ly notified of their nomination at In
dianapolis, Ind, on the 22d, and both
made responses of acceptance.
The Missouri Democratic state con-
vention completed it's nominations, ON
the 21st, by the choice If T. L. Rubey
for acknowledgement, Sam B. Cook
for secretary of state, Albert O.. Allen
for auditor, Jas. Cowgirl for treasurer,
E. w. Major for attorney general n
H. Rube Oglesby for railroad n
warehouse commissioner.
A Russian correspondent of the
London Daily Telegraph, under date
Of the 18th, said that fierce lighting
had been raging for two days n was
still continuing, with the Japanese in
superior strength. The Russians were
retiring under a successful ianking
movement by the japanese.
A Lao Yang dispatch of the goth
delayed in transmission) said that the
japanese had broken through the left
flank between Gen. Count Keller's po-
sition and that of Gen. Rennen-
kampff, and were marching on Muk-
den. The news created a sensation in
st. Petersburg.
News from Bonesteel, S. D., the
principal registration point for would
be settlers on the Rosebud reservation
lands, was the scene Of considerable
disturbance on the 21st, the crooks and
gamblers seeming to have the upper
hand. There was some talk OF calling
upon the United States government for
troops.
The will of the late Charles F. Dew
ey, who died in Wheeling, W. Va,
about a month ago, disposing of an es-
tate in Chicago and elsewhere. valued
at approximately $1.000,000, will prob
ably be contested by his daughter by
a former wife, and his son Chauncey,
who was recently acquitted on
charges of murder growing out Of a
ranch feud with the Berrys in Kansas.
Ex-senator George G. Vest, of Mis-
souri,, Is in q critical condition at
Sweet Springs, Mo-, and his closest
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