The Tupelo journal., 1904-06-03
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary of Important Events.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

hanna Coal Co.'S offices in Wilkesbarre,
Pa, on the 25th, stated that ten miners
were suffocated by gas and sulphur
fumes from a locomotive in the work.
ings of the Summit Branch Coal Co. at
Williamstown, Dauphin county.
An excursion train on the Mobile &
| Ohio railroad was fired into near yell
low Pine, Ala, on the 25th. Conductor
S. w. Ashew, Of Birmingham, was
killed, and Joseph Richard, of Meridi-
an, and a negro passenger were Sc
riously wounded.
Senior Quivre, the Venezuelan vice.
consul, was asphyxiated as the result
of an explosion in his apartment in the
Rue Vile Just. in Paris, on the 18th.
Five persons were seriously injured
and scores were bruised in the collapse
of a circus tent at Fort Plain, N. Y,
on the 25th.
Gov. Bailey of Kansas has given
William Allen White, editor Of the EN-
poria Gazette, en- opportunity to prove
his assertions that there was crooked
ness and gross laxness in the state
bookkeeping by taking him at his word
and appointing him state accountant
without salary.
The Illinois building at the Worlds
fair was dedicated with considerable
ceremony, on the 9th, including a
p%retentious parade, music in plenty
and a lot of speech-making. Mrs.
Yates, the wife of the governor of the
Prairie state, unfurled "Old Glory"
W. the building, and the proceed
ings wound up with a reception in the
spacious parlors.
Miss Alice Roosevelt, the presidents
eldest daughter, is doing the Worlds
fair at St. Louis, under escort of the
Catlin family, whose guest she is. Miss
Roosevelt shows the effects Of the
physical training she has received, as
she easily tires out the most strenuous
of her escorts in seeing the sights.
The Russian general staff, in view
of the news of the capture of Kim
Chou, admit that there is little now
to hinder a Japanese advance on Port
Arthur, and that the actual siege of
that place has begun in earnest.
Mrs. Sarah Platt-Decker, of Colora-
do, was chosen president of the Cen
e!al Federation of Women's clubs at
the election held in ST. Louis on the
oath. Mrs. Philip w. Moore, of st.
Louis, was elected vice-president.
The vatican exhibit at the Worlds
fair in st. Louis remains unpacked. and
therefore invi sible, because the papal
representative thinks more of visiting
old church friends N Washington thar
he does Of performing the duty as
signed to him by the pope.
A tornado struck about two miles
west of Guthrie, Okla, on the 25th, do
ing much damage to property, five
farm houses and many %outbuildings
having been demolished. From the
wind and hail the crops also suffered
heavily, the growing wheat being
blown and broken down. Stock suf-
fered, but no lives were lost.
According % dispatches received on
the oath, the japanese are making ex-
tensive preparations to storm Port Ar
thur, veterans Of the war with China
being mainly chosen for the task. N.uch
Lao Tung peninsula.
News reached Che-Foo, on the norm
ing of the 26th, that a battle had been
fought between the japanese and Rus
slams at Sallsuripo, north of Dalny.
on the 22d. The result Of the battle
was not leraned.
The report that the Russians, under
Gen. Fock, defeated the japanese at
Kin-Chow is confirmed. The Russians
lured the enemy into a defile command
ed by two guns, which decimated them.
The Russians lost n captain and 140
men. The Japanese loss is reported to
have been heavier.
A treaty between the United States
and Panama, for the %extradition of
fugitives from justice, has been signed
by William w. Russell, United States
charge d'affaires, and Senior De La Es-
prilla, minister of foreign relations.
Harry G.. Foote, a commission mer-
chant of Tacoma, Wash, and son Of
the vice-president of the American steel
works of Chicago, committed suicide
by shooting himself in the head. He
was respondent.
Former Queen Liliuokalani of Hawaii
and her party sailed from San Francis
co, on the 26th, for Honolulu on the
steamer Sonoma.
j. P. Morgan & Co. announced, on the
26th, that the transfers of gold incl
dent to the payment of the $40, 000, 900
purchase money to the Panama Canal
Co. in Paris have been completed.
1t is reported that an anti-Jewish
riot has occurred at Choism, Bessara-
bia, Russia. Three thousand workmen
attacked the Jews. Troops eventually
quelled the riot.
The receiver Of the First national
bank of Cape May, N. j., recently
closed, says that the bank will prob
ably resume business.
A TOXIC correspondent of the London
Telegraph says he learns that the Jap
anese troops are now within IL miles
of Port Arthur, and hat the Russians
suffered heavier casualties than the
japanese, who have taken guns and
other material and a few prisoners. He
predicts a further surprise, as Japan is
now increasing her efforts in all direc-
tons.
A committee, headed by Mayor
Holmes of Yazoo City, Miss, reported
that 500 families lost their homes in
the fire, and that one-half of that
number were destitute. The COM