The Tupelo journal., 1904-06-24
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary of Important Events.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

Chairman Henry c. Payne of the
republican national committee was
stricken with sudden illness, on the
18th, in his room at the Auditorium
annex. Chicago, and was not able to
preside at the meeting of the commit
tee in the coliseum in the afternoon.
Kansas grain and elevator men agree
upon an estimate for this year of So
900, 900 bushels of wheat. The estimate
is based on Coburn's recent report.
This is IL, 00O, 900 below last years rec
ord-breaking crop. Wheat conditions
are improving daily.
The Chicago limited passenger train
on the Illinois Central was wrecked in
the terminal yards in Carbonate, Ill,
on the 14th, and John Hamilton, a CT
garmaker of Memphis, was instantly
killed, and several passengers bruised
and injured.
Samuel M. Burbank, of Arizona, a
retired merchant, attempted to kill
himself in New York, on the 18th, by
cutting his throat in a law office. He
is now a prisoner in a hospital,
charged with attempted suicide.
A st. Louis cordage company is
about TO make an experiment in the
direction of obtaining Porto Rican la
Dor. 1t has engaged "a Porto Rican
girls to work in its factory.
Robbers blew open the safe in the
post office at Laurel, Mont, on the
14th, and secured about $4,000.
Tho Jynrt,,olr on,rt of onnoo1C hoe
overruled a petition for a rehearing in
the case of Jim Howard, sentenced to
life for the murder of William Goebel.
The case will be appealed to the United
States supreme court.
Division No. 2 of the Missouri SUI
cutting his throat in a law Office. He
preme court, on the 14th, affirmed the
cases of julius Lehman and Emil
Hartmann, convicted in the Doodle cru
SADIE in ST. Louis, and they must now
go to the penitentiary to serve their
sentences.
Julius Lehman n Emil Hartmann,
the first of the convicted st. Louis
boodlers whose sentences were affirmed
by the supreme court of Missouri, have
begun to serve the terms OF seven and
six years, respectively, to which they
were sentenced.
On petition of the stockholders of the
Commercial Bank of Cambridge,
Guernsey county, O., a private institu-
ton, a receiver was appointed for the
bank on the 18th. The petition alleges
d~efalcations against P. c. Patterson,
the cashier, and H. o. Barber, one OF
the directors.
Gen. Bobrikoff, encouragement OF
Finland, who was shot by an assassin
at Helsingfors, the Finnish capital, on
the 10th, died on the 18th. The affair
created a great sensation in st. Peters,
burg.
Ex-Mayor Van Wyck, of New York
finding himself 200, 900 richer through
a remarkable streak of luck on Wall
street, has decided to give up politics
and business and enjoy himself. He
has gone on a trip to Europe, leaving
his alternate to attend the st. Louis
convention.
According to a London dispatch OF
Tue lllH, IT'LL. oJdChclDSlS . CliCd as
cut off by Gen. Kuroki's forces in Man
churia and he was compelled to resume
fighting in the neighborhood of Telissur
Hector Fuller, a war correspondent
from indianapolis, Ind, who was re-
ported to have disappeared, is o
prisoned by the Russian authorities
at Port Arthur.
France, represented by Thery, won
the fifth international motor race for
the James Gordon Bennett cup, the
great event of the motoring world.
from Jenatzy, of Germany, the holder
of the trophy, by II minutes and Is
seconds. The distance covered was 34s
miles. Time: 5 hours, so minutes, 8
seconds. JenatZy was second.
The sum of $195, O57.04, representing
the first payment in liquidation of the
loan of 81, 500 900 to the Louisiana Pur-
chase Exposition Co., was trans
ferred to the United States government
by the auditing department Of the
Worlds fair on the 10th.
The battle at Vafangow, between
Russians, under Gen. Stakelberg, and
Japanese, under Gen. Oku, resulted in
the complete rout of the Russians who
were compelled to abandon IA quick
firing guns, several stands of colors and
many of their dead and wounded. The
Japanese took 300 prisoners.
Gen. Bobrikoff, governor general Of
Finland, was shot and MORALLY wound
ed at the entrance to the Finnish SEN
ate, at H~elsingfors, on the 18th. The as
sassin, a man named Schaumann, a on
of Senator Schaumann, Immediately
committed suicide.
Russian warships, belonging to the
V~ladivostok squadron, intercepted the
Japanese transports Hitachi and Sado,
carrying about 1,400 men and a large
number of horses and supplies, and in
stead of capturing them torpedoed and
sunk them. Fully a thousand Japanese
were lost.
With the recovery of 633 bodies of
victims of the fire on the steamer Gen
eral Slocum, and the large number re-
ported missing, it seems likely that the
total death list will reach nearly 1000
There are $40 injured in various New
York hospitals.
Mrs. Frances Hollenbach and three
small children, residing two and a
half miles south of Knob Noster, Mo-,
were struck by lightning on the 18th.
Mrs H~O11anhach was instantly killed