The Tupelo journal., 1904-11-04


William L. Becker, a veteran
printer of st. Louis, is dead.
Miss Mabel Webb was robbed in
a Mobile, Ala, cemetery by a ne
gro.
A trial of the armored cruiser
Colorado proved that she was the
faster cruiser in the navy.
The smallest dog in the world
has arrived at the worlds fair from
Ell Paso, Tex. 1t weighs % ounces.
The Milwaukee cooperative de-
tective service Of Milwaukee has
been debarred the use of the mails.
Alfred Odell, aged IA years,
hanged himself at Calrinda, Ia, be-
cause his mother scolded him for
chewing tobacco.
At Chicago Wallace B. Bell of
Louisville, KY, committed suicide
by cutting his throat with a razor
and then turning the gas on.
Frederick Schorn, rs years old,
and his daughter Cecilia, 80 years
old, were found dead at their home
in Chicago from gas a~sphyxiation.
A rubber tube connected with a gas
stove was detached.
Cornelius Van Colt, postmaster
of New York City, died October
rs of indigestion. His end is said
to have been fastened by the arrest
a few days before Of his son on the
charge of violation of the election
laws.
A special on the line Of the Ma
tional Mexican railroad bearing
James Speyer, of the banking firm
of Speyer & Co., of New York,
while going at a high rate of speed
was ditched between Sanchez and
La Jarita.
Three letters, each containing a
demand for $4,000 under penalty
Of death or injury to himself and
family for refusal, are reported to
have been received by the proprie-
tor of a new hotel in upper Fifth
avenue, New York.
President Cleveland is a believer
in the horseshoe as an emblem of
luck. He has ordered the Allen
town, Pa, blacksmith who furnish
ed him horseshoes at the white
house to forge a shoe which he in
tends to present to Judge Parker.
Mrs. William P. Tonry, the only
daughter of Mrs. Mary E. Surratt,
who was put to death for being in
volved in the Lincoln conspiracy,
is dead at Baltimore after several
years illness, resulting from her
efforts to save her mother. She
was 66 years old.
At Huntsville, Ala, the United
States grand jury has made a re-
port covering the lynching of Hor-
ace Naples and expressed the opin-
ion that had Naples not been a ne
gro he would not have been taken
from Jail and hanged. The grand
jury indicted several alleged mem
bers of the mob.
George W. Blount, a negro pro-
prietor of a fish and oyster shop
in the suburbs of Berkeley, Va, was
taken from the police station, where
he was confined, by four masked
men and shot to death, while two
other masked men kept the police
men in charge of the station cover
ed with revolvers.
Henry j. Callahan, bailitf of the
| federal court, and a well-known
citizen of Butte, Mont, is dead, as
the result of a thrilling revolver
duel with Miles Fuller, now under
arrest. Trouble Of long standing,
originating, it is alleged, over the
alleged theft of gold by Fuller from
| the sluice boxes of Callahan.
A bulletin issued by the census
bureau gives a summary Of the re-
ports On cotton ginned in the Unit
ed States in the present year up to
October Is. The reports cover Sc
counties and show a total of 1885,
1873 running bales, as against $685.
$50 raining bales reported from the
same counties for the same period
last year.
James Norfeet, the convicted
wife murderer, was sentenced to
hang at Memphis on December 21.
He killed Lucy Norheet on August
80 at Fisheville.
Near Augusta, Ga, on a South
ern train, a negro who was en-
gagged in a quarrel, commenced fir
ing a revolver. He killed three
mon an1 wounded two others Dur.