The Tupelo journal., 1904-12-09
VS. AND NOTES.
A Summary of Important Events.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

GoCn, from IHe seat Oh WAL III MAIL
churia, dcsultory fighting had been in
progress Cor three days near Da pass
The japanese were repulsed, but hat
succeeded in placing several big siege
guns in POSITION, which was evidently
the object of their demonstration.
Edward Sheehan, a Pullman car con-
ductor of Jersey City, N. j., was
burned to death, and Patrick Shay, as
sistant chief of the st. Louis fire de-
partment, was badly injured in a fire
which wrecked the interior of the Pull
man Car Co.'S storeroom and sleeping
quarters in st. Louis, or the goth.
Thomas w. Brewer, a prominent
farmer. committed suicide at his home
neal West Plains, Mo, on the 29th
by shooting with a shotgun. Finan-
cial troubles and i'll health are said to
have been the cause.
A score of boys and young men were
hurt by the giving way of a gallery
railing in the state fencibles armory
at Philadelphia, or the goth, during
the progress of a basket ball game.
News received, on the 10Th from the
Russian east flank, shows that after
four days of unsuccessful fighting the
Japanese have ceased their effort tC
turn Gen. Rennenkampff's flank.
Herr Most, the New York anarchist
recently arrested in st. Louis, vas CIV
en- hours to leave the city, on the goth,
by Chief Desmond.
Fire in the fifth floor CT st. Mary's
hospital at Pueblo, Col, on the Both,
did S25, 900 damage and caused much
excitement. Most of the patients were
removed from the building, and some
of them are suffering from shock.
One man was killed and several were
injured, on the 30th, by an iron beam
which fell from the roc2 of the Park
building in New York into a throng OF
people passing through Nassau street.
The beam, weighing 500 pounds, was
being hoisted, when it slipped from its
fastenings and fell to the ground.
Acting Secretary of Wal Oliver has
directed the discharge, without hon
Or" of Private John T. Smith, hospital
corps. stationed at Fort Mott, N. j., who
is said to have married a negress, and
whose discharge was recommended by
Gen. Grant.
Nan Patterson, the actress, awaiting
trial charged with the killing of her
lover, Caesar Young, was, on the 30th,
reported i'll in the Tombs prison with
tonsilitis.
At a meeting of the Cuban cabinet.
on the Goth, it was decided to set aside
the credit of $10,0 900 for the erection of
2 hospital for infectious diseases at
Santiago.
Michael Kelley has sold his coal in
terests near Danville, H.. to an east
ern syndicate for $4,000, 900.
Mrs. George Henry (Grandma) Gil
bert, the oldest actress on the Amer
lean stage, died in her rooms at the
Sherman house, Chicago, on the I'd.
shortly after having suffered a stroke
Of apoplexy. Mrs. Gilbert was 50 years
of age.
Fire, which broke out about mid
night. on the I'd, destroyed or dam
aged Ancient Rome" "Old st. Louis"
Fair Japan" Quo Vadis' and "On
The Bowery," Pike concessions on the
st. Louis Worlds fair grounds, and
threatened, for a time, to do still
greater damage. Arthur c. Dunn was
arrested while trying to extend the
fire into the Hereafter" Three Japan
csc were injured.
With confirmation of the news of
the loss of 203-Meter hill and the fail
ure Of their forces to recapture it, the
Russian war Office is prepared to hear
Of the fall of Port Arthur at any time.
Chief Justice Robinson of the Mis-
souri, supreme court issued a tempo
rary rule in prohibition against Judge
Foster, of the st. Louis criminal court,
to prevent him from proceeding with
the trial of Edward Butler in his court
or the charge of bribing Charles F.
Kelly to leave the state and avoid tes-
tifying against him in the Doodle
cases.
Gen. Porforio Diaz was inaugurated
president of the Republic of Mexico
for the seventh time, on the list, under
the most suspicious circumstances.
The Japanese having accomplished
the capture of 203-Meter hill, overlook
ing the harbor of Port Arthur, are in
a position, as soon as they get the
necessary gum mounted, to destroy or
drive out of the harbor the remnant
of the Russian fleet.
The last night on the Pike at the
Worlds fair in st. Louis was a scene
of revelry. Gayety reigned supreme
from the time the lights were turned
on until midnight. The presence of a
large force of police, mounted and on
foot, Jefferson guards and armed pa
trolls of the Sixteenth United States
infantry kept any disposition towards
rowdyism in check.
President David R. Francis and
Treasurer William H. Thompson of
the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Co.
were the recipients of costly souvenirs
at the hands of the directors on the
closing day, consisting of 50O-piece
solid silver table services costing ST.
900 and $4,000 respectively. The pre-
sensations were made at the public
ceremonies on the Plaza of st. Louis.
A head-on collision between two
trains on the Danville & Western di-
vision of the Southern railway at
Stokesland, Va, on the 1st, resulted in
the death of Fireman o. G., Minter, of
Stockton, and Sam Staples, a colored
brakeman.
President Roosevelt announced, on