The Tupelo journal., 1904-07-22
AND NOTES..
A Summary Of Important Events.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

to postpone the voyage, has now Or
dered that preparations be made for
the trip next fall, SO that she "a visit
the Worlds fair.
On the 18th, the dead bodies of
George f. Abbott and VIM. Van Hell
ger were found in a Brooklyn junk
shop, which apparently had been set
on fire after the men were killed. Both
the men had been shot, and their skulls
were fractured.
w. B. Shows weekly crop report of
the 18th says that with bad harvest
conditions in the most important win
ter wheat districts, the crop prospect
has probably been reduced by 50,000,-
600 bushels since July l, leaving the
r nearly 100, 000, 900 bushels short of
last year.
Fire, on the night of the 18th, de-
stroyed AZ buildings in the business
and residence section of Millington,
Md, causing a loss Of about 100000
partly insured. Not q store remains in
tie town, and many families are home
less.
A tornado struck Bonesteel, S. D.,
just before dark IN the 18th and played
havoc with the hundreds of tents and
cheaply-constructed rooming houses
erected for the thousands of homeSeek-
ers registering for the Rosebud reserva-
ton lands.
President Loubet of France has sig
nified his intention of conferrings the
grand cross of the Legion of Honor
upon Secretary Hay, in recognition of
his efforts during the past five years,
to strengthen the bonds of amity be-
tween the United States and France.
1t was reported on the 18th that a
great battle was in progress at Ia
Tche-Kiao, in which the Japanese were
in strength on three sides of the Rus
slams. Military men were OF the Opln-
ion that it would prove the biggest bat
tie of the war so far.
The strike situation at Chicago, on
the morning of the 10th. looked omi-
nou The packers and their striking
employees had not been able to agree
upon an arbitration proposition, and
the foreign element among the strikers
seemed ripe for riot.
President Roosevelt has notified the
members of his cabinet that he will be
back in Washington on July %. and
that he wants all of them to meet him
there during the first week of August.
Meat from cattle alleged to have been
affected with Texas fever and blood
poisoning were seized on the 18th by
Chief Meat Inspector Thomas Stringer,
Of St. Louis, as it was being delivered
to the p~oorhouse, insane asylum, female
hospital, city hospital and emergency
hospital. The meat was supplied by a
Chicago contractor.
William T. Scott, nominee for Presi-
dent of the United States by the Negro
Civil Liberty League, a arrested in
East st. Louis, H., on the 18th by a
deputy sheriff on an old capias for a
fine and costs aggregating $3.50, as
sessed for running a disorderly house.
Twenty people were killed and about
twenty-five injured, on the 18th, in a col
lision on the Chicago & Eastern Illinois
railroad at Glenwood, % miles south of
Chicago. The collision occurred be-
tween a picnic train from that city,
which was returning from Momence,
H., and a freight train, into the rear
end of which it dashed at a high rate of
speed.
Two hundred persons in M~illington,
Md, are homeless and without shelter
o,o1 FOOD 90 tn ,a-,,It Of thn Hrn on
the 18th, which destroyed SO dwellings
and II places of business. The loss is
placed at $3.50, 900, with practically no
insurance.
Desp6ndent because of poor health,
Edward Niemann, a former employee of
the Bourbon Mercantile Co., 20S Wal
nut street, st. Louis, Mo, committed
suicide in Denver, Col, on the 18th,
by firing a 32-caliber bullet into his
brain.
According to a London dispatch of
the 18th, Santos-Dumont, the famous
.aeronaut, has given up the idea of re
turning to the United States to take
part in the airship contest at the
Worlds fair in st. Louis.
A Toxic dispatch Of the 18th says
the japanese forces have occupied Vim
Kow (the seaport of New Chwang)
without opposition, the Russians retir-
ing. This would indicate the fall of
New Chwang.
The honorary board of Filipino COM
missioners reached st. Louis on the
18th, and were escorted to their quar-
tiers by a special reception committee
and the batalions of Filipino constabu-
larry stationed at the Worlds fair
grounds, led by their band of 80 pieces.
They will remain in st. Louis about a
month.
Charles w. Murtfeldt, a newspaper
writer and an authority on agricul-
tural subjects, died at his home at
Kirkwood, Mo-, OF the 18th, at The age
of 81 years. Z
Early results of the strike of the
butchers and meat cutters were OBJ
.seryable, on the 14th, III an advance all
along the line in the price of meats,
both fresh and cured. Restaurants in
the cities either put up the price of
meat orders or cut down the size of the
portions.
Two negroes, Frank Ousley and John
Johnston, were hanged together in the
Jail yard at Pittsburg, Pa, on the 14th.
The execution was witnessed by a son
of James Donnelly, whom the negroes
lust as the trap was sprung