The Tupelo journal., 1904-08-26

PUBLISHED WEEKLY.
TUPELO. +. MISSISSIPPI.
1t was reported, on the 18th, that the
Port Arthur garrison had refused to
surrender, and was disinclined to send
out non-combatants.
1t was reported, on the 18th, that a
rebellion had broken out in the Mon
gala river district of the Congo Free
State, and that troops have been sent
there.
Henry Heitfeld, of Lewiston, ex-
United States senator, was, on the
10th, nominated for governor OF Idaho
by reclamation by the democratic state
convention.
The report recently circulated that
a Norwegian whaler had found, north
of Spitzbergen, a bottle containing a
letter from Prof. Andre, dated in 1898,
proves to be a hoax.
The Paraguayan insurgents v
seized another steamer, which had on
board the minister of war n a small
escort. The minister and his compan-
ions were made prisoners.
Two men killed and twenty or more
persons were injured in a severe storm
which descended suddenly and almost
without warning on a small section OF
North st. Louis on the 18th.
The funeral of former Gov. Geo. E.
Lounsbury, of Connecticut, who died on
August 16,at Bridgeport, was held on the
18th, Rt. Rev. George Worthington,
bishop of Nebraska, officiating.
Japan has officially notified Great
Britain that she does not propose to
give up the Russian torpedo boat de-
stroyer ~Ryeshitelni, captured in the
harbor of Che-Foo, August II.
Corporation Counsel Tolman has
given to Mayor Harrison of Chicago an
opinion declaring that the packers of
the stock yards have no legal right to
house men in their packing houses.
What is called a petrified body of an
Indian was found on the farm OF
w. C. Adair, three miles west of Rog-
ers, Ark. The figure is about six feet
long, perfect in every feature and de-
tail.
The st. Petersburg correspondent of
the Petit Journal says the assassin of
M. De Plehve, late minister Of the in
terror, has been identified as a Rus
sian nobleman of the name of Sazo-
noff.
Secretary Taft has fixed September
% as the date for a hearing of interests
involved in the appeal of the state of
Missouri to have the United States
take possession of the st. Louis Mer-
chants bridge.
Advices from Co~nsul-General Patter-
son, at Calcutta, India, state that, ac-
cording to the governments final mem
orandum on the wheat crop of 10000,
the season has been exceptionally ia
vorable for wheat.
Italian business men of New York
have taken steps toward putting ar
end to the era of Matchmaking and
KIDNAPPING of their countrymen by per-
sons declared to be Sicilian and Nea-
politan criminals.
Mrs. Ingersoll, widow of the late
Robert G. Ingersoll, of New York,
was, On the 18th, given a favorable de-
cision in q suit to recover a large
amount of money for services given by
her husband as an attorney.
The Canadian government has lodged
q formal complaint with the British
authorities regarding the indignity Of
fered to the flag of the dominion by a
British consular officer in a South
American port a few weeks ago.
Despite the protest of the Christian
Endeavor societies of Connecticut, the
traditional bottle of wine will be
broken across the prov of the battle
ship Connecticut when she is launched
at the New York navy yard next
month.
1t was stated at the bureau of immi-
grafton in Washington, on the 10th,
that its officials in charge at New York
have instructions not to detain Mrs.
Maybrick, now on her way to America
after spending many years in an Eng
lish prison.
Gen. Wilmon w. Blackmar, of Bos-
ton, was elected commander-in-chief
of the G. A. R. by reclamation at the
closing session of the national en-
campment in that city on the 18th.
Denver, Col, was selected as the place
for the encampment of 1905.
King Edward has approved the ap-
pointment of DR.. VIM. Osler, professor
of medicine and physician to the hos
pital Of Johns Hopkins medical school
at Baltimore, as regius professor of
medicine at Oxford university, in sue
cession to DR.. Burden Sanford.