The Tupelo journal., 1904-10-21
News Of the World

The German Village hotel near
the worlds fair burned.
The United States brig Boxer
vas launched at Portsmouth.
Assassinations of the Greeks by
the Bulgarians are reported daily.
On October 10 it was reported
that a great battle was raging near
Mukden.
Judge Parker addressed the Avon
Beach democratic club at Esopus
October Is.
Ex-Gov. W. Murray Crane vas
appointed United States senator to
succeed Geo. T. Hoar of Massachu-
sets.
The imported stallion Meddler of
the stud of the late William C..
Whitney was sold to Matthew Cor
bett for $51 600.
Kuropatkin issued an order hat
reinforcemcnts are arriving and
the time has come to advance and
compel the Japs to do Russia's will.
In a pistol duel nea Houston,
Tex, Herman Ottman was killed
and the father Of Henry Schilling,
who came between the duelists, also
lost his life.
At Lexington, KY, in a signed
statement, Judge James II. Mulli-
gan declares his belief in his wife's
innocence. and declares that never
for a moment has he considered her
with the attempted poisoning of the
Mulligan family.
The crew Of the extra freight
train which collided with the Mis-
souri, Pacific worlds fair train at
Warrcnsburg, Mo-, resulting in the
death of twenty-nine persons, is
held responsible for the disaster by
the %coroner's jury.
The Barcelona, Spain, police have
arrested three anarchists at Villa
Nueva Igeltru. 1t is alleged that
they have confessed to plotting, in
April last, the assassination of
King Alfonso, who vas in Barcelo-
ma in the early part of that month.
c. B. Schaff, Z. A. Aubrey and
J. d. Bosley, directors and stock
holders in the National bank of
Holdenville, suspended last June,
we're arrested charged with obtain
ING money under false nretenses
and disposing Of mortgaged proper
ty.
+. c. Zcigler and L. A. Haynes,
brakemen on the freight train which
crashed into a Missouri Pacific
train near Warrensburg, Mo-, YER
arrested on warrants charging them
with stealing $37 from the body of
a fellow brakeman named Seidel,
who was killed. e
Fifteen deaths within eight days
in the neighborhood known as Strik-
err Farm, on the west side, New
York, have started an investigation
by the police and coroncr's officers.
Coroner Scholer says that the
deaths were caused by impure liq-
uor.
The signing of the Franco-Span-
ish agreements marks an important
step toward the realization of the
French ambition of a West African
empire, stretching from the French
Soudan to the Mediterranean and
Atlantic. This will embrace an
enormous tract of territory, giving
France the largest area in Africa.
Six employees of the Grand Trunk
railroad were suffocated by coal gas
in the st. Clair tunnel, which runs
under the st. Clair river from Port
Huron to Sarnia, Ont. A coal
train broke in two while passing
through the tunnel and three of the
train crew were suffocated while
part of the train lay stalled in the
tunnel.
A bill has been prepared for SUBJ
mission to congress increasing the
duty upon rice from $1.20 to So
per kilogram. If the bill is passed
it is expected that the result will
be to give entrance to Cuba of
Louisiana rice at the higher duty,
which multiplied by reciprocity.
will put a check upon the present
control by Germans of Cuba's rice
purchases.
At Columbus, O., fire burned out
the two upper floors of the five
story building, occupied by the Co.
lumbus Dry Goods Company, en-
failing an aggregate loss estimated
at 100000.
Miss Bessie Wilson of C~larksburg,