The Tupelo journal., 1904-08-05

TUPELO. . MISSISSIPPI.
Cyrus P. Walbridge was nominated
for governor of Missouri, on the 9th,
by the republicans.
William Pickens, a negro graduate
of Yale, has been notified Of his cleo
ton to membership in the Phi Beta
Kappa society.
John ]. Ryan, the turf plunger, ar
rested in New York on the 10th, has
agreed to return to st. Louis without
requisition to stand trial for larceny.
Pope Plus has approved the trans
fer of Mgr. Falconio, papal delegate
to the United States, to the Philip
pines. where he will succeed the late
Archbishop Guidi.
The state department has again
taken up the Wainwright extralition
case with France, due, it is under
stood, to the initiative of Circuit AT
torney Folk, of st. Louis.
Gov. Peabody of Colorado issued 81
proclamation, on the Goth, calling on
military rule in Teller county n
placing the Cripple Creek district In
charge of the civil authorities.
There is grave fear of a strike ia
volving approximately $4,000 men III
The Scranton Pa.) anthacite coal field,
owing to the refusal of the companies
to deduct check weighman's wages.
The cotton mill strike in Fall River,
Mass. has tied up the mills so com
pIetely that not a wheel IS moving IN
the 81 mills where a reduction of 1212
per cent. in wages was announced to
take effect.
Two Frenchmen have been arrested
and imprisoned at WilhelmShaven, Ger
many, on suspicion Of espionage. they
had in their possession photographs OF
the new Notifications at Wilhelmshav-
en-, and of the fort at Alton.
EN-CtLdIOI i1CAly VI Db'Ab VI W w.
Virginia, democratic candidate for vice.
president, aged 81 years, and Mrs.
katherine Reynolds, aged 20, the sweet
heart of Davis young days, are, it is
said, to be mari ed in the fall.
Forty feight handlers of the Chicago
Junction railroad, employed at the
stock yards in Chicago, went out on
strike, on the 9th, on the ground that
they are unwilling to handle meat
turned out by n%on-union workmen.
The sea wall to protect Galveston,
Tex, from overflow by the gulf during
storms, was completed on the 10Th. The
wall is 1859 feet long, 16 feet wide at
the base, 5 feet wide at the top, with
a granite ripraQ apron extending ri
feet ghiuari.
AS Minister of Justice Muravieff was
being driven to the Peterhof palace, on
the 2Sth, to report to Emperor Men
olaS the assassination of Minister of
the Interior Won Plehye, stones were
thrown at him and his carriage win
dows were broken.
July % marked the termination Of
the agreement entered into by the
powers at The Hague peace conference,
TO which Russia and Japan were sigma
tory, whereby the use of war balloons
for throwing destructive explosions
was prohibited for five years.
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The Yin Kow correspondent Of the
Paris Matin says that the Japanese
entered New Chwang at five o'clock,
on the 25th, and hauled down the Rus
sian commercial flag which had been
substituted for the military standard
on the residence of the governor.
William Mccormick, of Lancaster
county, Neb., a veteran of the Span
ish war, drew first choice for a home.
stead in the Rosebud reservation. OF
more than 106, 900 anne place. in en-
velopes and juggled in a barrel, a gov
eminent clerk drew McCormick's
name first.
The London Daily Mail publishes a
ulSpdlCu HUN L u us, ASld MluOl, say
ing that on July Is, the well-known
chief, Cheikh Salan, attacked and de-
stroyed the village of OctchkiliSsa.
twenty-five persons were killed, in
Guiding a priest and servants attached
to a convent.
James Nj. Calvin, a well-known st.
Louis newspaper man, affectionately
known to a host of friends as Red"
Calvin, was found dead in his bed, on
the 2Sth, in his room at the Metropole
hotel, in st. Joseph, Mo-, where he had
been staying during the republican
state convention.
According to the accident bulletin is
sued, on the 26th, by the Interstate
commerce commission, there were 70
passengers and $40 employees of rail-
roads killed, and 1880 passengers and
10, 1854 employees injured in accidents on
railroads in, the United States during
the quarter ended on March 81, 1904.
Fireman James Frames, of Chicago,
was killed, and four trainmen were in
jured in the wreck of a north-bound
Chicago & Eastern Illinois passenger
train at Hoopeston, ILL.,, on the 28th.
The train ran into an open switch,
and the battered lock found lear by