The Tupelo journal., 1904-11-18

ton at 81. Louis On Saturday, Tue Aoth
of November.
Lieut.-Gen. Prince Sadauru Fushimi,
cousin of the emperor of Japan, ar
rived at San Francisco, on the 9th. on
the liner Manchuria.
President Roosevelt, on the 18th,
announced that John Hay would CON
tinue as secretary of state during the
four years beginning March 4, 1908.
The cruiser Columbia, which is con
veying Secretary of War Taft and his
party to Panama, went ashore, on the
10th, in Pensacola harbor, off the flor-
ida coast.
Admiral Alexieff, viceroy in the fal
east. arrived in St. Petersburg on the
10th. In anticipation OF his arrival
the Nevsky prospect was crowded WIFE
sightseers.
An hour after Judge Alton b. Par
ker arose, on the 9th, he was out OIL
his farm at Esopus, N. Y, seeing ina
the blowing was properly done. Lalei
he went for a horseback ride.
Sergt. Thomas E. Allen, Oh tne
Third district, a member OF the 81
Louis police department for over thlr-
ty years, was found dead IN oed' Oh
the Sth. in his room at Eighth n
Pine streets.
o
Lord Lansdowne, in the absence OF
Premier Balfour, at the historic loro
MAYORS banquet, held in London, Oh
the 9Th, made a strong plea Tor peace
and arbitration on behalf OF the Brlt-
ish government.
Former Minister to Turkey Oscar
S. Straus, a member of The Hague
tribunal, expressed the belief, on the
18th. that a sudden termination OF nos
tilities in the far east is possible IL
the near future.
Col. D. R. Anthony, the noted editor
OF the Leavenworth Times, and broth
err of Miss Susan B.. Anthony, the
woman suffragist, died at his home IN
Leavenworth, Kas., on the l2th, OF
heart disease, aged 50.
With the election returns still in
complete, the plurality of President
Roosevelt in the nation, according tC
all indications on the 9th, will exceed
1900. 900, the greatest plurality ever
given an American candidate.
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The Japanese, on the 10th, assumes
the offensive on the left bank OF the
Hun river, and occupied three vii
lagos. The Russians, however, at
tackled, drove them out and again es-
tablished their original lines ofdetenSe'
The Spanish embassy at London, on
the 9Th, authorized an emphatic denial
of the report circulated by a news
agency in the United States of the an
nouncement of the betrothal OF King
Alfonso to Princess Victoria of Con-
naught.
Lou Dillon smashed the worlds un-
paced mile trotting record at the driv-
ing park at Memphis, Tenn, on the
18th, by completing a mile in two 1pln-
utes and one second. The former I'M
paced record, 2:01A, was held Jointly
by Lou Dillon and Maj. Delmar.
National Bank Commissioner Sturde-
want, on the 10th repaid the depositors,
dollar for dallor, in the Elk City
(Okla.) national bank, which failed last
nTn- rachfn~ Move Whn WAC
charged with wrecking the bank, COM
mitted suicide in Texas after being ar
rested.
The $40, 000, 900 of FIVE per cent. bonds
issued by the Japanese government has
been subscribed for three times over
by the Japanese people, according to
a cablegram received, on the 9th, by
S. Uchida, japanese consul at New
York, from the department Of finance
in Toxic.
The Chicago & Alton officials, on
the 18th, announced that they would
run free special trains for their en-
ployes from Bloomington to the st.
Louis Worlds lair grounds, on No
vember II. About $500 employees and
their families will take advantage of
this offer.
AS the result of a gunshot wound n
his foot, caused by the accidental dis
charge of a weapon he was carrying,
12-year-old James Alexander Ashley,
while hunting with his father and two
older brothers nea his home at Ok
ford, Pa, died at the University hos
pital in Philadelphia, on the 7th.
Alexander Sutherland, said to have
been the last survivor of the famous
Balaklava six hundred" died, on the
18th, at his home in Denver, Col,
where he had resided for 40 years. He
was the trumpeter who sounded the
bugle call for the memorable charge
Immortalized in verse by Tennyson.
On the proposal of the Italian min
lister of foreign affairs, King Victor
Emmanuel will sem to J. P. Nor
gan, of New York, the insignia of
Knight of the Crown of Italy, as a
testimonial of the gratitude of the
Italian nation for the return of the
Ascoli cope to the Italian government.
A. P. Saunders, of Guthrie, Okla,
defeated republican candidate for
county commissioner, and a well-known