The Tupelo journal., 1904-09-02
AND NOTES.
A Summary Of Important Events
PERSONAL AMI GENERAL

mao maze a Qeatn-DcU confession u
the murder of Gilbert Gates. He says
he is we'll and hearty.
With the arrival of q number of
strike breakers in the packing house
district in Omaha, Neb., on the 23d,
came 80 Japanese from the smelling
and manufacturing districts of Colora-
do. They were taken into the plant Of
the Omaha Packing Co.
Five persons were injured, one of
them dangerously, by the explosion OF
a barrel of turpentine in the cellar of
a store in Armourdale, Kas., on the
23d, the explosion being caused by the
careless handling of a candle by
workmen.
A tornado struck Sorrento, Italy, at
midnight of the 23d. Among the build
ings wrecked were the Hotel Tram
| ontano and the cathedral and monas-
terry of San Paolo. Several lives were
lost, and the town presented a scene of
the greatest desolation.
Arrangements have been made for
Senator Fairbanks, of Indiana, repub-
lican candidate for vice-president, to
open the campaign in Missouri at Kan
sas City On either September 2 or 3.
The black rust is said to have killed
the wheat crop in many places, in the
| northwestern states, or cut it down to
such an extent that only the thresher
can tell the tale. The elevator men
and millers estimate the crop of Min
-ncoIo oNI +Lo Do1-o+or fr~,,, OK 00n 000
to 1870, 900, 600 bushels for the three
states.
Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific train
| No. l was derailed west of Princeton, "a
miles north of Trenton, Mo, IN the
23d, injuring As persons, two of whom
are in a dangerous condition.
Fire in the glue factory of Armour
& Co., at Benson avenue and Thirty
second street, Chicago, on the oath,
caused a loss estimated at 100000.
Rear-Admiral John C. Watson was,
ON the oath, placed on the retired list
of the navy, having reached the age of
GO years.
Mrs. Susan Stems Wyman Holmes.
aged 81 years, an aunt of Postmaster
Frank Wyman, and n of the oldest
residents of ST. Louis, having gone
there before the advent of the railroad,
died, on the night of the 23d, of pneu-
monia.
According to advices received at Che
Foo, on the oath, the Japanese were
so close to Port Arthur is to have
driven the Russians from their parade
ground. Scarcely a building remains
unchanged in Port Arthur.
Admiral Kataoka reported to Toxic,
on the Gath, that as the Russian bat
tleship Sevastopol was emerging from
Port Arthur, on the 23d, she struck a
mine, after which she showed a decid-
ed list to starboard. She was towed
back into the harbor.
A committee of business men of Wa
coma, Mimi, one of the villages struck
by the storm on August 20, has issued
an appeal for outside aid for those left
destitute of home and means of exist
ence by the storm.
Announcement is made at the navy
department that the cruiser Tacoma,
Commander r. F. Nicholson command
ing, has been finally accepted from
tie Union iron works, San Francisco.
A wave of rejoicing and festivity
swept over Russia with the rising of
the sun, on the oath, on the christen-
ing day of the heir to the Russian
throne.
The German-American bank, the
oldest financial institution in Sidney,
O., has been placed in the hands of a
receiver. Liabilities, $3.50, 900; assets,
5000, 900.
Alfred Bolster, colored, aged Y, is in
Jail at Niobrara, Neb., charged with
numbering his child with a saw. His
wife alleges that he killed the child
and buried it, and says she has been
afraid to reveal the facts, because he
had threatened to murder her if she
did.
After a bitter fight, John c. Cutler,
of Salt Lake, Utah, was nominated for
governor by the republican state on
vention, on the 25th, on the second
ballot.
A gold and copper discovery in Cha
peta mountain, in the Monarch dis
trict, near Salida, Col, has started a
rush of prospectors to that locality.
Four persons lost their lives and sew
eral others were injured in a tornado
that swept through Chautauqua coun-
ty, N. Y, on the 25th.
The Russian galleries in the west
pavilion of the Worlds fair Art Pal
ace were informally opened to visitors
on the oath.
Fire, probably the result of spon-
taneous combustion in a pile of leather
goods, broke out in the Manufactures
building at the Worlds fair early on
the morning of the 9th. An alarm
was promptly given, but the fire was
put out with hand extinguishers be-
fore the arrival of the firemen. The
damage was not more than 5000.
According to a Toxic correspondent
of the Paris Matin, the Japanese have
discovered that there is no hope of
taking Port Arthur by direct assault
and that long siege operations will be
necessary.
A battle, which was begun, on the
oath, between the Japanese and Rus
slams to the southeast of Lao Yang,
was still in progress on the night of
the Goth. The Japanese, at last ac-
counts, were advancing from three d.
rections along the entire line Of the
Russian eastern front, and the advance