The Tupelo journal., 1904-12-02
NEWS AND NOTES..
A Summary of Important Events.
PERSONAL AMI GENERAL

Mountain & Southern railroad, ran in
to an extra freight train at Swifton,
Ark, on the 22d. Harry Wells, fire.
man on No. II, was burned to death.
and Engineer Deguire, Of the same
train, was badly hurt. Four passen-
gers were seriously injured, and 10
| others were slightly hurt.
On the 22d, William Holden, a farm
hand, entered the Platte Valley bank
at Platte Center, Neb., and demanded
the banks cash, and on refusal OF
Cashier Barney Schroeder to surrender
it, shot the latter in the breast, inflict-
ing a serious, but not a fatal wound.
The bandit was afterwards captured.
The-three negroes, whose lives had
been threatened by mobs at Lexing-
ton, KY, were removed to Louisville,
on the 22d, for safe keeping.
The American Art Exposition Co..
having failed to satisfactorily complete
it's side of the arrangements, the pro-
posed trip Of the Filipino constabulary
battalion and band from the Worlds
fair for a weeks engagement in Madi-
son Square garden, New York city, has
been declared off.
The Red Star line steamship Kroon-
land, about which there had been some
anxiety, by reason of published reports
that she had foundered, came to
anchor at quarantine, New York har-
Dor, on the night of the 21st.
Briefs containing the arguments of
counsel for Senator Joseph R. Burton,
of Kansas, were filed, on the 22d, in
the United States supreme court.
Rear-Admiral John Russell Bartlett,
United States navy, retired, died at the
Marine hospital in St. Louis, on the
I'D, of pneumonia, contracted while on
a tour of inspection of government
steam vessels plying on the Ohio and
Mississippi rivers.
President Francis of the Louisiana
Purchase Exposition Co. announced, at
a meeting of the board Of directors, on
The 22d, that the Worlds fair hau no
bills payable beyond the comparative
ly insignificant current accounts.
Senator r. B. Tillman, of South
CdlOlllld, Ids hlllidl WI hAo pittSi w
position to DR.. Crum as collector Of
he port of Charleston, and he IS re-
ported by his friends as having passed
up" politics for the time being.
Benbow'S Montana Meteor" MADE a
light from the Worlds fair aerodrome,
IN the 22d, but its dirigibility was not
demonstrated, as the motive power
vert dead" almost Immediately after
the ascension was made, and a land
ing was effected at Underwood, four
miles away.
Six negroes engaged in a deadly
fight in a 14-foot o near Curtis,
La, on the ODD, the participants be-
'ng armed with shotguns and pistols.
After the battle, three lay dead. The
other three escaped.
BY the explosion of the boilers in
D.. r. Middleton's cotton gin in the
town of Walters, Miss, on the Gath,
two lives were lost and five persons in
jured, two of them seriously.
One man was killed and three others
injured in a freight wreck on the Gin
cinnati, New Orleans & Texas Pacific
railroad at ~Highbridge, KY, on the
24th.
A monument to the memory Of Pres
ident William Mckinley was unveiled,
on the oath, at the main entrance Of
Golden Gate park, at San Francisco.
Otis Loveland, who killed George
Geyer, a farmer, neal Alton, o.. was
e~lectrocuted in the annex at the Ohio
penitentiary on the Oath.
Dom Paul Kruger left a fortune esti-
mated at 49, $50, 900. A large part was
beoueathed for the maintenance of the
Dutch language.
Five Italians persisted in a fire
which destroyed the old NOBLE grain
warehouse at North Bend, Pa, on the
oath.
The special train bearing President
Roosevelt and party arrived In st.
Louis at $40 a. m, on the 26th, and
was at once switched to siding inside
the Administration entrance to the
Worlds fair, where it's occupants were
left to repose undisturbed until the
official day opened.
A Stockholm dispatch Of the 26th
SAYS that Heinrich Ibsen has had sew
eral attacks of heart trouble, and that
his condition is such that there is little
hope for recovery.
Tremendous excitement prevailed in
st. Petersburg, on the 26th, when 1t
became known that the car had re-
ceived in audience a delegation from
the zemstvos for consultation over the
demands contained in their memorial.
1t is believed in Toxic that impor-
tant developments in the siege of Port
Arthur are impending. The belief
seems to be based mainly on the un-
Official reports of the successful prog
ress of the sapping against the Err
Lung, Sung Shu and Tung Kekwan
forts.
It is said that the dispatches sent
by Gen. Stoessel, commander at Port
Arthur, sent by the destroyer Rasto-
ropny to Che Foo, contained a frank
statement of the hopelessness of the
situation. He said: "The garrison Is
being starved out"
ST. Wilfrid Laurier, premier of Can
ada accompanied by Lady Laurier.
was a visitor at the Worlds fair on
Thanksgiving day. Sir Wilfrid ex-
pressed his amazement at the EXPOSE
tons magnitude and comprehensive
ness.
Paul Strasser, q union veteran, and
who was an inmate of the soldiers