The Tupelo journal., 1904-09-02

ruPELO. . MISSISSIPPI.
Peter Sells, the well-known show
man. of Columbus, O., suffered a stroke
of paralysis on the 26th. His physi-
clans regard his condition as critical.
Prof, Anton Drasche, a member OF
the Austrian sanitary council, celehrat-
ed for his Investigations into the dis
ease of cholera, died at Vienna on the
23d.
DIR. Edmund j. James, president OF
Northwestern university of Illinois, was
unanimously elected president or the
University of Illinois by the board OF
trustees on the 23d.
The national board of directors OF
the Knights of Columbus, in session at
New Haven, Conn, voted to hold the
October meeting on Columbus day at
the st. Louis exposition.
Cardinal Satolli and his party ar
rived at Rome, on the oath, from Ma
pies. The cardinal return to Rome
not only satisfied, but charmed by his
visit to the United States.
! Mrs. Florence Maybrick left her ho-
tel in New York, on the oath, for Ell
lenville, in the Catskill mountains,
where she will remain at the home OF
DR.. Emmett Dinsmore for some time
The Chicago, Burlington & Quincy
Railroad Co. has completed plans for
the expenditure of S $1,000, 900 in the de-
velopment of terminals on its holdings
in Clay county, Mo, opposite Kansas
City.
An autopsy on the body of a Korean,
who was a steerage passenger on the
steamer Coptic, and who died after be-
ing landed at the quarantine station IN
Honolulu, shows that he died from the
plague.
The annual movement of currency
to the west for crop moving purposes
has begun. The sub-treasury in New
York, on the oath, shipped by tele-
graphic transfer to Chicago the sum OF
$500, 600.
John Morley, formerly chief secre-
tary for Ireland, will sail for the
United States in October to spend a
few weeks. but it is said he has de-
clined tempting offers to deliver a Sc
rieS of lectures.
A new position has been created on
the Illinois Central railroad-that of
division agent, whose duties shall be to
have supervision of local agents and
see that the stations in their divisions
are kept in a sanitary condition.
A Che Foo dispatch of the 25th says
there are Japanese spies in Port Ar
thur engaged in cutting the electric
circuits connecting the land mines.
The besiegers can not advance east
ward until the forts are crippled.
Fifty strike breakers at the plant of
Nelson Morris & Co., in Chicago, quit
work because the company refused to
discharge a special policeman whom
the strike breakers said had beaten
Frank Norie, one of their number.
Judge Theodore Brentano, of Chi
cago, has issued an injunction restrain
ing the city of Chicago from interfer-
ing with the lodging of non-union en-
ployes in the packing houses at the
stock yards. The city will appeal.
The final assault on Port Arthur is
said to be imminent. Hundreds of jap
anese guns continue to pour a destruc-
tive fire into the city and harbor,
along the lines of forts and intrench-
ments preparatory for the infantry as
sault.
The Chinaman held up by the Chi
nese inspector at Black Rock, n. Y,
was Yu Kit Min, a Chinese merchant
who had been visiting st. Louis. He
was travelling without his passports,
was verified.
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Geo. P. Money was nominated for
delegate to congress, on the 26th, by
the territorial democratic convention
at Las Vegas, N. M. The vote was:
Money, III; Jerry Simpson, Sc. The
convention adopted resolutions declar-
ing for single statehood.
The body of a young man supposed,
from papers found upon him, to be
Walter Kemp, of Roumania, Ind, was
found beside the Union Pacific track,
between Vining and Clifton, Kas., on
the 23d. He had evidently fallen from
a train, breaking his neck.
George Leander, the American BIZ
cyclist, died in Paris, on the 23d, from
injuries sustained in a terrible fall at
the Pare au Princess as the result of
running into a motor cycle which was
pacing a race in which an attempt was
being made to break the record for
one hour.
The funeral services Of ex-senator
Vest were held at the Vest cottage at
Sweet Springs, Mo, on the 10th, cor
Quoted by Rev. J.. o. Shackelford, as
sisted by Rev. o. H. Morton. A vast