The Tupelo journal., 1904-04-29

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PUBLISHED WEEKLY.
rUpELO. 3: MISSISSIPPI
Maj. A. M. Harvey, of Topeka, was
nominated for congress, o. the 21st,
by reclamation by the democrats Of the
First Kansas district.
The Cuban government has awarded
to the Munson line the fast mail con-
tract between Havana and St Louis,
via Mobile. The steamers will ny the
Cuban flag.
The Citizens Bank of Enid, Okla,
one of the largest at that place, closed
its doors on the Goth, and Pau r.
Cooper, of Guthrie, the territorial bank
commissioner. has taken charge.
The Employers association OF Des
Moines, Ia, which has locked out all
union employees, has prepared an ulti-
matum. The substance of which is an
open shop policy in Des Moines.
Lady Constance Mackenzie, niece of
the duke of Sutherland and well known
in the United States, was married In
London to Sir Edward Austin Richard
son, Bart, of Pitfour, Perthshire, on the
10Th.
S. P. Gage, a former banker of Clin-
ton, Ia. was found dead in bed in his
room in Chicago on the 18th. Death
was due to gas escaping from a jet sup
posed to have been accidentally left
open.
The st. Louis election contest case of
Butler-Reynolds is not likely to be
taken up this session of congress, the
general eagerness for adjournment
~overranking the desire to settle this
matter.
Emil Roeski, the fourth member OF
the Chicago car barn bandits, was found
guilty, on the goth, of the murder OF
Otto Bauder in his saloon, on July .
last, and sentenced by the jury to life
imprisonment.
Mrs. Carrie Nation, the saloon smash
er. arrived in Chicago, on the 21st, n
will an engagement at a
dime museum. This is her first ap-
pearance in such capacity. Her salary
is $500 a week.
The Montana Stock Growers associ-
alton, on the Goth, adopted resolutions
calling upon Montana's representatives
in congress to aid in the movement for
an investigation of the methods Of the
meat trust, so-called.
Peter Neidermeier, Gustav Marx and
Harvey Van Dine, the car barn rob-
bers and murderers were hanged on the
22d, each swinging off alone into eter-
nifty. Eight murders were thus ex-
plated on the gallowS.
Wendell Cast, a prominent German
business man, of Boonville, Ind, died,
on the 21st, of grief over the death of
his wife and daughter. His wife died
last month of grief over the daughter.
Three deaths have occurred in three
months in the family.
Thomas Dennison, of Omaha, Neb.,
prominent in local politics, was, on the
Goth, indicted by the grand jury on
charges of robbery and receiving stolen
goods in connection with the robbery,
12 years ago, of William l.. Pollock,
of ST., 900 worth of diamonds.
An interesting feature of the OPEN
ing of the st. Louis exposition, at
noon on the Both instant, by the presi-
dent by wire from the White House,
will be the firing of a national salute
of 81 guns by a battery from Fort
Myer, to be stationed in the presidents
park. south of the White House.
A cyclone passed over portions of
the Panhandle On the 22d. The home
of r. c. Hardy, at Wichita Falls, was
blown to pieces, and several houses in
the country nearby were demolished,
but no loss of life is reported. A num-
Der of horses and cattle were killed,
and the damage is said to have been
extensive.
An appeal from the verdict in the
st. Louis circuit court, in the case of
Robert M. Snyder, convicted on a
charge Of ~Doodling in connection with
the Suburban deal, and sentenced to
five years in the E~enitentiary, was ar
gued before the supreme court at JEFF
ferson City, Mo-, on the 21st. A deci-
sion is expected within a month.
Capt. John ]. Healy was arrested in
Chicago, on the 21st, upon information
from New York charging him with
grand larceny. Healy was one of the or
ganizers of the North American Trad
ing & Transportation Co., and is
widely known. Capt. ]. J. Langan, of
the New York detective bureau, is the
complainant against Healy.
Bert D. Nortoni, of st. Louis, de-
parted for Washington, on the Goth,
where he goes to accept the position Of
assistant encouragement of the Unit
ed States for the post office depart
ment. The position pays $4,000 a year.
At the present time Mr., Nortoni is as
United States district attorney
under Col. D. P. Dyer at st. Louis.