The Tupelo journal., 1904-10-07
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary of Important Events.
PERSONAL AMI GENERAL

Thomas E. Watson, of Georgia, pop
ulist candidate for president, suffered a
breakdown at Jackson, Miss, on the
eth, and was urged by his physician
to take a long rest.
Field Marshal Oyama appears to be
a past master in screening his move
ments from the enemy, who, notwith-
standing "Reminiscences and frequent
skirmishes, is unable to penetrate the
Japanese screen.
The Atlantic county On. j. grand
jury. on the 2Sth, returned indictments
against ten persons who are accused
of bribery in the recent primary cleo
ton at Atlantic City.
While hunting partridges, on the
eth, Duke Henry of Mecklenburg-
Schwerin was shot by Prince Othon OF
Chroenberg-W aldenburg, and wounded
in both knees and one hand.
Special Judge Phelps. in the police
an international complication by filming
OF two separate charges of speeding
his automobile and contempt OF court
Hugh Carney, third secretary Of the
British embassy at Washington.
Rev. D:. 2. G. Roberts, II of the
most widely known Episcopal clergy.
men OF st. Louis, and for many years
pastor OF the Church of the Holy Com
munion. died, on the Goth, at his home
in 81. Louis, of old age. He was a vet
oron of tho nfn1prnto army
Notwithstanding the acknowledged
desperate state Of affairs in Port Ar
thur, Gen. Stoessel has no thought OF
surrender. 1t is admitted that when
the warships make their sOrtie, carry
ing their ~condensing apparatus with
them. the water question Will be most
~GeriOuS.
j.. j. Marty, cashier of the Long
ford (Kas.) bank, committed suicide,
en- the 9th, by cutting his throat.
The letter alleged TO have been re-
ceived by Michael ]. Doanelly, leader
OF the meat strike, ~purporting to be
one written by President Roosevelt
was copied from an editorial in the
New York Evening Post of August l,
in which il was stated that it was
a letter which the president might
have written with advantage TO himself
and his country"
Two men, giving their anne as Ed
and Ch2s. Patterson, and claiming to
he brothers, who we're in Jail at Fair,
field, Ia, on a charge of burglary, made
their escape, on the 2Sth. after beat
ing Sheriff J. Wright into insensibility
with an iron bar.
Gated horses from Missouri cap
tured every prize in that event in tbs
Omaha (Neb.) horse show, on the
eth. winning out over some of the
finest saddle horses in Canada, as well
as owe many local horses.
1t was reported from Mu,kden, on the
9th, that the japanese had crossed
the Hun river so miles northeast OF
that town.
Heavy rains, on the 10Th. caused Sc
rious damage to railroads in western
Texas, New Mexico and northern
Mexico. Several washouts are report
ed on the Santa Fe in New Mexico
the most serious being at Eagle and
Las Cruces.
President Roosevelt sent the follow
ing telegram to Gen. lockwood Hoar
at Worcester. Mass, on the Both: A
cept my most profound sympathy. The
loss is Tot yours only, but of all those
who believe in the lofty standard OF
purity, integrity and fearlessness il
public life"
General Payne had sew
eral sinking spells, on the 30th, bud
each time responded to treatment. His
condition was reported as quite Sc
rious.
Viceroy AleXieff has been recalled to
St. Petersburg, on the pretext that the
car wants information on the situa-
ton in the far east from the viceroy's
own lips. The truth is, according to
a st. Petersburg dispatch, that Alexieff
will never return to Manchuria.
All advices from the seat of war, on
the Seth, were indicative of active op-
e~rations in the vicinity of Mukden. The
Japanese began an offensive movement,
driving in the Russian oUtposts, after
severe fighting.
Reports concerning conditions at and
around Port Arthur are conflicting, one
that many Russians are surren-
dering and that the fall of the place is
imminent. while another says the Jap
anese have been repulsed and will be
to sit down to a winter siege.
A $40, 1000 fire occurred in Benton, ILL.,,
the goth. Starting in the Arlington
hotel, the fire took the historic Hudson
house, the Burriss building and the
old White row.
The Shanghai correspondent Of the
London Telegraph quotes a japanese
officer as saying that the killed and
wounded at Port Arthur c~onsiderabl!
exceed 10000
George Frisbie Hoar, senior United
States senator from Massachusetts,
died at his home in Worcester on the
Goth.
Postmaster-General Henry c. Payne
is lying dangerously i'll at the Airing
ton hotel in Washington. and his re-
covery is hardly expected.
Members of the crew of the tug c. c.
Cherry, which arrived at Bellingtam.
Wash, ON the 10Th, from Alaska, report
sighting a Russian gunboat anchored
In Unimak pass in the Aleutian islands.
Melvin L. Gray, a resident of st.
Louis since 1912, formerly one of the
most prominent members of the bar
of that city, and always a patron OF
science and education, died, ON