The Tupelo journal., 1904-06-24

PUBLIsHED WEEKLY.
TUPELO. MISSISSIPPI.
Judge Thayer, of the United States
court of appeals, has ordered the Col
orado officials to produce the body OF
President Meyer, of the Miners union,
in court, at ST. Louis, on July 5.
The open shop has been declared by
the Restaurant Proprietors' assocla-
ton of Des Moines, Ia, who gave their
employees the alternatives either OF re-
nouncing the union or losing their
jobs.
Secretary Taft has decided that army
officers on the isthmus of Panama, IN
the construction work of the canal,
shall receive so per cent. addltlonal
from the canal commission over their
regular pay.
Counsel for William J. Bryan say
that there will be no contest by MT.
Bryan over the request OF Mrs. Phllo
8. Bennett to have SIS, 600 from the es-
tate of Mr.. Bennett turned over to her
absolutely.
Levi q. Letters great estate, various
" estimated at from SIS, 000,0 u TO Szo'-
600. 900. is to be divided equally among
his widow and four children. Joseph
A. and Lady Curzon have each ecel'ed
big slices already.
After a conference with the presl-
dent. Att'y.-eGn. Knox has announced
that it has been decided to appoln'
Norman M. Ruick as United States dis
trict attorney at Boise City, ldahoi
vice r. V. Crozier, deceased.
Two post office robberies have been
reported to Post Office Inspector e. A
Dice. at ST. Louis, n being at her
culaneum, Mo, where the safe was
blown open. and the other at Min
turn. Ark, which was robbed OF 500
Lieut.-Gov. Thorne Of Kentucky
closed the executive office at noon, on
the 18th. and attended the circus, re-
calling the action of the noted hen'
lucky jurist of 1857, who adjourned
court to see the elephant cross the rlV-
er.
On the 18th William E. Harmon, city
marshal of Pitkin, Col, and deputy
sheriff of Gunnison county, was sho'
and instantly killed by Tim Sullivan
whom he was called upon to arrest toi
threatening his wife. Sullivan es-
capped.
Santos Dumont, who comes with his
dirigible airship NO. Z" to compete
for the prize in the airship contest a.
the st. Louis exposition, was IN OIL
the passengers on the steamship Savole
which arrived at New York from Havre
on the 18th.
Henry R. Dorr, of Rutland, VT, who
had been employed as an editor by the
Springfield Republican and Boston
Herald, died at Kansas City, Mo, on
the 10th, aged As years. He was the
inventor of a process of utilizing low
grades of bituminous coal.
After being out "a hours, the jury
in the case of E. d. Conger. manager
of the Grand Rapids CMich.) Herald,
charged with conspiracy in connection
with the Lake Michigan water deal.
came into court and reported a disa-
greement. They were discharged.
The funeral of Lena Morton, daugh-
ter OF Levi P. Morton, Of New York
who died in Paris, France, June 10
from the effects of blood poisoning fol-
lowing an operation for appendicitis,
took place, on the 14th, at the Church
of the Holy Trinity. Many Americans
were present,
An ordinance repeating the union la
bel law, which has governed city print
Ing in Kansas City, Mo-, was passed
by the council, on the 18th, and signed
by the mayor. Heretofore only shops
employing union labor could bid for
city printing, but now the open shop
policy will prevail.
Mrs. Nan Patterson, the former ac-
tress, against whom al indictment for
murder in the first degree in con
nection with the death of Bookmaker
Caesar" Young was returned by the
grand jury, has entered a plea of not
guilty before Judge Newburger in the
New York court of general sessions.
w. II. Mayes, arrested on a charge
of forgery and false entries in the Elk
City national bank of Elk City, Okla,
of which he was president, on the 18th
shot and MORALLY wounded himself. He
was arrested on a warrant secured by
United States Attorney Horace Speed of
Guthrie. The bank failed a few weeks
ago.
The Commercial national bank of
Cambridge, O., failed to open on the
18th. No statement of the banks con-
dition is obtainable. The bank had
1926. 900 city and $12, 900 school funds
on deposit. A branch of the CONNER
cial, the Peoples savings bank at
Ryesville, also closed it's doors later
in the day.