The Tupelo journal., 1904-11-04
Fire damaged the Mobile, Ala,

IN the UulJeQ OCdLcS Since 1000.
Police in all parts Of the country
have been notified Of the loss Of
$4,000 worth of jewelry by Mrs.
E. p. Gavit Of Albany, N. Y.
The japanese army confronting
General Kuropatkin is receiving
heavy reinforcements from the Port
Arthur army and direct from Japan.
Dragging his wife from the car
riage in which they were riding,
Frank Loes, a teamster Of Elgin,
ILL.,, shot and killed the woman and
shot himself.
The Episcopal house of deputies
at Boston concurred in the divorce
amendment to the canon, prohibit
ing remarriage by the innocent par
ty within a year.
A stranger, supposed to be Vernon
Knoll of Hooperston, Ill, committed
suicide in the railway station at Ko-
koma, Ind. He left a note saying
the Dowie church robbed him.
Mrs. FAME E. Sternberger, SEN
fenced to two years imprisonment
for killing her husband at Memphis,
Tenn, died before she could be
transferred to the penitentiary.
At Macon, Ga, Joe Davis, a night
guard for the convict camps Of Jas.
per county at Monticello, Ga, was
killed by Officer Griffin while re-
sisting arrest at the union depot.
At Mexico, Mo-, one possible loss
Of life, one man seriously burned
and from twenty-five to thirty-fve
horses and several buildings, includ-
ing a church, burned, is the result
of a fire.
New Orleans negro roustabouts
are demanding $120 per month for
their labor, and in consequence
steamboat owners may haye to tie
up their vessels until the labor
troubles are settled.
In a rear-end collision between
two trolley cars near Westboro,
Mass, eighteen people were injured.
1t is thought all of the injured will
recover. Slippery rails are account
able for the accident.
Lieutenant General Prince Fush-
imi, special imperial envoy to the
st. Louis exposition, sailed with his
suite on the steamer Manchuria
from Yokohama for San Francisco
amid great enthusiasm.
At Buda, Texas, at a Mexican
dance a row arose in which Pedro
Bulinsuelo was shot to death by
Claude Martin. The body of Mar
tin was found later with a knife
driven through his heart.
At Opelousas, La, the wife Of
Donald Guillory, aged SO years,
while kneeling to say her prayers, in
some way overturned a candle,
which ignited her dress and she was
SO badly burned that she died.
The headquarters noncommission-
ed staff and band Of the ninth cav
airy, in command of Col. Godfrey,
has arrived at Fort Riley from Fort
Walla Walla, Wash. 1t is eighteen
years since a colored organization
has been stationed at Fort Riley.
In a series of raids representatives
Of District Attorney Jerome's office
seized 100000 worth of lottery
tickets there and arrested six men
and one woman in New York. The
prisoners are charged with selling
lottery tickets at wholesale to ticket
p~eddlers.
The annual report of the govern
or of Arizona says the territorial
population has increased consider
ably, and that the total population
now is between 10000 and 170,-
900. 1t expresses a desire on the
part Of the people of Arizona for
statehood.
Count Benckendorff, Russian am
bassador to England, narrowly es-
capped being mobed when he returned
to London from a visit to his wife's
relatives at Vilesia. The crowd
sought to wreak vengeance on him
for the sinking by the Baltic fleet Of
the English fishing boats.
At Hobart, Ok, in a street duel
7. P. Lea, a grocer, shot and killed
Charles G. Hill, a barber. Lea was
shot, in both arms, but will recover.
! Domestic troubles caused the shoot
ing.
Republicans of Hudson county,
| N. j., at their convention in Jersey