The Tupelo journal., 1904-02-26
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

Fire, on the 10Th, destroyed the en-
tire grand stand and about one-third
of the board track known as the Walls
burg IN. j. bicycle track, which was
n of the most famous in the country.
Henry Young, a fireman, was killed.
The loss vas about 10000.
On petition of creditors, Judge Kohl
saat, of the United States district
court of Chicago, on the 18th appointed
Ryerson D. Gates and Henry L. Will
son receivers for the American Male
able Iron Co. The company was in
corporated with a capital of $500, 600.
and the plant is located at Chicago
Highlands, III.
The Salvation army will hold me-
mortal services for Senator Hanna, or
the 21st, at the national headquarters,
in New York city, conducted by Com
mander Booth-Tucker. Senator Hanna
had for years taken a keen interest in
the work of the Salvation army.
Three hundred cases Of typhoid fe-
yer we're reported, on the 18th, in Wa
tertown, N. Y.
Jules Lombard, so years of age, OF
Omaha, Neb., was, on the 10th, admit
ted to practice of law. He vas a IA
nous singer years ago, and sang during
Lincoln's campaign and at his funeral.
Rev. Anna H. Shaw was elected, on
the 10th, president of the National
Woman's Suffrage association.
Frau Krupp observed the birthday
of her late husband at Berlin, Ger
many, on the 18th, by giving S25 each
to 1000 workmen who had been 25
years in the service of the company
and by donating $125, 900 to the work
mems hospital.
Mrs. Jacob Antoniassi and five chill
dren were burned to death, OF the
18th, in a fire consuming the house in
which they lived, near Croton, N. Y.
The explosion of an Oil lamp caused the
fire.
The work of clearing the streets in
the burned district of Baltimore, Md,
was completed on the 18th. City En-
gineer Fendall said that permits would
be issued to rebuild in sections of the
burned district where no changes in
the building lines were to be made.
The train bearing the remains OF
Senator Hanna left Washington, d. c.,
for Cleveland, O., on the 18th. On the
train were all the members of the late
senator's family and a number of per-
sonal friends.
The jury in the case Of James Reed,
charged with the murder of Glenna
Hines, at Omaha, Neb., last September,
on the 18th returned a verdict of muir
der in the first degree, and recon-
mended that Reed be imprisoned for
life.
John Norwood Clark, aged 80, longer
a continuous member of the Odd Eel
lows than any other person, died, or
the 18th, at Iowa City, la. He Joined
the order at Baltimore, Md, in 1887.
The house committee on military af-
fairs, on the 18th, heard Col. c. A. Ed
wards, U. S. A., and Representative
Slayden, of Texas, in favor of the Sc
lection of Fort Sam Houston, Tex, as
a permanent military camp.
Geo. B. Jennings, president of the
Jennings Adjustable Shade Co., was
shot and killed in his office, on the
18th, in Brooklyn, N. Y, by Frank Nc
Namara, superintendent of one of the
departments of the Elgin Watch Co.'s
factory, at Elgin, Ill.
The German steamer Bayonne, bound
for Gibraltar, which grounded in the
Delaware river so miles below Phila-
delphia, was ioated, on the 18th, and
proceeded under her own steam, ap-
parently uninjured.
Congressman James M. Miller was
renominated, On the 18th, by the re-
publican convention of the Fourth
Kansas district, at Emporia, Kas.
Fred Hunnell, of Des ,Moines, Ia,
suffering from a fatal bullet wound
above the heart, inflicted, on the 10Th,
by William Burgoyne, a bartender of
Kansas City, Mo-, in a quarrel, furtive-
ly took morphine and died on the OPP
Grating table. Burgoyne was arrested.
]. H. Schneider of Tucson, Ariz.,
who was indicted and arrested in
Washington, ID. c., for alleged COM
plicity in public land frauds in the
west, was released, on the 10Th, from
custody under $4,000 bonds.