The Tupelo journal., 1904-04-15

York, Harry Payne Whitney was elect
ed a director to fill the vacancy caused
by the death of his father, William G,
Whitney.
One hundred and sixty feet of Balti-
more & Ohio Southwestern railroad
grade at Boggs Creek, near Vincennes,
Ind, was washed out on the Sth.
Trains are detouring between Mitchell
and Vincennes.
In the United States district court at
San Francisco, on the 9th, former Dep
uty Sheriff William T. Nasha and
Thomas X. Dempsey and HON Toon, a
Chinese, were convicted of conspiracy
against the government.
A dispatch received at the India Of
fee, in London, on the Sth, said that
Gen. MacDonald's infantry, while re-
connoitering near Kalapange, encoun-
tered 800 Thibetans, who opened fire.
There were no casualties.
The joint legislative committee on
the Hanna memorial day exercises has
reported April 20 as the date for hold
ing the exercises at Columbus, o. Unit
ed States Senator Charles Dick will de-
liver the memorial Grafton.
Former Secretary of the Navy John
d. Long will serI> as president OF the
new SO, 900, 900 trade school, made pos
sible by the will of the late Arioch
Wentworth, according to an announce
ment made in Boston on the 7th.
The supreme court, which affirmed
the verdict of the Lucas county courts
in the cases of Albert and Ben. Wade,
brothers, convicted of the murder OF
Kate Sullivan, at Toledo, O., on the
18th, fixed July IA as the date of their
electrocution.
The grand jury at Minneapolis,
Mimi, following the suggestion made
to it by Judge Elliott, has taken up
the case of former Mayor A. A. Ames,
with a view to returning a new indict-
ment which will meet the objections
of the supreme court.
S. Maxine, treasurer of the japanese
exhibit association at the st. Louis
Worlds fair, was knocked down and
badly hurt by a footpad, in st. Louis,
on the night of the Sth. The robber
became frightened and left his victim
without securing any valuables.
The office of Alfred Lowell, assistant
superintendent of motive power of the
Santa Fe at Topeka, Kas., will be
moved to Chicago at once. An order
to this effect was received at the Santa
Ie offices on the 9Th. T%hirty-one en-
ployes will accompany Mr.. Lowell.
Union painters and paper hangers
in DeS Moines, Ia, went on a strike,
on the 23d, and an appeal will be taken
to the Trades and Labor Assembly and
a general strike ordered. The employ
ers insist upon an open shop policy,
and the men refuse to work with nOn-
union men.
Twenty of the corporations of Fall
River, Mass, engaged in the manufac-
ture of print cloths, controlling IS
mills, have entered into an agreement
to curtail production by shutting down
two days a week. The action is due to
unsettled conditions in the cotton and
cloth markets.
A. E. Thomson, of New York, and
others, are negotiating with the gov
eminent for the site of the Columbia
barracks, situated to the westward of
Havana, Cuba, with the object of erect
ing thereon a hotel and establishing
a race track. The price named by the
government is $250,000.
A report was sent out from Madrid,
on the 18th, hat an attempt had been
made on the life of King Alfonso at
Barcelona, Spain, by the explosion of a
petard. The only foundation for the
report was an explosion of gas half
a mile from where the king was leav-
ing the exhibition at Barcelona.
With bands playing 1.-THE Star Span
gled Banner" and Dixie" and 10000
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Virginia was launched, on the 5th, at
the yards of the Newport News (Va.)
S%hipbuilding Co. Miss Matilda Gay
Montague, daughter of Gov. Montague.
was sponsor for the new battleship.
Mr.. Hubert Taft, a nephew of Secre-
tary of War Taft, and Miss Nellie Lea
man were married at the residence of
the brides mother at Cincinnati, on the
9Th. Among those present were Secre-
tary Taft and Charles P. Taft, brother
of the secretary and proprietor of the
Cincinnati Times-Star. Hubert Taft is
a member of the Times-Star staff.
The states of Nebraska, Kansas and
northern Missouri were swept by a
blizzard on the 8th. Cattle turned out
to pasture suffered severely, and it is
feared that much damage was dou. to
fruit. In st. Louis the wind blew a
gale, varying from 40 to 60 miles an
hour. The Japanese bazaar building
ON the Worlds fair grounds was blown
down.
Four wealthy Chinese boys sent to
Vancouver, B. c., from China under the
auspices of the Chinese Reform associ-
alton. have been drowned on Burrard
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