The Tupelo journal., 1904-12-02

would remain in President Roosevelt's
cabinet.
The officials of the Cuban govern
ment have officially denied the pub
lished reports that there is yellow fe-
yer in Cuba.
r. Nj. Scruggs, the ~well-known st.
Louis merchant, capitalist and phi
lanthropist, died at his home in 81.
Louis, on the 22d, after a prolonged
illness, aged 81 years.
Jimmy Michael, the noted Welsh
middle-distance bicycle rider, died
suddenly, on November q, on board
the French line steamship La Savole,
of congestion of the brain.
Cattle butchers employed in the large
plants a. tn Chicago stock yards held
a mass meeting, on the 22d, and de-
cided to o on strike when called on
to do so by the officials of their union.
The III ladelphia p~resbytery, on the
21st, by a ote of 81 to As, decided In
favor of the afiliation of the Cumber-
land PRESBYTERIAN church with the
Presbyterian church of the united
States.
After successful mining operations,
the Japaneze have blown up the coun-
ter scarps of the Rihlung and Sun-Chu
mountains. This practically gives them
possession of all the outer works at
Port Arthur.
Prince Sanadaru Fushimi, Japanese
military hero, and the mikado's repre-
sentative visitor to the United States
and the Worlds fair. left st. Louis, on
the oath, for Philadelphia and other
cities in the east.
President Roosevelt's speech at
Washington, on November 10, at the
occasion of the unwilling of the bronze
statue of Frederick the Great, and the
attendant ceremonies, is said to have
greatly pleased Germany.
Arnold Beuthein, until two months
ago cashier and one of the largest
stockholders in savings banks at New
Liberty and Dixon, Ia, was arrested
In Chicago, on the 22d, charged with
embezzlement of 100000 of the banks
funds.
Division No. 2 of the Missouri SUI
preme court, in an opinion of Judge
~ L..Jo3 down an tho GOD h2y Of
frmed the sentence of William Ru-
dolph, the murderer of Detective Schu-
macher, and fixed execution for Janu-
airy 10, 1905.
The zemstvos, on the 22d, completed
the draft of their memorial, which
they will present to the car of Rus
STA. 1t is in effect a yelled ultimatum,
setting forth the st~atement-in effect
that the emperor must choose between
reforms and revolution.
Stephen Putney, Jr., Of Richmond,
Va. son of a wealthy wholesale shoe
dealer there, who mysteriously dlsap-
Feared while visiting the Worlds fair
at st. Louis on November 16, was
found, on the 25th, in a detachment OF
recruits at Jefferson barracks.
The national trustees of the McKin-
ley Memorial association, who have in
their charge the erection of the Nc
Kinley monument in Canton, O., met
in New York, on the 22d, and viewed
the design presented by the official
architect, H. Vanburen McGonigle.
Miners have broken into a cavern
containing two dozen mummies, near
Silver City, N. M. Buried with the
mummies were stone weapons and in
struments, showing that they be-
longed to a prehistoric race. The
mummies were apparently about five
feet tall in life.
Lady Curzon was taken by a special
train, on the goth, from Wilmer to
Bournemouth, where she will spend the
winter at Highclife castle, Christ
church, a mile outside the town. The
milder climate Of Bournemouth is eX-
pected to assist her convalescence. SHE
bore the journey we'll.
The Chicago Subway Co., with a cap
ital stock of $50, 600, 900, and composed
of men who represent 80 per cent. OF
tht railroads having Chicago termi-
mails, was organized, on the 21st, and
took over the $780, 900, 900 company,
which has built Is miles of freight
tunnels under the city streets.
On tie 22d, the delegates to the
American Federation of Labor con-
vention at San Francisco again re-
fused to indorse socialistic tendencies.
The delegate to whom the authorship
of the cards calling Mitchell and Com
pers traitors vas imputed, denied the
charge in a speech from the floor.
Albert E. Troy, a well-known news
paperman, died suddenly at Denver,
Col, on the Goth, the results of an at
tack of grip. Mr.. Troy was news ed
itor of the Denver Post, and previous
to going to Denver for his health was
managing editor of the Munsey pull
LEGATIONS in New York. A widow sur.
wives him.
At the annual Thanksgiving dinner
of Americans in London, on the oath,
Sir Edward Clarke, in an address, said
that the ambassador OF the United
States should not style himself an