The Tupelo journal., 1904-02-12

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PUBLISHED WEEKLY.
TUPELO. MISSISSIPPI
Andre Matteson, once editor of the
Chicago Times, died, on the 5th, at
his home in Highland Park, Ill.
The League of American Municipali-
ties will hold their annual conven-
ton in East st. Louis, Ill, on October
4, 5 and 6.
More than 100000 acres in Routt
and Grand counties, Col, were thrown
open for settlement, or the 4th, by the
state land board, including coal, agri-
cultural and mineral lands.
The senate voted, on the 9Th, in
favor of loaning the st. Louis Worlds
fair $4,000, 900. The exposition COM
pany agreed to pay Uncle Sam back
out of the first gate receipts.
Admiral Schley, who had been suf-
fering from an attack of grip at Wash
ington, d. c., vas very much better on
the 9Th. He was able to leave his bed
and break.ast with his family.
Adjt.-Gen. Scott. on the 4th, issued
an order granting permission to the
First regiment, Illinois national guard,
of Chicago, to attend the Louisiana
Purchase exposition at St. Louis. July
1923.
The official call for the Prohibition
national convention, which is to con-
vene in Indianapolis, Ind, on June 20,
was issued. on the 4th, by Oliver w.
Stewart, chairman of the national
committee.
The order of Mayor Mcclellan of
New York city to close the Grand
opera house was complied with, on
the 5th, by the management. A strong
force of police was present to enforce
the order if necessary.
Charged with robbing the body of a
woman victim of the Chicago Iroquois
theater fire, Louis WitZe, a saloon
keeper, was, on the I'd, found guilty.
It. Mccarthy and Charles Conway were
convicted of aiding Witze,
Rev. Amos Dresser, a retired Con-
gregatiOnal minister, died, On the 4th,
at his home near Lawrence, Kas.. aged
81 years. He was one of the first
graduates of Oberlin university, be-
ing a member of the class of '33.
A charter was granted at Topeka,
Kas. on the 9Th, to the Arkansas, Mis-
souri, & Kansas Railroad Co., capital
1.500, 900, to build a line southeast
from Chanute, Kas. Boston capitalists
were reported to be behind the COM
pany.
The senate committee, on the 5th,
authorized Senator Nelson, of Mime
sofa, to report favorably or his bill
to provide for the construction of
roads in Alaska, for the maintenance
of schools and support of insane and
destitute persons in the territory.
S1lu % W. hCNSS, III WV yColo
general manager of the Burlington rail-
road lines in Missouri, was, on the
5th, made assistant to President How
ard Elliott of the Northern Pacific
railroad, to take charge of the prop
critics west of the Rocky mountains.
Following the lead of Gov. w. J.
Bailey of Kansas, who withdrew from
the race for governor, Morton Albaugh,
chairman of the republican state CEN
trail committee during the last three
campaigns, on the LIST announced that
he would not be a candidate for re-
election.
William c. Whitney went to his
final rest, on the 5th, in the presence
of his family, relatives and friends in
the many walks of life in which the
late secretary of the navy had passed.
The simple ceremonies were held over
the remains in Grace church, New
York city.
The Canadian Pacific railway officials,
at Montreal, Can, announced. on the
I'd, that the company had been con-
demned by a British judge in Hong
Kong to pay to the Chinese govern
ment $4S0,0 for the sinking of a Chi
nese gunboat by one of their steamers,
the Empress of Japan.
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After a brief sitting, the supreme
court of the United States adjourned
on the list, to meet again on the 23d.
The adjournment was for the purpose
of affording opportunity to give con
sideration of cases which have been
argued, including the Northern Sc
c~urities merger case.
Last rites were performed, on the
Sd, at the Seminary of the Sacred
Heart, Chicago, over the remains of
Madame Margaret Knapp, a widely
known member of the Sacred Heart
community. Madame Knapp was a
member of the well-known family of
hat name in st. Louis.
Judge Lucien Salisbury died at his
home on Walnut Hill farm, near Ken
ton, O., on the Sd, aged so years. He
was the founder of Salisbury, Mo, and
served four terms as a member of the
legislature of hat state. While a res
ident of Missouri he also served on