The Tupelo journal., 1904-05-20

consul at New Chwang, China, hi
been appointed consul general at New
Chwang. without increase OF salary.
John Brown, of Richardson, N. H.,
is under arrest, charged with killing
his 12-year-old son while In Il. VI
anger. The father buried the BODY I'M
mediately. 1t has been exhumed'
Ernest Terah Hooley, whose meteoric
career and company promoting a lew
wears ago astonished the fnanclal
world. has Deer arrested in London Oh
the charge of conspiracy to defraud.
Reports say that while the rumor
that a revolution has broken OUT III
Havti is false. there is general dlscoh-
tent in the republic, and a reVolu'ioh
is momentarily looked for.
II has been definitely decided that
Sir Henry M. Stanley, Who died May
10. will not be buried in estmlns
Abbey. A memorial service Will De
held there on the day OF the funeral
May II.
Secretary Edward Jarnigan, OF the
Potter Paper Co., and his wlte, were
found dead in their home IN Chlcaso
ON the 10th. Appearances indicate that
both had swallowed poison and theh
turned on the gas.
Secretary of State Hay left Washing
ton. on the 18th, for st. Louis, where
he is to represent the president or the
United States and deliver the address
of welcome to the International Press
congress on the 18th inst.
A petition to Gov. Peabody and
Mayor Wright of Denver, Col, to order
out the national guard to preserve or
der at the election in that city is be-
Ing circulated, and has been signed by
hundreds of citizens.
Mrs. Elizabeth Eaton, a sister OF the
late President Benjamin Harrison, died,
ON the 18th, at North Bend, a suburb
Of Cincinnati. She was a granddaughter
of President William Henry Harrison,
who was a pioneer in that part OF
Ohio.
Subscriptions in London to the jap
anese loan of $50, 000, 900 have closed.
1t was estimated that the loan was
over-subscribed twenty times. There
was a great rush to subscribe, n an
enormous number of applications for
small amounts.
James N. Abeel, convicted of forging
the name of J. B. Van Every, vice-pres-
ident of the Western Union Telegraph
Co, to a note of introduction to Miss
Elanor Anderson, was sentenced by
Recorder Golf of New York to the Ell
mira reformatory.
Gov. Herrick of Ohio has ordered a
court martial in connection with the
recent riots at Springfield, at which
time the negro Dickson was lynched.
No information has been given out as
yet regarding the persons to be sum-
moned before the court martial.
Henry J. Heusack, of st. Louis, who
was charged with numbering his ia
ther-in-law, August Raphael, Of No.
p213 South Tenth street, on March Is,
vas found guilty of murder in the first
degree by a jury in Judge McDonald's
division of the circuit court on the 10th.
The battleship Missouri returned to
Old Point, on the 18th, after her final
acceptance trial at sea. Members of the
inspection board, who came ashore af-
ter the vessel dropped anchor, said that
the tests were satisfactory, and that
the big vessel was up to all the re-
u%uirements.
The body of a man who had evil
IDENTIFY been murdered was found in the
Illinois and Michigan canal at Chica-
go on the 18th. The corpse was badly
decomposed. A gag had been placed
across the mouth and two heavy Sec
lions of steam pipe had been attached
to the right arm.
Admiral Walker, president of the
Panama Canal commission, received a
telegram, on the 10TH, from John Find
ley Wallace, of Chicago, general man
ager of the Illinois Central railroad,
accepting the appointment of chief en-
gineer in charge of the construction
of the canal. Mr.. Wallace will receive
a salary of $25,o 600 a year.
In the Tyner-Barrett case, P. v. Key
ser, O. clerk in the post office depart
ment and formerly secretary to Gen.
Tyner, identified a considerable amount
of correspondence, including that which
related to E. J. Arnold & Co., of st.
Louis, Mo-, a Embarrassment company,
which was represented before the post
Office department by Mr.. Barrett.
The Nebraska grand lodge, knights
Of Pythias, on the 18th adopted sreso-
luton barring from membership gamb-
lers and ~bartenders. This ruling was
made some time ago by the state grand
chancellor, and the resolution adopted
on the 18th confirms that ruling. 1t
also provides that all such members
received since the ruling was made
shall be elected.
A Jury at Sherman, Tex, on the 18th,
gave Louis James, the actor, a judy
ment for $4,000 against the Oriental
Hotel Association of Dallas, Tex, for
libel. 1t is alleged the hotel people
had sent a telegram to James and wife,