The Tupelo journal., 1904-07-01
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary Of Important Events.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

suli dead"
The body of Gen. Bobrikoff, the late
governor of Finland, arrived at st. Pc
tersburg, on the 21st, from Helsing-
fors. 1t was received with full mill
a honors, and was inferred in the
family vault at Sergievo, near st. Pc
tersburg.
The 13-months-old child of F. M.
Prock, of Hollis Okla, died, on the
goth. the result of swallowing a spider,
which had also bitten the child three
times.
Mrs. Pearl Alspaugh,. who lived near
Hinton, Mo-, was struck by lightning,
on the 21st, and killed instantly. She
YVES taking some clothing from the
yard, when lightning struck the tree
to which the metal clothesline was at
tached. The wire burned in two just
above her head, and she fell to the
ground dead. A little daughter stand
ing zeal was severely stunned,
An explosion, presumably Of an &C.
emulation of escaping gas complete
ly wrecked the w. E. Reid grocery
SUDTe d uSW UuliulAS al thO "OoS II
of St. Louis, on the evening Of the
22d. Twelve persons were buried in
the debris, all of whom were more or
less injured, but no one was killed.
Admiral Togo reported, on the 25th,
to Toxic, all engagement Off Port Ar
thur, On the 23d, in which a Russian
battleship of the Peresviot type was
sunk and another of the Sevastopol
type and a first-class cruiser OF the Dl-
ana type were damaged. The Japanese
feet suffered little damage.
The president announced, on the
25th, the following cabinet appoint
ments, effective July 1: William H.
Moody, to be encouragement; Paul
Morton, to be secretary of the navy,
and Victor H. Metcalf, to be secretary
Of commerce and labor.
Uncle joe Cannon vas taken to his
home in Danville, H., from Chicago,
on the Oath, suffering from a low fever
alternating with chills. His physician
prescribes complete rest, and it is not
unlikely that an ocean voyage will be
Ou LIS SuilllLSI pLOSi dluliO.
Gov. Peabody of Colorado was wait
ed upon by a committee at his hotel.
in Chicago, where he went TO attend
the Republican national convention,
and warned by Emil Arnold, the
spokesman, to leave the city and state
as quickly as possible if he placed any
value on his health.
The London Standard credits Secre-
tary Hays vigorous diplomacy with
the speedy closing "of the most re-
markable ircident which has troubled
contemporary history in Morocco"
About four o'clock on the morning
of the Oath, two mysterious fires oc-
CURED on the Worlds fair grounds in
st. Louis. The Hoo-Hoo building, on
the plateau of state, erected by the
Lumbermen's association, at a cost OF
$40,0 00, was destroyed. The other fire
was in Mysterious Asia, on the Pike.
1t was subdued by Hale's Fire Fight
erS.
The greatest battle yet fought on the
Liao Tung peninsula is reported, in
dispatches of the evening of the 23d,
to have taken place between the main
armies of Gen. Kuropatkin and Gen.
Kuroki, in which the Russians met
with a severe reverse, being compelled
to retreat rapidly.
The Republican national convention,
at Chicago, finished up its work, on the
23d, and adjourned. Theodore Roose-
welt md Charles w. Fairbanks were
nominated for president and v~ice-pres-
ident of the United States respectively,
without a dissenting vote.
The greater portion of the delegates,
.%lternates and press representatives to
The Republican national convention
left Chicago, on the night of the 23d,
by special trains, for st. Louis, to &C
cept the hospitalitities of the Louisi-
ana Purchase exposition.
Prof. Charles H. Spooner, of Wash
ington university, st. Louis, Mo, has
been unanimously elected president Of
Norwich university, at Mortified, VT,
at a meeting of the trustees.
The supreme court of Missouri, en-
banc, has decided that the law reduc-
ing the salaries of coal oil inspectors
of st. Louis to $1,000 per year is IN
st%itutional, and renders judgment
against r. B. Speed and w. J. Flynn
for excess of fees to be paid into the
treasury. Judgment against Speed Is
for 81, 477.72, and against Flynn is for
$6,919.85.
Zach Mulhall, who INDUCED in pis-
toll practice on the Pike at the Worlds
fair, on the 18th, and who is out on
bond, has been barred from further ap-
pearance with the Wild West conces-
sion.
In q fire in the fremont house at
Quincy, ILL.,, on the 22d, Miss Elizabeth
Welsh, principal of the Jefferson
school, met death by suffocation, and
her sister, Miss Mary Welsh, principal
of the Jackson school, was probably IA
tally burned. The flames were con-
fined to the hotel building, and the loss
is $4,000, with insurance of $4,000.
Montreal and Toronto capitalists,
under the leadership of Sir William
Van Horne, have formed a company,
with a capitalization of $50. 0O0, 900, to
secure control of the different street
railway systems of Rio Janeiro, Brazil,
as well of the lightning facilities Of
that city.
A lone bandit with a shotgun held
up the outgoing stage to Murphy, near
the summit, a few miles from Silver