The Tupelo journal., 1904-11-04
News Of the World


New Mexico received three med
ais at the worlds fair for the fruit
exhibits.
Three mail clerks were injured in
an Illinois Central wreck at Til
latoba, Miss.
Mrs. Isabella Prater, an aged
woman, was burned to death at
Temple, Tex.
Profits exceeding $500, 1000, 900
were taken within ten days by a
syndicate in Wall street.
At London Admiral Van Sittart
is dead. He was born July 81,
1918, and retired in 1878.
Matthew R. Cunningham Of
Bloomington, Ill, sent his wife
away from home and killed him
self.
Col. Pick Jones is dead at Sc
| gum, Tex, aged 80 years. He was
roommate of Edgar Allen Poe at
West Point.
George N. Jaggers, who murder
ed Mrs. Bevans at Sandyson, N. Y,
committed suicide in jail at Port
Jervis, N. Y.
An order has been issued allow
ing exhibitors at the worlds fair to
sell their exhibits at the close of
the exposition.
A telegram from Hon. j. W.
Britt, mayor of Gordon, Ala, pop
ulation 400, states that the entire
town has been destroyed by fire.
At st. Louis George Graham,
alias Edward L. Wright, was arrest
ed on the charge of having stolen
$500 worth of diamonds at Mem
phis, Tenn.
Phoebe P%rettyhair, aged 80, wife
of an Usage chief, died near Paw
huska, Ok. She was the last mem
Der of an Usage family prominent
in the tribe for centuries.
At Pollington, W. Va, the shops
of the Coal and Coke Railroad
Company, owned by ex-senator
Henry G. Davis, were destroyed by
fire. The loss is 100000.
Within three months the Union
Pacific Railroad Company will have
in operation several gasoline motor
! cars between Omaha and local sta
tons ON its Nebraska line.
At Youngstown, O., two of the
strikers at the American steel hoop
mills were shot and killed while at
tempting to intimidate Fred Wolfe,
employed on the seven-inch combi-
nation mill of the upper plant.
At st. Louis, October 21, a slight
earthquake shock, travelling from
northwest to southwest, was felt.
The earthquake caused a slight rat
thing of dishes in various parts of
st. Louis, but did no damage.
Writing with the pen in his
teeth, because he is without arms,
a man in Tahlequah, l. T.-where
citizens can not vote for president
has sent to the democratic nation
al committee his check for $1.25.
After spending almost $1,000, 900
in order to see that Harry K. Thaw
didn't marry without the consent Of
his family, the news from London
that the young heir has married
| Evalyn Nesbit, the former Pittsburg
chorus girl and art model, has fall
len a blow most bitter on the Thaws
of Pittsburg.
Three st. Louis city detectives
are dead, while one train robber
suspect is at the morgue and two
others in the city hospital, one prob
ably fatally wounded and the 9th
er badly beaten up, as the result
of a desperate battle between five
officers and three men whom they
tried to arrest.
During the night of October 81,
the Baltic feet came in contact with
| the British fishing fleet from Hull
and opened fire upon it, sinking sew
eral trawlers, killing two fishermen
and wounding about. a score Of
others. 1t is stated that the Russian
warships fired live shells without
giving any warning or ever using
preliminary blank shot.
The National bank building and
! three others burned at Wills Point,
Tex, entailing a loss of $4,000.
There has been no resumption Of
fighting Of a general character on
the Shakhe river. Both Russians
and japanese are entrenching their
positions. The outposts r within
| 700 wards of each other and less
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