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The Tupelo journal., 1904-05-13
GUN WITH A CLEAN RECORD
A New Six-Inch Gun on the Battle
ship Texas, Fired Nineteen
Times With Nineteen Hits.

Washington, May I'm a letter to
the navy department., Capt. Swinburn,
commanding the Texas. said that there
is on that ship a new siX-inch gun
which has been fired 19 times and has
made 10 hits. This is the only gun
in the navy that has never made a
miss. In his letter to the department
Capt. Swinburn also call attention to
the splendid nerve shown by the men
of the Texas in target practice. The
Texas went on the target range within
a few hours after the terrible accident
on the Missouri. At the time the Texas
began her practice the cause of the
accident was absolutely unknown, but
the Texas made the best records of
any ship in this years target practice.
The Tupelo journal., 1904-05-13
LOAN PLACED IN AMERICA
New York Firm Purchases
Japanese Notes. REDEEM
able After Three Years.

New York, May Kuhn. Loeb 4
and Shanghai banking corporation ana
PARIS bank, limited, of London, has
purchased from the Japanese govern
ment 10000, 900, seven year six per
cent. treasury notes, reedeemable after
three years at the option of the gov
eminent, and secured by an exclusive
first lien on the customs. Kuhn, Loeb
& Co. have agreed to join, and a sim
ultaneous public issue will be made
shortly in London and New York. 1t -
understood from outside sources thai
Kuhn, Loeb & Co. take half of the
notes, and will form a syndicate which
will purchase them.
The Tupelo journal., 1904-05-13
National Guard Encampment.

The encampment of the Misslsslp-
ri National Guard, which is to be
held some time this summer, IN
August, on the coast, is to be one
of the best that has ever been held
bv the National Guard of this State.
There will be regular army officers
in attendance, and it will be con
Quoted similar to such affairs in the
regular army. There T to be sham
battles, skirmishes with the "ene-
N.Y." and other mimic forms OF
warfare. The field movements are
to be elaborate.
The Tupelo journal., 1904-05-13
Mississippi State News
Gammons Turns Author.

Albert Gammons, who is now in
the Jackson Jail, charged with the
murder of the two Kimscys, near
Water Valley, has turned author
and is writing a full account of his
crime, the murder of his sweetheart,
Fannie Kimsey, and her father,
Jake Kimsey. The manuscript will
be turned over to +. r. Conway.
who is in the same cell with Gam
mons, and it is not to be given out
until ?fter Gan.rlons' death, which
event Gammons seems to be certain
will come soon.
The Tupelo journal., 1904-05-13
No More secret Meetings.

Gov. Vardaman stated last week
that hereafter every newspaper mar
in the State would be welcome to
attend the meetings of the board of
control, whenever they were held, to
look over any document or paper
WHICH pertained to the penitentiary
and which was of official character.
In the past some of the board of
control meetings have been in Sc
cret, but Gov. Vardaman says there
will be no more of them held, and
every newspaper man is welcome
to these meetings as his right.
The Tupelo journal., 1904-05-13
MAKES REMARKABLE RECORD
D~attleship Iowa Makes a New Rec
ord at Target Practice
just Completed.

Washington, May 7.-Remarkable
records were made by the Iowa's guns
in the annual record target practice
just completed at Pensacola. The
Iowa's 12-inch guns made AZ shots and
"a hits. The best 12-inch gun made
IL shots and II hits. The hits per
gun. per minute for the 12-inch guns
were OTIS. This equals the record
made by the British ship Ocean in 1902
when she broke the worlds record,
and in the case of the Iowa record,
is all the more creditable because her
guns are of an old type.
The Iowa's 8-inch guns made 1.20
hits the gun each minute, the best gun
making eight hits out of nine shots.
The Tupelo journal., 1904-05-13
The QUARANTINE QUESTION
Solution of Question Will BE Found
in Arrival of United States
Marine Hospital

Mexico City, May Tt is said that
the solution of the quarantine question
will be found in the arrival from the
United States of marine hospital sur
geons in the character of confidential
agents of the United States, who will
be stationed in every United States
consulate to issue certificates of health
o travellers desiring to cross the Texas
border. These agents would not have
direct official recognition, o is 1t
necessary. They will, however, work
in. harmony with the superior board
of health.
The Tupelo journal., 1904-05-13
systematic

viz las hNNs
sions to clear away the vast quantity
Of preliminary matter the work will
proceed smoothly and rapidly.
The various important committees
held their first meetings Friday after
moor at half a dozen different churches,
and made a fair start in the business
before them. The resignation of Sc
nior Bishop Stephen M. Merrill, OF
Chicago, was presented to the confer
ence and referred to the committee on
episcopacy, with instructions TO report
to the general conference with apprO-
pirate resolutions commendatory OF
the great service Bishop Merrill has
rendered to the church in his SO years
as minister and bishop.
The only other important subject
considered by the general conference
Friday was the resolution offered
Thursday by DR.. ]. F. Gouches, as fol-
lows:
Resolved, That a committee of fiji
teen be appointed, to consist of one
minister and one layman from each
general conference district and one at
large, whose duties shall be to report
back to this general conference, not
later than May 16, a regrouping of the
annual conferences in the conference
districts; so as to secure as nearly as
may be equal representation, havlEs
due regard, however, to proximity OF
territory and similarity of interest"
After debate as to what should be
done with this resolution had dragged
along for more than an hour, some one
suddenly discovered that there was a
specific rule of the general conference
which provided for its reference to The
committee on boundaries, and it was
. ordered.
Pentacostal meetings are being held
daily at the Temple Baptist church.
These meetings are of the revival kind,
addressed by well-known revival-sts.
including several bishops, and attended
by great crowds of church people.
Bishop c. c. McCabe is n of this
leaders in these meetings.
A series of lectures by visiting
church dignitaries are a feature of the
evening entertainments at the pavilion
and at Simpson auditorium. TIE
speakers include half a dozen of the
bishops, DR.. J.. M. Buckley, DR.. T. B.
Neeley, and others.
The committee on episcopacy will
meet Monday afternoon, when it is ex-
Dected the question of new and addi-
tional bishops will be-taken up.
The Tupelo journal., 1904-05-13
Manufacturing Firms Display.

Among the exhibits at the st:
louis Exposition from the State OF
Mississippi is n from a manufac-
turing firm, the W. T. Adams Ma
chine Company, of Corinth. This
company has installed in section *
of Machinery Hall a most complete
exhibit of boilers. engines, saw
mills and gins. This firm, which
is one of the largest of its KIND IN
the South, has just celebrated its
twenty-fifth anniversary. 50 lar as
known this is the first Mississippi
manufacturing firm to make such an
extensive display at an exposition.
The Tupelo journal., 1904-05-13
BANKS

'In Washington the feeling among
the republican leaders is that Senator
Fairbanks is to be nominated for vice
president. 1t is practically settled. The
only man who has not agreed TO it is
Senator Fairbanks, but he will accept
and make a strong candidate. He is a
very reluctant candidate; yea an UNI
willing %aspirant, but he will yield TO
the pressure for mis- nomination"
. According to the World, Mr.. Platt
announced hat he is for Elihu Root
for governor.
The Tupelo journal., 1904-05-13
TWO MINERS ENTOMBED.
Are Shut in by Fire in the
Locust Gap Slope at
~ShanOkin, Pa.

Shamokin( Pa, May Fire, which
broke out late Thursday night, in the
Locust Gap slope operated by the Phil
adelphia & Reading Coal & Iron Co.,
is still raging fercely. John and
Michael Boglan and Michael Shannon,
of Locust Gap, who were in the III
when the fire started, were unable to
reach the surface, and a rescuing party
is at work endeavoring to reach the
entombed men.
Locust Spring breaker, which pre-
pared the Locust Gap coal for market.
was forced to shut down, rendering
over 1000 men and boys idle.
The Tupelo journal., 1904-05-13
Favorable for Farm Work.

The Weekly crop bulletin, issued
May 3, says:
While conditions have continued
very favorable for farm work, which
is generally well advanced, the I'M
seasonably cold weather has not only
retarded termination and growth,
but in some localities has materially
injured stands of cotton and corn.
Planting is generally about COM
pleted and in nearly all sections
there has been more or less replant-
ing. Cotton is much in need OF
warmer weather and in the Delta
and northern counties it needs a
good rain. Early cotton is being
chopped over the southern portion
of the State. Corn has been dam
aged by cut worms in a few coun-
ties, but on the whole it looks fair
ly well, although growing very
slowly; it is in a good state OF cult
walton and with favorable weather
will grow rapidly. Early oats are
heading out south and promise a
fine yield, while over the northern
counties they are in fair condition.
Cane is generally up to good stands
and sorghum is bing planted.
Sweet potatoes are being set out.
Pastures are good. As a rule tree
fruits are quite promising, espe-
cially peaches.
The Tupelo journal., 1904-05-13
NEARLY CAME TO BLOWS.
Hearst and Parker Supporters Al
most Came to Blows at
Hartford, Conn.

Hartford, Conn, May I'm the de-
bate between the Hearst and Parker
supporters in the democratic conven-
ton. ex-Gov. Waller and DR.. Brothers,
of New Haven, nearly came to blows.
The scene was almost unprecedented
in a convention III this section. Cool
headedness on the part of the many
delegates prevented a worse scene.
The Tupelo journal., 1904-05-13
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Burned in Hotel Fire.

Salida, Col, May raymond
Cooks, a young miner, was burned to
death and six other persons had a mar
row escape from aeing cremated III a
fire that destroyed the Hotel Turret,
a two-story wooden structure, at Tur-
ret, a mining camp II miles north OF
Salida.
The Tupelo journal., 1904-05-13
Holding or Appointment.

Governor Vardaman will not APP
point the school book commission
created by the passage Of the uni
form text book bill for some time
yet, possibly next fall. He author
ICES this statement to be made. Re-
ports have been sent out that he
would announce the appointment OF
the commission this week. This II
port is untrue. Gov. Vardama3
does not intend to announce the
commission now and will not do so
for some months.
The Tupelo journal., 1904-05-13
Business League at Columbia.

A business league has been or
ganized at Columbia with an en-
thusiastic membership, including
every merchant and industrial leader
in the town. A committee was i'm
mediately appointed to solicit the
investment of capital in that sec
ton. An active campaign was
started to induce farmers to aid IN
the establishment of canning facto-
ries.
The Tupelo journal., 1904-05-13
Taking to Trucking.

The small farmers around Scran-
ton are beginning to realize that
trucking is the most profitable agrl-
culture that they can engage in, and
are embarking in it with more than
usual success. One man sold forty
five bushels of beans from a patch
of land 9Ox17O feet, which averaged
$3.50 per bushel, and the same land
will Weld several more crops this
wear,
The Tupelo journal., 1904-05-13
Talked to His Brother in Montana.

The use of the long distance tele-
phone was well illustrated in Jack
son last week, when a business man
called up his brother, who is a resi-
dent of Helena, Mont, and talked
to him about a business proposition.
The distance is nearly 5000 miles,
and the gentleman said he could
hear distinctly what vas said.
The Tupelo journal., 1904-05-13
Held For the Grand Jury.

Carbondale, Ill, May Mrs. Wall
ter Burnett, the young married woman
who shot and killed Samuel Mccall, a
prominent merchant Of Vienna, has
been held to await the grand jury's
action. Mrs. Burnett refuses to dis
cusS the tragedy.
The Tupelo journal., 1904-05-13
Hanged Mt walIa WaIla.

Walla Walla, Wash, May flames
Champoux was hanged in the state
penitentiary here for the murder of
Lottie Brace at Seattle, November .,
1902. Champoux walked from the hos
pital building to the scaffold, Learly
fifty yards distant, unaided.
The Tupelo journal., 1904-05-13
Bond Bids Called For.

The expected happened last week,
when Gov. Vardaman issued notice
that on Saturday, July 8, the gov
ernor, treasurer and auditor OF the
State of Mississippi will receive bids
for the issuance of 100000 of non-
taxable thirty-year bonds of the
State, redeemable by the State after
the expiration of ten years, the
bonds to bear interest at the rate OF
3R per cent per annum, payable
semi-annually at the %treasurer's Of
flee at Jackson. ,All bids must be
accompanied by a certified check OF
one-tehth of the value of the bonds
bid for. No bid to be considered
if less than par value of bonds bid
for, and the committee reserves the
right to reject any and all bids.
These bonds to be issued were au-
thorized by the last legislature, and
they will come in at a very oppo:-
tune time, for the money III the
treasury is now very low, and after
the June distribution of the school
fund the balance will be very small.
The Tupelo journal., 1904-05-13
Oyster Commission Seeks Relief.

The oyster commission at a regu-
meeting at Pass Christian last
week, appointed a committee to 60
to Jackson and seek to effect some
relief from the conditions prevail
ing because of the failure of the re-
cent legislature to make an appro-
priation for the commissions ex-
penses. The commission is without
funds to operate, and the blunder
of the legislature may cause'serIous
results. Warrants presented to the
State treasurer have not been hon
ored, it being stated that there are
no funds in the treasury for the
prrpocp
The Tupelo journal., 1904-05-13
Fell to His Death.

billiard Goosby, the 1~6-year-old
son of W. J. Goosby, a prominent
sawmill man Of New Albany, fell
from a heavily loaded wagon last
week and both the front and hind
wheels passed over his body. The
left leg was crushed and three rlDs
were broken, and the young man
died in about four hours from the
effects Of his injuries. be was 2
popular and promising boy, and MS
death is deeply regretted
The Tupelo journal., 1904-05-13
New BUILDINGS for jackson.

Architects are 0 at work on the
plans for two handsome Office build
ings which are to be erected IN
Jackson, one by the Merchants
Bank and one by the Capital Ma
tional. 1t is expected that both con-
tracts will be let some time durln.
the coming month. Both building
are to be five stories high.
The Tupelo journal., 1904-05-13
Read His own Death Notice.

Chillicothe, Mo-, May 7.-Dr. J.. G.
Campbell, an e~ccentrice rowing eye spe-
of Missouri, who was reported dead
several weeks ago, is alive. He read
his death notice with much amuse-
ment.
The Tupelo journal., 1904-05-13
Sam Parks Funeral.

New York, May 7.-Plans are being
made for the attendance of thousands
of workmen at the funeral, Saturday,
of Sam Parks, former business agent
of the Housesmiths' and Bridgemen's
union, who died Wednesday in Sing
Sing prison hospital.
The Tupelo journal., 1904-05-13
Reward for Owen Brown.

The governor has offered a re-
ward of 500 for the arrest OF a
negro. Owen Brown, who escaped
from the Tate county Jail a few
ago. Brown some days ago
shot and killed a mar by the name
of Sherman Fox.
The Tupelo journal., 1904-05-13
Tom Brown to Hang.

The case of Tom Brown, charged
with the murder of Young Will
liams at Winona some two years ago,
was concluded at Carrollton last
week. The jury returned a verdict
of guilty and Judge Stevens SEN
fenced Brown to be hanged in Car
mrollton on June 10, 1904.
The Tupelo journal., 1904-05-13
Must Grubstake Themselves,

Washington, May 7.-Comptroller
Tracewell of the treasury department
has decided that $50 can not be expend-
ed for the purpose of giving the edi-
tors of Indian territory a luncheon
when they visit the st. Louis EXPOSE
ton to attend the press parliament.
The Tupelo journal., 1904-05-13
Newton's Population Has Doubled.

A census of the enterprising town
of Newton, taken last week, shows
the population of that place has
o than doubled since the Federal
census of 1900. Things are BOOM
ing in and around the old town OF
late. Nav she nevSsr to grow.
The Tupelo journal., 1904-05-13

This years harvest in Manchuria, II
is said, promises to be bad. A million
Russians there. in addition to the army,
must be fed. The Japanese have, or
soon will have, closed every source OF
food supply except by the Siberian rail-
road. Famine appears inevitable.
The Tupelo journal., 1904-05-13
The Exhibits Rolling In.

st. Louis, May Eighty per cent.
of the exhibits have been received at
the Worlds fair, and work is being
rushed to complete installation by next
Tuesday.
The Tupelo journal., 1904-05-13
ME7HOD|STS MAKE
LITTLE PROGRESS :
Few More Sessions Will Enable the
Work to Proceed Smoothly.
BISHOP MERRILL RESIGNS
Only Important Subject Considered
by the Conference Friday Was
the Resolution offered by DIR.
j. +. Gouches.

Los Angeles, Cal, May Very lit
tie progress was made by the Meth
odist general conference Friday, but
the business is being so shaped and
systematized that with a few more ses-
The Tupelo journal., 1904-05-13
An Ancient Negress.

Nation, H., May Mrs. Mary Fer
rill, a colored woman Of this city, OBJ
served her one hundred and sixth
birthday anniversary Thursday. She
is the oldest resident of Coles county.
She was born in slavery in Alabama.
The Tupelo journal., 1904-05-13
Enthusiastic in Praisc.

Washington. May 7.-GcyernPent
Worlds fair board members who have
returned to the capital from the open
ing in ST. Louis are enthusiastic in
their praise of the exposition.
The Tupelo journal., 1904-05-13
Way Re-Enter Politics.

Washington, May Col. David B.
Henderson's disgust with life in New
York is diagnosed by Iowa politicians
as the forerunner Of his re-entry into
the politics of the Hawkeye state.
The Tupelo journal., 1904-05-13

The time limit of St. Louis Worlds
fair tickets has been extended by near
" all of the western roads from ten
days to Is days. They are the Bur-
lington, Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul,
Rock Island, Frisco, Illinois Central,
Missouri Pacific and Union Pacific.
The Tupelo journal., 1904-05-13

Kuhn, Loeb & Co.. announced that
the Hong Kong and Shanghai banking
corporation and PARIS bank, limited,
of London, has purchased from the
japanese government $40, 600, 900, sew
en- year six per cent. treasury notes,
redeemable after three years at the
option of the government, and secured
by an exclusive first lien on the GUS
toms.
The Tupelo journal., 1904-05-13
Seward Guilty Of MansIaughter.

Danville, Ind, May Henry M.
Seward, indicted for the murder of his
wife, Alice, at Lena, Putnam county,
May 8, 1903, was found guilty of man
slaughter by the jury. The jury had
been out So hours.
The Tupelo journal., 1904-05-13
Jokai Funeral state Affair.

Vienna, May THE funeral Of
Mauraus Jokai. the Hungarian novel
list, who died of Inflammation of the
lungs at Buda Pest, Thursday, will be
made a state affair.
The Tupelo journal., 1904-05-13

Prof. F. Lamson S%cribner, chief OF
the bureau of agriculture of the Philip
pine government, has resigned, and has
been placed in charge of the bureau of
plant industry at the st. Louis expo
sition. Mr.. Scribner formerly was the
chief a~grostologist of the department
of agriculture.
The Tupelo journal., 1904-05-13

Hajime Hoshi is installing his Jap
anese printing Office in the Liberal
Arts building at the Worlds fair at
St. Louis, and it will be in operation
in a few days. The types are metal,
of the same height as American type,
and are we'll cast with the Japanese
characters.
The Tupelo journal., 1904-05-13

The Liberty bell will be taken to st.
Louis. This was decided upon, on the
9Th, when both branches of the city
council of Philadelphia passed a reso-
luton appointing a special joint COM
mittee of "a to escort the revolutionary
relic, and appropriating SIS, 900 to de-
fray the expenses.
The Tupelo journal., 1904-05-13

COL. FRANCIS EDWARD YOUNGHUS-
BAND.
Commanding British Expedition in
Thibet.
coming from the direction of ShigatZc,
attacked the British mission at Gy-
angtse at dawn on April 5. The Thi-
betans were %repulsed with heavy loss
and fled. The British loss was two
wounded.
The Tupelo journal., 1904-05-13

News has been received at Milwau-
kee of the death at Kansas City, kas.,
of James w. Sanders, who is credited
with having named the republican
party at the small meeting held in
Ripon, Wis, March 20, 1854, when it
was organized as a small anti-slavery
club.
The Tupelo journal., 1904-05-13

The war department has determined
to ignore the charges made by. Capt. J.
P. Walker, United States army, retired,
against Col. Mills, superintendent of
the West Point military academy, and
a recommendation that no further &C
ton be taken was submitted to Secre-
tary Taft.
The Tupelo journal., 1904-05-13

DR.. William w. Barton Hopkins, we'll
known in medical circles, died at Phil
adelphia, on the 4th, of cholera morbus.
DR.. Hopkins was the author of many
valuable medical articles, and his book
on fractures is widely known.
The Tupelo journal., 1904-05-13

The case of Charles Cunningham, the
eastern Oregon sheep king" Glen H.
v. Sailing, Shelly Jones and Dallas
O'Hara, charged with conspiracy to de-
fraud the United States government of
public lands, was brought to an alb
rupt and unexpected conclusion on the
9Th, by pleas of guilty being made
when these defendants were arraigned
in the United States district court, al
Portland, Ore.
After a search covering the whole of
the United States, George Miller, heir
to more than 500, 900, left him after
he had been exiled from Brooklyn, N.
Y, for three years, has been found at
last. While agents Of his fathers exec
utors we're looking for him all over
the west, he was tossing in delirium
upon a bed in the Sacramento county
hospital in Sacramento, Cal. He is
still in that institution, slowly recov-
ering from a long run of typhoid fever.
The proposal before the assembly
that Panama should adopt the United
States gold standard was rejected af-
ter an excited discussion, or the Sd,
by IS votes to IS. The government and
the opposition parties did not act as
units. The two to one system was
proposed, on the tth, the government
to issue 1000, 900 silver dollars, 900
fine, depositing enough money with the
United States to guarantee the differ
ence between the actual and the nom
final value of the issue.
The Tupelo journal., 1904-05-13
New Registration Ordered.

In many counties of the State an
entirely new registration has been
ordered by the boards of supervisors,
while in others a supplemental reg
istration is taking place.
The Tupelo journal., 1904-05-13

Allen Mooney, the condemned MUIR
derer who shot and killed two women
at Saranac Lake, N. Y, on November
a, 1902, was put to death in the cleo
tric chair at Clinton prison, Dame
mora. on the Sd.
The Tupelo journal., 1904-05-13

The trial of Charles Kratz, Of st.
Louis, charged with boodling, was
called at Butler, Mo-, on the I'd, but
was postponed by agreement OF both
sides until August 1 before Judge
Graves.
The Tupelo journal., 1904-05-13

Robert A. Smith, democrat, was re-
elected mayor of st. Paul, Mimi, on
the Sd, by a large plurality over Col.
E. P. Wright, republican. Mayor
Smiths plurality, according to early
returns, may run as high a 5000. The
democrats probably will have a major
ity of the common council.
The Tupelo journal., 1904-05-13
Pike and Smith Settle.

Pike and Smith counties are the
two first counties to settle with the
auditor for privilege licenses sold
from January l to May !. Pixies
report was 1885 and Smith county
paid into the treasury $545.