The Tupelo journal., 1904-09-23

Lit ulccGiuS VI OnC 0uoiioih
railroad commissioners will be held
in st. Louis October 5.
Seven persons were burned to
death and six seriously injured in a
New York tenement fire.
Dan Patch, the famous pacing
stallion, was dying September IA
from strangulated hernia.
It is announced that Parker,
Bryan and Cleveland will take part
in the democratic campaign.
New York republicans nominated
Frank w. Higgins for governor.
He is Gov. Odell's candidate.
Robert NJ. McWade, United
States consul general at Canton,
China, was dismissed by President
Roosevelt.
At Riwell, N. NJ, Juan Chaves,
aged 1874 years, is dead. Mr..
Chaves was the oldest Mexican in
New Mexico.
A Houston, Tex, paper printed a
story hat a plot to kill President
Roosevelt had been Matched in Spain
and frustrated in Mexico.
Seven prisoners escaped from the
Shelby county jail at Memphis
September 6 by saving the steel
bars from one Of the cells.
Four persons we're burned to
death and six injured in a fire
which destroyed the three upper
floors of a New York tenement.
D. P. Leibhardt. superintendent
of the dead letter Office, committed
suicide at Washington, because of a
recent investigation Of his office.
Yetta Beikowitz, aged IS, met
death in a peculiar manner at
Gravesend, n. y. She was kneel-
ing at the side of a grave in Wash
ington cemetery when the family
monument toppled over on her and
crushed her to death.
Judge Anthony Thornton, form
er member of the Illinois supreme
court, a contemporary of Lincoln:
and a member of congress with
Blaine. Conkling and Garfield, died
at Shelbyville, H., aged SO years
and 10 months. He was the old
est Elk in the world.
DR.. de Grave, a French special
ist. has made a declaration which
has caused considerable emotion
among the fair @ in the gay capt.
tai. He says that the fashionable
straight-front corset is ruinous to
beauty, because it is unhealthy. and
that women wearing this style OF
STAYS sooner or later fall victims to
dyspepsia, s~leeplessness and amaze
mia.
At Jackson, Miss. Sterlin Dun
ham. a young negro, has confessed
to a crime for which another negro
was lvnchcd by a mob in Webster
county last June. The innocent
man was captured and hanged for
the supposed criminal assault of a
white girl. Dunham confessed that
he was the man who committed the
deed. The governor viii protect
Durham with the militia and see
that he is tried.
President Roosevelt's letter form
ally accepting the republican NOM
nation for another term at the
white house was made public Sep
TENDER II. In it the president as
serts that he stands as a candidate
on his record. and the record Of his
party in the last seven years. He
adds that if he is elected there will
be no change in the policy of the
government in any particular. The
letter contains about $4,000 words.
Mrs. Florence Maybrick has made
her introduction in American So
ciety, after her long absence in an
English prison. She displayed all
the charm Of manner which made
her a favorite twenty years ago.
There was no restraint in her ming
ling with the guests hidden to meet
her. The occasion was the lawn
fete given by Mrs. John Sturte-
want at Cragsmoor, N. Y.
Announcement is made that Rear
Admiral Schley will shortly publish
his autobiography under the title
"Forty-five Years Under the Flag"
About one-third of the book will be
devoted to the Spanish war.
President VIM. J. Jencks of the
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engi-
neers announced September 2 that
the elevated road employees Of Man.
haitian and The Bronx voted as a
unit to strike, if such. action is
deemed necessary.
Five bandits perpetratad a sue