The Tupelo journal., 1904-05-06

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TUPELO. =. MISSISSIPPI.
The caving in Of a coal mine at
Tocina, Seville, Spain, on the 2Sth,
buried a large number of miners. Fifty
bodies were recovered and ten men
rescued alive.
Judge Conlan, on the 26th, again
postponed his decision in the motion
to dismiss the case Of Mrs. Cordelia
Botkin, at San Francisco, accused OF
the murder of Mrs. Joshua Deane.
The closing session of the WON
ans Presbyterian Board of Missions OF
the Northwest was held, on the 2Sth, at
Grand Rapids, Mich. The next meet
ing will be held in Des Moines, la.
Congress having failed to provide
for an investigation of the post Of
flee department, The president, it is
said. will inaugurate a thorough one
by officials appointed directly by the
president.
Prospectors are rushing to the can
yon of the Shoshone river, five miles
west of Cody, Wyo., where it is report
ed Tellurim ore assaying several hun-
dred dollars in gold and silver has
been discovered.
The Republican convention met at
Ponce, P. R., on the 9th, and selected
as delegates to the Republican ma
tional convention Robert TODD, Gomez
H. Rosey. The delegates were INSTRUCT
ed for Roosevelt.
The Indiana Republican state con-
vention, on the 9th, nominated D.
Frank Hanly, of Lafayette, for governor
on the first ballot. The nomination
was the result of a stampede preclpl-
tated by Madison county.
John Barrett, the newly appointed
United States minister to Panama, left
Buenos Ayres, on the 9th, via Cher
bourg. for the United States. He will
stop a few days in Paris and London
before proceeding to his destination
John Kandick Bangs and Miss Mary
Blackney Gray were married, on the
9th, in All Angels church, in New
York. Miss Daisy King was the maid
of honor. and John Kendrick Bangs,
.Jr. acted as pest man for his father.
A Shanghai dispatch of the 18th said
that it was reported there that the
Russians had suffered a disastrous re-
pulse after W. days fighting on the
Yalu river. The Japanese were said
to have crossed the river, the Rus
slams ~retreating.
The Mississippi river, on the night
of the 9th, was eight miles wide in the
vicinity of Louisiana, Mo-, extending
clear across the Sni bottoms on the
Illinois side, in an unbroken sheet to
the bluffs. Thirty thousand acres of
growing wheat is ruined.
Information received at Copenhagen
from St. Petersburg, on the 25th, was
to the effect that the health of the
car was in a decidedly precarious
state. He was so nervous as a result
of the strain which he has undergone
that he was unable to sleep.
John R. Daily, an oldtime newspaper
man, we'll known in Chicago and other
cities, died at Elkhart, Ind, on the
26th. During the civil war he was
night editor of the Chicago Tribune,
and later was connected with the Chi
cago Journal. He leaves a large es-
tate.
The fair given by the Countess Cas-
SIM in aid of the Red Cross fund in
the war now in progress between Rus
STA and JsAan, was held, on the 26th,
at Belmont, the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
A. L. Barbour, at the corner of Four
teenth and Clinton street, Washington,
ID. G.
President Loubet arrived in Naples,
on the 2Sth, from Rome, and was given
a reception equal in enthusiasm that
accorded him in the Eternal city. The
event was somewhat spoiled by the
rain, which came down in torrents, but
great crowds of people stood for hours
without umbrellas.
The Wabash railroad shops at Deca-
tur, ILL.,, were ordered closed, on the
26th, by President Ramsay. The order
is supposed to be on account Of the
strike order by the Garments brother
hood. Half the force there obeyed the
strike order. The regular force there