The Tupelo journal., 1904-07-08
VS. AND NOTES.
A Summary of Important Events.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

is a young Italian weighing nearly Ioo
pounds, was only overpowered after a
desperate struggle.
The duty on American horses and
mules. which the Mexican government
prorogued three years ago, will again
become effective July l, unless further
stayed by IN executive order.
In a bad wreck on the ~northbound
Kansas City Southern passenger train.
on the Goth, five miles north Of Joplin,
Mo, four persons were injured. They
are: w. T. Baird, postal clerk. of Kan
sas City; Frank Giddings, of Neosho;
Evi Martin, post Office inspector, of
Joplin, and an unidentified physician
of Emporia, Kas.
The church wedding of Mss Leish-
man, a daughter of the American min
lister to Turkey, to Count Louis De
Contradiction, took place, on the 18th,
in the church of st. Pierre De Chaillot,
in Paris. There was a large and fash
ionable attendance of French and Am
orleans.
William Wrestler was killed by an
Illinois Central train one mile north OF
Anna, H., on the 9th. He was travel
ing overland to Michigan. His wife
and three children saw him killed.
Gold has been discovered on the
beach at Sand Point, Alaska, and its
appearance has created considerable
excitement in that district. The crews
of several cod-fishing vessels have de-
serted and are panning for gold, max
ing from IS to $40 a day.
On the 9th, vandals handy
with a jack knife cut and slashed
No. T., Santos Dumont's air.
ship at the Worlds fair. Because
of the ruin the Brazilian will have to
cancel his feature Of the Fourth OF
July programme at the fair.
Fire, on the 2Sth destroyed Sinks OPP
era house and other property valued at
5000, 900, at Rome, N. Y. Two men
were severely injured. 1t is reported
another was buried under a falling
wall.
The Russian battleship Navarin,
while returning to her anchorage at
Cronstadt, on the 18th, was rammed
by the Russian ~ironclad Netron Menia,
which struck the Navarin amidships.
The latter will have to go into dry
dock.
In a head-on collision, on the 30th,
between a Cincinnati, Hamilton & Day.
ton northbound passenger train and
the Toledo & Detroit express, south
bound, neal Miamisburg, O., three
trainmen were seriously injured and
the locomotive and baggage cars OF
both trains were demolished.
On the Both an engine and seven
cars heavily loaded with sand and con
crete fell 25 feet with the collapse of
a trestle leading from the Kansas City
belt line to the distributing yards of
a sand company in Kansas City, Mo-,
injuring five persons.
The gunboat Woodruff, the first war
vessel built by the army under the
direction of the quartermaster's depart
ment, has been launched at Manila, P.
/ The vessel is named after Lieut..
Woodruff, who was killed by Moros.
While cleaning out the building
preparatory for services, Jacob Grippe,
janitor of the Methodist church at
Galveston, Ind, "a struck by light
ming and instantly killed. No damage
was done to the structure itself.
An official dispatch received at st.
Petersburg from Lieut.-Gen. Stoessel,
tho oo~yoondnr IF tho PpcCton mill
tary forces at Port Arthur, says that
the squadron of Rear-Admiral Witt
hoeft re-entered that port (date not
given, after repulsing five torpedo
boat attacks.
Latest advices at the Russian war
office, up to the Goth, indicated that the
japanese were concentrating on Hal
Cheng, Gen. Kuroki being at Dalin
with 81 battalions. Only one division
was at Mo Tien pass and another at
Fen Shut pass. Rain was falling
heavily.
The Japanese consul at Gensan, KO-
rea, reported that early OF the morn
ing the 30th SO Russian torpedo boats
entered that port and fired 200 shots
on the settlement. They sank the
steamship Koun, 2,876 tons, and the
sailing vessel Seitsu. The torpedo boats
then rejoined three ships outside of
the harbor and disappeared.
The Japanese have sent the siege
Port Arthur. These guns will be
mounted in a fort now being erected,
which will command the harbor,
though it is outside the range Of the
Russian guns on Golden hill.
AS the result OF the finding of the
coroner's jury which investigated the
death Of Roscoe MCGEE and John Da-
Wis, who came to their deaths during
the riots at Victor, Col, on June G.,
President Charles H. Meyer and w. D.
Haywood, secretary-treasurer of the
Western Federation of Miners, are
charged with murder and melting riot.
On the LIST, John Jones, a negro, who,
it is said, assailed Mrs. Banister, at
Gainesville, Ca, vas lynched near the
scene of his alleged crime. Judge A.
Fite made a speech in an attempt
to restrain the 200 lynchers, but it was
useless. The negro's body was rid
died with bullets, more than $50 shots
being fired.
On the LIST, the Fidelity Savings as
ISOLATION, of Denver, COL, went into
the hands of a receiver. The liabilities
are placed at over a million dollars.
Minnesota republicans, in convention
at st. Paul, on the LIST, named a COM
plete state ticket. and adjourned in