The Tupelo journal., 1904-11-25
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary Of Important Events.
PERSONAL AMI GENERAL

in Vermont, upon which hung the life
of Mary M. Rogers. of Bennington,
was defeated in the house of repre-
sentatives of that state on the 18th.
The Japanese army staff pronounce
the report Of Gen. Kuroki's death to
be absurd.
Gen. Andre, on the 18th, resigned
the portfolio of minister of war OF
France, and Henry B~erteaux, a mem
Der of the chamber of deputies, and q
successful broker on the bourse, was
nominated as his successor.
A report reached Toxic, on the 18th,
that the Russians were withdrawing
their forces from the Notifications OF
Port Arthur to Lao Ii Shan, whittier
they had previously removed their
stores of provisions, etc. 48
The entire business district Of the
town of Dublin, Miss on the Yazoo &
Mississippi Valley railroad, with the ex-
ception of one building, was wiped out
by fire on the 10th. Estimated loss,
$50, 900, with partial insurance.
Three passengers were killed and
nine or more passengers and trainmen
were injured in a rear-end collision,
on the 10th, at Elmdale, Mich, on the
Pere Marquette railroad.
A report from Gen. Kuropatkin's
headquarters in Manchuria, on the
18th, said that a Japanese advance
was daily expected. Large masses OF
their troops were said to be moving
eastward, evidently with designs on
the Russian left flank.
Col. w. G.. p. Breckenridge, former
congressman from the Ashland (Ky.)
district for ten years, and n OF the
best-known orators and lawyers in the
south, was stricken with paralysis at
his law Office in Lexington on the 18th.
A Washington dispatch of the 18TH
said that President Roosevelt had been
indirectly exposed to smallpox by play
ing golf with Mr.. James A. Garfield,
head Of the bureau Of corporations,
two of whose clerks had been taken
down during the day with the malady.
Joseph Watson, the ~1S-year-old col
ored boy who murdered Henry Os-
borne, of Hartford, Conn, last August,
paid the penalty for his crime, on the
18th, when he was put to death by
hanging on the gallows in the state
prison at Wethersfield.
o. R. Holiday, wanted in Portland,
Ore, charged will robbing the mails
while he was a rural route carrier,
two years ago, was arrested. on the
18th, at his home in J~amesport, Mo.
Reports received, on the 18th, state
that the rebels have repulsed the i'm
perial troops at Liu Chow Emu, in the
province of Kwangu, southern China.
The St. Petersburg correspondent OF
the London Telegraph says there is a
deadlock on the Anglo-Russiant con-
vention regarding the North sea al
fair. The ministry of marine mas
gained the upper hand over the minis
try of foreign affairs, and repudiates
the arrangement made by Count Lams-
dorff and Lord Landsdowne, the Brit
ish foreidn secretary.
P~andemonium reigned in Cincinnati,
on the 10th, when three big African
lions, being unloaded from Robinson's
circus train, made their escape. Two
were captured within a comparatively
short time, but the third, which bound
ed away toward Norwood, was not cor
raled till later, when it was found in
the woods.
The Berlin correspondent of the
London Times say he learns that
Count Lamsdorff, Russian minister OF
foreign affairs, has informed the
American embassy at ST. Petersburg
that Russia is willing to join the peace
conference proposed by President
Roosevelt. This is contrary to in
formation from other sources.
Benbow's Montana Meteor" made
an attempt at fight from the aero
nuatic at the Worlds fair
in ST. Louis, on the 18th, but came to
grief by getting tangled in the Intra-
mural wires before it had fairly got
started.
The position of Gov. Vardaman OF
Mississippi, who has declared that con-
gress may reduce the south's repre-
S6lltdllOn lO@d Doolo III PioPCA ~
the white voters, provided the negroes
be disfranchised, is arousing resent
ment among southern editors.
Gen. Stoessel's report to st. Peters,
burg, it is asserted, expresses a firm
conviction that he will be able to hold
out at Port Arthur until the Baltic
squadron arrives, in March, provided
he is supplied with munitions and
stores.
As personal gifts from the nikado,
Prince Fushimi, before leaving Wash
ington. sent to Mrs. Roosevelt and Mrs.
Hay, wife of the secretary of state,
teakwood chests mounted in solid sill
yer, each containing costly silks, en-
broideries. fans, carvings and other
articles Of Japanese workmanship.
Drilling for natural gas is going on
actively in the vicinity of Bonner
Springs, Kas., within 20 miles of Kan
sas City, Mo. Seven wells have been
sunk, that flow an aggregate of more
than 5000, 900 cubic feet of natural
gas every "a hours.
Two hundred and thirty-two Chinese,
men, women and children, and Ii Jap
anese geisha girls, about whom there
has been SO much controversy, left st.
Louis, on the night of the 18th, by spe-
cial train, en- route for San Francisco,
for deportation, under heavy guard.
No light has been shed on the rea-
son for the sacrifice of the Russian tor
pedoboat destroyer R%astoropny. The
idea that she was sent to Chi Foo with
the batch of colorless dispatches since
;cc,od nj CT Potarchuro ic raQarded az