The Tupelo journal., 1905-01-13
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary of Important Events.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

d%ianapolis, on the 9th. from the po-
sition of candidate, in the morning he
passed the apprentice, fellow craft and
master mason's degrees before mid
night, winding up by attending a grand
banquet.
An imperial ukase, issued on the
Goth, by Emperor Nicholas of Russia,
makes decidedly liberal promises Of re-
form under a number of heads.
Miss Caroline Eyres, reputed to be
the richest girl in England, has mar
ried Bolton Monsell, a penniless lieu
tenant in the British navy. Miss
Eyres, as a bride, brought her hus-
band a dowry of $4,000, 900 in her own
right, and there is much more to fol-
low.
On the 9th Rev. Father T. F. Lillis.
of Kansas City, Mo-, was consecrated
bishop of the Roman Catholic diocese
of Leavenworth. Kas.
Or the 9th the four-story ware
house and the entire stock and fix
lures of the Fuller & Johnson-Sugart
company, at Council Bluffs, Ia, was
completely destroyed by fire, causing
g loss on the building estimated at
$4,000, and on the stock of about
500, 600.
Wholesale charges of corruption in
the handling of Red Cross funds by
Russian officials have estranged the
people and practically put a stop to
subscriptions.
An cast-bound Wabash passenger
train ran into a freight train on a
switch near Fort Wayne, Ind, on the
21th. killing one man and injuring ten
others.
Al Portland, Ore. on the 9th, the
federal grand jury returned seven in
dictm' pts in connection with the land
fraud cases now under investigation in
that city.
On the 9th John Butler and Guy
Reed, the two negroes who were con-
victed of the murder Of r. G. Story at
Thomson, Ga, were hanged in that
city.
Gov. Peabody Of Colorado has refused
the requisition from the governor of
Missouri for T. j. Parker, wanted at
Oeudlld Ol d ClldI So VI OptdAA4AhS
money under false %pretenses.
President Beckwith of the Oberlin
(O.) bank, the ruin Of which was
brought by Mrs. Chadwick, was report
ed, on the 18th, to be in a critical con-
dition.
Four men were killed and one in
jured at Walville, Wash, on the 2Sth,
by an explosion of four boilers in e
say mill plant.
The japanese are preparing to make
a general assault on Port Arthur, pro-
ceeding simultaneously from the east
and the west.
Fire destroyed the Coon block and
several other buildings at Baskerville,
Ia, on the 2Sth. The loss is estimated
at 100000.
More miles of railroad track were
laid in Missouri in 1904 than in any
other state or territory in the United
States.
The total farm value Of the principal
crops of the United States, excepting
cotton, on December l, Vas $2,734,S83,-
702.
The japanese, on the evening of the
18th, had succeeded in occupying the
entire fort on Rihlung mountain, in
The d~efenses of Port Arthur. They are
busy sapping the northeastern forts
preparatory to another assault.
Gov. Odell's warrant fer the extra
dition of DR.. Chadwick, from New
York to Ohio, was mailed, on the 2Sth,
from Albany to New York city, d.
rected to Sheriff Barry, Of Cleveland,
O. The steamship Pretoria, with DR..
Chadwick on board, was not expected
until the Goth.
1t is reported by way CT Toxic that
the Russian Port Arthur headquarters
have been removed to the foot of
Liaotishan mountain, preparatory to
retirement to the fortress there as a
last resort.
The New York cotton market took
a decided slump, on the 18th, immedi-
following the publication of the
census bureau ginning report. The fig
ure announced is II, S4S, 113 commercial
bales up to December 10, compared
with STAT, 500 bales in the same time
last year.
The coroner's jury at Mount Carmel,
H., in the case of the victims of the
day wreck on the Southern
railway, found the company response
be, with the other parties, for hir-
ing men weak both mentally and phys
ically for positions of responsibility, |
end in this case hiring a man nearly
dead with consumption and a cripple, |
at a salary of only $40 a month, to do
the work of two a~ble-bodied men,"
Seven of nine convicts at the Cali
fornia state prison at Folsom, who
made a break for liberty, on the goth,
were almost riddled with bullets, three
being dead and three in a critical con-
dition.
After spending the entire day in
fruitless balloting, the new Delaware
legislature, which convened in extra
session, on the goth, adjourned without
effected a permanent organiza-
ton.
Hollis hall, the historic dormitory on
the old campus of Harvard university
at Cambridge, Mass, was damaged by
fire, on the. goth, and the building was
barely saved from destruction.
Judge Charles NJ. Walker, of Chica-
has decided that the city of Chica-
60 is not liable for damages growing
out of the loss of life in connection
with the ~Iroquois theater fire.
The town of Hartford, Ark, in the
center Of the coal mining district of