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The Tupelo journal., 1905-08-11
INTERSTATE INSPECTION
Large Insurance Companies Of New
York to he Investigated by Com.
I. mfssioners of other States.

Chicago, Aug. 3.-Three large insur.
ance companies Of New York are to
be investigated by the insurance COM
missioners of Tennessee, Kentucky.
Wisconsin and Minnesota. rs a result
of a meeting of eight state insurance
commissioners held here. Another re-
suit Of the conference is to be the in
terstate investigation of ali large life
insurance companies, SO that alleged
misapplication Of funds and misman-
agement may become a thing of the
past.
It raj the unanimous ouinion OF
the experts attending the convention
that there should be interstate inspec.
ton of insurance companies. The COM
misioners will go to New York on
August 10. The other men who at
tended the convention, but who did
not join in the movement, were w. B.
Vrenenburgh, superintendent of insur-
ance of Illinois; James w. Barry, in
urance commissioner of Michigan; B.
F. Carroll, auditor of state and en-
officio insurance commissioner of
Iowa, and j. ]. Brinkerhon, actuary
for the Illinois department of insur-
ance.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-08-11
BABY's INSTINCT
Shows He Knew What Food to Stick TO

Forwarding a photo of a splendidly
handsome and healthy young boy, a
happy mother writes from an Ohio
town:
1.-THE enclosed picture shows my A.
year-old Grape-Nuts boy.
'sSince he was 2 years old he has
eaten nothing but GrapeNuts. He de-
mands and gets this food three times
q day. This may seem rather un-
usual, but he does not care for any
thing else after he has eaten his
Grape-Nuts, which he uses with milk
or cream, and then he is through with
his meal. Even on Thanksgiving day
be refused turkey and all the good
things that make up that great din
ner, and ate his dish Of Grape-Nuts
and cream with the best results and
none Of the evils that the other foolish
members Of the family experienced.
HE is never sick, has q beautiful
complexion, and is considered a very
handsome boy. May the Postum Com
pany prosper and long continue to
furnish their wholesome food!" Name
given by Postum Co. Battle Creek,
Mich.
There's a reason. Read the little
book, "The Road to Wellville," in
every pkg.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-08-11
sAPIENT SAYINGS.

A woman's mol" is often contra
dicted by her eye.
Keep out of the frying pan, and You
won't get into the fire.
The really self-made man never
boasts of his architecture.
Envy is a disease from which those
who do their best are immune.
1t is better to make haste in begin
ming than to make haste to finish up.
A man a fly of the handle without
the aid of a flying machine, but he lights
hard.
A successful man roots while his less
prosperous brother sts,ads around and
squeals.
Some men and women appear vain be-
cause of oversensitiveness. They lack
Interpretation, so seek the apprecia-
ton of others as a bolster to their self
respect.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-08-11
q IN

The first volume of the unpublished
writings of the late Theodore Mommsen
has been prepared for publication by
Prof. Otto Hersenheld, the literary ex-
ecutor of the deceased historian.
Rider Haggard is best known in
America as a writer of startling roman
ces, but in his own country he is recog-
nized as an earnest student of the great
problem of the poor. Fol years the au-
thor has been laboring for the develop
ment of the agricultural side of English
life as a means of relieving the longest
ed conditions of large cities.
Anthony Hope, the British novelist
and playwright, was educated for the
law, but says himself in his droll way
that he failed to make a living at his
profession and had to turf to writing in
self-defense. He declares that in all his
life of AZ years there has not come one
incident that is worth telling-he has
just lived "the average life of an Eng
fish gentleman"
1t will probably seem strange to some
that John Hay in his later life was in
clined to be rather ashamed of Little
Brooches" and Jim Bludso," the two of
his poems that have always been the
most widely quoted. Similarly James
Russell Lowell was rather ashamed in
his declining years of the "Bigelow Pa
pers," which many regard as his most
original and effective work, and Minis
ter Phelps never liked to be quoted as
the author of that immortal poem about
Essex Junction.
William Dean Howells has some n
couraging words to say to young as
pirants for literary honors. There is
room for a good story of any kind, he
said, recently. Although an editor
governs his judgment by what his read
ers have liked before, often rejecting
something they would like much better.
no good thing in a story ever remains
unpublished. Some one will read it, feel.
its truth and print it if it is true" But
he goes on with a word of advice. Il do
not believe anyone can write a novel,
with rare exceptions, until he has lived
at least IS years in experience of the
world"
The Tupelo journal., 1905-08-11
LAMENTABLE CONDITIONS
Funds of a Number of Estates of
Which He Was Curator Involved
in Downfall of ThOs. VI. Casey.

Clinton, Mo-, Aug. ga lamentable
feature of the downfall of Thomas M.
Casey, cashier Of the defunct Salmon
& Salmon bank, is the involved shape
of a number Of estates in which he was
administrator or curator.
Two suits have been filed by new
~curators appointed to succeed Casey.
w. E. Sans, as curator for the sons
of R. L. Allen, ex-deputy county clerk,
has sued Casey and his bondsmen-Dr.
G.. Y. Salmon and DR.. John Powers
for $4,175.
H. L. Hunter, curator for four Gran
dali children, has sued for 81, 800. The
bondsmen in the latter case are DR..
Salmon and Casey's brother-in-law.
John r. Barker.
The affairs of all of these bondsmen
already were much involved in the
smashup. 1t is feared that little will
be realized,
The Tupelo journal., 1905-08-11
SENSATION IN Milwaukee
One Of City's Wealthiest Citizens
Indicted for Stealing $4,000.
Money Alleged to Have Been \
trusted to Him to Secure q Com
tract and He Kept 1t.

Milwaukee, Aug. 5.-Charles F. Pts
ter, n of the w~ealthiest citizens OF
Milwaukee, has been indicted by the
grand jury of Milwaukee county,
charged with stealing $4,000 belong
ing to the Wisconsin, Rendering Co.
of this city. At the same time indict-
ments were returned against four
others, the charges Of bribery being al
legged in three of the indictments and
one of perjury. The list of persons
for whom capiases were issued is as
follows:
Chas. F. Pfster, capitalist, one indict-
ment: larceny,
John F. Dittmar, formerly supervis-
or, one Indictment, bribery.
George F. Reichert, supervisor, one
indictment, embracing IA counts, brib-
cry.
Barney A. Eaton, state senator, one
indictment, bribery.
Frank F. Schultz, formerly newspa-
per reporter, one Indictment, perjury.
The indictment against Mr.. Pfister
alleges that, on Mach 80, 1901, the ac-
cused was bailee of $14, 900, said
amount being deposited with him by the
Wisconsin Rendering Co. for the pur-
pose of obtaining for the company q
valuable contract from the city of Mil
waukee for the disposing of garbage.
If not SO used the money .was to be re-
turned to the company. 1t is charged
that the money was not sc used and
that Pister converted it to his own use.
The indictment caused a profound
sensation. Mr.. Pfster is engaged in
many of the biggest enterprises of Mil
Waukee.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-08-11
HE LIKES THE PRESIDENT
M. Witte Voices His Impression Of
President Roosevelt ON His
First Meeting.

New York, Aug. 5.-M. Witte, the
Russian peace plenipotentiary, on his
return from his informal visit to Pres
ident Roosevelt at Oyster Bay, made
the following statement about the i'm
pressions he had received of the pres
ident on this. the first time he had
seen him:
Il have conceived the highest opin-
ion of Mr.. Roosevelt. l vas particu-
larly struck by his energy and broad
mindedness. / feel it is good for the
United States to have SO distinguished
a man at the head of it's executive, and
l fully appreciate the reasons that led
to the choice of him for SO responsible
and honorable a post. | do not say
this with any desire to flatter the pres
iJent or the American people. 1t is
my sincere conviction"
The Tupelo journal., 1905-08-11

There are two trade secrets that the
outside world, it seems, will never
learn. One is a Chinese secret-the
making of the bright and beautiful col
or called vermillion, or Chinese red;
the other is a Turkish secret-the in
laying of the hardest steel with gold
and silver. Among the Chinese and
among the Assyrians these two secrets
are guarded well. Apprentices, before
they are taken for either trade, must
swear a strong oath to reveal nothing
of what passes in the workshop.
These apprentices, furthermore, must
belong to families of standing.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-08-11
THE TAFT PARTY IN MANILA
A Water Pageant Wei.
ccmed Them to the Capital of
the Philippines.

Manila, Aug. 5.-Secretary of War
Taft and party arrived here on the
steamship Manchuria. Their arrival
was made the occasion of a gorgeous
water pageant. Gov. Gen. Wright, Maj.
Gen. Corbin and Rear-Admiral Train,
with their STATS and the official recep-
ton committee met the party when the
Manchuria anchored.
The battleship Ohio, the forts and
craft in the harbor fred the regula-
tion salute for the secretary of war.
After the party left the steamship they
proceeded to the governor generals
residence, where the official welcome
was made and where the golden keys
of the city were presented to Secretary
TAFT
Thousands lined the streets, which
were deliberately decorated.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-08-11
ARE BADLY TIED UP
Result of the TeIegraphers' Strike
On the Northern Pacific Rail-
road in Montana.

Missoula, Mont, Aug. 3.-No
freight, except sidetracked trains, is
being moved over the Rocky Noun
tain division of the Northern Pacific,
owing to the practically complete tie
up of the system by the telegraphers'
strike.
The men who were sent here in
anticipation of trouble have stated
they were induced to come under
misrepresentation, and with one ex-
ception have refused to go to work.
Superintendent Gibson of the Rocky
Mountain division is out somewhere
on the road, but even the chief dis
patcher at headquarters has been
unable to locate him. All trains are
being tagged in and out, but are
making slow time. Train crews ad-
NIT that the present condition is the
most complete tie-up ever known on
the Northern Pacific.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-08-11
SERIOUS wITTE.

for the attainment of which that power
is so often and SO successfully en-
ployed. One Of the noblest Of these
aims is the establishment of peace and
friendship among nations, and it is to
the praiseworthy efforts of the people
of the United States in this direction
that my visit to the new world is attrib-
utable. For it is in compliance with
the American peoples desire for peace,
of which President Roosevelt was the
authorized exponent, that his majesty,
the car, has empowered me to com
hither and ascertain the conditions
which u gallant adversary deems nee
essary and adequate as a basis for
peace negotiations.
al need hardly point out that it is
my ardent desire hat the two chival-
Jus foes, who first became acquainted
on the field of battle, may have found
in each others sterling qualities mo-
tives powerful enough to cultivate that
acquaintanceship until it ripens into
lasting friendship. Meanwhile, how
ever, the terms offered must first be
ascertain ed, weighed and judged adj
missable by Russia before she can pro-
coed to formal negotiations.
Hitherto, as you are aware, it was
customary in cases like this to settle
all such praliminaries before the meet
ing of the plenipotentiaries, whose task
it was to come to a final agreement on
the matters Under discussion. Now the
r1r, font +he{ hic mciscyU tho CZar
consented to take a course involving
departure from this ancient diplomatic
usage and to appoint a mission to learn
the nature of our brave enemy's terms,
is an eloquent token of the friendly
feeling which he and his subjects con-
tinue to cherish toward the people OF
the United States. INsay continue 20
cherish, because at no epoch in u
history have our traditional relations
with this great republic been other than
cordial.
"And now | should like to say aye
and to prove to your people who live
less in the past than in the present and
the future. that it is the fervent wish
of the emperor and the people OF
STA further to strengthen the Ties u
friendship which have hitherto supsist-
ed between the two nations.
ut is in virtue of that sincere de-
sire that his majesty, the car, walv-
ing all other considerations, has I'M
hesitatingly accepted the cordial in
vitation of your first citizen and genial
leader. And if my mission should
prove in all other respects barren n
the endeavor to find a common basis
for neace negotiations should fail for
the time being, the signal PROOF o.
friendship given by his majesty, the
car, and the Russian nation wouid
still stand cut as a memorable event,
fraught, / trust, with far reaching ana
beneicent results to the two great peo-
ples of the west and the east
The Tupelo journal., 1905-08-11
TRADE OUTLOOK CHEERING
Shows Signs of Expansfon-West-
ern Trade Opens Up Earlier.

New York, Aug. 5.-Bradstreet's
weekly review says:
Fall business, while not yet in full
swing, shows signs Of expansion, and
western trade opens a week earlier than
last year.. Weather conditions have
favored crop growth and harvesting,
fear of rust damage to spring wheat
has disappeared, corn promises a re-
cord yield, and both demand and col
lections have improved as the result
of early wheat crop movement in the
southwest.
Midsummer quiet, so called, is less
than ordinarily manifest this year in
trade industry and financial operations.
Bank clearings for July break all rec
ords for that month, failures are strik-
ingly few for a normally dull period.
and railway earnings show progressive
gains on the best summers.
Trade in the south is irregular. Mis-
sissippi Valley shotgun guarantees af-
feet demand and shipment, but in the
south Atlantic states and in the in
dustrial centers the feeling is quite
cheerful and fall business is looking up.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-08-11

The only two 60-dollar bills in cx.
istence have been found. One belongs
to an eastern collector and the other
to Mrs. Julia Turton, of st. Louis.
They are worth $1,000 each. MY
mother was a Bryant said Mrs. Tur-
ton, land the bill was one of several
paid to my grandfather, Col. John N.
Bryant, who fought in the var of 1872,
NV the father of Mark Twain. The
payTnent was made in connection with
! land deal in Tennessee, the details
of which / have W. been able to
learn. The bill was an inheritance OF
mine. but / never realized its value"
The Tupelo journal., 1905-08-11
NEGOTIATING FOR PEACE
The YaQui Indians of Sonora Want
to Make Peace With the Mex
lean

Bisbee, Ariz, Aug. 3.-News comes
from Sonora in a letter to the editor
for peace are in progress between the
Yaqui Indians and the Mexican govern.
ment. Couriers are travelling through
out the state wherever there are Yaqui
Indians, exhorting them to commit no
further depreciation pending a peace
conference. A conference will be held
at Ures in a few days, it is said, be-
tween the Yaqui leaders and the Mex
lean representatives. The initiative
came from the Yaquis.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-08-11
.SAKHAL|N ISLAND
HAS SURRENDERED
Gen. Lianpunoff, 70 officers and
5000 Men Are Prisoners.
JAPS IN FULL POSSESSION
Details of the Final Pursuit and
Capitulatfon ms Omcially Re-
ported to the Japanese Cow
m Mt Toxic.

Toxic, Aug. 5.-Sakhalin island has
been formally surrendered to the jap
anese by Gen. Lianpunoff, the Russian
governor and commander, together with
all the forces and munitions under his
command.
The surrender took place July 81.
Pursuit and CapituIatfon.
Details of the final pursuit and sur
render are officially reported as fol-
lows:
"An independent cavalry column on
the afternoon of July % attacked the
enemy south of Poleo and routed him,
driving MIN southwark, capturing two
field guns besides a number of rifles
and a quantity of ammunition.
ION July 20 the cavalry, being rein
forced, vigorously pursued the enemy
south of Taylan, which lies rs miles
south of Hykoff.
Under a Flag of Truce.
"The enemy halted at Onol, rs miles
south of Taylan, and at five o'clock on
the morning of July 80 sent a letter
under a flag of truce to the japanese
commanding officer from Gen. Liam
punoff, the Russian governor, saying
that through lack of bandage material
and medicines and the consequent ina
bility to succor the wounded, compelled
him, from a sense of humanity, to ter
inmate hostilities.
The Japanese emand
1.-THE commander of the Japanese
force replied, demanding the delivery OF
all war supplies and property of the
Russian government uninjured, and the
delivery of all maps, records and pa
pers relating to the Russian civil and
military administration, and requiring
their delivery In reply at ten O'Clock on
the morning of July 81, otherwise an
attacking movement would immediate
ly be executed.
"Col. Tolivitch, on behalf of Gov.
Lianpunoff, met Col. Koizumi, Japanese
chief of staff, on the morning of July
81, and accepted the proposed terms.
The Surrendered Forces.
Gov. Lianpunoff, 70 officers and g.
200 men then surrendered"
Reports from Manchuria state that
Gen. Linevitch is hurriedly shifting his
men so as to send as many as possible
TO reinforce the few troops that are OPP
posed to the Japanese army advancing
en- V~ladivostok from the north through
Ussuri province and to also help the
forces trying to hold back Gen. Hase-
wawa in northern Korea and keep him
from attacking Vladivostok from the
south.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-08-11

A most refreshing instance of eco
romical and sound business manage
ment in the administration of an ex-
nosition fund is that furnished by the
hoard of lady managers of the Louisi-
ana Purchase exposition. These la
dies received an appropriation Of $780,
moo for their work, and of this amount,
after paying all expenses, they have
returned $25, 667.56 to the government.
This is the first instance on record.
we believe, where a committee organ
ized for any purpose has turned back
into the public treasury any part OF
IN appropriation made by congress.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-08-11

Gold and silver bullion, buried I'M
der the sea for more tnan $50 years, is
being brought to the surface of the
Bay Of Null by divers employed by the
duke Of Argyll. The search for this
fortune, the size of which can only be
guessed at, but which report says runs
well up into the millions, has been in
days when the great Spanish galleoa
went to the bottom in that secluded
bay on the west coast of Scotland, but
only now is it meeting with any real
success.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-08-11

The desire expressed by the Japan.
csc ENJOYS that the peace negotiations
shall be conducted in the English Ian
guage once more illustrates the spread
of this speech. For the past 900
years French has been the accepted
language of diplomacy among Euro
pean nations, although of late Eng.
lish has been freely used. The recent
ascendency of English is due not so
much to its own vigor and elasticity as
to the more practical reason that it is
becoming almost a universal language
and, therefore, carries expediency with
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The Tupelo journal., 1905-08-11
ORGANIZATION PERFECTED
Che Master Butchers Of America
Perfect Their Organization
and Elect Officers.

Grand Rapids, Mich, Aug. 3.-The
Master Butchers of America per-
fected their organization on the basis
of representation of one delegate to
so members, and selected Milwaukee
as the next place of meeting the Sec
ond Monday of August, 1906. Among
the officers elected were: President,
George H. Shaffer, New York; first
vice-president, Charles B. Deibel, st.
Louis; secretary, John H. Schofield,
st. Louis, and trustee, C. Christie
pherson, Omaha.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-08-11

Mrs. Annie Rikert, of California, not
content with years of prospecting and
mining, during which she discovered
the Calico silver mines and several
valuable gold properties, set to work
sonfs time ago to build the San Joa-
quin and Tuolumme railway through
a roughS mountainous country GOV
cred with, forests. Mrs. Rickert is
president of the company, and an ex-
cellent president, too. Miss Brainerd
is its treasurer, and four of the six d.
rectors are women.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-08-11
THE BENNINGTON MEMORIAL
1t May Take the Form of a Club
House at San Diego For the
Use of Sailors.

San Diego, Call Aug. 3.-Funds
the purpose of erecting a shaft in
the military cemetery to commemor-
ate the Bennington disaster exceeds
$1,000. The government, it is an
nounced, will erect a shaft in memory
of the dead seamen. In view of this
it has been decided to enlarge the
scope of the popular memorial and
endeavor to secure $4,000 to build
and equip a club house for sailors.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-08-11
A MISSISSIPPI LYNCHING
Ed Lewis and kid, George, Ne
eroes, Lynched By a Mob at
Hattiesburg, Miss.

Memphis, Tenn, Aug. 5.-Advices
from H~attiesburg, Miss, state that Ed
Lewis and kid" George, two negroes,
were lynched there by a mob. The
men were charged with being Access
series to the murder of convict guard
J. G. Smith.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-08-11

Nashville, Tenn, Aug. 3.-Bishop r.
X. Hargrove Of tho NJ. E. church, south.
died at his home here shortly after
midnight. In 1882 he was elected q
bishop and was made president of Van
derbilt university in 1889, in which POI
sition he served until last spring, when
he resigned because of feeble health.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-08-11
VIM. Crumback, Of Indiana. pead.

G~reensburg, Ind, Aug. William
Crumback, former acknowledgement
Of indiana, and well known as an
author, politician and lecturer, died at
his home here. He was born ia In
diana in 1929, and practiced law here
the greater part of his life. He was
elected to congress in 1854.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-08-11

Messrs. Beardmore, of Glasgow,
have laid the first keel of a new Brit
ish battle ship, to be called the Aga
mennon. She is the most powerful
ship of the first line yet ordered. She
will have a displacement of 16,500 tons
and be more heavily armored than
ANYTHING afioat.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-08-11

A performance at the Municipal the
alter, at Halle, Switzerland, had to be
suspended the other night while the
policeman on duty was elected. He
had fallen asleep at his post. and his
loud snoring disturbed the audience.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-08-11
Nome People UP in Arms.

Seattle, Wash, Aug 5.-Advices re-
ceiyed in this city from Nome by the
steamer Ohio, state that the people OF
Nome are up in arms against the gov
eminent officials and their alleged ac-
lions in filing upon valuable mining
claims
The Tupelo journal., 1905-08-11
WHAT woMAN WANTS.

To love.
To be loved.
To be told SO sometimes.
To have something to do.
To be dealt with sincerely.
To be praised once in awhile.
To have her judgment respected.
To be alphabetically understood.
To have a great, big-hearted boss
who will letfher have her own way.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-08-11
Dissolution Confirmed.

Caracas, Venezula, Aug. 5.-The fed
eral court Of cessation gave final judg-
ment in the matter of the proceedings
instituted against the French cable
company, confirming the dissolution of
the contract Of the government with
this company.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-08-11

Bathing affords considerable scope
for eccentricity, of which the sand
bath is the latest form. In the open
air, beneath a hot SUMS rays, the bath
er burrows in the sand until he is COM
pletely covered by the golden grains.
whence, if we accept devotees' au-
thority, he energies after a while with
renewed health and energy.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-08-11

There are in Germany 81 universi-
ties, one government academy, ten
government technical schools, six gov
eminent veterinary schools, four gov
eminent geological and mining schools
and four government commercial
schools. In these So national institu-
lions are employed 4,319 instructors.