The Tupelo journal., 1905-02-03


ton goods manufacturing town in the
Russian empire. Predictions are made
that the ending of the strike will result
in increased activity on the part of the
revolutionists.
Samuel II. Piles. of Seattle, was
| elected United States senator by the
| Washington legislature on the thir-
teenth joint ballot.
An unprecedented snowfall is report
ed in the Klondike region, with bitter
| ly cold weather. All the trails are i'm
passable. the snow being drifted in
some places 90 feet deep. Some loss
of life is feared
Many improbable stories continue to
appear in the st. Petersburg dispatches
of some of the London papers. All the
more trustworthy journals, however,
have begun to recognize that. for the
tine being. at least, the revolt has
! failed.
Through the efforts of Ambassador
| Powell Clayton, the bodies of the four
| Americans who were killed by Yaqui
| Indians near Cohachi, Sonora. have
been sent to their relatives in the Unit
ed States.
The department store of Bannon Il
Co., at St. Paul, Mimi, was Quilted by
fire: loss, $4,000.
Eighteen persons, all MeXicans but
| four, are reported to have been killed
by Indians in the Yaqui country in
Mexico within one week.
Seven hundred immigrants on the
steamship Vaderland are held at Quar-
antine, New York, pending investga-
| ton of the cause of the death of ten
| during the passage across the Atlantic.
Charles L. Blandon, clerk in the audit
ors office of the post Office department,
has been suspended pending his trial,
| in Missouri on the charge of accepting
money in connection with the selection
of sites for government buildings.
Mrs Ida Perdue and her half broth
er. Hannibal Connors, charged with the
| killing of the husband of the former
at Richmond, Mo-, have been taken to
| Kansas City and placed in Jail there in
order to avoid a possible attempt at
| lynching.
Miss Eugene Uhlrich, of Sioux City
| Ia, who was recently placed under ar
| rest at Limoges. France, on the charge
of being a Russian spy, is reported
dead in that city.
Miss Helen Frances Warren. daugh-
| ter of Senator Warren. of Wyoming,
and Capt John J. Pershing, y. S. A.,
were married in Washington. Presi-
| dent and Mrs. Roosevelt attended the
wedding. The couple will be at
home" in Toxic. Japan after March l.,
where Capt. PershinG has been as
signed to duty.
\ company has been incorporated TO
! build an interurban electric line from
East ST. Louis to Waterloo and Ches-
ter ILL.,
On account of fear of an outbreak of
yellow fever. Gov. Davis of the 18TH
milan canal zone, as an emergency
measure. has taken full control of the
sanitary work in Panama and Colon.
Thirty strikers were either killed or
wounded at Riga, Russia, in an at
| tempt to disarm the soldiers. The lat
ter first fired volleys into the crowd
ana attacked them with their sabers.
Preston NJ. WigginsOn, an election
| Judge. was sentenced to Jail for 90
days on MS plea of guilty of fraudulent
voting at the November election in
| Denver, Col.
Senator Culberson, of Texas, was
| formally reelected by the legislature
in joint session.
| Prof Wolf, OF Heidelberg, Germany,
has discovered a new planet of the thir-
teenth magnitude.
| Charles l.. Freer, wealthy citizen
of Detroit, Mich, has offered TO the
| Smithsonian institution at Washing
ton, as a gift. a collection of curios
valued at 100000.
Eitel Fritz, second son of the German
emperor. is seriously i'll, pneumonia
having developed from recently con-
tracted cold. The emperor Cancelled his
birthday celebrations.
| Five firemen were injured by fall
ing wall at the Hips bay brewery fire
! in New York The men fought the fire
for eight hours during one of the worst
storms New York has known since the
great blizzard OF 1888.
The American legation at Panama
announces one death and six cases of
suspected yellow fever on board the
cruiser Boston. The ship has been
| fumigated.
The governor general of st. Peters
burg has issued proclamation, in con-
| junction with the minister of finance,
to the striking workmen, inviting them
to return to work, and promising them,
in the emperor's name, certain re-
forms.
County Judge James Hargis, of Brea-
thitt county; Alex Hargis, former State
Senator Ebert Hargis, Ed Callahan.
sheriff of Breathitt county, and Jesse
Spyer, a former deputy sheriff, have
been indicted by special grand jury
at Lexington, KY, on a charge of con-
spring to kill James Cockrill, city
marshall of Jackson.
AS the result of the sanitary CAM
paign against yellow fever, the dis
ease has been practically wiped out N
the city of Mexico and surrounding
country.
Sunday, January %, 1905, will go
down in history as one of the darkest
days in Russian annals. Hundreds of
men, women and children, workmen
and their families. under the leader
ship of Greek priest, named Gopon,
bent on presenting their grievances
personally to the car, at the winter