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The Tupelo journal., 1905-01-20
LETTER ESTATE A BIG ONE.
Tine Inheritance Tax shows the
Letter Wealth in Illinois to
Aggregates $12,4iS,S43.01.

Carhondale, Ill, Jan. 10.-Interesting
figures disclosing the extent of the
Letter possessions in Illinois came TO
light when the Franklin county Off
Gals completed the work Of determin-
ing the amount Of the inheritance tax
which the Letter estate must pay TO the
state Of Illinois. According to the
Franklin county officials, the total Hi
nois holdings Of the Letter estate
reach $12,4tS,S 49.01. The Indebtedness
is S3,121 .240.7 6, leaving a balance of
$9.0I6, 60S.25. The tax on this is $780,
S37.40, divided among the heirs as fol-
lows: Mrs. Mary Letter, widow, SILL
1927; Joseph Letter, S9,440.6S; Lady
Curzon, $9,67i.62; Mrs. Nancy Camp
bell, $9,S94.0G; Miss Daisy Letter, $10,-
G4546.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-01-20
PROVES GREAT POWER
When Regular Medical Treatment
Failed, DR.. Williams Pink Pills
Cured Her Rheumatism.

Hundreds of people afflicted with rheu-
matism have spent years under the care
of excellent physicians i'll vain. Then
they have settled down to the conviction
that it is fastened OH them for life. Mrs.
Dinsmore was not willing to join the
ranks of the hopeless merely because her
doctor did not know how to. help her.
Here is her story:
-Four years ago 1 suffered greatly
with rheumatism i'll my hands and
knees. After ! had been sitting a while
my limbs seemed so heavy l could hardly
walk on the first attempt. So long asI
kept moving 1 was all right, but just as
soon as l stopped, something seemed to
settle in my knees and make them ache.
My hands were so bad l couldn't touch
the palms of them on a fiat surface; they
were swollen and panied So"
"Did you call IN a physician"
81 doctored steadily for over q year;
then one doctor said You have taken
medicine strong enough to kill almost
anything Still, it did not kill me nor
the rheumatism"
Chow, then, did you get rid of it?"
cat different times 1 had read in vari-
Gus publications about DR.. Williams
wonderful Pink Pills for Pale People,
and [ finally decided to try them. l took
them steadily for four months i'll ac-
cordance with the directions. b. that
time l was completely cured"
"Have you been free from it ever
SINGER"
"Since then I have had but one slight
return of my trouble, and a box or two of
the same pills made me alright again"
Mrs. +. A. Dinsmore lives in hearty
enjoyment of her recovered health at
Woburn, Mass, entirely freed from the
grave ~anxieties that rheumatism always
brings. When it appears i'll but a single
joint it shows that the blood is in faulty
state in the whole body. 1t may at any
moment break out elsewhere, and one of
the dangers is that it may break out III
the heart and hen the result must be
fatal. The only security is to keep the
blood all the time i'll a perfectly sound
condition.
DR.. Williams Pink Pills make healthy
blood. All other relief is superficial.
This is thorough. These pills are sold
by all druggists.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-01-20
MIGHT HAVE SAVED IT.
& Lot Of Trouble from Too Much
Starchy Food.

A little boy of eight years whose
parents did not feed him on the right
kind of food, was always nervous and
suffered from a weak condition of the
stomach and bowels. Finally he was
taken down with appendicitis and after
the operation the doctor, knowing that
his intestinal digestion was very weak,
put him on Grape-Nuts twice a day.
He rapidly recovered and about two
months thereafter, his Father states,
HE has grown to be strong, muscular,
and sleeps soundly, weighs 62 pounds,
and his whole system is in a fine
condition of health" Name given by
Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich.
1t is plain that if he had been put on
Grape-Nuts at an earlier period in his
life, and kept from the use of foods
that he could not digest, he never
would have had appendicitis. That
disease is caused by undigested food
decaying in the stomach and bowels,
causing irritation and making for the
growth of all kinds of microbes, set
ting up a diseased condition which is
the active cause of appendicitis, and
this is more marked with people who
do not Properly digest white bread.
Grape-Nuts is made of the selected
parts of wheat and barley and by the
peculiar processes of the cooking at the
factory, all Of the starch is turned into
sugar ready for immediate digestion
and the more perfect nourishment OF
all parts of the body, particularly the
brain and nerve centres.
Read the little book, 'The Road to
MELVILLE" found in each pkg.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-01-20
IN Il LANDS.

At Thebes the annual average rise
of the Nile is 40 feet.
Greece at present holds the Euro
pean record for rapidity in the in
crease of population.
London's smallpox epidemic of last
year cost the metropolitan asylums
board close on half a million sterling.
Among the spells of "a taken at
Liaoyang was a Pet pigeon belonging
to Gen. K%uropatkin. 1t is now in
Toxic.
Almost the entire commercial wealth
of India, with its population of 300
100000, is said to be in the hands of
less than 10000 persons.
Since 1858 the population of Scot
land has increased by 80 per cent; the
number of lunatics in the same period
has increased by 100 per cent.
English newspaper correspondents
are complaining of the disgustinSly
unclean treatment of bread Oh its way
from the baker to tAe consumer.
The Vienna Society for the Proven
ton of Cruelty to Animals is selling
donkeys at remarkably low prices, to
replace the dogs generally used for
drawing tradesmen's carts.
A bill to prohibit cigarette smoking
by persons under 16 years old has
passed it's second reading in the South
Australian legislature and probably
will become law.
japanese progress is shown in the
fact that the receipts from her state
forests for timber, firewood, bamboo
and other produce rose from $129, 600
in 1880 to ST. 04. 900 in 1903, an in
crease of 81, 075, 900.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-01-20
HIS END CAME SUDDENLY
Former Gov. Lloyd Loundes of Mary
land Has Passed Away.
L-a,n Came Suddenly While Pres
pairing to Attend Church at Has
Home in cumberland.

Cumberland, Nd, Jan. 9.-The sud
den death at his home in this city OF
former Gov. Lloyd Lown,les cast a pail
If gloom over the community. There
had been no indications OF illness, INT
MI. Lowndes appeared to be in his
usual good health and spirits when he
arose Sunday morning. He left his Of
ice in the Second national bank late
Saturday afternoon, went to his home,
and after dinner spent several hours
in the preparation of an address to be
delivered here at Bishop Paret's TWEEN
tieth anniversary as bishop of the
Maryland diocese of the Protestant
Episcopal church. He then awaited
the arrival from C~larksburg, w. Va,
IF his son, Richard T. Lowndes, who
lid not reach the house until past mid
night. The governor retired at about
| a. m. He arose at $50, TOOK a bath,
and began to dress preparatory to at
tending church services. A sudden fall
attracted the attention of Mrs.
Lowndes, who was in he room. she
summoned assistance, and the uncon-
sclous form was placed upon the bed.
Physicians were hastily summoned,
and were quickly at the bedside, but
heath had ensued before their arrival.
Death was due to heart failure.
Mr.. Lowndes was born in Clarks-
burg, w. Va, February q, 1916. He
is survived by his widow. Mrs. c. Eliza
beth Lowndes: his brother, Richard
T. Lowndes. Clarksburg, w. Va; five
sons, Lloyd Lowndes, Jr., Cumber-
land: Richard T. Lowndes, C~larksburg,
w. Va: Charles T. Lowndes, Colora-
do Springs. Col; w. Bladen Lowndes,
Mt. Savage, Md, and Tasker G.
Lowndes.
In business life Mr.. Lowndes was a
factor II many of the financial and in
dustrial enterprises of this state and
OF West Virginia. He was president
of the Second national bank of this
city, and of several coal mining COM
panies, and a director of several 9TH
er corporations,
The Tupelo journal., 1905-01-20
DUAL ASSOCIATIONS NOW.
Disrupted and "a Second As5O-
citation Formed.

Denver. Col, Jan. lathe National
Live Stock association was rent in
twain by the adoption of a new consti-
tuition which admitted the packers to
membership and provided an open
door through which the railroads of
the country may at any time become
factors in the control of the organiza-
ton.
The cattlemen, horse and swine
growers, together with representatives
of some of the affiliated industries, re-
fused to agree to the new constitution,
withdrew when they considered its
adoption probable, and formed a new
organization under the name of the
American Stock Growers association,
whose aim will be to WELD a dominant
influence in the interest of the cattle
grower.
The cattlemen have from the first
strongly opposed the admission into
their organization of the packers. and
particularly OF the railroads. They
claimed that these two influences
would ultimately dominate the cattle
growing industry of the country to the
detriment of the individual grower,
and they refused to remain in an or
ganiZation which included their rep
resentatives among the members of its
central body.
The detection in the ranks of the
association came after a long session,
in which the arguments were at times
torrid, and where the parliamentary
tangles were so frequent and so COM
pick that it was impossible to follow
them.
In the new organization representa-
ton is TO be of individual members
only, and it will not be an amalgama-
lion of associations, as is the case
with the older organization
The Tupelo journal., 1905-01-20
THE WEEKS NEWS
TERSELY OUTLINED
An Epitome of the Most Important
Events at Home and Abroad
the Past Week.
CONGRESS'WORK IN NUTSHELL
latest ucyeIopments in the Russo
Japanese War. Together WIN
items of Interest Quilted From the
Important Happenings All over
the World.
CONGRESS.

The Impeachment charges on WHICH
Judge Charles Swayne will be trled
have been presented to The u by
the committee OF Seven appointed W
draw them up.
The house. by a strict party Vole'
and without debate, tabled the bahei
resolution providing for an lnVeS'isa-
ton of the charges that Secretary Oh
the Navy Morton, when a railroad VI
fetal, granted secret freight tarln re-
bates. f ,
The pension bill for>tne next hScal
wear carries $l3S. 250,10o. 1t has oeeh
reported in the house,
The bill making the RESTRICTION oh
the transportation of lottery 'iche''
between the state applicable to trans
portation between the states ana lei-
ritories was passed by the'senale =,
The house passed the Shackeliolu
resolution authorizing the commlV,ee
on interstate commerce to investigate
the Panama Railway Co.
The senate passed the ieglsla'lVe' ~
executive and judicial approplla'ion
bill.
h senate passed a bill ~eXtenolhs
thc law relative to the intimidation vi
witnesses in federal courts 10 VII
nesses before United States commas
SiOuerS.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-01-20
GENERA MEMS ITEMS.

The National Live Stock association
has been disrupted, the cattlemen,
horse and swine growers, who were
opposed to affiliation with the railroad
and packing interests drawing out and
forming an Independent organization
Because her last child was not a
boy, Mrs. Sarah Libman committed
suicide by asphyxiation, in Chicago,
and, incidentally, caused the death OF
her. th~ree-year-old daughter Frieda.
Congressman Vespasian Warner, OF
Illinois, has been decided upon by the
pfesiGent as pension commissioner to
succeed Commissioner Ware, resigned.
W. s. flames, of st. Louis, was elect
ed president of the American Institute
of Architects at its session in Wash
ingtCn
It has been reported to the German
~reichstag that the losses sustained by
the German forces in southwest Afrl-
ca. including killed in battle, died of
disease, or murdered by natives, are
thus far 81 officers and 1852. men, and
81 officers and 154 men wounded.
E. H. Shelter, a banker of Salt Lake
City, Utah, has been arrested charged
with :Ceptlng deposits after he knew
his bank was insolvent.
The wife of Augustus Thomas, the
famous playwright, is seriously i'll in
Paris, and Mr.. Thomas has been sum-
moned by cable.
Can't. HaIstead Dorey, who was re-
Gently wounded in a fight with Moro
in Samar island, was, at n time,
nlaced in the morgue at Montauk
Point as dead. He has made three
trips to the Philippines since as mill
tary attache with various general Of
ficerS.
Fire Quilted the Academy of music
and the Hotel Savoy 1T Chelsea, Mass,
and spread to a four-story tenemenh
Two men are said to have been killed
by falling walls.
In the Bochum (Westphalia) district
of Germany, 10000 men, the employees
of az mines, are out on strike.
Charles DAWSON Hamill, one OF the
leading members Of the Chicago board
of trade. died at his home from hard
ening of the arteries of the brain.
Hon William j. Bryan, upon invita-
tion, addressed the general assembly
of Indiana. which met in joint session
to listen to him.
Fourth Assistant Postmaster-Gen-
eral Bristow has resigned, effective
January 20, and will be provided for
with a lucrative special commission
ership under the wal department
The long drought in the Indian ter
ritory has beeen broken by a copious
rain.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-01-20
MURDER IN FIRST DEGREE.
Frank Hoffman Convicted. ut Kan
s.s City. Mo-, of the Murder
of Clarence M.yers.

Kansas City, Mo-, Jan. 14.-After
celebrating six hours, q jury in the
criminal court in this city brought in
a verdict of murder in the first degree
against Frank Hoffman, who was tried
for completely in the killing of Clar-
enc Meyers, a printer, at the latter's
home in this city on the night of May
10 last.
Mrs. Aggie Meyers, widow of the
murdered man, is in the county Jail
for completely in the same crime.
hoffman was convicted upon his own
confession. which was the testimony
upon which the prosecution based it's
case. The defense offered practically
no testimony. The murder, according
to the confession, was premeditated and
most brutal.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-01-20
THE RUSSIAN PRISONERS
The Delivery of Russian Prisoners
at Port Arthur Under the Cnpitu-
IatiOn Completed.

Washington, Jan. 9.-The japanese
legation received the following cable
gram from the foreign office at Toxic
under Gate of Sundays
Gen. Nogi, on Sunday, reports that
delivery of Russian prisoners under
capitIlatiOn was completed on Satur-
day. The total of the prisoners were
SIS officers and 23,491 men, whereof AL
officers and 229 orderlies have given
parole so far. Gen. Smirnoff, Gen.
Fock, Gen. GorbatoWsky and Admiral
Whitman preferred to be sent to Ia
pan as prisoners, while Stoessel will
leave Dalny for home on January u.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-01-20
WIZ, WAR N THE FAR EAST.

Russian cavalry reconnaissance III
Manchuria are being met by lhe jap
anese with vigor and success
The Japanese press is
criticism of the Russians at Port AT
thur in destroying their SHIPS anu
other property pending the capi'ula-
tion. and give the Russians credlt lor
stopping the destruction as soon d. Che
~capitulation was signed.
Vladivostok. the Siberian capltal, Is
to he the next object OF attack by lhe
Japanese who purpose carrying out d
nIan of operations similar to That 1ol-
lowed at Port Arthur.
The Russian cruiser Izumrud IS re-
turning to Port Said, on the way 10
Cronstadt in a badly damaged Il
ton. She belonged to Admiral 30
trovsky's squadron.
The correspondent at Port Arthur
of the London Daily Mail says that'
on January 8, 20 japanese were
killed by the explosion OF a contact
mine inside one of the forts, n tnat
two mines in the town also exploded.
A rumor is current at Port Louis,
Island of Mauritius, that a Japanese
squadron is at Diego Garcia, Chlgos
islands.
The first batch of Russian prisoners
from Port Arthur has arrived at Ma
gasaki. Japan, consisting OF. so officers
and 1000 enlisted men.
Gen. Nogi reports to Toxic that the
turning over of the public property al
Port Arthur by the Russian officers
has been completed.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-01-20
THEIR LAST HOPE GONE.
The United states Supreme Court
Decides Adversely to Barrett,
D0Ian and Garrett.

Washington, Jan. 0.-'rhe motion
for leave to file petition for a writ
OF habeas corpus, filed here last week
in the Observation-Disclosures naturali-
cation fraud cases from st. Louis, was
court.
The effort was the last to secure the
freedom of the three ST. Louis men.
The action of the court closes the
last avenue Of defense, and the ac-
cused trio must serve their terms in
the p~enitentiary.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-01-20
STRIKES HIM AS HUMOROUS
Attorney DaNIey Denies Having Re-
ccived Any Diamonds From
Mrs. Chadwick.

Cleveland. o., Jan. Accommodating
upon the fact that he had been served
with an order by the federal authori-
ties ito produce certain diamonds and
gems" Attorney J. P. Dawley, counsel
for Mrs. Chadwick, said:
Il have not received so much as a
pewter shoe buckle from either Mrs.
Chadwick or her husband, DR.. Chad
wick. The serving Of such an order
strikes me as being humorous. Mrs.
Chadwick has certainly rot turned any
diamonds over TO me-"
The Tupelo journal., 1905-01-20
THE OFFICIAL VOTE CAST.
The Voice of the People Ratified in
the Different State Capitals
of the Republic.

Washington, Jan. 10.-Monday Theo-
dore Roosevelt, of New York, and
Charles w. Fairbanks, of Indiana,
were formally elected president and
vice-preside1t of the United States. In
the capitals of the several states in
the Union the members of the electoral
college chosen at the polls last No
vember gathered and cast the states
votes for the republican and demo-
cratic tickets as ordained by the peo-
pie.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-01-20
A JAPANESE CELEBRATION
Japanese Residents of New York
Celebrate the Fall "f Port Ar
thur in Carnegie Hall.

New York. Jan. 9.-The fall of Port
Arthur was celebrated here, Sunday, at
o mass meeteing Of japanese residents
of the city, held in Carnegie hall. The
affair was intended to be solely for
the Japanese residents, 500 of whom
attended, and the only invited guests
were Gen. Stewart l.. WoodfOrd, for
mer minister to Spain, and Alexander
Tison, both of whom delivered adj
dresses.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-01-20
WARNER TO SUCCEED WARE.
Congressman Vespesian Warner De-
cidcd Upon as the New Pension
Commissioners

Washington. Jan. 14.-The president
Vespesian Warner, of the Nineteenth
district of Illinois, commissioner of
pensions.
Mr.. Warner was reelected to con-
gress last November for the fifth term.
He was strongly Endorsed by promi-
len members of the G. A. r. and 9th
er organizations of veterans. The ap-
pointment- will go to the senate to-
dav.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-01-20
CHICAGO DRAINAGE CANAL
Board of Investigation Report st.
Louis Water is Not Deieteriously
Affected by Chicago Sewage.

Springfield, ILL.,, Jan. 9.-The report
Secretary James A. Eagan to Gov.
Yates for the years 1903 and 1904 re-
views the important work of the board
Of investigation of Illinois. Mississippi
and Missouri rivers, and the effect On
these streams of the Chicago drainage
canal. The report holds that it is on
clusively proven that the claims that
st. Louis water is deleteriously affected
by Chicago sewage is unfounded.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-01-20

st. Joseph, Mo-, Jan. 14.-Pernbroke
V. Wise, aged 70, patent and pension
attorney, died FRIDAY of aid age IN
firmities. He was a veteran of Is bat
ties in the civil war, and took ar ac-
tive part in the development Of this
part of the country in the early days.
He was a forty miner.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-01-20
BECAUSE CHILD WASN'T A BOY
Suicide by A~sphyxiation of Mrs, Sa-
rah Libman in ChicaEo-A
Child Also Dead.

Chicago, Jan. 14.-Brooding over the
fact that her child, born six weeks
ago, was 8 girl instead of a boy, Mrs.
Sarah Libnan committed suicide by
inhaling gas. Mrs. Libman also caused
the death of her th~ree-year-old daugh-
ter, Frieda. Two other small children
who had been overcome by the gas
were rescued by neighbors.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-01-20
To Take Illinois Vote.

Springfield, ILL.,, Jan. 10.-The 81 Hi
nois presidential electors met in the
capitol and selected A. ]. Neal, OF
Charleston, official messenger to carry
the vote of Illinois to Washington. His
selection was made by ballot, as there
were several candidates.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-01-20
just a Matter of Gossip.

Washington, Jan. 10.-This city and
Paris are gossiping over a possible al
lance between Miss Alice Roosevelt
and the courtly Viscount Charles de
Chambrun, a descendant of Lafayette
and secretary to the French embassy.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-01-20
Louise Michel Dead.

Paris, jan. 10.-Louise Michel,
prominent as a communist and revo-
%lutionary agitator for the last 80
years, is dead at Marseilles OF double
pneumonia, aged rs years. She was
on a lecture our.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-01-20
Someone Fed Them Hat Poison.

BulIale, N. Y, Jan. 10.-in the town
of Belvidere, near Olean, Giuseppi Ros-
ST is dead; another man is dying and
ten railroad laborers are very sick in
a boarding house. Someone has fed
them rat poison
The Tupelo journal., 1905-01-20
Died in Husbands Arms.

st. Louis, Jan. 14.-During an attack
of coughing, due to asthma, Mrs. John
E. Faber. 2133 South Jefferson avenue.
died in the arms of her husband, DR..
Faber, one of the oldest practicing
physicians in st. Louis.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-01-20
The Golden Text.

If it is true that experiments in Italy
recently demonstrated that messages
sent by autobiography cannot be di-
verified from the point for which they are
intended, one of the hitherto hardest OBJ
stacles in the way Of the ultimate success
of the wireless has been overcome.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-01-20
salt Lake Banker in Trouble.

Salt Lake City, Utah, Jan. 14.-B. H.
Shelter, a banker, has been arrested,
charged with accepting deposits after
he knew his bank was insolvent. The
extreme penalty in this state is five
years in the penitentiary. Shelter has
three wives.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-01-20

Successful experiments have been
made in the treatment of neuralgia and
hysteria with radium at the Salpetriere
hospital, in Paris.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-01-20
De,th Came in the Night.

st. Louis, Jan. 14.-Charles T. King,
aged SO, a %idower, was found dead in
bed at his home, 500 South Twenty
second street, Heart failure
The Tupelo journal., 1905-01-20
Surprised BY a Tornado.

FL Paso, Tex, Jan. "a tornado.
something unheard of before in this
section, swept through d portion of the
timber lands of the Mormon colony Of
Chuechupo, in Chihuahua, Mexico, de-
v~astating a strip of fine timber and
doing other property some damage.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-01-20

The forestry station at Dodge City
has supplied western Kansas farmers
with more than / 0 600 trees this year.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-01-20

New York, Jan. 9.-The members OF
the chorus of the Metropolitan grand
opera company, who were injured Sat
urday night by the collapse of a bridge
during the first. act of Carmen are
said to be recovering.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-01-20
President of wesleyan University.

Bloomington, Ill, Jan. DIR. Frank
lin G.. Barnes, president of Onarga
seminary at Onarga, ILL.,, was elected
president of the Illinois Wesleyan
university at a meeting of the trustees.
He will succeed E. NJ. Smith, resigned.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-01-20
TO Succeed Judge NOrtOni.

st. Louis, Jan. 9.-Joseph G. Will
Jams, of DeSoto, Mo, has been appoint
ed assistant United States district at
torney to succeed Albert D. Nortoni,
who was elected a judge of the st.
Louis court of appeals at the Novem-
Der election.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-01-20

VOIN OE TIT NEStCTIVUF
Jefferson City, Mo, Jan. 10.-The
Missouri electors assembled here Mon
dav and cast the II votes of the state
for Roosevelt and Fairbanks.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1905-05-19
stockgrowers Meet in Denver.

Denver, Colo.-The American Stock
Growers association, which was or
ganized last January by seceders from
the National Livestock association, is
holding its first annual convention in
this city. Several hundred cattlemen
were present at the opening session
in the Broadway theatre on Tuesday,
at which addresses of welcome were
made by Governor Jesse F. Mcdonald
and John w. Springer, former presi'
dent of the National Livestock asso-
citation, and a response by w. w. Tur-
ney, president of the Texas Cattle
Raisers' association. The present
convention will discuss ways and
means of securing better rates and
service from the railroads, and OF
fighting the alleged combination OF
the packers.