The Tupelo journal., 1905-10-27

u CIluludl Case IN tuHh0cNiSh va"
banks affairs, at Auburn, Neb.. gave
testimony directly at variance with tnat
given In a civil case, and the court or
dered informations for perjury filed.
Col. Jacob T. Child, former minister
to Siam and consul general at Hankow,
China, died at his home in Richmond,
Mo-, of paralysis. He founded the first
daily newspaper in st. Joseph, Mo. and
wrote the Pearl of Asia
The Russian battleghip Kniaz Potem-
kin. whose crew mutinied last June,
has, by imperial order, been rechris-
tened the "Pandleimon," after the Ia
nous martyr of the Russian church.
Mrs. Helen Stallo. widow Of John
Bernhard Stallo, of Cincinnati, who was
minister to Italy 20 years ago, died at
Scandicci, Italy, aged II.
w. b. Smith, former president OF b
Western national bank of Louisville,
KY, has been indeed in the federal
court al Louisville on ten counts
charging embezzlement, false entries
and incorporation of the banks
funds.
President Roosevelt had no cause to
complain of the cordially Of his recep-
ton as he %journeyed through North
Carolina. Thousands greeted him at
every stop and were as ELUSIVE in their
welcome as the most exacting could
wish.
The press of Paris Kept close tab
on the presidents speeches incident TO
his southern tour, and his ~utteranceS
regarding the United States attitude
toward the West Indies and Caribbean
coast evoked approving comment.
The czar of Russia has issued a i'm
perial manifesto proclaiming the rati-'
fication of the treaty of peace between
Russia and Japan. 1t characterizes Ja-
pan as a brave and mighty enemy,
now our friend"
Minister Takahira says that Japan
feels great repose about the Philip
pines because they are occupied by the
United States with the firm hold Of its
authority over the archipelago"
The ashes of Sir Henry Irving havs
been deposited in poets Corner in
Westminster abbey, London. Thou
sands stood bareheaded as the casket
was borne into the historic ediice. The
walls of the chapel of st. Faith were
banked with the floral tributes.
President Richard A. McCurdy Of the
Mutual Life Insurance Co. says that he
has no intention of resigning and that
nothing can or will. drive. him out.
nh arnr 1f +Ia rooaix-arc chn-s- tho
assets of the various properties of c.
]. Devlin, of Topeka, Kas., who failed
last July, to be 81 1856, 94S, and the di-
rect liabilities, $4,592, POS.
Mrs. George w. Hoadley, wife of the
manager of the International Power
Co. and president of the American
Bridge Co., was robbed of $4,000 worth
of diamonds and other jewelry in her
apartments in the Buckingham hotel,
New York city. A waiter and a for
mer bell boy have been arrested.
Joseph Letter, of Chicago, has been
ordered by Justice Greenbaum, of the
New York supreme court, to pay VIM.
j. Zeller $69,767 as principal and in
terest of a promissory note which Lei
ter gave during his attempt to corner
the wheat market several years ago.
Four members of the bakers crew
of the transport Sherman have been ar
rested in San Francisco, by federal
officers, on suspicion of having passed
counterfeit bills while the vessel was
in the port of Honolulu.
Unseasonably cold weather is report
ed from Helena, Mont, the thermome-
tiers, on the 18th, recording eight de-
grees above zero.
A writ of habeas corpus was refused
for Isaac w. Schiller, the Alamosa
(Col) banker charged with fraud.
Judge Holbrook also refused to reduce
his bail, fixed at $780, 600, and he was
sent to Jail.
Ordnance Sergeant Patrick Eagan
committed suicide by jumping into he
sea from the deck of the transport
Sherman, on which he had come from
the Philippines. just as she was enter
ing San Francisco harbor.
AS the result of a conference be-
tween Secretary of State Root and Sir
Mortimer Durand, the British ambas-
sador, it is said that a satisfactory So
luton of the Gloucester Newfoundland
fisheries controversy is in sight.
Edward B. Clifford. paying teller OF
the banking house of Claus Spreckels
& Co., who was a passenger on the
steamer Sonoma, from San Francisco,
jumped overheard when nearing Hon
olulu, and was drowned.
President Roosevelt started on his
southern tour on the 18th. His recep-
ton in Richmond, Va, was one con-
tinuous ovation, and the president was
in his happiest mood. One of the larg-
est gatherings ever assembled in the
Virginia capital greeted him when he
delivered his address on the capitol
grounds.
Judge Holdom, in the superior court
in Chicago. has sustained the injunc-
tion restraining the members of Typo
graphical Union No. 16 from interior
ing with the firms composing the Chi
cago Typothetae during the present
strike of union printers for the eight
hour day.
Mrs. Alice Hartman and five children
were burned to death in a midnight
fire which consumed their home at Port
Royal, Mo. Only the husband and fa-
Their, William Hartman, of the entire
family escaped.
Bubonic plague has appeared at Ner-
chinsk. on the Trans-Siberian railroad.
thus Offering a terrible menace to the
Russian soldiers returning homeward