The Tupelo journal. (Tupelo, Miss.) 1876-1924, 1905-02-10

Six business houses and residences
at North McGregor, Ia, were burned
while the thermometer registered 30
below zero. The city hall and Jail
were among the buildings burned.
Cole Younger has petitioned the
Minnesota pardon board to remove the
restrictions of residence placed upon
him when he was pardoned.
Fire destroyed Cedar Court the
country home of Otto Kahn,
member of the banking firm OF Kuhn,
Loeb G Co, New York, near Norris
town, N. j.: loss 100000
George s. Sargent was shot and killed
in lodging house in Boston, and there
is a grave suspicion that his wife, from
whom he had been separated, fired the
shot. She claims he committed suicide.
The Jury in the case of Coroner
| Moses ]. Jackson of New York city,
charged with attempted bribery, re-
| turned a verdict of guilty.
After several years of experimenting,
rubber trees have been brought to the
producing stage at Nahiku, Hawaii. A
| number of the more wealthy Hawaii
ans are interested in the project
| 1t has been decided that the school
of journalism at Columbia university,
endowed by Mr.. Joseph Pulitzer, Will
not be inaugrrated until the death OF
| Mr.. Pulitzer.
Gov. Bell of Vermont granted re-
prieve to Mrs. Mary Mabel Rogers,
who was to have been hanged on the
| Sd inst, for the murder of her hus-
band, until June 4 next.
| The Montombo volcano, promon-
| tory 5000 feet high in Lake Nicaragua,
is reported in eruption, and some fears
are felt for the safety of Leon, town
of $4,000, eight miles away.
The California assembly has voted
| to recede the Yosemite valley to the
| general government.
Fire in the business center Of
| Gloucester, Mass, destroyed property
valued at over half million.
| Senator Mitchell, of Oregon, says he
welcomes the most searching investi-
CATION of the charges made against
| him.
The public debt statement for jan
| uary shows that the debt proper was
| decreased during the month by 1885,
sos.
| Six lady members of a sleighlng
| party from Hornellsville, were killed
| and several others seriously injured,
four of whom died later, by their vehi-
! Gle being run down by a train near
Airport, N. Y.
A number Of Rock Island officials
were injured in a wreck caused by a
collision between a passenger and
freight train at Redman, la. The
superintendent car was burned.
Union theological seminary, New
York, has just received an anonymous
| gift of 100000.
| President Beckwith of the defunct
Citizens national bank of Oberlin, O.,
is gradually sinking. He takes no
nourishment and is, for the most of
| the time unconscious.
The car has promised delegation
of workmen who visited the palace at
| Tsarkoe Selo by invitation, that GER
| tain reforms will be instituted where
by conditions of the working classes
will be ameliorated.
| The Russian imperial family has
placed $4,000 at the disposal of Gov
ernor General Trepoff for the aid of
families of sufferers from the recent
massacre.
report from Commander Niles OF
the cruiser Boston, at Panama, says
| that vessel is now free from infection
and the danger of new cases of yellow
| fever passed. Four cases are conval-
escent.
| One person was killed and five in
jured as the result of fued over line
fence near Rhine, Ga. Further trouble
is apprehended
The Grand Trunk Pacific engineers
| report five new passes through the
| Rocky mountains in Northern British
| Columbia.
Houston Webb, 60 years of age, was
found frozen to death in the timber
near Oskaloosa, la.
Six persons were injured, four fatal
| ly, by the crashing of Grand Rapids
I & Indiana passenger train into street
car on crossing at Grand Rapids,
| Mich.
Fifteen stores were burned at Stat
ford Kas. entailing loss Of $4,000
Gov. Vardaman of Mississippi sent
his congratulations to Gov. Terrell OF
Georgia on his refusal TO permit a
| company of negro militia to attend
President Roosevelt's Inauguration.
| While coasting at Bloomington, ILL.,,
Earl Reynolds was killed, Thomas
Davis was fatally injured, Mary Rey-
nolds was painfully bruised and cut, a
lad named Valentine had leg broken
and Charles Lester had his head badly
cut, besides suffering internal injuries.
The central labor union of Washing
ton, D. c., has appointed committee
| to consider plans for the erection in
that city of a large national temple
dedicated to the labor of the country,
and to serve as a meeting place for
all labor bodies.
The live stock holdings of the late
Levi q. Letter were disposed of at pub
lie auction at Cheyenne, Wyo., the sale
being characterized as the largest of
the kind ever held in that state. Good
prices were secured.
Charles Wyman, recently convicted
of fraudulent voting at the primary
election in San Francisco, was SEN
fenced to three years imprisonment in
San Quentin state prison.
After 20 years service as United