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The Tupelo journal., 1905-10-20
BANKERS ELECT OFFICERS
John l.. Hamilton, of ~HOOpestOn,
Ill, chosen Prcsident-A POpu-
lar Belief Exploded.

Washington, Oct. 14.-The American
Association of National Bankers elected
officers for the coming year and brought
their annual convention to a close.
The officers elected are:
President, Mr.. John l.. Hamilton,
vice-president Hamilton & Cunningham,
Hoopeston, ILL.,; first vice-president, Mr..
G. S. Whitson, vice-president National
City bank, New York city. Members
of the executive council for a term of
three years-George M. Reynolds, vice
president Continental national bank,
Chicago; Milton E. Allies, vice-presi-
dent Riggs national bank, Washington,
D. c.; J. L. Edwards, president Mer-
chants national bank, Burlington, Ia;
H. B. Wilcox, cashier First national
bank, Baltimore, Md; J.. j. Sullivan,
president Central national bank, Cleve-
land, o.
By resolution the convention resent
ed frequent alleged reports that the as
ISOLATION placed noted criminals on sal
airy to prevent their continued fraudulent
operations. No such arrangements
were ever made with wrongdoers, it
was declared. 4
The Tupelo journal., 1905-10-20
TAGGART GRANTED A DECREE
Judge Eason, at Wooster, o., Ken
ders Ills Verdict in n Fa-
nous Divorce Case.

Wooster, O., Oct. 14.-Judge Eason,
who heard the divorce case OF Capt.
Elmore F. Taggart against his wife,
has rendered his decision. The court
grants Capt. Taggart the divorce and
the custody of the two children, Culver,
aged II, and Charles, aged Z. Al
though Mrs. Taggart is denied posses
sion of the children, she will be permit
ted to see them. Capt. Taggart was in
court during the reading of the deci-
sion. Mrs. Taggart is i'll and was not
present.
Judge Eason, before giving his deci-
sion, reviewed the petitions, cross-pe-
titions. answers and affidavits. In the
course of his statement, Judge Eason
said that the testimony was deeply
touching. The charge of drunkenness
against Capt. Taggart, the court said,
was not sustained.
The trial lasted seven weeks. The
case went to the court a month ago.
The suit was first started in July, 1904,
by Capt. Taggart, who flied petition for
divorce, charging his wife with conduct
unbecoming a woman and alleging the
excessive use of intoxicants. Mrs.
Taggart heard of the proceedings in
San Francisco several weeks later, and
Immediately started for Wooster, the
home of the Taggarts, where she filed
a counter petition for divorce against
Capt. Taggart on grounds of cruelty
and neglect. The case has been of ex-
cepticnal interest because of the state
meEt during the trial by Capt. Taggart
that the use of intoxicants in the army
was SO common as to be almost the GUS
tom. A number of prominent army
officers were named in Capt. Taggart's
petition as having been more or less
the cause Of the domestic troubles be-
tween Capt. Taggart and Mrs. Taggart.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-10-20
INVENTIVE

In France the p~honopostal, a paste
board card on which the sound of the
human voice is reproduced much as it
is in a photograph, is being used as
picture postcards are in many coun-
tries, for souvenirs.
A poor laboring man in Denmark
has made a new invention in life saw
ing. He impregnates clothes with q
substance which will keep a ship
wrecked person afioat for several days
without losing its property.
A new machine for making glass
ware with handles, such as jugs, is
being tried in Indiana, and is the in
vention Of a mold maker named Hoff-
man. 1t makes a handled article in
one piece, and at one operation; it will
displace thousands of hand workers,
and reduce the cost to one-quarter,
probably less.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-10-20
BURNED TO THE WATER LINE
II. Spencer Destroyed by Fire
at St. Louis.

st. Louis, Oct. 13.-Burned to the wa
ter line, the big excursion steamer Cor
win HI. Spencer lies beached on the
Missouri side Of the river just north
of the government reservation on which
the powder depot stands, a mile north
of Jefferson barracks. Fire broke out
on her at 4:35 o'clock yesterday after
noon, and in an incredibly short time
the boat was enyeloped in flames, and
was practically destroyed to the water
line.
The engines and the electric light
plant are about all that Capt. Brolaski
hopes TO save. The boat was insured
for but $35, 900, and her master figures
that the loss will be $120, 900, minus the
amount of the insurance.
The boat was being repainted and
overhauled, and was to have gone
south in a few days to go into the cot
ton transportation business on the low
er river.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-10-20
AMERICAN ARMY AND NAVY
A German Newspaper Delivers Itself
Of an Opinion of the Quality of
Uncle Sans War Dogs.

Berlin, Oct. 14.-The leading con-
sentative newspaper, Neue Preussische
Kreutz Zeitung, prints what is calls an
expose of the claims of the United
States to be a great military power.
The article asserts that the American
army is "rotten," and that 10 per cent.
Of the soldiers deserted during 1904.
"The army is made up of miserable
material" says the newspaper, "and
the Russian army is superior to that
of the Unitetd States.
Americans are patriotic with their
mouths; but they are unwilling to be
come soldiers in behalf of their own
country, and they despise soldiers as
a class.
The United States possesses suf-
ficient wealth to build 100 new battle
ships, but it is impossible to mar them,
as neither officers or crews exist"
The Tupelo journal., 1905-10-20
MISSOURI SEEMS
TO Be HO0D00EO
The States Building At the Port
land Exposition Burned.
VALUABLE CONTENTS RUINED
The Beautiful Collection of Art ana
Statuary, One of the
of Missouri's Display, Al
most q Complete Loss.


Portland, Ore, Oct, 14.--The Missouri
state building at the Lewis and clark
exposition was completely destroyed by
fire Friday night. Practically nothing
of the magnificent exhibit gathered by
the Missouri state commission was
saved, and the beautiful collection Of
art and statuary, which was one Oh the
features of the Missouri display, Will
prove almost a complete loss. 1t is
estimated that the pecuniary loss VIII
exceed $50, 600, with no insurance save
S., 900 on the art exhibit.
All that remained standing when the
fire was gotten under control was the
colonnade entrance, surmounted by a
half dozen angelical figures which STOOD
out spectrelike against the gloom OIL the
night.
The flames were first seen by a youth
who was walking neal the building
49,
He Immediately turned in the hre
alarm. which summoned the EXPOSITION
and civ fire departments to the scene
The secret service agents are WORKING
On the theory that the fire was OF IN
cendiary origin, and that it star'eo
among q collection of packing cases
stored lust beyond the building await
ing the period of dismantling OIL the
Missouri exhibit.
Superintendent of the Building Ed
ward Crumbaugh, of Columbia, NO.
the only person within the structure at
the time of the fire, has another ana
mere probable theory. He is OF the
opinion that the fire had its origin III
the same faulty electrical construction
which has been the cause OF the several
incipient blazes which have occurred IN
the different buildings during the fair.
Three quarters of an hour after the
first alarm was sounded the Missouri
building was in ruins. That the flames
did not spread to some of the adjoining
buildings was due to the almost com
plete absence of wind and to the mar
velous work of the firemen, who fought
the fire desperately to save adjacent ex-
hibit palaces.
The only casualty was the serious
injury to an electrician named Harry
ZONES, who in the early stages OF the
fire mounted to the roof to cut the cleo
trio wires. and who fell to the main
floor of the building.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-10-20
THE TREATY OF PORTSMOUTH
Arrangements Made in Washington
For the Exchange of Ratffica-
lions at the White House.

Washington, Oct. 13.-Baron Rosen,
the Russian ambassador, had a confer
ence with Assistant Secretary of State
Adee regarding the arrangements for
the exchange of the r%atifications of the
Russian-Japanese treaty of peace. The
exchanges will take place by telegraph,
and as a compliment to President
Roosevelt for his efforts in bringing
about peace, will take place in his
presence. The Russian ambassador and
the Japanese minister will go to the
White House when the ceremony oc-
ours. Telegraphic authorization for
the exchanges may be received any
day.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-10-20
THE PEORIA SCHOOL FUNDS
Chairman o. j. Bailey of the School
Board Finance Committee In
dicted for Malfeasance.

Peoria, ILL.,, Oct. 13.-O. J.. Bailey,
chairman of the finance committee of
the Peoria school board, is charged
with malfeasance in Office by the grand
jury, and by a vote of 16 to Z it was
declared to return an indictment against
the school officer. The Indictment will
follow the investigation of the conduct
of former Superintendent N. C. Dough
erty, who is now in the county Jail, I'M
Ger indictment for forgery and mis-
appropriation of school funds. The
grand jury will return 43 additional in
dictments against N. c. Dougherty. It
was figured up Thursday that the loss
to the school board since January /,
1903, amounted to $3.50, 900.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-10-20
COFFEE NEURALGIA
Leaves When You Quit and Use
Postum.

A lady who unconsciously drifted
into nervous prostration brought on
by coffee, says:
81 have been a coffee drinker ALI
my life, and used it regularly, three
times a day.
"A year or two ago l became sub
ject to nervous neuralgia, attacks of
ervou headache and general nerv-
GUS prostration which not only in
capacitated me for doing my house
work, but frequently made it neces~
sary for me to remain in a dark
room for two or three days at a time.
II employed several good doctors,
one after the other, but none of them
was able to give me permanent relief.
Eight months ago a friend sug-
gested that perhaps coffee was the
cause of my troubles and that / try
Postum Food Coffee and give up the
old kind. I am glad ! took her adj
vice, for my health has been entirely
restored. I have no more neuralgia,
nor have I had n solitary headache
in all these eight months. No more
Of my days are wasted in solitary con-
fnement in a dark room. / do all my
own work with ease. The flesh that \
lost during the years of my nervous
prostration has come back to me dur
ing these months, and / am once more
q happy, healthy woman. I enclose q
list Of names of friends who can vouch,
for the truth Of the statement" Name
given by Postum Co. Battle Greek,
Mich.
There's q reason.
Ten days trial leaving OF coffee and
using Postum is sufficient. All gro
cers.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-10-20
LEARNED OF L1rrERArEuRs.

Paul Bourgeois Paris home, in the
Rue Barbet-de-Jouy, is a rallying
point Of the French artistic and lit
erary society during the season.
The SON of the not sufficiently ap-
preciated novelist, Anthony Trollope,
has likewise turned to literature. He
IL about to publish a biography OF
Moliere.
Justin Mccarthy says that his three
objects in his life have been attained.
| They were: To write books, to be a
member of parliament, and to live in
London.
Capt. Orville J. Nave, an army
| chaplain and author of "Nave's Top
ical Bible" is engaged in the com
| pilation of a revised Bible which will
be a unique edition and the only one
of its kind.
Edward Rostand has made SO much
money with the products OF his pen
| that he has been able to engage three
popular Partisan artists, Jean Weber,
| Henri Martin and Caro- Delyaille, to
| decorate his Basque villa at Cambo.
Helen Longstreet, daughter Of the
famous general, has written in Lee
| and Longstreet at High Tide" the
| story of the battle of Gettysburg in
answer to certain criticisms that have
| been leveled at her distinguished ia
Their. She has gone to the records for
her story, and has filled out sundry
| gaps by reference TO the memoirs left
| by her father.
A. T. Quiller-Couch, better known
as %" is the latest British novelist
to make an effort to get into parlia-
ment. He will stand" at the Oc-
| tober election, and it is expected he.
will win out, as he is very popular in
| his native region. He lives in the
| Cornwall he has made so famous in
his stories. Couch is 43 years of age,
| and has written % books.
While he was yet a teacher in the
Jews free school, Spitalields, Lon
don, Israel Zangwill, now famous as
author and playwright, composed
some verses, and timidly sent them to
| the editor of an American magazine
They were promptly returned. Some
years later, when fame had come his
way, the same editor cabled for a
poem. Mr.. Zangwill dispatched the
| rejected verses, which were paid for
at a. high rate, and doomed" as the
work of a celebrated author.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-10-20
SUPERVISION
OF INSURANCE
A Force More Potent Than That Of
State or Federal Laws.
WEIGHT OF PUBLIC OPINION
Many Of the Conceded Evils Of the
Insurance system Due to Condi-
tions For Which the Companies
Are Not Responsible.

Chicago, Oct. 13.-"There is a super
vision of insurance more potent than
that of state or federal laws. 1t is the
supervision of public opinion. OF all
institutions the insurance company most
depends upon public sentiment for its
very existence" This was the opening
sentence of an address Thursday by
James M. Beck, Of New York, to the
Fire Underwriters Association OF the
Northwest, in session in this city.
Never VIII be Perfect.
mo one pretends," he went on, that
the present insurance system, either in
theory or practical administration, Is
incapable Of improvement. 1t was not
perfect, it is not perfect and never will
be perfect as long as the human mind
is progressive. The people, in their So
Der, second thought, will perceive that
many of the conceded evils of the in
surance system are due to conditions
for which the insurance companies are
not responsible.
VI fllCuICQAIblC NuAuCs
"The New York investigation will
be of i~ncalculable value if it brings
the American people to a full realiza-
ton of the system of federated anarchy,
under which, so far as insurance is
concerned, We are living, and to which
the worst evils developed by the in
v~estigating committee are primarily
attributable.
Legislative Highwaymen.
"Let those who complain of the large
sums expended by insurance companies
to defeat oppressive legislation, remem-
Der that the insurance companies rare
ly spend a dollar to secure favorable
legislation. They ask no appropria-
ton, they claim no right of way. Let
cur stern moralists visit their greatest
condemnation upon the legislative
highwaymen, who hold up these great
business interests, and above all, upon
an Indifferent people, who clothe the
highwaymen with the power to hold up
their victims.
Insurance System IL Sick.
1.-The insurance system is sick, but
too many doctors are crowding at the
bedside to give any prospect of a full
recovery. For this intolerable condition
there is but one remedy, and that is
federal supervision. 1t would have
come long ago but for the doubt cast by
the courts upon the power of the fed
eral government to supervise inter-
state transactions in insurance as
q species of interstate commerce. Re-
cent decisions of the supreme court
unquestionably indicate a tendency of
that great tribunal to modify the mar
rover doctrine of earlier years IS to the
scope of Interstate commerce.
What the People Need They Get.
This much is sure: That what the
American people ~imperatively need, in
the matter of government, they ulti-
mateily get it, and either by judicial
Interpretation or by formal amendment.
the central government will n day
assume the supervision of this most i'm
portant and beneficent form of inter-
state intercourse"
The Tupelo journal., 1905-10-20

So widespread and general is the
use of the typewriter in nearly every
phase of the worlds activity to-day
that it is difficult for us to realize that
it is strictly a modern invention, and
that the first practical commercial
writing machine was placed upon the
market little over a quarter of a GEN.
fury ago. Notwithstanding that the
main elements of the mechanism had
been invented by the early sixties, they
were not practically embodied in one
machine till 1873.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-10-20
RESOLUTIONS OF THANKS
President Roosevelt and Attorney.
General Moody Thanked by St.
Louis Business Men.

st. Louis, Oct. 1.-THE joint COM
mittee of the allied organizations work.
ing for the free bridge bond issue met
at the rooms of the st. Louis Manufac-
turers' association in the Chamber Of
Commerce building.
Two resolutions, presented by the ex-
ecutive committee, were promptly
adopted. One thanks President Roose-
welt for ordering action On the bridge
combine and Attorney-Genera Moody
for beginning action, and the other
pledges the associations to continued
work against the bridge arbitrary and
In favor of a free bridge.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-10-20
HE GRIEvED FOR HIS WIFE
Suicide of Judge A.. G.. BrandneP,
With Illuminating Gas, at
Kansas City, Mo.

Kansas City, Mo-, Oct. 12.-Judge A.
G. Brandner committed suicide at his
home here by inhaling Illuminating
gas. He grieved for the death of his
wife. Brandner, who was 60 years Of
age, attempted on three different days,
recently, to kill himself at the grave Of
his wife at Onaga, Kas., by taking NOR
phine. Brandner kept a diary Of his
Onaga attempts, recording the hour Of
The day at which he swallowed each
grain of morphine and noting the effect
OF the drug. Brandner spent his early
life in Montana, and often asserted that
he was the first judge regularly chosen
in that state.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-10-20

The present cost of our navy per
year is than six dollars per fam
lily. In 1886 it was only about one dol
lar and a quarter per family. Our war
with Spain and the Philippines in sew
en- years cost us about one thousand
million dollars. Our present naval
program, if carried out, will call for
the expenditure of about two hundred
million dollars a year for naval main
tenance. Our total military expendi-
lures for the year 1904, including war,
navy and pension items, was over
$3.50, goo, 900, or over twothirds Of our
total national expenditures.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-10-20
THE sHERRICk SHORTAGE
Notes to the Amount of S52,536.24
Taken Up, Leaving the Short
age Now About $61 200.

Indianapolis, Ind, Oct. PA check
on the Fletcher national bank, signed
by the j. H. hurry company, per w.
S, Wickard, attorney, and calling for
$52 ,536.24, was paid by Mr.. Wickard t.
John S Reed, receiver for the David
E. Sherrick securities.
With the payment of these notes, the
total shortage of the ex-auditor amounts
to about $4,000. Of this amount SILL
000 is still unpaid on the Hoosier Oil
Co. notes Endorsed by former State
Senator E. H. Wolcott and five others
interested in the company.
Efforts are being made to settle the
81, 900, which will then reduce the
shortage to about $50, 1000.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-10-20
BURNED ON HUDSON RIVER
CAPTAIN Beached the Vessel md the
Crew Jumped Into the River
and Swan ashore.

Kingston, N. Y, Oct. 13.-The
steamer John McCausland, a passenger
and freight boat plying between here
and Glasco, was burned on the Hud-
son river, six miles north Of this city.
She had taken to Tivoli a party OF
Masons that had been visiting a sister
lodge in this city, and was returning
when the fire broke out under her
boiler.
Capt. Frank Reece beached the YES
sci on the flats and the crew jumped
into 4he river and swan ashore.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-10-20
FOR MANY YEARS UNWASHED
Farmers Wife Asks For n DE
yOrce and AIimOny !.

Marshalltown, a., Oct. 13.-Because,
as the plaintiff alleges, her husband,
has not bathed for % years, and brags
of the fact, Mrs. Phoebe Neumann, wife
Of a farmer, filed a petition for divorce.
She asks the custody of sever minor
children and $4,000 alimony, or one
third of the defendants property.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-10-20
Frost In the south.

st. Louis, Oct. 12.-Frost is reported
from a large section of the south, ex-
tending to Pine Bluff and Fort Smith.
Ark, throughout Indian territory and
Oklahoma, and Grenada, Miss, or the
entire northern section Of that state.
North Louisiana was also in the early
frost belt, while New Orleans tempera-
ture fell to 81 degrees.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-10-20

Chicago possesses two of the great
men of letters of America. They are
Speropanagrotis Pappatheodrokoum-
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS and James Pap
S,
of 4213 Halsted street. The first
named takes pride in the collection of
81 letters in his full name, while his
When they sign their lanes together
st requires the formation of SO letters.
The men are Greek merchants.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-10-20
TO COURT OF LAST RESORT
Denied Change of Venue, Armitage
Jumps From Window
and Kills Himself.

New York, Oct. 13.-Armitage Math-
ews, secretary of the corporation COM
mittee, killed himself by jumping from
q window of his residence.
Mathews was under indictment
charged with looting an estate Of
which he had charge.
A change of venue had been denied
~ Mathews case. The charge against
Mathews grew out of the wrecking of
the Federal bank and the %plundering
OF the Weisel estate by David Roths-
child, president of the bank.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-10-20
sop4h Admires Roosevelt.

Washington, Oct. 12.-William s
Eames, president Of the American
institute Of Architects, just returned
from Atlanta, Ca, says the south is
enthusiastic in its praise of Theodore
Roosevelt for the services he rendered
in the Portsmouth peace negotiations.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-10-20
MARRIED A NEWSPAPER MAN
Daughter Of "Frenzied Finance"
Lawson Marries a Poor MAN.
q Relative Of Blline.

Boston. Oct 12.-Miss Gladys Law.
son, eldest daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs.
Thomas Lawson. was married to Mr..
Eden Blaine Stanwood. The marriage
look place at the country home, Dream
void, at Egypt, Mass, and vas Of the
old-fashioned English type, the serv-
ants and retainers on the estate dane
ing at the Unfair afterwards. Mr.. STAN
wood is a relative of the late James
The Tupelo journal., 1905-10-20
Guest. Of the President.

Washington, Oct. 1.-THE president
and Mrs. Roosevelt entertained at din
ner the secretary of war and Mrs.
Taft; the postmaster general and Mrs.
Cortelyou, the assistant secretary of
war and Mrs. oliver, Joseph D. Bishop
and Mrs. Bishop, Gen. Dodge and Mrs.
Shepley. Gen. Dodge spent the night at
the White House.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-10-20
AN INDIGNANT MILLIONAIRE
Isfdore WOrmser willing to Give
100000 to Secure Conviction OF
Domestic's Assailants.

New York, Oct. 12.-Isidore Worm
ser, the millionaire banker, has offered
to give 500, 900 to secure the conviction
of a gang of men who recently as
sanlted Annie Thornton, a servant en-
ployed in his household.
Five men arraigned were held in ST.
600 bail each, and the police announced
that they expected to arrest nine more
men in connection with the assault.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-10-20

The Vienna hospital for disabled
fishes is surprising the doctors. The
patients have already included a carp
having an inflammation akin to ap-
pendicitis, ten others with smallpox,
a porpoise from the Adriatic with in
Illumination of the lungs, a trout with
cataract in both eyes and another
with dropsy.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-10-20

Washington, Oct. 14.-Gen. Bates.
acting chief of staff, has detailed Maj
Gen. John F. Weston, formerly COM
missary general of subsistence, to the
command of the northern military divi-
SIGN, with headquarters at ST. Louis,
to succeed Maj.-Gen. George M. Ran
dall, retired.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-10-20

John D. Rockefeller regained his
health and appetite by drinking a
glassful of hot water every morning
before breakfast. If Richelieu had
taken the same does at night before
going to bed the whole history of
France would have been changed.
There is much virtue in hot water. 1t
will cure. nearly every i'll if properly
used. Because it is SO cheap, and
never recommended by a physician, is
not a drug nor a patent medicine, the
general public overlook its merit. In
side or outside, mineral or pure, salt
or sweet, it is natures W remedy.