The Tupelo journal. (Tupelo, Miss.) 1876-1924, 1906-11-02
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Moroccan crisis becomes acute and
France sends warships, while Germany
holds hers in readiness.
Great Britain, France and Italy form
defensive alliance to safeguard peace
of Europe.
Switchmen's union at Galveston
gives the railroads forty-eight hours to
concede terms or suffer tie-up OF the
wharves and terminals.
Hartman Is said to have organized
Chicago, Joliet & Kansas City road to
give him two Kansas City outlets.
Nelson Chesman, founder of pioneer
advertising agency, in business in st.
Louis thirty-two years, expires in the
east.
Business section of Argyle, Tex, is
destroyed by fire, entailing loss esti-
mated at $4,000.
Nine cavalry troops on trail Of Ute
Indians; have orders to avoid fight IL
it is possible.
German foreign secretary visits
cardinal delegate and asks aid from
the vatican to prevent Polish revolu-
ton.
The recent storm, by blowing the
mosquitoes away, is believed to have
effectually checked yellow fever at
Havana.
Washington report says Robert Ba-
con will be appointed ambassador to
France to succeed r. s. Mccormick.
William Walsh, former well-known
jeweler in St Louis, ends his life with
revolver in Elks' clubrooms.
Ute Indians are in an ugly mood
and are expected to fight when or
dered to return to their reservation.
Orders from the department of JUS
tice will prevent former Senator Bur.
ton being given special privileges in
the Ironton (Mo) jail
Logan Nance, aged 80, merchant and
vice president of the Herrick Qll)
bank, died of typhoid fever and blood
| poisoning.
James Carey, resident at Virginia,
H., since 1910, died from an accidental
fall off a porch, aged 81, and totally
blind
Appointment of Charles H. Huttig,
of St. Louis, on elastic currency com.
mission is regarded as settled by
| financiers.
George ]. Gould fnspects the Wabash
line from Chicago, dimes in st. Louis
and leaves for the east at midnight.
American Railway association deter.
mines upon plan to correct car service
abuses and will adopt heavy per diem
penalty.
| It is rumored in New York that Stuy.
vesant Fish may be succeeded as pres
idsnt of the Illinois Central BY Vice
President Grammer of the Vanderbilt
lines.
Baptists near Cape Girardeau, Mo,
unveil monument on the site of the
first church west of the Mississippi
river.
Date for Hague tribunal is set for
next May, following conference be.
tween Roosevelt and Gen Horace Por.
ter.
At st. Louis Lyman E. Hamilton,
after arrest, conlesses to forgery, safe
robbery and theft.
Another storm breaks on Mobile, de-
stroying eighty of 125 boats driven
helplessly out to sea.
Cuban rebels harassing towns in
Puerto Principe province to be dis
persed by the United States troops.
No trace is found by the officers of
James Long, who killed widow and
father-in-law near Fairfield, Mo.
Assistant Passenger Traffic Mana.
ger Byrne of the Santa Fe urges crea.
ton of new tariffs before the conven.
ton of the American association at At.
lantic City.
Experts on traffic from all sections
of the country are selected to aid the
| interstate commerce commission in
| the formulation of notices relating to
changes in tariffs.
| Following the troubles of last Fri
day and Saturday, Casey's (ll) negro
citizens have all departed
Bankers convention adjourns at st.
Louis, after providing for a special
commission to consider currency re-
| forms.
Experts find an error of $1,000 in
the st. Louis subtreasury accounts,
but say it is not connected with the
| SCI 200 shortage