The Tupelo journal. (Tupelo, Miss.) 1876-1924, 1906-10-12
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Traffic Manager Ives OF the wabash
IS questioned by the interstate com.
merce commission concerning grain
elevator allowances.
Question Of legality of advertising
transportation will probably be ap-
pealed to the courts for a final de-
cision.
Railway clerks of lines in Chicago
make demand for shorter hours and
| increased pay.
United States takes bulk of Cuba 3
exports, amounting in last fiscal year
to &c per cent. Increase in Cuban i'm.
ports shown by commerce report.
Rumor in Washington that more
| troops may not be sent to Cuba Prep
arations continue, however.
Bryan will enter Colorado fight and
will champion the cause of Alva
Adams for governor.
| Cuban rebels are menacing interior
towns and troops may be sest to sub
due them.
Mr. and Mrs. Howard Gould are
reported living apart, and rumor of a
| divorce suit Is heard In New York.
Senator Beveridge, speaking at Lin
coin, Neb, declares Bryan would have
been greater preacher than Beecher.
Ernest Burnstein was elected mayor
Of Shreveport, La, In the second race
| by 80, against DR.. s. A. Dickson.
| Correspondence discloses Palma
| ocip in C1yho MS RI fnrno IN
tervention months ago by resigning
their posts and begging for United
| States troops.
John D. Rockefeller, in Cleveland
interview, declares French people hate
Americans and would crush them ii
they could.
The steamer China has arrived al
Honolulu, having sighted the steam
ship Mongolia on her way to San
Francisco.
The fire on the transport Thomas al
Manila has been extinguished.
This year is the first time in 1e
years that the populists are not rep
resented on the official ballot in Tex
| as.
The New York cotton market is less
| active, and rules nervous and unset
| tied. The close was at a decline OF
81 to AZ points.
Boston (NationaD sustained its
| Tooth defeat of the season, losing to
Brooklyn 13 to 4.
The demand for steel plates con
| tinues strong, orders in some cases
| for cars extending up to October
1908.
The United States Steel corpora
ton plan building three or four new
blast furnaces in the Pittsburg dis
trict.
Hartman and Gould enter into a
| lively contest for an allrail inlet to
San Francisco via Dunn barton Point
Interstate commerce commission an
nounces that it will pursue a lenient
| policy for the present in the exercise
of discretionary powers under the
new law.
Senator Plat taken from his hotel
| to the private offices in a state of col
lapse an hour before his wife was to
nave dillNSu.
Pennsylvania farmer carried up 1000
feet, with head downward, by a bal
loon, at Reading.
Senator Beverage fears revolt will
again rend Cuba and the United States
flag must then go to stay, he de-
clares.
Mrs. Alice Van Ripper, aged SO,
daughter of Col. ]. G. Jones, first
mayor of Evansville, Ind, died at Ia.
| coma, Wash.
Son of Senator Stone of Missouri
takes the beautiful daughter of Judge
Thomas Cockrill for his bride.
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., and several
of his fellow-students at Harvard, to-
gether with two police officers, have
been summoned before the Suffolk
county grand jury in connection with
an investigation by that body of an
assault upon one of the officers on
Boston commons last Thursday even
ing.
Edwin Gould and Howard Gould and
party arrive in ST. Louis to attend the
southwestern annual meeting.
The large coal mine north of Their
mopolis, Wyo., is burning fiercely.
The miners all escaped.