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The Tupelo journal., 1906-05-18
The BUSCH FAMILY
RECOVER JEWELRY

st. Louis, May 1~2.-Adolphus Busch,
who with his wife and daughter, Mrs.
Magnus, occupied apartments in the st.
Francis hotel, San Francisco, at the
time of the recent earthquake and fire,
and who fled from the hotel, leaving
nearly $50, 1000 worth of jewelry and
diamonds in their rooms, have received
the valuables from the Inflated city.
The diamonds and jewelry were
shipped to Mr.. Busch in a small jewel
basket by express. Instead of attrac-
tive ornaments that have been admired
by thousands of persons in this and Eu-
ropean countries, the basket presented
a mass of melted gold, in which were
imbedded an assortment of diamonds
from the white solitaire to the chip
variety. Pendants and bars of" solid
gold were bent and blackened into an
almost unrecognizable condition.
The diamonds were discolored and
will have to be repolished and reset.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-05-18
WRECKED WITH DYNAMITE
THE FAMOUS FERRIS WHEEL A
TANGLED PILE OF JUNK.
The Foundation Blown Away with
Dynamite and h Great
Structure COllapses.

st. Louis, May 1.-THE big Ferris
wheel at the Worlds Fair grounds
was blown up by dynamite at 4:30 p.
m. Friday. One hundred pounds of
dynamite were exploded under the
supports at the north side of the
structure, wrecking the foundation
and permitting the wheel to drop to
the ground, a matter of but a few feet.
AS the wheel settled it slowly
turned, with the bottom of the wheel
as a support, and then, after totter-
ing a moment, slowly collapsed. It
did not fall to one side as the wreck
ers had ~planned-it merely crumpled
up slowly, and within a few minutes
was a tangled mass of steel and iron
80 or 40 feet high.
The huge axle, weighing "A tons,
dropped slowly with the rest of the
wheel, crushing the smaller braces
and steel framework into fantastic
shapes and forms. When the mass
finally stopped settling it bore no
resemblance to the wheel so familiar
to all St. Louisans.
Mrs. Cora Bennett, wife of w. G..
Bennett, superintendent of the Chi
cago House Wrecking Co., touched
the button that exploded the dyna-
mite.
The wheel weighed 1000 tons. 1t
cost originally $750,000 when erected
in Chicago 10 years ago. 1t was sold
there for $4,000, and $200,0 600 was
spent bringing it to this city and
erecting it.
During the time it was in use at
both fairs it carried 5000, 900 passen-
gers.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-05-18
The STANDARD OIL INQUIRY
INTERSTATE COMMERCE. COM
MISSION SEEKS LIGHT
Testimony Relating to the Com.
pany's Business Methods Being
Taken in Chicago.

Chicago, May 1.-THE inquiry BY
the government, through the interstate
commerce commission, into the rela-
tions between the Standard Oil Co.
and the railroads of the country began
here Thursday.
Two of the points on which 1t is said
the investigation will try to throw
light are the laying Of the pipe lines
Of the Standard OIL Co. along the rail-
roads ri~ght-of-way and the purchase
Of Galena oil by the railroads for head
light and signal purposes.
The first witness was E. M. Without,
of Topeka, Kas., now an independent
oil operator. but ten years ago an
agent Of the Standard Oil Co.
He testified, that while in the en-
ploy of the Standard Oil Co. he had,
in following out the instructions Of his
superior officers, bribed clerks In the
offices Of railroads and employees Of in
dependent oil concerns in order to OBJ
tain information of the details of the
business done by the rivals Of the
Standard Oil Co.
He declared that agents of the Stand
ard Oil Co. are held personally re-
sponsible for all oil sold in their terri
tory by Independent companies, and
that drivers of tank wagons are ex-
pected to keep up their stock by selling
205 to 20S gallons from a wagon load
of 200 gallons.
He said that the actual tests Of the
products of the Standard Oil Co., to de-
termine the quality, are carefully
guarded, and that when 1t was found
necessary to cut the price to meet the
figure of a competitor. a cheaper quail
ity Of oil was substituted and guarar-
teed to be of a higher grade thar. it
The Tupelo journal., 1906-05-18
YELLOWSTONE PARK
WAS NOT AFFECTED

st. Paul, Mimi, May 12.-Assistant
General Passenger Agent Smith of the
Northern Pacific railroad makes en-
phatic denial of the reports that the
recent earthquake shocks which
wrecked San Francisco had materially
changed the aspect of Yellowstone
park. He said:
"The reports that the recent seismic
felt in Yellowstone park or have in any
way affected that renowned pleasure re-
sort are absolutely without foundation.
Yellowstone park is not within the zone
of seismic action. Conditions there are
absolutely normal"
The Tupelo journal., 1906-05-18
FATALLY SHOT BY
FELLOW STUDENT

Vermilion, S. D., May 10.-Miss Lii
ian Young, daughter Of State Senator
Warren S. Young, and a student of the
state university here, is dead of a bull
let wound inflicted by a girl student,
Miss Hazel LotZe, daughter of c. E.
Lotze, of Fermilion.
Various explanations have been made
of the shooting, which took place in
dense woods on the opposite side of the
Missouri river. One persistent report
is that the two young women fought
a duel to settle differences in a love af-
fair. Another was that Miss Young
committed suicide, while the most
probable version was that she was shot
unintentionally by Miss LOtze while
firing at a target.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-05-18

Horseshoes, such as we have, are
also rather modern. The Greeks and
Romans used to cover their horses
feet with fiber cloth in cold weather,
or when urging the horses through
muddy and miry places. Nero's
horses were shod without nails, but
with silver. His wife's were shod in
gold. The shoeing of horses by driv-
ing nails through their hoofs was in
troduced into England by William the
Conqueror. But even in the middle
centuries horses were shod only on
special occasions, which was done more
for style.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-05-18
TRANSFORMATIONS.
Curious Results When Coffee Drink
ing Is Abandoned.

O04kO0S 1CSO4lS WhCA OoASS
ing Is Abandoned.
1t Is almost as hard for an old coffee
topper to quit the use of coffee as it is for
a whisky or tobacco fiend to break on,
except that the coffee user can quit cor
fee and take up Postum Food Cofee
without any feeling of a loss OF the
morning beverage, for when Postum Is
well boiled and served with cream, 1t
Is really better In point of flavor than
most of the coffee served nowadays,
and to the taste of the connoisseur It
Is like the flavor of fine Java.
A great transformation takes place in
the body within ten days or two weeks
after coffee is left off and Postum Food
Coffee used, for the reason that the pol
son to the nerves has been discontinued
and In its place is taken a liquid that
contains the most powerful elements OF
nourishment. +
It Is easy to make this test and prove
these statements by changing from cor
tee to Postum Food Coffee. J
'"There's q reason"
The Tupelo journal., 1906-05-18
All, Their Records Were Lost.

San Francisco, May 1.-THE fire.
mans Fund Insurance Co. has discov-
cred that the vault containing all the
records of it's insurance business in San
Francisco was destroyed. The falling
of an immense steel girder. which broke
off a corner of the vault, gave the fire
easy access to the records, including all
policies, maps, etc. President Dutton
SAYS a new company, to be known as
tho Fireman's Fund Insurance corpora
ton. is to be formed. The new corpo-
ration is to have 81. 00o. 600 capital and
Il, 1000, 600 surplus.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-05-18
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT
WILL DELIVER ADDRESS

Washington, May 11.-President
Roosevelt will attend the formal open
ing of the Jamestown exposition next
year and will deliver an addressNon that
occasion.
The invitation was extended to the
president, Thursday, by a committee
headed by Harry st. George Tucker,
president of the exposition company.
The president accepted the invitation,
saying that he had had the deepest in
terest in tile exposition since the incep-
ton of the project.
The opening Of the exposition will
take place on April 26, 1907, the ami
versary of the first landing of the Eng
lish at Cape Henry.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-05-18
THAT JEFFERSON CITY
BOMB EXPLODED

st. Louis, May 10.-The finding Of a
metal cylinder three inches in dame
ter, evidently a cell Of an electric dry
battery, two weeks ago in the capitol
lawn at Jefferson City, gave rise to an
internal machine" rumor, which
reached st. Louis Wednesday over both
telegraph lines.
Gov. Folk, when asked about the
cylinder by a reporter, laughed and said
a gardener had turned it up while at
work and had thrown it to one side
after a curious inspection. All thought
of a ''bcmb," the governor said, had
been dismissed.
The spot where it was found buried
is two or three hundred yards south OF
the capitol.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-05-18

The greatest dental operation on
record was performed upon an ele-
phant in the City of Mexico. The ach-
ing tooth was IL inches long and IA
inches in diameter at the root. After
Mr.. Elephant had been securely
fastened with chains his mouth was
pried open and a quantity of cocaine
applied to deaden the pain. When
this was done a hole was bored
through the tooth and an iron bar
inserted. Then a rope was twisted
around the bar and four horses at
tached and started, and the tooth gave
way like pulling stumps.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-05-18
JOHN A. DoWIE'S END
NOT VERY FAR OFF

Chicago, May 12.-The condition of
John Alexander Dowie is said to be
nearing a critical stage. The venerable
First APOSTLE has taken to his bed
and his strength is failing. The swell
ing of the extremities is said to
have extended upwards until within a
few inches of the heart. DR.. Blanks,
who has been in constant attendance
upon Dowie since his return from Mex
leo, said hat he might, by reason of
his great vitality, live a week or ten
days, but that a fatal termination of
the disease within two or three days
would not be surprising.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-05-18

All the automobile endurance con-
tests are thrown into the shade by the
remarkable performance of Emil Boul-
hours, of Paris, who rode a bicycle
815 miles and 291 yards in "a hours,
at the remarkable average rate OF
"a hours an hour. When n consid-
ers the delays and the stops entailed
in such a race it means that for hours
the rider must have been pedaling his
bicycle at the rate of so miles an
hour, and sometimes ~ faster than
that. The strain on the system to with
stand this must be severe and certain
1y felt by the rider.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-05-18
FLORIDA WATER PROVES
DEADLY To INDIANS

Rosethorn, Saskatchewan, May H.
Two more Indians are dead and six are
in a serious condition on the Duck Lake
Indian reservation as the result Of
drinking Florida water, and which he
suited in three deaths Wednesday. The
widest excitement prevails. A gov
eminent inspector will search the In
dian shacks and Duck Lake stores for
the fluid and confiscate all found. The
affair will probably develop into a gov.
eminent investigation, there being no
doubt that the fluid was adulterated.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-05-18
SAYINGS OF THE TOTS.

Mamma" said little Ethel, WI was
looking at the pictures in a Sunday
school hook, how do the angels get
their night gowns on over their
wings?"
Il think papa and mamma likes the
baby better than they do me" said
four-year-old Flossie to the visitor,
"'cause he lets en- do just as they
please
Tommy" said the teacher, don't
you know better than to talk aloud "a
school?"
But what is a Teller to do?" Quer.
ried Tommy. you said the other day
! mustn't whisper"
1t was the roll Of distant thunder
that caused little Margie to observe;
"'They must be cleaning house III
heaven o-day, mamma"
why d. you think so, dear?' aske1
her mother.
II hear the angels movin' the furn!-
ture around" replied Margie.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-05-18

The steam engine goes back to
Hero, Of Alexandria, in the third GEN.
fury B. C. Branca. an Italian, in 1929.
made an engine which blew steam
against vanes and thus made a wheel
spin. The first actual steam engine
was made by Capt. Savey, an English
man, in 1898. In 1705 Thomas New
conner made a vacuum steam engine.
But the steam engine of to-day was
the invention of the Englishman,
James Watt, and the first patent bears
date Of June 5, 1859. improvements
since added, however. encompass more
thought, labor and results.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-05-18
BEING PROBED BY THE
BOSTON GRAND JURY

Boston, May 10.-Following the de-
feat of the anti-bucket shop bill. in the
house branch of the legislature, re-
Gently, several representatives were al
legged to have asserted outside the house
that they were offered money to vote
against the measure. The matter was
brought to the attention of District At
torney John B. Moran, who in urn laid
it before the grand jury, and the rep
resentatives who were said to have
made the charges were called before
that body.
Wednesday, Mr.. Moran announced
his intention of summoning before the
grand jury the entire membership of
the legislature.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-05-18

Rome, May 11.-As a sequel to the
presence Of four cardinals at a dinner
given by Ambassador White in honor
of Archbishop Ireland. April Is, Car
dinal Oreglia, dean of the sacred col
lege, who by virtue of his rank is en-
titled to direct matters Of ceremony
among his brother cardinals, has writ
ten a letter to each of the four ar
dinals, Vincenze Vanutelli, Satolli, Ma
thieu and Martinelli, asking them for
an explanation of their presence at q
function given by a diplomat, accredit-
ed to the quiri1al.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-05-18
TWO MILLION DOLLAR
FIRE IN PARIS, FRANCE

Paris, May 12.-The leather market
In the Gobelin's district was burned
Friday hight. Many workmen's dwell
ings surrounding the market were also
destroyed. There were repeated explo-
sions> of carboys of acid and 1000 bar
rels of oil were destroyed. The walls
of the market fell in, injuring several
policemen and firemen. The damage is
estimated at 50. OO0. 900.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-05-18

and she is often the bread-winner of
the family. Whether she is sick or
well, whether it rains or shines, she
must get to her place of employment,
perform the duties exacted OF her
smile and be agreeable.
Among this class the symptoms of
female diseases are early manifest by
weak and aching backs, pain in the
lower limbs and lower part of the
stomach. In consequence of frequent
wettinp of the feet, periods become
painful and irregular, and frequently
there are faint and dizzy spells, with
loss of appetite, until life is a burden.
All these symptoms point to a de-
rangement of the female organism
which can be easily and promptly
cured by Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegeta-
BILE Compound.
Miss Abby F. Barrows, Jacksonville.
Athens Co., Ohio, tells what this great
medicine did for her. She writes:
Dear Mrs. Pinkham =
~ feel it my duty to tell you the good
lydia e. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound
and Blood Purifier have done for me: Before
| took them l was very nervous had dull
headaches, pains in back, and periods were
irregular, / had been to several doctors, and
they did me nc good.
tfYour medicine has made me well and
strong. l can do most any kind of work
without complaint, and my periods are all
right. .s.n
and I know it is all due to your remedies. /
recommend your advice and medicine to all
who suffer-"
1t is to such girls that Mrs. Pink
ham holds out a helping hand and ex-
tends a cordial invitation to correspond
with her,. She is daughter-in-law of
Lydia E. Pinkham and for twenty-five
years has been advising sick women
free of charge. Her long record of
success in treating woman's ills makes
her letters of advice of untold value to
every ailing working girl. Address,
Mrs. Plnkham, Lynn, Mass.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-05-18

The early Greeks and Romans rode
horses bareback. They regarded it
as unmanly to ride in a saddle. In
fact, the modern saddle with pommel,
crupper and stirrups was unknown to
the ancients. Nero gave out fancy
coverings to his cavalry, and the bare
back riders of the German forests
used to laugh at them. Saddles with
trees came into use in the fourth cen
fury; stirrups three centuries later.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-05-18
Confederate Monument Shipped.

Barre, VT, May 12.-There has just
been shipped from this city one of the
finest carvings ever sent out of the state
1t is a monument ordered by the Mis-
souri, division of the Daughters of the
C~onfederacy and will be set up at Hig-
ginsyilIe. Mo.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-05-18

There has just been deposited in the
insect house at the Cincinnati Zoo a
specimen of the ~bird-eating spider,
which earns its name by occasionally
including in it's menu some of the bril-
iiancy hued humming birds and vari-
colored fnches of the South American
fropioc
The Tupelo journal., 1906-05-18
Nomination Reiected.

Washington, May 10.-The senate, in
executive session, rejected the nomina-
ton Of Edward A. Winstanly to be re-
ceiver Of public moneys at Missoula,
Mont. 1t was a reappointment, but
protests were made concerning his con
duct in Office.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-05-18
Explosion In Powder Mill.

Wilmington, Del, May 11.-By a
premature explosion Of powder in the
rolling mill at Hadley's yards Of the
Dupont Powder Co. here Thursday,
VIM. G. Crea, aged "a, was instantly
killed and David Commak, aged A,
was seriously burned.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-05-18

When the pope received the French
bishops recently they could not un-
derstand his disclosures, so strong is
his Venetian accent. But it is the
thing now i'll the Vatican to speak
with a little OF that accent. Venetian
dishes are in vogue, and in the houses
of rich Romans Venetian antiquities
are made prominent.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-05-18

The boatmen of Holland measure
distances by smoking. The distance
between two named points is ex-
pressed as so many pipefuls of TO-
bacco, meaning, of course, that n
would smoke so many pipes while
covering the distance mentioned. Hol-
lands colonies are 60 times as big as
the mother country.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-05-18

Radium is a substance millions OF
times more powerful than dynamite.
1t is estimated that an ounce of ra-
dunn would contain enough power to
raise 10000 tons a mile above the
earth's surface. The energy needed
to tow a ship of 10000 tons a distance
of 5000 sea miles at Is knots is con-
tanned in % ounces of radium.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-05-18
His Own Business.

This anecdote vas told by John Ora
ham Brooks: Zone of the brightest re-
plies / ever heard came from a lad
in my neighborhocd, who was being
Quizzed about his fathers accomplish
ments, and was asked: What does
your father know, anyway? There
was no hesitation in the answer: i
don't believe he knows much of any
thing except his wi business; but he
knows that"
The Tupelo journal., 1906-05-18

simultaneously from two i%ndepend-
emit sources ome striking testimony
to the virtues Of the hairless head.
It is stated that, first, there are no
bald criminals, and, secondly, there
are no bald lunatics.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-05-18
Ma.onic Temple Damaged.

Indianapolis, Ind, May i0.-Fire,
Wednesday, damaged the Masonic tenn
pie. at Washington street and Capitol
avenue, to the extent OF SIS, 900 and
caused a total loss Of SIS, 000. Three
members Of the fire department were
slightly injured by a falling cornice.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-05-18
MAY resume Football.

Boston, May 10.-Authority to re-
sumo the game Of football at Harvard,
which was ordered to be discontinued
on account Of the brutality Of the COZ
vests, was given by a vote of Is to 8
Of the board Of overseers of Harvard.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-05-18
CANADIAN PACIFIC HoLDUP
Imperial Limited Halted, snd Mail
Car Rified of Registered
Letters.

Vancouver, B. c., May 10.-The I'm
perial Limited was halted on the main
line of the Canadian Pacific railway
near Kamloops, ESQ miles from here,
early Wednesday. The robbers con
PEELED the engineer to uncouple the
mail car from the rest of the train and
haul it a mile away, where they rifled it
OF the registered letters.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-05-18

In England no arrests may be made
on a Sunday, except for treason, fell
ony, or a breach of the peace; and
freedom from arrest at any time on
civil process is a privilege enjoyed by
members of the royal family and their
servants, bishops, peers and ~peeresses,
and members of parliament during the
sitting of parliament and 40 days be-
fore and after each session.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-05-18

Mrs. Richard H. Savage is the
owner of the famous painting, "Sher-
idan's Ride" and values it at $4,000.
A bill has been introduced in the sem
ate for its purchase, to be hung In
the corridor Of the capitol.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-05-18

New York, May 10.-The eighty-first
annual meeting of the American Tract
society was held in this city, Wednes-
day, when VIM. Phillips Hall, of New
York, was elected president to succeed
Gen. o. o. Howard, over whose retire
ment from Office resolutions of regret
were adopted.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-05-18
STRIKE HAS BEEN SETTLED
LongshOremen On Lakes to Return
to Work ON, LAST Seasons Basis
Pending Further Conference.

Cleveland, o., May 10.-Following
conferences between President Keef OF
the Longshoremen's union and allied
labor interests and representatives of
the dock managers, it was announced,
Wednesday night, that the strike OF
the ~longshoremen on the lakes had been
settled. The men will go back to work
on the basis of last seasons wages,
pending another conference.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-05-18
On = Cruise southward.

Washington. May 12.-The gunboat
Marblehead sailed from San Francisco
on a cruise to the southwark as far as
Pichilinque, Mexico, and perhaps far
Their, and lasting through the coming
summer.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-05-18
Death of q wealthy Packer.

St. Louis, May 11.-Jeremiah MUIR
ply, wealthy pork packer, died Thurs
day, aged So. He came to st. Louis
from Killarney, Ireland, when II, and
opened a small shop on the present
site of his packing establishment.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-05-18

There are two sorts of tattooing in
use among the women of the Congo.
One is common to all the members of
the same tribe, and indicates the orr.
gin and birthplace of the subject. 1t
is an infallible and perpetual certlf-
cate of birth and nationality. The
other sort of tattooing is simply fan
tasy and coquetry. The women mark
upon their bodies the epochs of their
ayiStence
The Tupelo journal., 1906-05-18
Watchmakers, despite their difficult
work, rarely suffer from eye trouble
of any kind.

In Bolivia the natives of the In
terror wear hats and shirts made of
the bark Of a tree, which is first
soaked in water and then beaten until
pliable.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-05-18

Snow was preserved by the an
clients, instead of ice, by covering it
up in the ground. A cargo of natural
ice shipped from Boston to Calcutta in
1888 brought six cents a pound.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-05-18

Mrs. Blaine, Jr., Wants Divorces.
Washington, May 10.-Mrs. James, G.
Blaine, formerly Miss Martha Hichborn,
the famous beauty Of Washington, will
leave this city. it is said. on Saturday.
for Sioux Falls, S. D., for tho purpose
Of obtaining a divorce from her hus-
band. James G. Blaine.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-05-18
Iowa Rank Asairna.

Des Moines, Ia, May 1.-THE Bank
of Thornton, owned by a co-partnership
of j. D. Barlow and G. L. Ehlers, made
an assignment Thursday for the bene-
fit of it's creditors. Liabilities are said
to be about $40, 600.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-05-18
st. Gaudens to BE Sculptor.

Washington, May 10.-Secretary Root
announced that Augustus ST., Gaudens
had beer secured IS sculptor for the
proposed Thomas Jefferson monument
to be erected in Washington.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-05-18
Canada SEXES American Vessels.

North Sydney, G. B., May 1.-Two
American fishing schooners were towed
into this port by the Canadian cruisers.
Canada and Gladiator. The schooners
were seized off Cape North, on the
charge of fishing within the three-mile
limit.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-05-18
Resolution of Inquiry.

Washington, May 12.-The house
adopted a resolution calling upon the
state department for any information
it may have as to the seizure of the
American schooner Lizzie B. Evans by
the Republic of Mexico