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The Tupelo journal., 1906-01-05
WRECKED BY BANK ROBBERS
The Bank at Baldwin. H., Com
pletely Wrecked.
Citizens Fought With the hobbers'
who Escaped without Obtain
ing Mach Booty.

st. Louis, Dec. 20.-A gang OF four
burglars blew open the safe OF the
bank at Baldwin, Ill, As miles south
east of st. Louis, on the Mobile & ohio
railroad. al 2 a. m. Wednesday. They
discharged three blasts OF nitroglyc-
crime, blew the front out OF the build
ing and shattered the outer doors OF
the safe, but were frightened away
before they got much booty. While
they were at work on the safe they
were attacked by citizens, who were
aroused by the noise. They opened nre
on the citizens, and for half an hour a
lively battle ragged in the street. NO
one was hurt during the fight.
Cashier Preston headed a posse that
started after the burglars as soon as
horses and arms could be obtained.
The bank building was wrecked. The
front of the place was blown out and
the furniture was demolished. The
safe doors were torn and twisted and
the safe was made a pile of scrap.
About $500 in paper money was
torn into shreds, but it can probably
be sorted out and saved.
About 5 LOCO in silver was found IN
the debris OF the safe. Until the ruins
of the safe ere searched, and the torn
money is sorted out and counted it will
be impossible to a how much the
burglars got, if they got anything.
Two of the men wore long over
coats and two were short o%vercoats
and caps. Cashier Preston at once com
municated with the police authorities
In st. Louis and East St. Louis.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-01-05
HAS "SCOTTY" BEEN KILLED?
Mule of E'Death Valley CrOesus' Re-
turns RiderIess With Bullet
Hole In Saddle.

Los Angeles, Cal, Dec. PA letter
from VIM. Scott, brother of Walter
Scott, Death Valley Croesus, holder of
the transcontinental train record,
states that "Scotty' has been missing
ten days, and efforts to locate him
have been unavailing. Scotty left Ben
nett's Wells, Death Valley camp, for
his mines on December 1. On Deem
Der Z his mule, "Slim," returned to
Wells riderless. A bullet hole was
found in the saddle, and it was
smeared with blood. Walter Scott,
with a scout, started out on the mule
trail and followed it two days, when
a sandstone interfered.
They were unable to find any trace
of Scotty. A mar riding a mule traced
Scotty after he left Bennett for the
mines, and has reported that several
exchanges of rife shots were heard.
Scotty had with him when he left
camp two rifles, two six-shooters. two
field glasses and 81 800 in cash.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-01-05
h Football Hero.

In sizing up the modern Hercules
of the gridiron, the Detroit Free Press
unsparingly, though, we must admit,
truthfully says: THE football hero is
not nice to gaze upon. AS a rule a
bath is a crying want with him. He
has a. surplus of dire and a minus OF
cuticIe, Football heroes feel comfort
able with less cuticle than any other
heroes. No football hero is fully
dressed, so far as cuticle is concerned.
He leaves most of his epidermis upon
the green sward and the shoes of the
other players. Football players usu-
ally wear their noses flatter and broad
er than other people. and their eyes,
as a rule, are more highly colored.
Blacks and blues are very popular this
year. A football player is a hero only
a few weeks. 1t is well that 1t is so,
for if he were expected to work as a
hero all the year round he would not
have a face fit to wear. The first day
after Thanksgiving he has his hair cut
and gives his face a vacation, SO tnat
the wounds of the fray may heal.
When his face gets back to work 1t
is no handsomer than any other mans,
and the football player is not heard
of again until the o flies. Foot
ball has been said to be a brutal sport.
That is a matter Of opinion. A sure
way to avoid the brutalities OF foot
ball is to play croquet."
The Tupelo journal., 1906-01-05
WALL STREET RUMOR
The Standard Oil 60. Said to Be In
tending to Increase Its Capital
Stock to 5000, 900 ZOO.

New York, Dec. 23.-The report that
the Standard Oil Co. intends to in
crease it's capital stock from $100, 000,-
900 to $500, OO0, 900 by what, in effect,
would be a stock dividend of 500 per
cent, was revived in Wall street Fri
day.
There was no official confirmation,
but that there has been some discus
sion in Standard Oil circles in regard
to such a step was admitted in quar-
tiers where information in regard to
such a change was likely to be had.
The effect of such an increase stock
would be to reduce the market price to
the neighborhood Of par, and the divi-
dend rate would be reduced probably
from the 40 to so per cent which the
company has paid in recent years, to
q Z or s per cent rate. Such ar ar
rangement, it was pointed out, would
serve to lessen the prominence of the
stock in the market, as compared with
the command it has had with the price
ranging about 81.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-01-05
MISSISSIPPI MATTERS
A. and v. improvements.

Many improvements have been made
in the Alabama & Vicksburg road dur
ing the past year, and thousands of dol
lars spent by the company in raising
the track in various places, building new
t~restles and steel bridges, new depots.
etc. Two steel bridges were recently
completed across Chunkey river that
cost over 100000, and the track was
elevated SO that there is no danger of
its being submerged there now, as it has
been during many rainy seasons in the
past. Similar work has been done at
Bakers creek. a Bolton, and in Pearl
river swamp a good deal of work has
been done in the past year. Several new
depots have been built-handsome brick
structures at Newton and Forest, and
frame buildings at other places. Sew
eral luxurious new coaches have been
added to the passenger equipment on the
fast trains, and many noted improve
ments have been made in the service.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-01-05
Sandy Bayou Suit.

Chancellor r. B. Mayes, in his de-
cision in the celebrated Sandy Bayou
injunction case, declares that the Mis-
sissippi Prison Board of Control has no
constitutional right to lease the Sandy
Bayou plantation, owned by State Sen
ator H. j. McLaurin, to be worked by
c~onvicts during the coming crop year.
The chancellor holds that the lease re-
Gently entered into by the Board of Con
troll and Senator McLaurin, and which
provoked Gov. Vardaman to resort to
the courts, is not a leasing of the Sandy
Bayou place by the State, but a leasing
of the convicts to Senator McLaurin for
a stipulated sum, and therefore in direct
violation of the constitution. The chan
cellor sustains the governor on every
point raised, also upholding the right
of the chief executive to institute legal
proceedings in the name of the State,
and the power to take jurisdiction in
matters of this character.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-01-05
FIRE AT SALT LAKE CITY
Part of the Rio Grande's Repair
Plant Destroyed, At "a Loss of,
Perhaps, 900, 700.

Salt Lake City, Utah, Dec. 21.-The
extensive repair shops of the Rio
Grande were found to be on fire at
1870 Wednesday night. All the fire
apparatus in the city was called out,
but the flames were beyond control
and threatened to extend to the freight
yards.
Although the firemen could not make
Roadway against the blaze, they sue
ceeded in coniing it to it's original To-
cality. The power house and main car
shop were burned to the grounud, but
the great machine shop, paint shop and
other buildings standing at a distance
were unframed. The loss is estimated
at from $3.50. coo to 100000 and 200
men will be thrown out of work.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-01-05
GIVES UP THE HELM
Placed the Government of Zion City
With Triumvirate, nnd Will
Nurse His Ills.

Chicago, Dec. 19.-John Alexander
Dowie has abdicated. He has placed
the government of Zion City and his
followers the world over in the hands
of a triumvirate. The spiritual, moral
and material welfare of the Zionists
will be looked after by O%verseer j. G..
Speicher, Deacon Alexander Granger and
Judge V. v. Barnes. Though he as
serts he has healed thousands, Dowie
can not heal himself, and is o in
a dangerous physical condition. He is
suffering from paralysis and bronchitis.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-01-05
A veteran of the civil war whose name

A veteran of the civil war whose name
is William S. Elliott, residing IN How
ard county, Indiana, has refused to ac-
cent an accumulated pension OF $4,000,
saving: II will not accept largess from
tbe government for doing my duty in
the time of the nations peril. My serv-
ices entailed no special sacrifice to me
and | have no right to make my neigh.
bors share the burden in rewarding me.
Mr.. Elliott's case is all the more re-
markable in that he has been besieged
by an army of claim agents to accept
the Sic. 900.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-01-05
VIM. G. CRAWFORD CONVICTED
Found Guilty of COnspiring to De-
fraud the Government on Ger
tain supply Contracts.

Washington, Dec. 20.-The jury in the
case of VIM G.. Crawford, the former
deputy auditor for the post office de-
partment, who was indicted on a charge
of conspiracy with August w. MacheD
and George E. Lorenz, to defraud the
United States in connection with a
contract for supplying the post Office
partment with letter carriers satchels,
returned a verdict of guilty.
The jury also found Crawford guilty
on an indictment charging him with
presenting false vouchers for furnish
ing shoulderstraps for carriers satch-
les
The Tupelo journal., 1906-01-05

A New York truck driver named Brad-
lev Curzon had occasion the other day
to make complaint to the police about
a certain matter. The desk sergeant
said by way of a joke: That's a distin-
guished name o bear. Any relation to
Lord Curzon?" The complainant an
swered quietly: Il am his cousin" but
refused to discuss the relationship fur
Their. The mans appearance, says an
exchange Of that city, clearly indicates
that he has not been accustomed to
his present humble mode Of obtaining
q living.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-01-05

According to a late report from
New York, Wall street brokers are
complaining loudly at the manner IN
which the general public holds aloof
from speculation. Commission houses
are only doing about half the business
they should be t~ransacting in a mar
ket whose activity well exceeds 1,Ooo,-
ono shares a day. 1t is a highly pro-
fessional speculation throughout. A
man who had been very successful IN
various forms of professional gamtling
was urged a few days ago by his
friends to attack the stock market
while fortune smiled upon him. None
of that for me-" he replied. Il can't
feel in touch with a game where they
do cot permit you to see either the
shuttle or the deal, and only wire you
The results"
The Tupelo journal., 1906-01-05
improvements Required.

The special commission appointed BY
the governor to investigate the affairs
of the State insane hospitals hall at
tention to the necessities of changes
and improvements required in the hos
pital located at jackson, to make the
same adequate for the proper care and
treatment of those most unfortunate
and wretched Of all beings among civil
lied people, the insane, and those whose
minds are diseased, and SO made utterly
helpless and dependent upon other more
blessed for even the simplest comforts
Of life.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-01-05
[ E SULLIVAN THE WINNER
Decision Of the Illinois Supreme
Court On the Attempt to Disbar
W~eII-KnOwn Chicago Lawyer.

Springfield, ILL.,, Dec. 21.-The Illinois
supreme court decided the celebrated
case of Alexander Sullivan, growing out
of traction litigation in Chicago. The
decision is in favor Of Sullivan. The
question at issue was an attempt to
disbar as an attorney the former presi-
dent of the Irish National league, and
was the echo of a conspiracy trial in
which the courts, some time ago, gave
the victory to Sullivan. BY the ruling
of the supreme court, the disbarment
proceedings ere dismissed and the de-
PENDANT is made final winner in all the
courts.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-01-05
MERELY ACTING GOVERNOR
Opinion Of the Attorney General of
wisconsin on Lfeut.-Gov. David
sons Status.

Madison, Wis, Dec. 20.-Attorney-
General Sturtevant has rendered an in
teresting opinion, holding that Lieut.
Gov. Davidson, who succeeds Gov. La
Toilette, January 1, does not really be-
come governor, but exercises all the
duties and powers of the office and Is
entitled to the full salary of $4,000 a
year. The attorney general concludes
there is no vacancy in the lieutenant
governors office and that Davidson be-
comes acting governor.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-01-05
Kick on Telephone Tolls.

The railroad commission has a letter
from Drs. Whittle, Hutchins, Crawley
West and Barnes, of Gulfport, in which
they complain at increased charges on
the part of the telephone company. They
state that they ale required to pay 81
cents for the use cf a telephone in a
drug store whe, they hang out, and
that they are also required to pay $2.7s
for their residence phones. They ex,
press a willingness to pay the so cents
for the drug store accommodation, but
object very strenuously to the increase
in the price Of their residence phones
which was from $l.65 to $2.75.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-01-05
Suit for Six City Blocks.

Three suits just filed in the Circuit
Court at Meridian by c. w. Robinson
and H. NJ. Threefoot have created quite
a sensation. They are actions in eject
ment to secure possession of certain de-
scribed parcels of real estate, to which
the present occupants supposed their
own titles were good. The property In
volved in this and other proposed liti-
cation on the same basis is estimated to
be worth at least $250,000, including SIX
full city blocks.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-01-05
RECEIVED A PRINCELY GIFT
George Herring, of London, Gives
$500, 900 Towards Salvation Army's
Home Colonization Scheme.

London, Dec. 2Q.-Gen. Booth of the
Salvation army has written to King Ed
ward announcing that George Herring,
chairman of the City Of London Elec-
trio Lighting Co. and a prominet men,
Der of many other corporations, had
donated $500, 900 to the army to be used
In a home colonization scheme, but that
the army had engaged to repay this
sum in rs annual installments to the
kings hospital fund.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-01-05
Sale of Aberdeen Bonds.

Aberdeen's credit is good at home and
abroad. Last spring she sold $4,000
OF her waterworks and sewerage bonds
to local capitalists at a premium of
So, $50. The council has just made an
other sale of $4,000 of bonds for the
same purpose to bond buyers of Cleve-
land, O., at a premium of S ,202.50, being
a shade better thar the price obtained
last spring.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-01-05
Killing at fernando.

Leonard w. Sowell, of Memphis, a
travelling silversmith, was shot and
killed by Jesse Davis near Horn Lake
a few nights ago. Sowell was drunk
and Davis was carrying him to the home
of Constable j. L. Shelton to have him
arrested when the shooting occurred.
Mistaking a movement of the right hand
toward the hip pocket as an effort to
get a pistol, and alarmed by a threat Of
the drunken man, young Davis fired at
close range with a double-barreled shot
gun. the contents going into Soweifs
heart and causing instant death.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-01-05

Paris, Dec. 21.-The Tangier CORE
spohdent of the Echo de Paris says
that the pretender to- the Moorish
throne, Blu Hamara. is preparing to at
tack the sultan's troops with a num-
erous army near the Algerian frontier.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-01-05
Death of Judge Simmons.

Judge J.. F. Simmons died at Sardls
last week in his 10Th year. The Judge
moved to Sardis from North Carolina
during the fall of 1860. He went through
the civil war, first as quartermaster .un-
der Gen. Ransom, of North Carolina, and
later was transferred to the Mississippi
division and placed on Gen. Jackson,s
staff.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-01-05
Pathetic Double Tragedy.

Huntsville, Ala, Dec. 2O.-W. NJ.
McCarty, a farmer, accidentally killed
his wife while showing her how to use
a pistol, and he was so Mortified that he
committed suicide with chloroform.
McCarty's first wife committed suicide
four years ago
The Tupelo journal., 1906-01-05
Gift for Guiteras.

A number of citizens of Vicksburg
contributed to a fund for a testimonial
to be sent to DIR. G. M. Guiteras, of the
Marine Hospital Service, n that dis
tinguished fever fighter received q
handsome souvenir in consequence as a
Christmas gift. A complete silver serv-
ice for breakfast, dinner and tea was
secured at a cost of $3.50.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-01-05
w.yIaid and Kil1ed by Yaqui..

Tucson, Ariz., Dec. 19.-Hermosillo
advices state that last Saturday after
noon a band Of Yaqui Indians waylaid
Fernando Maytorena, n of the wealth
lest merchants in Sonora, Mexico, on
the outskirts of the village of May
torena, and killed him and his driver.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-01-05
Gratifying Report.

The commissioners appointed to build
a new State institution for the deaf and
dumb, to sell the old property and at
tend to- other matters connected with
the transfer of the institution from one
side of jackson to the other, have pre-
pared their report to the Legislature,
showing that the new buildings have
cost the State less than what the old
buildings sold for. The new buildings
cost $73.250 and the old grounds sold
for $75,0S6.S0 {.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-01-05
Noted Lingui.t Dies of Injuries,

Chicago, Dec. 23.-Carlos Escobey, a
linguist of international reputation,
is dead of injuries sustained by being
struck by a street car or December 10.
He had been highly honored by the
University Of Heidelberg, fought in the
Franco-Russian war, and carried car
received in duelS.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-01-05
Two Year. For Embenzlement.

Guthrie, Okla, Dec. 18.--Maj. N. D.
Mckinley, a banker, was given two
years for embezzlement. He was a
member of Sheridan's command, and
was at the bloody battle of Beecher's
island, when an entire regiment was
nearly wiped out by the Indians.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-01-05
The Stork at Cornell.

Ithaca, N. Y, Dec. 21.-The students
of Cornell university are congratulate
ing President Jacob Gould Schurman
upon the birth 20 Mrs. Schurman of a
daughter. This arrival is the eighth
child in President Schur.nan's family,
all but one of whom are living.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-01-05
Road Will Be Built.

The last remaining obstacle to the
building of the Kelso-Silver City branch
of the Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Rail
road has been removed, the two proper
ty-holders who had refused to grant
ri~ght-of-way having come to terms. Con
struction work will begin at once. Tap
ping the main line of the Valley road
at Kelso, thirty miles north of Vicks-
burg, the new road will penetrate one
of the richest sections of the Yazoo-Mis-
s~issippi delta.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-01-05
Penalty For Struggling Curry,

Chicago, Dec. 23.-Daniel Garrigan, a
city fireman, was sentenced to three
months in Jail by Judge Kohlsaat for
smuggling Frank Curry, of st. Louis, the
st~rikebreaker, during the teamsters'
strike. Curry vas in the hospital two
weeks, and nearly lost an eye.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-01-05
WHAT NJ HAVE DONE
Acreage md Production Of the Frin-
cipnl Farm Crops I'm the
Country In Dos

Washington, Dec. 21.-Final returns
to the bureau Of statistics of the de-
partment of agriculture, according to a
bulletin issued Wednesday, show the
acreage and production Of the principal
farm crops in 1905 to have been as fol-
The Tupelo journal., 1906-01-05
p,h,e rest Newspaper style.

Columbia, Mo-, Dec. 20.-William E.
Curtis, the ~well-known newspaper cor
respondent, told the state university
class in journalism that the day of
Bohemianism is past, and advised them
to go to the bible for their literary
style.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-01-05
State Evangelist.

The evangelistic committee of the
synod of Mississippi met and elected DR..
ii. A. Jones evangelist for the State, to
begin work at Fayette in January. DIR.
S. c. Caldwell, of H%azlehurst, was elect
ed secretary and treasurer.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-01-05
sanitary Conditions In Canal zon,

New York, Dec. 19.-John F. Ste
vens, chief engineer of the Panama ca
nal, who arrived from Colon on the
steamer Havana yesterday, said the
sanitary conditions of the isthmus are
good enough for anyone who will live
as cleanly as at home.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-01-05
Two shot Firer. KILLED.

Pittsburg, Kas., Dec. 19.-John Nell
vain and John Hopper, shot frers,
were killed by an explosion in the Shec-
idan Coal Co. mines, IL miles north Of
this city. The top house of the mine
was blown to pieces by the explosion
and the inside of the mine badly dam
ouod
The Tupelo journal., 1906-01-05
CoIored workman Shot.

~Silverdale. Okla, Dec. 19.-Bill But
Ter, colored, was shot and killed by the
white boss Of a Midland Valley con-
~struction camp. This was the sixth
killing in the camp within q few weeks.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-01-05
Twins to wed Twins.

Cordell, Okla, Dec. 20.-Marriage
licenses were issued to c. NJ. and j. H.
Nickel, twin brothers, and Misses Hat
tie and Sarah Bartel, twin sisters. The
nuptial ceremonies will be performed
on Christmas eve.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-01-05
Mine Restored to American Owners.

Montezuma, Mex, Dec. 19.--Judge
Judge Ysabel Elisando has rendered a
decision restoring the famous Ell Tigre
mine to it's contesting claimants, who
live in Kansas City, Mo. The Kansas
City owners were ousted from the
property by force of arms a few months
ago by rival claimants.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-01-05
INK List.

Springfield, ILL.,, Dec. 23.-The total
value of all taxable property in this
state, as determined by the board Of
equalization, which has made its final
report and adjourned, is $3,4S6, 480, 1856.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-01-05

Oakland, CAL, Dec. 21.-Mrs. Miller,
the aged mother of Joaquin Miller, the
poet, did Wednesday at the poets resi-
dence, ''The Heights" a short distance
back Of this city, aged nearly 80 years.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-01-05
Haa neen Married Ninety Yenr..

Waelder, Tex, Dec. 19.-Mrs. Lottie
Davis, colored, aged 1O7, died here. Her
husband, James Davis, lis years old,
survives her. The couple had lived
together for 80 years.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-01-05
meath Of prof S. =. Orrfs.

Harrisburg, Pa, Dec. 19.-Prof. S.
Stanhope Orris, professor emeritus of
Princeton university, and n of the
foremost scholars IN the United States,
died here of paralysis.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-01-05
Held For the Grand Jury.

Chicago, Dec. 19.-Samuel N. Hof-
heimer, accused Of swindliDg the bank
ing firm of S. w. Straus & Co. out Of
$256, 600, was held to the grand jury by
Justice Cochrap9 in brslds OF S22. 800.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-01-05
Cremated In rire He started.

Pocahontas, Ark, Dec. 20.-At Big
gers, j. M. Herrin, aged 40, was ar
rested for drunkenness. He set fra
to the calaboose, and persisted in the
flames before he could be let out
The Tupelo journal., 1906-01-05
GALLOWAY Addresses Miasisaippiana

st. Louis, Dec. 23.-The Mississippi
society held its fifth annual banquet
at the Planters hotel Friday evening.
Bishop Galloway of the Southern NJ. e.
church delivered the annual address.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-01-05

Washington, Dec. 21.-After a sharp
debate MI. Coverings bill pro-
viding for a new estimate on the
cotton crop by the department o. agri-
culture on January 10, 1906, was laid
on the table by the house committee
on agriculture by unanimous vote.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-01-05

The average weight per bushel is
shown by the bureau to be 56,3 pounds
for spring wheat, 58.3 pounds for win
ter wheat and 1927 pounds for oats.