The Tupelo journal. (Tupelo, Miss.) 1876-1924, 1906-10-26
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Assistant Passenger Traffic Mana
ger Byrne Of the Santa Fee urges crea-
tion 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 CHI negro
citizens have all departed.
A st. Louis mother finds her 13
months-old baby drowned in vault in
the yard of her home.
Five officials of Chicot county, Ar.
kansas, are indicted on the charge Of
malfeasance in office and are removed
Experts find an error of $1,000 in
the st. Louis subtreasury accounts.
but say it is not connected with the
$751; shortage.
4. H. Hartman insists that Stuyve-
SAINT Fish broke the Illinois Central
directors agreement, and they may
yet be heard from.
Eastern trunk lines contend that
the grain embargo is entirely due 10
general prosperity and the lack of
equipment to handle the enormous
freight business now.
Bankers convention adjourns at ST.
Louis, after providing for a special
commission to consider currency re-
forms.
Earthquake shocks portions of Ida
no and Wyoming No damage.
Pythians select Boston as site for
next meet.
Mrs. Laura Cowdon, daughter OF
Bishop Henry c. Potter, of New York,
commits suicide at New York sani-
tarium
Regulations issued for Oklahoma
land opening place minimum price o.
IS per acre.
Auxvasse (Mo.) bank cashiers foil
cracksmen in night battle. Robbers
escape with $115 under shotgun fire.
Ute Indians and cowboys said to
have fought in Wyoming. Two cow
bows are reported killed and many
Indians wounded.
DR.. Evans, Of university of Illinois,
declares jails are the greatest purg-
ers Of the tuberculosis germ. Illinois
state charity meeting to urge many
legislative changes.
Aggie Myers, sentenced to hang in
Missouri, to get reprieve of SO days.
Justice Brewer asks for complete
transcripts in Kansas City murder
case.
Vice President Harrahan of the H.
linois Central says that he Is not a
Hartman man, and he was not prom
ised the presidency, supplanting
Stuyvesant Fish.
Stockholders of the Northwestern
authorize increase of capital stock for
| 500, 100000 to meet future needs
Mrs. Ida Young, of Omaha, satu-
rates her clothing with gasoline, and
in the presence of neighbors, sets her
self afire.
Jury in case against Standard Oil
Co. at Findlay, O., fails to agree, and
Judge orders Iurther deliberations.
Gen. Funston is transferred to st.
Louis, at head of Southwestern quar-.
tiers, and Greeley goes to Chicago.
Edison and Peoples Gas companies
in Chicago are on the verge of con-
solidation, with capital of 100000.
600.
Statistical news showing state OF
crops weakens wheat and forces corn
shade lower.
Cotton fluctuations are irregular and
close is steady at a net decline Of
to points.
Managing Editor James Kelley, of
the Chicago Tribune, declines $500 re-
ward for arrest of Paul Stensland
]. D. Young, of Houston, Mo-, re-
publican senator of Twenty-second
district dies of consumption.
Articles of Incorporation of the Ar
kansas Pacific railroad are executed
at Mangum, Ark.
Passenger agents in fifty-first con-
vention at Atlantic City elect C. L.
stone president or association.
The cables indicate a bearish con-
dition in the grain markets. Liver
pool shows shade lower.
A French submarine, with IA men
aboard, plunges beneath the sea of
Tunis and fails to reappear.
Registered vote in St. Louis is 1885,
232, of which newly enrolled is esti-
mated at 11,713 ana 33,051 transfers.
Leaders in the CONTEXT for the con-
troll Of the Illinois Central railroad ar
rived in Chicago for the annual meet
ing OF the corporation.
Ten thousand lives lost and 100000.
600 damage caused at Hongkong by
September typhoon reported at Vic.
toria, B. c., by Japanese ship.
Jodia Hamilton, slayer of Parsons
family at Licking, Mo-, said to have
been driven to deed by disappointment
in love