The Tupelo journal., 1907-01-04

TERSE TELEGRAMS



Veterans will ask legislature for
appropriation to erect memorial at
Vicksburg to Missouri troops.
Baseball clubs select training
grounds, five major league aggrega-
tons picking Texas in which to get
into trim.
Frisco system arranges to turn
to Illinois Central at Memphis all st.
Louis and New Orleans traffic.
Promotion from brigadid' to major
general said to lie between Funston
and Whit; Bell to succeed Lee
Wednesday.
Government official declares war
may be necessary to establish peace
in Cuba; general staff makes elabo-
rate plans for invasion of island.
Speaker Cannon wins fight for
precedence ver chief justice of su.
preme court at social functions.
Hitchcock pushes Indian Commits
sioner Leupp aside and takes terri
tory reins.
Illinois teachers, in state meeting at
Springfield, urge complete revision Of
school system. Parkinson named pres
ident.
Prices of yellow pine lumber are
advanced and manufacturers say they
welcome investigation by government.
R~oosevelts big stick tactics nipped
Panama revolution plot. Fifteen an
archists jailed before isthmus visit.
I 40 morth cn1IiOra ,r;,o ox:I.z-
to army officers regarding riot on
street car, claiming they were not to
blame. A number have been placed
under arrest.
Standard Oil Co.'S counsel chal-
lenged right of government to sub
poena officials and requests court to
Quash action.
Lumber trust to be probed by de-
partment of commerce and labor in
St. Louis, Kansas City and Chicago
simultaneously.
Mexican revolution plot engulfs
prominent members of liberal party.
Wholesale arrests.
Henry F. Prick is elected a director
of the Pennsylvania, and Pittsburg has
a umO that he may succeed Presi-
dent C~assatt.
Senator Sulberson, of Texas, backs
up Roosevelt and declares the presi-
dent was justified in Diminishing negro
troops.
Root declares state department
lacks expert assistance in coping with
foreign trade n System lack
ing and methods antiquated.
Bureau of American republics plans
railroad system from Alaska to Cape
Horn.
Oklahoma Delegate Mcclure asks
president to hold up judgeship ap-
pointment in new state, pending ascer.
tainment of best interests.
Midnight mass is held clandestinely
in Paris and Christmas. eve passed
without demonstration.
Seekers of patronage in consular
service are jolted by Secretary Root,
who applies civil service rules to all
possible positions.
Order of railway conductors adopt
resolutions protesting against the pro-
posed 16-hour law.
Chairman Knapp, of the interstate
commerce commission, a y car short.
age is acute In southwest, but rail.
roads increase of wages will largely
solve problem.
F. M. Gardner, assistant cashier of
the Mechanics-American National
bank, st. Louis, dies suddenly after
breakfast at family reunion.
Ten are killed in train wreck on the
Minneapolis, st. Paul & Sault Ste.
Marie railroad.
Commonwealth Trust Co. of St.
Louis takes steps to foreclose mort.
gage on terminals of Toledo, o.
Bishop Charles H. Fowler, one of
the foremost Methodists in America,
is lying at deaths door in New York.
Panama canal commission reports
that there is not a case of yellow fever
on the isthmus and Americans stand
climate we'll.
American horsemen are lucky in
their campaigns in France.