The Tupelo journal., 1908-01-10

culturai papers, died at Mechanics
hurb, Pa, aged GA.
Prof. Jaksch of Vienna has discov'
cred a method to prevent the burning
CT the skin during the use Of X-rays
He covers the part of the body to be
examined with a silver plate two-hun'
dredths Of a millimeter Zone milf
meter equals 1884 inch, thick in
closed in a cellulose covering.
The president has signed proclama'
ton creating the Verde National For
est in Arizona, with an area OF 721,-
$50 acres. located in Maricopa and
Aavapai counties.
During the year 1907 the total mum
her of vessels arriving at the port OF
New York, according to the books OF
the government at the barge Office,
was 11,122, of which 6,624 were steam
ers and 4,49S sailing vessels. This
shows a decrease of 5S4 vessels, com
pared with the year 1906. There was
an increase of 212 in the number of
steamers and a decrease OF 100 sail
ing vessels.
An evidence of the country's pros
perity and remarkable purchasing
power is to be found in the annual
report of the appraiser of the port OF
New York. The value of merchandise
imported in 1907 in excess of imports
in 1906 was SGT, 900, 600.
George H. Reynolds, formerly one
CT the leading mechanical engineers
and authorities on gun construction
in the country, died in Mansfield,
Conn, aged 70 years.
The administrator Of the late King
Oscars estate says it is expected that
it will amount to %, 000, 600 crowns.
Exports from Japan last year
amounted to more than 435, 500, 900
yen ($217, $50, 000) and the imports to
almost 494, 200, 900 yen ($247, 100, 000).
The grand total of the foreign trade
III 1907 exceeds that of 1906 by more
than SO, 000,0 900 yen ($41, 600, 000).
Mrs. Mamie G.. Hoagland, aged 80
years, widow of the late millionaire
philanthropist, George T. Hoagland, is
dead. She was prominent in church
work and was a member of the Meth
odist church in st. Joseph, Mo-, for SIS
years. She was a native OF Havernill,
Mass.
In a letter received at Lincoln, Neb.,
Mayor Tom l.. Johnson of Cleveland
declines an invitation to the democrat
ic dollar dinner of Jan. Is for the
reason that the &c fare is to go into
effect on street car lines of Cleveland
the same date. In a letter expressing
his regret over inability to attend the
Nebraska fe;. Mayor Johnson says
he does not want to be absent from
Cleveland just at the elimination of
his long fight.
A car on the Suburban dovision of
the Memphis street railway system
turned turtle shortly before noon Fri
day, and II persons were injured, two
fatally. The car left the track while
moving rapidly down grade in the out
SkIrtS OIL the city.
President Roosevelt wired Governor
Sparks of Nevada that unless Govern
or Sparks issues a call within five
days for a special session of the leg
islature, the troops sent to Goldfeld
on account of the fear of miners riots
there will be withdrawn. He ordered
Gen. Funston to disregard his previous
instructions to withdraw the troops,
and to leave them in Goldfield five
days longer.
%Sorrowing over his sons disgrace,
Ira G. Hoops, 60 years old, a wealthy
attorney of Kokomo, Ind, committed
suicide at his home in West Taylor
street. Unobserved by members of
his family, Mr.. Hoops quietly entered
the parlor, made a pillow of his over
coat, lay down before the CRATE and
fired a shot from a revolver into his
right temple. The bullet killed him
instantly.
Women stenoographers and type
writer's are not wanted for the gov
eminent service on the Panama canal
or in the Philippine Islands. This
announcement is made in black type
in a circular of the civil service COM
mission, announcing a general exam
ination for ste%nographer and typewrit-
err to be held Jan. II in various parts
of the country.
While the ~3-year-old son of Alfred
Thomas of West Scranton was play
ing at the home of a neighbor, he
blew off the head of Annie McNally,
his 6-year-old little friend, with a shot
gun. The gun vas left within reach
of the children, and the boy could not
lift it from the floor, but in some man
ner he managed to pull the trigger,
with the tragic result related.
The old battleship Hero, of the
British navy, has been battered into
scrap iron by modern shell fire rained
into her by two of the newest men
o'-war in King Edwards fleet. The
twenty-year-old warship, long since
useless as a fighting machine, has
shared the fate of the veteran Bellisle,
which two or three years ago sacri-
feed to modern gunnery.
BY an order entered in circuit court,
all claims for damages against the
Illinois Traction Co. as a result of the
interurban wreck of Aug. 80, in which
Is were killed and so injured, are
settled on a basis of $4,000, and
prosecution is dropped. This is about
IL per cent of the claims.
The successful use of fire drill pre-
vented a panic among 2,700 children
in tho nI,b1io cobnC1 OF Qefb ctropt and