The Tupelo journal., 1908-01-10
NEWS OF The WEEK
TIE LATEST NEWS OF THE
WORLD BRIEFLY TOLD.
NORTH, EAST, WEST, SOUTH
Foreign Lands Throughout the Ma
tion and Particularly From the
Great Southwest.

nouncement from the strikers head
quarters. 1t was said that one branch
of the Transfers union had already
passed a resolution to refuse all dis
possess business and that others
would soon follow.
The fate of the Canadian Pacific
steamer Mount Royal, now 25 days
out from Antwerp, with Capt. Purcell
and nearly 400 persons on board, is
causing great anxiety. Not one YES
sci arriving in the last three weeks
has reported the missing steamer.
Her mind unbalanced by religious
fanaticism, Mrs. Elizabeth Mosher de-
liberately burned herself to death at
her home in Lincoln, Neb., praying
f~ervently and singing while her body
was being consumed by flames.
Lamar Jackson, a full-blooded Choc-
taw Indian at Otoka, Okla, has been
appointed to a cadetship in the United
States military academy of West
Point by Congressman Charles d. Car
ter.
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States fell off S ,753,401 in 1907, as
against 1906, whereas the amount OF
silver produced was increased by over
one million fine ounces.
Philip F. Kramer of Portland, Ore,
a locomotive engineer in the employ
of the isthmian canal commission, was
murdered at Paradise during the night
OF Dec. 16, according to information
received at Washington.
The supreme court of the District
OF Columbia dismissed a petition
which sought to restrain the erecting
of a statue of Gen. Grant in the United
States Botanical gardens upon the plea
that certain historic trees would be
destroyed.
After falling $50 feet from the
Blackwells Island bridge into the
East river, Henry Smith swan ashore,
not seriously harmed by a fall, which
ordinarily would have been fatal.
AS he was entering his office, w. R.
Beauier, editor of the Hallettsville
(Tex.) Herald, was shot and killed by
his wife. She was arrested and placed
under So, 000 bail. Domestic troubles
are said to have led to the killing.
Ramon Portas, second officer of the
steamer hero, has arrived at Vera
Cruz, reporting that the vessel sank
in a storm on the night of Dec. 2 and
all on board were lost except three.
Probably the first lynching of 1908
occurred at Brookhaven, Miss, when
a mob in broad daylight took a negro
away from police officers and shot
him. The negro, whose name was not
known, was accused of killing a police
mar at Oakvale, Miss.
Robbers wrecked the safe in the
Bank of Paramount, at Paramount,
Okla, a village 10 miles from Enid,
and escaped with $1,000 in currency.
David B. Ellis of st. Louis was found
dead near Mt. Vernon, Ill, with a bull
let hole in his temple and another
through his chest, below the heart. He
is thought to have committed suicide.
An explosion of $40 quarts of nitro
g1ycerine at the plant of the Eastern
Torpedo Co. at Sapulpa, Okla, shook
the town and caused much damage.
No one was hurt.
The sale of liquors, it is under
stood, is to be discontinued on the
dining cars of the New York, New
Haven & Hartford railroad, while
their trains are passing through Con-
necticut, because there is no law in
that state under which the railroad
company could obtain a license to le-
galize such sales.
The will Of Leopold Vilsack, late
head of the Pittsburg Brewing Co.,
disposes of an estate estimated at be-
tween $5,000,0 900 and 6,000, 900.
The Alabama 9 o'clock closing law
for cities of over $4,000 will be given
a test hearing in the courts and will
be carried to the state supreme court.
By order of the acting secretary of
war. General Bell, chief of staff, has
directed the establishment at Manila
of a board of officers to be known as
the fortification board, whose duty it
shall be to consider the question of the
location of the defensive works and
the posts pertaining thereto for the
Philippine Islands.
Trigg county (Ky.) farmer charged
with night riding. Released on 81. 900
bond.
Missouri farmer struck with an ak
dies, and wife and employe are
charged with murder at Poplar Bluff.
Depleted treasury balance may
cause C~ortelyou to ask bankers to
pay up deposits they hold.
Discovery of anthony in army bul-
let's points to guilt OF negro soldiers
in Brownsville raid.
Arkansas mob chases sheriff with
negro to state prison gates.
American charge d'affaires in Guate.
mala investigates alleged attack of
Mexico consul on American consulate
in Ocos.
The Missouri & North Alabama line
will be opened from Joplin to Leslie
by Jan. Is with regular train service.
Japanese bellboys have been intro
duced into Boston hotels with a sue
cess that indicates that many negroes
and whites will be dismissed. The
discharge of a number of the Japan
csc from the United States warships
has made Japanese labor plentiful in
New York and Boston.
Executives of eastern trunk lines
take the position that operating ex-
xxarccc pn1lcf ba ant J1uy.