The Tupelo journal. (Tupelo, Miss.) 1876-1924, 1908-07-10
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senger train is not enough to pull
a child under the wheel, the st. Paul
Railway won $4,000 damage suit
brought by the parents of Matthew
Schwindt, at Milwaukee, Wis, who
claimed that, on account of the sue
| ton, the boy was drawn in and lost
his arm under a train. The jury
brought in a verdict after the con-
test was made that the railroad could
not be mulcted for $25, 900 on that
ground. The jury, however, assess
ed the road $4,000 for not having
guard fences. To make a test, a
13-year-old boy was placed near the
track, while train was sent by him.
He felt only breeze, he said.
Seven miles of steamers under
charter to the Standard Oil Com
pany to load case oil for the Far
East, are anchored in the Upper
Bay at New York, with the oil COM
pany paying demurrage of from 1926
to 5000 a day on each ship while
they are waiting their turn to load.
The Standard Oil Company, taking
advantage of an overstocked steam
er market, found it profitable to
charter during the winter as many
ships as it could lay hands on and
at sufficiently low rates to permit
the paying of weeks of detention fees
on each vessel. Shipping men think
it is one of the most daring exploits
the Standard Oil Company has ever
made in the export trade.
Monk Gibson, negro, was hanged
at Cuero, Tex, Friday afternoon for
numbering the Conditt family in Ed
ma, in September, 1905. The gal
lows was open to public view.
He made no confession. All that
he said on the gallows was: "Not
guilty" Fully 5000 people went to
Cuero to see the hanging. A special
train took more than 200 from Edna.
where the murders took place
Fred Powell was hung at Victoria
last year for the same crimes. Con-
dit was away from home when his
wife, 14-year1old daughter and three
sons were butchered in their home,
the two women being outraged. Glib
son was convicted on circumstantial
evidence.
When Taft gave up his war port
folio, he handed in his ninth resig-
nation of public office. He never has
been "ired." Here is the record of
his climbing: Assistant prosecuting
attorney of Hamilton county, Ohio;
Judge of Common Pleas Court, Ham
ilton county; Circuit Court, Superior
Court. solicitor general of the Uni
ted States, district court justice, Gin
cinnati; head of the Philippine
Commission, governor of the Philip
pines, secretary of war.
Uncle Sans government has Civ
en- the French naval authorities an
idea, and practical tests similar to
the bombardment of the American
monitor Florida are to be carried
out in French waters at the great ma
val maneuvers this fall, when a num-
Der of the strongest French battle
ships will try to sink battleship of
! older construction.
With a record of nearly 1,000,-
900 cigarettes at an average of GO
day, Isaac Manhoff, a peddler of
Lake City, Iowa, 40 years old, has
decided to renounce the weed. The
habit had such a hold on him that
it was necessary to awake at all
hours of the night and roll 'cof-
fin-naiF' before he could be lulled
to sleep again.
Eli Hood, II, of Hazlehurst, Miss,
wanted to be sure to die, so he swal-
lowed 60 grains Of morphine, drank
four ounces of laudanum, and placed
the muzzle of a rifle against his
heart, pulling the trigger with his
toes. He's dead. Either of his three
methods would have accomplished
his purpose, but the bullet was the
quicker.
On account of the local option
laws in so many counties in Illinois,
Bullets on nearly all railroad cars
will be closed. An order has been
issued by the Pullman Company
closing the buffet in the parlor car
of the Alton limited between Chi
cago and st. Louis and abandoning
entirely the sale of intoxicating
drinks.
The report Of the army officers
detailed to investigate the rumor
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