The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1892-01-28
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county, Irelauu'
The Due Alvares, formerly Spanish
ambassador at Paris, had both legs cut
off in a carriage accident Friday.
! At Boston news has been received
! of the safe arrival of the Peabody
Museum Honduras expedition at the
ruins.
The cold weather of the last three
days has been very severe on cattle in
the vicinity of New IBERIA, La. One
party lost twelve head in one day.
Major l. II Tribbette, of Terry,
Miss, gave to Milisaps College and
Mississippi College $4,000 each for
the purchase of perpetual scholarships.
The Fourth Glass Postmasters' Con-
yention will be merged into perma-
nent organization under the name OF
the National Association of Fourth
Glass Postmasters.
The failure of Arthur F.. Vyse, a
New York stock broker having an Of
flee in the Consolidated Exchange
Building, has been announced. His
obligations are believed not to exceed
$4, 600.
Cattle in large numbers have been
frozen TO death at Abbeville, La, and
more will die from the effect of the
severe cold. Cane has been damaged
bv the freeze. The mercury is down
to "a degrees.
Every butcher in Jackson, Miss,
with one exception, has been indicted
by the Grand Jury for failing to keep
the stock book as required by law.
They pleaded guilty and were fined
800 each.
III. Victor Newcombe, ex-president
of the Louisville & Nashville railroad,
who became deranged last summer and
was sent to q private asylum on the
I Hudson River, has so far recovered as
to be able to return to his home, y
AT a regular meeting of the stock
holders of the Bank of Water Valley,
Miss, the capital stock was~.increased
$1,000. A building on the corner Of
Main and Wood streets was also
purchased for banking purposes.
Several steamboats, engaged in the
river trade at New Orleans have been
tied up for the slast few days. The
negro roustabouts refuse to work III
the present cold weather for less than
double pay $120 month and board.
The most destructive fire Au Sable,
Mich, has suffered started in the dry
goods store of Dan Rosenthal u Co.
at S:45 O'Clock Friday evening, and
consumed property to the value OF
Sl25, 900 before it could be gotten
under control.
Mr.. Christopher Furness, member
of Parliament for Hartlcpool, has in
vited subscriptions from British ship
owners to defray the cost of conveying
to the Russian famine sufferers 4,000,-
900 pounds of flour contributed in the
United States.
At Toledo, Ohio, fire broke out in
the factory of the Toledo Cot and
Wringer Company, which was en-
trely destroyed. Estimated loss on
building, machinery and stock, $40,-
600, with $4,000 insurance. 1t is
believed TO have caught from stove.
The cage at the Chatham, H., coal
mine fell on Friday from near the
mouth to the bottom of the shaft, a
distance of about 200 feet, injuring all
the men more or less. 1t is feared
that James Mcknight, James Sinnott,
Charles Virgins and Wherty Virgins
will die.
Frederick Gebhardt arrived at
White Plains, N. Y, last week and
went at once to the Bronson House.
1t is understood that he will at once
begin the b-chlcride of gold treat
ment at the Kelley Institute. His
sister, Mrs. Nelson, has been at the
Bronson House for the past few days.
A St. Louis paper says that move
ment is on foot to organize pew
company to fight the American To-
bacco Company Cigarette trust). Mr..
A. DeYoung, of the Drummond To-
bacco Company of Memphis, is father
of the movement. One million dollars
will be the new company's capitaliza-
ton, and $500, 900 worth of new cigar
cite machines have been purchased.
Director Ames, of the Union Pacific,
says that the report from Chicago of
a proposed extension of the Union
Pacific from Southwestern Utah across
| Nevada and Cali fornia to San Francisco
has no basis whatever in fact. No
new construction of any kind is con-
templated at present, The report that
the alliance with the Northwestern
road is to be broken is an old story and
no more true now than in the past.
AT London, the anarchists who were
arrested at Walsall on the charge of
having in their possession explosives
for an unlawful purpose, We're, Fri
day, again arraigned before the police
magistrate at that place. The chief
constable asked the magistrate to fur
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