The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1896-06-06
GREENvILLE, WASHINGTON COUNTY, MISS SATURDAY
OTHERWISE UNNOTICED.

Ihs terms Of 20 United States sena.
tors expire March next.
African Explorer Rohlis died at his
home at Buengsdorf-on-Rhine.
The Oregon Legislature, Just elected.
Is republican in both branches.
Gen. Fitzhugh Lee, the new eonsnl.
general to Cuba, arrived in Havana
Wednesday.
Lady Henry Somerset wa. reelected
president of the British Women's Tenn.
peranee association.
The next general assembly of the
United Presbyterian church will be
held in Rock Island, III.
The Kansas Democratic state con-
vention at Topeka elected a solid sill
YER delegation to the Chicago conven-
tion.
7. Nj. Arthur was elected chief of the
brotherhood Of Locomotive Engineers
The order will meet next year at St.
Louis.
There are indications that the prin-
cipal contest at the st. Louis conven-
tion will be over the adoption Of the
platform.
Chief Of Police Deitsch OF Cincinnati
has been made colonel of police, the
first time this title has been conferred
in this country.
Alexander II. McGuffy, author of the
series of readers and spoilers, so well
known to school children, died al
Mount Auburn, Cincinnati.
The house Of representatives is show
ing signs of q stampede to sine die ad
journment by instituting longer sit
tings and revoking leaves of absence
More than 25 detectives from outside
cities will arrive in St. Louis Saturday
in anticipation of the pilgrimage o
crooks to the city during convention
week.
The Behring sea convention was rat
ifed at London by United States Am
bassador Bayard and the marquis o
Salisbury, as minister for foreign af
fairs.
The gold reserve has been reduced
by Withdrawals from the subtreasur,
at New York for export abroad an'
for boarding purposes to barely slO7,
900, 900.
Elidla Dickinson died at Leroy, Ill.
aged So years. lie was a native o
Hartford, Conn, and settled in Illinoi
in 1895, locating first at Perry, Pix
county.
Mr.. Ewing CoclSrell, son Of Senate
CoclSrell, Of Missouri, and Miss Peach,
Williams. belle of Staunton, Va,
were married at that city Wednesda
evening.
Charles S. Herr, defaulting sheriff D
Douglass county, Mo-, pleaded guilt
to embezzling public funds and wa
given two years in the penitentiary a
hard labor.
A terrific electrical storm and cloud
burst swept over Fleming county, KY
aud two farmers were struck by light
ming. One. Abraham Carpenter, wa
instantly killed.
The navy department has decided
permit the Union iron works of Sa
Francisco to replace the defectiy
armor Of the battleship Oregon witt
: out further penalty.
, There were just IS miles OF st. Loul
/, streets obstructed by debris as a resul
= Of the tornado. All Of these street
! have been made passable, and will b
: cleaned up in few days.
William Hickey, reported among II
dead at East st. Louis, is at Greer
;. vile, H., uninjured Mrs. Nancy Gel
A gels, of Beaver Creek, reported anon
the missing, is safe at home.
r Gen. Martinez Campos and Gel
|. Borroro have been arrested at Madr
on a charge of duelling. The du
q grew out of dispste over the Cubs
;. campaign. Neither was hurt
The so graduates of the Norther
@ Indiana law school were admitted
4" practice before the Indiana supren
r court by Chief Justice Shockney
Valparaiso. Two ofthe graduates we
girls.
A strange man committed suicide
iumping into the river at st. Loui
y He was pulled out by an onlooker, b.
Immediately broke loose from his re
. cuer, took a second plunge, and W
successful.
Residents Of Eastwoods Heights.
u suburb of Syracuse, N. Y, are wild
/, excited over the finding of gold in pa
a. . ing quantities. The ore was disco
u cred by ]. F. Batter, while digging
well, at depth of 40 feet.
. The Indian widow of Peter seyere
!, who died at Caughnawaga, Can,
:, Gently, was, according to the lndiar
y born in l77s, and was pure-blood
y Iroquois. Her great age Of lis yea
u !, gave her great prestige among h
= people.
70 ST. LOUIS RELIEF FUND