The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1896-06-24
GREENvE WASHINGTON COUNTY MISS WEDNESDAY, 1896
OTHERWISE UNNOTICED,

There are 1000 factory hands in st.
petersburg on-a strike.
President Cleveland and Secretary
Carlisle have gone off on a hunting
trip.
Mrs. Hobart is said to be exeeedinglv
proud of the honor conferred upon her
husband.
Hon. John Mcdonald, one Of the old.
est and wealthiest citizens of Calhoun
county, H., is dead.
John Dunn was killed by Charles
Summerbaum as the result of street
quarrel in st. Louis.
The Fourth Of July celebration will
be entirely in the hands Of women at
Hobart, Ind, this year.
The wind and rain did considera BILE
damage to houses, trees and wires in
st. Louis Sunday afternoon.
John Helensmith, i6-year.old boy,
was shot and killed by L. Silk, street
commissioner, at Moberly, Mo.
summing upof the Ohio democrat
ic situation shows the free coinage
men TO have four to one ma jority.
Two men were fatally wounded near
Brownsville, Ky, in quarrel over
who should dance with Sadie Combe,
Mckinley listened to sermon by his
pastor, Sunday, on the subject ol
making his calling and election sure.
Paul Finnigan, u tramp telegrapher
died at the st. Louis city hospital as
the result OF an overdose of morphine
Pettis County MOI populists In
dorsed st. John for seeding from thu
prohibitionists and Teller for leaving
the republicans.
A Constantinople dispatch says tina
q fresh massacre of Armenians is re
ported to have occurred near Van. Sixt,
persons were killed.
Fred Epstein fell asleep while sittinI
in the second.story window of hi
house, in st. Louis, and fell out, sus
tanning serious injuries.
Mason Cooper, a Saline county mo.
farmer, attempted to kill his wife an
child ana failed, but was successful |
an attempt on his own life.
A cable message from the Europea
Union of Astronomers announce tn
discovery Of Brooks periodical come
on It's return, by Javello, of the obser'
atory at Nice.
Milton Rolley, an aged pensionel
was beaten so that he will die, an
his wife roasted over natural gas 6I
till she told where the money wa
near shelbyville, Ind.
II. A. Bush & Sons planning mill q
! Peoria, ILL.,, caught fire, and the entil
mill was destroyed with a number
piles of fine lumber. The loss wi
amount to $4,000; partially insured.
= The large corn bins of the PhGn
D Grain and Feed Co. at Union Cit
, Tenn, were destroyed by fire. III
( fire is supposed to have originated fro
E n cigarette thrown into shuck pi
/, by boys.
!, While assisting his betrothed aero
| stone fence, fleeing for shelter fro
/, thunderstorm, in Kings Bridge,
o Y, Charles Valent received the fu
d shock of bolt of lightning in u
breast and was instantly killed.
Western silver men are organizing
propaganda movement for work amol @
. the laboring people of the east, L
first delegation has reached Chieas
A and will give six weeks to agitati
n among the trades unions of that city
3 VIM. C. Whitney has issued mai
o festo saying that he would not acce
a the democratic presidential nomin
n tion. and asserts that II the democra
/ insist upon nominating him against
l. will and should go ahead and elect n
= he would not serve.
10 There was great demonstration
S, the City of Mexico in honor OF IRE
Ia dent Diaz, who has been renominat
ID for flfth term. There was proc
a. sion of about 5000 persons. The be
TO rang all day, and at night there wa
n big display Of fireworks
The butchers Of Omaha and Kan
Citv and Sioux City held competit
slsinning match at Council Bluffs,
., Several thousand persons attenu
The affair eliminated in r.
= Thomas Brown was fatally stapo
IN and several others were injured.
- The platform adopted at st. Lc
oof causes great uneasiness in spain'
Il is feared that a conflict with
,n United States has now almost a n
~ date. The Madrid government
n y fastened to buy two l4,ooo-ton |, /,
- clads at Genoa, whose price, tew d
% AGO. was thought to be excessive