The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1896-08-01
GkEENVLLE WASHINGTON COUNTY MISS SATURDAY,
OTHERWISE UNNOTICED,

Auree persons were sunStrucl, al
Louisville, Ill.
Two deaths due to the heat ara -,
ported from Louisville, Ky.
Thrty-six horses were frustrated
oy the heat in St Louis "Wednesday
The heat has caused much sicl,nass
among children at Mount Vernon. M
IL. A. MeCune, an exist. Louis poliee.
man. was Frustrated by heat in Cbi.
eagO.
IL was lO9 In the shade at Alton. Ill
wednesday, and workmen refused 10
labor outdoors.
AT Cincinnati, Wednesday there
We're IL prostrations from heat. two Of
which proved fatal
The hot winds from the soutb ara
making life a burden to man and beast
IN central and western Kansas.
George Carr, an employe OF the WIG.
gins Ferry Go. at East st. Louis, III
died from the effects of sunstroke.
The Russian loan of 1000 600 ooc
francs. $500, 1000, ,OOO) issued by the
Rothsehilds, has been covered s5 times
over.
There were over 20 cases Of prostra.
tion from heat aud one death in st,
Louis Wednesday. Two other deaths
were expected.
Joseph Grubler, of Minneapolis,
Nina, was fatally injured while riding
IN half-mile professional bicycle race
at Cincinnati, and died an hour later,
The trial of John Schmidt, under in.
dietment for the murder of Bertram A,
Atwater in Webster Groves, Mo, is IN
progress in the circuit court at Clay,
ton, Mo.
An unknown woman riding bicycle
ran over William Klink, an aged
butcher, in Chicago, and injured him
SO severely that he died The woman
was ''scorching."
Kittie Sykes, the 17.year-old daugh
ter of James Sykes, a prominent farm
er, living north of Warrensburg, Mo.
eloped with Wise Ward, half.breet
Chickasaw Indian.
The Pin Oak, small Missouri river
steamboat, is reported to have sunl
near Wilton, 90 miles above jefferson
City. The boat had 2OOsacks of whea
on board, and is said to be tota loss
Springfield and Sidney, o., and Hun
tington, Ind, were visited by lorna
does, Wednesday, that unroofed houses
uprooted .trees and scattered thing
generally. No loss of life was re
ported.
Gov. Clarke OF Arkansas commuteC
the death sentence Of John Coleman t,
Imprisonment in the penitentiary foI
life. Coleman was under sentence t,
be hanged Friday at Dardanelle fo
murder.
In a signed editorial in his pape
printed at Thompson, Ca, Thomas Il
Watson, populist candidate for vice
president, virtually demands the with
drawal of the democratic candidate fol
vice-president.
Tales of death from the storm whicl
swept over western Pennsylvania re
Gently continue to pour in. Four mort
drownings are reported and another
victim of the Sugar Grove accident i
not expected to survive.
The st. Louis merchants exchange
relief fund, which amounted to S9i2,
77s. So, has all been disbur5ed, the com
mittce appointed for that purpose hav
ing distributed among small house
holders the balance on hand.
Sig. Bernard Tanlongo, formerl,
governor of the Banca Romano, !
dead Sig. Tanlongo was the centra
figure in the Banca Romano scandals
which were to Italy what the Panami
canal scandal was to France.
Thomas Davis, a colored laborer, re
Gently from Rising Sun, Ind, In a jeaI
Gus frenzy cut his wifes throat with
butcher knife at Cincinnati. She die
Immediately Four policemen rescue'
him from a pursuing mob OF would-b
lynchers.
John A. Jackman, one OF the pionee
railway men of the country, died a
bloomington, ILL.,, aged 20. lie wa
horn in Boscawen, n. H., and bega
his railway life as station agent of tn
Boston & Worcester line, now Bosto
l. Albany, in 1887.
Gen. r. L. Colston, who was an Office
in the confederate army, and at on
time commanded the Stonewall br
gade, died at the soldiers home a
Richmond, Va. lie was in his seventy
first year. Gen. Colston served 81
wears in the Egyptian army.