The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1896-08-15
OTHERWISE UNNOTICED.

San Francisco bank, are refusing to
pay out gold on checks
Twenty-Five deaths were caused by
heat in Chicago Wednesday.
The Illinois inheritance tax law has
been sustained by Judge Epler at
Quincy.
Alfred Black. an old planter of Lone
Oak, Tenn, died from the effects of a
mule kick.
The two-year-old child of J. Il.
Quinns, of Miletus, H., was killed by
vicious hog.
The filing OF Porterheld scrip on .
government reservation at Kansas City
will be contested.
The National democratic committee
decided that Hills amendment to the
platform was lost.
John Baker was nominated for con-
gress by the democrats of the Twenty
first Illinois district.
The heat victims in New York num-
ber $50 during the past six days, l66
occurring Wednesday.
David A. DeArmand was renoml-
mated for congress By the Sixth Mis-
souri, district democrats
A Florida girl fed into the shrub
berry to escape kiss, and was badly,
perhaps fatally, torn by a panther.
Secretary Herbert of the navy de-
partment sailed for Southampton on
board the American line steamer St.
Louis.
Iowa democrats, populists and free
silver republicans effected fusion on
state, congressional and electoral
tickets.
John W. Arlington, alias Thomas
Ryan, escaped from Jail at Greenville,
ILL.,, by saving his way out. lie was
serving term for burglary.
The republican gubernatorial con-
vention at Nashville, Tenn, nominated
q. N. Tillman, of Nashville, for gov
ernor. Hon. II. Clay Evans presided.
Richard Boston, prosperous young
farmer living south OF Carthage, ILL.,,
committed suicide with strychnine.
He had been rendered insane by heat.
Mrs. Ben Whitlock, aged 80, five
miles north of Marshall, Mo-, attempt
ed suicide by hanging in barn. She
was cut down and resuscitated. Cause,
dementia.
Councilman ALI T. Hayden was, by q
unanimous vote, expelled from the
Memphis (renn.) council, having been
convicted Of soliciting bribe from an
architect.
The sultan of Turkey has conferred
upon Miss Clara Barton, president of
the American section of the Red Cross
society, the emblem of the second class
of the order of Chefakat.
Reports from various localities in
Illinois indicate that the broom corn
crop has been very badly damaged 10y
| the intense aud continued heat and
dry weather. The loss will be very
heavy.
Prof Herbert Newton, head OF the
mathematical department of Yale aud
the eldest professor In active service,
died at his homo in New Haven, Conn,
from a chronic internal trouble. IIe
was aged So years.
Bart Thrasher Alabama's noted out
law and desperate, who has thrice es-
capped from the penitentiary at Pratt
Mines, shot and almost instantly killed
Griffin Bass, deputy sheriff of Bibb
county. Ala, at Bloeton.
The Arlington mills at Lawrence,
Mass, manufacturers of worsted dress
goods, fine worsteds and harness
cloths, have shut down for a period Of
five and half weeks. This action
throws $500 hands out Of employment.
The sudden appearance of bank ex-
aminer at the First national bank OF
South Bend, Ind. and the discovery OF
a defalcation of s94,lle ON the part OF
Josiah L. Kelley. teller and assistant
cashier, was followed by the suicide OF
the letter.
Ex-senator Robert McKelly died at
Upper Sandusky, o., aged 81 years lie
served as land register under Presi-
dent Polk. lie owned the original
manuscript of Edgar Allan Poc's
Raven" and was intimately acquaint-
ed with the author.
The Dairio de la Marina (IIavana)
prints a special from Madrid to the
effect that President Cleveland will
soon take radical steps in favor of the
Spanish cause in the Cuban question,
which are calculated 10 produce great
sensation throughout the world.
A big battle is likely to occur In the
Kentucky courts over the time-honorcd
democratic rooster, as the gold-stand'
ard men have served notice that they
will insist on having the rooster fjr
their device printed on the official bal
lot used in the November election.
William Jennings Bryan and Arthur
P. Sewall were formally notified, in
the presence of an audience that packed
Madison Square garden, New York
city, of their choice by the Democratic
national convention as the nominees
respectively, for president and vice
president of the United States. Gov.
Stone of Missouri delivered the Motif
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