The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1896-10-17
OTHERWISE UNNOTICED,

AN enort will be made in the north.
west TO boycott hard coal.
Fully $4,000 persons in Guvaopn
Ecuador are without homes or spfi.
eient food. VI ~ w
Mason Smith is in Jail at Nevada
wife. VI n's
AT Redkey, Ind, the wife Of Co,
vernon poisoned her two children and
herself. = :" ~
Ihe republicans of the Seventh Ken.
tueky district indorsed W. c. r. Breelk.
inridge for congress.
A Kentucky gold democratic leader
urges his followers to scratch Palmer
and vote for Mckinley.
A tobacco combination is said 10 be
lnenoatlng which will equal the Stan.
dard Oil trust in extent.
The new 800" locks at the entrance
TO Lake Superior enable grain vessels
10 carry Is per cent. more grain.
Judge Caldwell, at st. Louis. rem.
dered decision in which he said
United States marshals were not su.
perior to constables.
Senator Butler says the recent non.
ulist address was not blow at Wat.
son, but that Watson will be asked IN
keep out of the west.
Frank Holmes disparaging remark
about Mckinley at Remington, Ind.
caused Charles bartholomew TO break
his skull with club.
Representative Edgar C. Hawley of
Dundee, was indicted by the grand
jury at Elgin, ILL.,, for embezzling
school funds while treasurer
Miss Maggie 0verton, one Of the pro.
prietors of the Mount Vernon hotel.
Mount Vernon, Mo-, was fatally burned
by the explosion Of a lamp
The plant of the Springfield MOL
Ice aud Refrigerator Co. was nearly
consumed by fire Wednesday night.
The loss will exceed S50,O 200.
DIR. James u. Hamilton, of the United
States marine hospital service, sta.
toned at Chicago, has wired peremp.
tory resignation to President Cleve.
land.
At the Manhattan state hospital on
Wards island, N. Y, Theodore Myers.
the chief baker Of the institution, was
murdered by Albert Durant, an in
mate.
The police discovered a $4,000 Illicit
still in the very heart of South Boston,
and succeeded in arresting man on
the premises who is supposed to be the
proprietor.
AS the result of an attempt to rob
the bank at Meelser, Col, and battle
that followed, three robbers were
killed and one of the bank clerks re-
ceived his death wound
Every vessel arriving at Atlantic
ports bears evidence of rough expert
ence at sea, and the crews agree that
the recent storm was the E.ost damag-
ing that has swept the coast in years.
Advices from Juneau, Wis, state
that the liabilities of w. 4. Bumbusch,
the banker and financial agent who
disappeared recently, and for whom a
warrant has been issued will amount
to $500, 900.
A Delaware, Susquehanna & Schuyl-
kill engine crashed into a crowded
trolley car at Hnzelton pa junction,
killing three men outright, probably
fatally injuring two Others and wound
ing score more.
William II. Painter and Dwight G.
Reeves, OF New Haven, Conn, have
been arrested for robbery. They are
alleged to be the pirates who, during
the summer, plundered cottages along
both shores of the sound.
The post office at Ackerman, Miss,
was entered and from the safe there
were taken $500 in cash, several regis
tered letters and $500 worth of stamps.
The safe of the American Express Co.
was also cracked and 500 taken.
The total expenditures Of the post
office department for the last fiscal year
we're 800, ,636, ?96, and receipts So, 49,
POS, leaving deficiency of ss,l97Oss,
or reduction of sl,679,956 less than
the preceding year.
A dispatch from Cadiz, Spain, says
"If Spain has not put down the insur'
rection in Cuba by the first of next
March It is the intention of the gov
ernment to give up the struggle and
let the island 60"
President Jordan of Leland Stanford
university, California, is most promi-
nently mentioned to succeed the late
Prof. Goode as assistant secretary oi
the Smithsonian institution and di.
rector of the national museum al
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