The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1897-03-31
OTHERWISE UNNOTICED.

st. Louis physicians assert that there
Is almost an epidemic of pneumonia in
that city.
Dwight L. Moody will inaugurate a
series of revival services in st. Louis
early In April,
Sharpers have been victimizing nu-
merous farmers in the vicinity of Sc
dalia, Mo-, with raised" money.
Miss Mary Morton, sister of the ex-
secretary of agriculture, was run down
and hurt by bicyclist in Washington.
Willis 5. Moore, chief of the weather
bureau, says the waters in the south
will continue to rise for several days to
come.
Mrs. Margaret j. White, matron in
charge of the female prisoners in the
St. Louis city Jail, died of pneumonia
Sunday.
Mrs Margaret ], Preston, the we'll
known writer of southern war poetry,
died at Baltimore, Md, at the residence
of her son.
Kentucky vigilants are giving the
toll gates rest and are turning their
attention to getting rid of obiectiona-
BILE negroes
Texas was swept by wind and rain
storm Sunday that assumed the inten-
sity of a tornado at some points, doing
a vast amount of damage.
Many applications have been received
for appointment as chairman of the
Chickamauga park commission, in
place of Gen. Fullerton, deceased.
Small pox and yellow fever are caus-
ing many deaths among the Spanish
soldiers in Cuba, and the advent of the
rainy season is looked forward with
terror.
The Chicago Tribune publishes a
story to the effect that the Elevator
trust" at Buffalo is to collapse as the
result of an invasion of the field by
Chicago elevators.
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas H. Bowling
celebrated their ffty-seventh wedding
anniversary at Charleston, Ill. Mr..
Bowling is 89years old. He was rela-
tive of the Lincolns.
Papers have been signed and deliv-
cred, transferring the entire jackson
county Co., coal field to the "Krueger
syndicate, of London, limited" in con-
sideration of S4,0OO,OOO.
Seven negroes, four women and three
men, converts of the Baptist church,
were baptized by immersion Sunday in
the Mississippi river at the foot of
Chestnut street, st. Louis.
R. X. Gordon, aged 25 years, belong
ing to Company b, Tenth United States
infantry, stationed at Fort Reno, was
arrested at Kremlin, Okla, on a charge
of passing counterfeit coin.
The Emergency hospital at Kanka-
kee, H., built by charitable citizens of
that city at cost of $4,000 was dedi-
Gated Sunday, all fraternd societies
in the exercises.
Letters have been received in New
York city by friends of the late Actor
Nelson Wheatcroft which declare that
Mr.. Wheatcroft left two families, one
in this country and one in England.
A test of the products of rival boiler
factories was made in St Louis Sun
day, in the presence of fully 5000 spec
tators. The loser gave way under a pres
sure of 700 pounds to the square inch.
Mabel Watson, a 13-year-old school
girl in short dresses, eloped from Pa
lucah, Ky, with Charles Arnold, a
young mechanic. The couple went to
Ill, where they were mar
ried.
Three expeditions have successfully
made landings upon the Cuban coast
within the last 12 days. The informa-
lion is reliable, and comes from various
sources, which, for obvious reasons, are
not named.
The last cargo of the tilibustering
steamer Laurada was landed at Banes,
under the very noses of Spanish force
the fort there This was
the expedition that carried Carlos Ro-
loft, the Cuban minister of war.
The British steamship Yanarwa ar
rived at Greenock, Scotland, Sunday
evening, having on board l6 survivors
If the ill-fated steamer Vile de st.
Nazaire, who were the survivors of 20
who occupied one of the steamers
boats when she was abandoned
''The Elms," the magnificent resi-
lence of Col. A. C. Teyler, at New Lon
Ion. Conn, with all its elaborate
valuable paintings bric-a-
,rac. musical instruments and silver,
vas destroyed by fire, causing a loss OF
,yer $500, 900; insurance, $4,000.