The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1897-12-16
NEWS ITEMS Of THE WEEK
Carefully Collated in Brief and
Pointed Paragraphs.
ATTEMPT ON THE LIFE OF THE SULTAN
Wire Nail Trust in Course of Formation
Wheat Takes an Upward Jump-Mon-
ster Petition Presented Against
Hawaiian Annexation.

Judge Asa w. Tenny, of the United
States district court, died at his home
in Brooklyn, N. Y, Friday.
The Mexican officials and private
citizens will give Mr.. Byran a hearty
welcome to Mexi co City.
A crowd of about five thousand peo-
pie witnessed the hanging of Jim
Glover and Sam Fields at Troy Friday.
Chairman H. H. Hanna, of the mon
etary commission, has sent to the
bankers of the country 10000 circular
! letters.
Mrs. John Harris, about 80 years of
age, committed suicide near Rock
bridge, Tenn, by hanging herself in
the barn.
Senator Hoar presented monster
petition to congress, signed by 81 1869
people. 1t was in opposition to the
annexation of Hawaii.
1t is estimated that $3.50, 900
may be required by the government to
meet the pension roll, or $32, 900, 900
more than the estimated receipts of
customs.
Spanish soldiers found 800 boxes of
ammunition in a creek bed in the
! Cuban brush. This WAS part of a lot
landed in September by Joseph Capero
and others.
At Chicago, amid considerable ex-
citement, December wheat sold Thurs
day at $1.O9, the highest price with one
exception since the memorable "Old
Hutch" corner in 1883.
A case of smallpox has developed in
Rock Hill, S. c., where there are 450
young women frcm all over the state
attending Winthrop college, and con-
siderable anxiety is felt
The indications are that the holiday
recess of congress will extend from
Saturday, December 18, to Monday or
Tuesday, January 8 or 4. Speaker
Reed, it is understood, favors these
dates.
A meeting of manufacturers of wire
nails held in New York may have i'm
portant results. 1t was held in fur
therance of a plan to consolidate the
interests in the line named throughout
the country. The interests involved
are said to aggregate $50, 100000
At San Francisco Thursday the su
preme court dispelled the last hope of
W. H. T. Durrant, the murderer of
Blanche Lamont and Minnie Williams,
by disposing in a summary manner OF
his appeal, remanding the case to the
superior court with instructions to pro-
ceed according to law.
Monday last two soldiers in the i'm
perial service at the Yildiz Kiosk, the
palace of the sultan, made an attempt
on the life of the sultan. This was
frustrated by the attendants OF the sui
tan. The sultan had the men tortured
in the hope of extorting the names OF
instigators, but both succumbed with
out revealing anything.
A sensational statement comes from
Paris, the substance of which is that
the Dreyfus agitation is the outcome
of an international plot to divert
Frances attention from events abroad,
adding that an international syndicate
with this object in view, backed by
foreign gold, commenced operations
in Belgium and developed them in
Germany.
Evidence of startling nature, which
indicates that a murder has been COM
mitted somewhere between Chicago
and Denver, on the Chicago and Alton
railway, was found Friday on top OF
the front trucks of Pullman sleeping
car shortly after its arrival in Chicago.
1t was human foot, apparently that
of man, and long, slender spike
penetrated the large toe.
General Paul Vandervoort, one OF
the promoters of the G. A. r. colony
in Texas, writes from Bemings Bridge,
Tex. that he has closed deal with
John E. and shanghai Pierce, the
cattle kings, for land for colony, and
at least 1000 colonists will move I'M
mediately after the beginning OF the
new year. The undertaking is fash
ioned after that of Fitzgerald, Ga.
The practice of young women mar
rying old soldiers to become ellglble
for widows pensions after their death
is condemned by the department, and
bill will be asked for prohibiting the
payment of pension to any widow who
marries a soldier after the passage OF
the proposed law, excepting soldiers
now in service.
One of the largest blocks OF marble
ever auarried in the Knoxville, Tenn,
district has just been gotten out at the
| quarry of John NJ. Ross, three mlies
| southeast of that city. 1t has been
several months since work was first be-
| gun on the job. The block weighs
| 53. $50 pounds. It is to be used at
Boston Nass., for monument