The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1897-09-16
Current Events of the Day Epi-
tOmiZed.
BELLE OF MEMPHIS SINKS.
Insurgents Capture an Important Town In
Cuba.-Bryan at the Centennial Oct. s.
Nitro-0ycerlne xplosion.-Ravages Of
Fire.-Other News Notes.

Japan mas pluceu cohtrdSto IL 'h'''
country for the construction Of thirty
locomotives.
X. T. Bray hung himself in room
at Danville, Va. Business trouble
caused the deed.
julius Dexter of Cincinnati has been
nominated for Governor of Ohio by
the National Democrats.
1t Is announced at Colon that a con!
cession to complete the Panama canal
las been given to England.
Athens, Ga, has negro who strikes
ladies on the streets at will. Efforts
to locate him have failed.
United States Senator Morgan of
Alabama sailed Tuesday on the steam
er Australia for Honolulu.
President Andrews has formally de-
clined to withdraw his resignation as
president of Brown University.
The steamship Cleveland arrived at
Seattle Friday morning, bringing
about 100000 from Klondyke.
BY the explosion of a boiler at a
brewery at Hoenstaedt, Germany,
eleven persons were killed and many
were injured.
Hon. William J. Bryan will be at the
Exposition on October 8. Extensive
preparations will be made at once to
receive him.
The Cuban insurgents have captured
Victoria de las 1>unis, an important
garrisoned town in the province Of
Santiago de Cuba.
The large carbon paper factory of
Mttage & Volger, at Parkside, N. j..
was totally destroyed by fire Saturday.
The loss is estimated at $4,000.
An explosion of nitro glycerine oc-
Cured at Cygnet, o., last Tuesday,
which resulted in the death of six
people. Eight buildings We're wreck
ed.
The contract has been let to build a
fine new depot at Rome, Ga, for the
Nashville, Chattanooga and ST. Louis
Railway Company at a cost of $20,-
600.
Jimmie Michael, Eddie McDuffie and
Lucien Lesna, the three fastest wheel
men in the world, have been matched
to ride a 25-mile race on September 1S
for a purse Of $1,000.
The Belle of Memphis, Mississippi
river steamer, sank Thursday. There
were 100 passengers on board, all OF
whom escaped without accident. The
steamer was valued at 100000.
Miss Sarah Aired, who lived with
her mother six miles from Lexington,
n. c., suicided by taking two spoons
full of medicine which her physician
had ordered her to take one drop at a
time.
Tne church, also used as school
building, on Pixies Prairie, eleven
mics east Of Kaufman, Tex. was $40
ZEN bodily and moved some ten niles.
The neighborhood Is much lncensed
over the matter and money Is lein"
raised to prosecute the thieves.
The Southern Railway Company's
bsrge line Is ready for the business OF
transporting coal down the Mississippi
river. Alabama coal will be carried
on the Southern to Greenville ana
from there to New Orleans on the
bargeS.
The preliminary arrangements to-
wards marking the graves of Confed-
crate soldiers who are buried from
Northern prisons have been made by
a joint committee from Lee Camp,
of the Confederacy and the
Sons of Veterans. Richmond. Va.
Alfred II. Mason has been appointed
vice and deputy United States consul
at Cape Town, South Africa, to sue
ceed Clifford H. Knight. Mr.. Mason
was born In Rockford, ILL.,, and lived
many years In Michigan. He removed
to Cape Town in 1893.