The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1897-11-11

England politely declined to take
part in fisheries convention at Tampa.
Prof. George Fredrick Holmes, OF
the University of Virginia, died last
week.
Daniel Morgan, while asleep, walked
out of window at Nashville and was
killed.
Cuban patriots in New York will
protest against proposed Spanish re-
forms in Cuba.
The trial of the crew of the schoo ner
Competitor before the naval court
martial at Havana was begun Monday.
The Singapore Cham ber of Com
merce recommends the gold standard
for the Straights settlement, Malay
Peninsula.
Hattie, the 7-year- old daughter of J.
O. Norris, who lives near Chattanooga,
was fatally burned last week, by having
her dress ignited.
A young couple were married in
ceremony was witnessed by 5000 peo-
pie. A lion on either side were the
attendants.
The Carter Package Company's
plant at Memphis, manufacturers of
wooden buckets, ETC., was entirely de-
'troyed by fire last week. Loss, $780,
900; no insurance.
The Cologne Volks zeitung an
nounces that the Rhenish missionaries,
Mes and Henle, have been murdered
IN the southern part of the Chinese
province of Shan Tung.
The differences between operators
and miners in Tennessee have been
| settled. The scale at which the men
| will work, under the new agreement,
is 5 cents lower than last winters
scale.
In an old dilapidated house in Atlanta
the body of Mrs. Zion Bridwell, an old
| woman, was found cold in death hang
ing to the rafters last Friday night
Her husband has been arrested for the
crime on suspicion.
Mrs. Celia Wallace, of Chicago, has
taken fancy to Evangelina Cassie y
Cisneros, the Cuban refugee, and Of
tered to adopt the Cuban maid and
make her an heiress to o fortune esti-
mated at $500,000. 1t is probable
that she will accept the offer.
James Ponder, former Governor of
Delaware, died at his home in Milto
Friday of paralysis, aged 7S years.
He was for years active in State poll
tics as Democrat, served as Speaker
of the State Senate and was elected
Governor in 1870, serving four years.
A slight earthquake was felt at
Helena, Mont, Thursday, rocking
buildings. 1t was of seven seconds
duration, but as yet no damage is known
to have been caused by it. The shock
was also felt in Butte and Anaconda.
Many people were shaken out of bed,
chimneys fell and plate glass was
broken.
The United States consul at San
Juan del Norte, Nicaragua, has in
formed the department of state that
Noberte Arguello, who killed an Amer
lean citizen named William Wilson at
Rama in 1894, has been arrested and
sent to the interior as prisoner. His
punishment was demanded by our
government.
The Spanish government, as the re-
suit of the deliberations of the Minis
ters over the utterances of General
Weyler, former captain general OF
Cuba, has come to the decision to try
him by court martial no matter where
he lands, if he confirms the accuracy OF
the press reports of his utterances-
A dispatch from Constantinople says
that the porte, under the threat from
the Bulgarian government that unless
the promised Berats to the Bulgarian
bishops in Macedonia should be grant
ed before 10 o'clock a. m. Thursday,
Bulgaria would declare independence,
finally acceded to the demands and
granted the berats.