The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1897-10-23
OTHERWISE UNNOTICED.

Ihree girls, daughters OF Preston
Howard, We're burned to denth at Chat.
ham, Ont.
Aaron Buckles, who was CAPTAIN in
lhe NineS-fourty Illinois infantry.
died at Leroy, Ill.
Col. Augustus G. Robinson. assistant
ACKNOWLEDGMENT, has been re-.
tired on account of age.
John EVens, a farmer near Hiawatha
kas' was burned to death in straw
stack fire Friday evening.
The president has appointed Col. ].
H. Brigham as president of the Omaha
exposition executive board.
Commissioner Evans expects the
years payments OF pensions to exceed
the appropriation &c. 0O0, OOo
Solomon Helvey, aged 80, farmer,
was struck and fatally injured by
falling tree near Kellers, Ind
In a runaway Mt Germantown, H.,
Friday, Fred Hulsman, aged so, was
thrown from a wagon and killed
Ex-slaves at st. Louis have inaugu-
rated a movement to secure pensions
for aged negroes who have been slaves.
Trains on the Wisconsin Central col
lided in Wisconsin Friday. Five per-
sons were killed and four seriously in
jured.
Theodore Figel, the San Francisco
booltkeeper and race track plunger, has
been held without bail on a charge OF
murder.
The administration probably will
take action to arrest and punish the
assassins of Postmaster Loftin at Ho-
gansville, Ga.
Contractor John A. Wright was
probably fatally injured at Elgin, H.,
by falling 92 feet. His back is thought
to be broken.
Prospero Morales has been chosen
leader OF the Guatemala rebels, which
means that he will succeed Barrios as
president Of that republic.
Carl A. Bearns, aged IL, of Fort
Worth, Tex, died Friday. He was run
over by an engine, few days before,
while awaiting his father at the depot.
The English press is agtated over
the action Of the Bank OF England in
deciding to maintain silver reserve
II certain stipulations are complied
with.
Joe Cain, a young man OF near
Udall, Kas., was found dead in the
Walnut river, under railroad bridge
1t is supposed he fell through the
bridge.
Miss Rhoda Bowen died in the Hi
nois Central depot at May field, Ky,
Friday. She was afflicted with dropsy,
and had been visiting relatives at Pry-
orsburg.
]. D. Somers, aged 81, brakeman, OF
Chicago, and employed by the Burling-
ton railway, was fatally hurt at West
on, Mo-, Friday, being crushed by an
engine.
A cousin OF the president and one OF
the vice-president have been appointed
to offices-F. Z. Mckinley, receiver at
Guthrie, okla, and E. f. Hobart re-
ceiver at Santa Fe, N. NJ.
A scourge of grasshoppers is reported
in the vicinity of Fort Grant and Boni-
ia, Ariz. Serious damage has been
done to pasturage on the ranges, and
even the leaves of grape vines are be-
ing devoured.
The discovery OF gold in the state OF
New York is not confined to Saratoga
Springs. With Secretary of State
Palmer has been filed claims of the dis
covery OF gold in Albany and Warren
as well as in Saratoga.
Diphtherla in an aggravated form
has broken out in a school district in
the north part of Normal township,
Mclean county, H., and. the district
school has been closed. One child has
died; several others are not expected
live.
Reports received in Caracas from all |
the departments of Venezuela confirm
the election of Senior Andrade, liberal,
as president. The vote was almost
for him. and the liberals
largely increased their majority in con
gress.
Times in Havana are becoming Sc
rious. Meat Is from 81 to $l.5O per
pound wholly out of reach of the
poor. Chickens are $3.50 each. Vege-
tables command their own prices, the
Spanish officers securing most of what
Is brought into the city