The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1897-02-10

OTHERWISE UNNOTlCED.

MRS Mary Jarrett, one of the pio.
heers Of Pittsheld, ILL.,, is dead.
EX-Queen Liliuokalani sat for her
photograph at Washington Saturday.
Chrstians in Crete are fleeing from
the wrath of the sanguinary Musscl.
mans.
The car of Russia is fast becoming
a confirmed epileptic, and will have to
cease work.
No member of the Gould family has
been invited to the Bradley-Martin ball
in New York
A bill is to be recommended to con.
gress for the extension of the free.de.
livery postal system
The publication of the proposed Gu
ban reforms has produced great polit-
ical agitation in Spain.
Isaac Fountain, one of the pioneers
OF Jasper county, Mo, died at his home
in Oronogo, of pneumonia.
President-elect Mckinley will go to
Washington in the most sumptuouslv
appointed private car in the world.
Kansas has a scheme to do away
with municipal and county elections
by letting out the offices to the lowest
bidder.
At Alhambra, ILL.,, q mule kicked
Henry kocli and he will have to re-
place seven teeth, and have his nose
patched.
Eddie Gould is preparing to put in
operation his factory for matches at
kanbakee, H., in opposition to the
Diamond Match Co.
Mrs. Anna Hamilton died at Muncie,
Ind, from the effects of injuries sus-
tanned in a fall upon the ice. She was
50 years of age.
Chief Engineer William Smith
United States navy, died suddenly at
his apartments at the Gladstone, Phil
adelphia, Sunday.
The fanatieal insurrectionists in
Brazil, under Conselheiro, have now
5000 well-armed men, organized and
concentrated in Bahia
Albert NJ. Billings, president of the
Home national bank, and a millionaire
of Chicago, died Sunday, aged So. His
A petition has been presented to
congress by representatives of the diff
ferent railway brotherhoods urging |
the passage of the anti-ticket scalping
bill.
The police of Kankakee, H., believe
that D. f. Reardon, of Roberts, Ill.,,
whose body was found imbedded in
the ice in the Kankakee river, was
On recommendation of Secretary
Francis an order has been issued re-
ducing the number of pension agencies
from IS to nine, and making st. Louis
one of the nine.
In the death of Bernard Antoine
Pratte, another of the old creoles
passes away. He was born in st. Louis
n 1925, the eldest child of the late
Sen. Bernard Pratt
Marcus A. Hanna has positively de-
,lined the offer of the postmaster gen
or any other cabinet position,
md is no louger under consideration
IS cabinet possibility
A revival of industry is beginning
Up the Monongahela valley in Penn
ylvania, which, it is expected, will re-
ult soon in placing every manufac-
uring plant in full operation.
II. NJ Richards, of Chicago, has dis
overed an extensive deposit of opals
outh Of Cuatro, Mexico. The stones
re of unusually rare brilliancy, and
he indications are that the mine will
e valuable.
lSeveral frame store buildings, two
arms and an icehouse, constitut ting
bout half the business portion of Lis
1mb, Ia, were destroyed by fire Sun
ay morning. The losses aggregated
early $4,000,
Two-year. old Joanna Heron swal-
,wed the contents of q box of neural
ic pills at Helena, Mont. The little
ne mistook them for candy. An hour
iterward she was seized with convul- L
ons and soon died. /
Manufacturers of products from c
ypsum rock are quarreling over the /
ind of tariff on those products. East c
n manufacturers are free traders on \
lis SUBJECT, WHlIc buo NSaVSI hSA D
ant protective tariff, d
Charles w. Brooke, the noted Grim S
al lawyer, died at the S. r. Smith d
tirmary, at New Brighton, Staten
land, N. Y, Sunday. Mr.. Brooke a
as taken i'll on January 26, while con- "
1ctng the Freeman trial in New h
ork city, .
Sergeant-at-Arms B. f. Russell has d
amined the law governing the count W
Q OF the election vote. He says the a
opposed objection by Representative II
urray, of South Carolina, can not II
lay the count beyond two hours in .
Y event.
Appomattox battlefield is to be d
rned into a sheep farm. That, at
lst, is the present purpose of Maj, o.
orge A. Armes, who has just become ID ID
G possessor of this historic spot COM ~
ising about 3, 900 acres. n l'
Resumed Operations in Full.
Pa, Feb. s. The Home
ad steel works, Edgar Thomson I'll