The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1897-03-17
vo.XX wsHTGTo MISS EDNIsD
OTHERWISE UNN0TICED.

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William Reynolds died at Atkins,
Ark, of the grip, aged 93.
Prairie fires have destroyed much hav
and corn and several farm buildings in
Oklahoma.
Chairman Cannon is in favor of re.
passing the appropriation bills Cleve-
land failed to sign.
EX-Congressman Murphy chances to
be second assistant postmastcr-general
are believed to be good.
A cotton compress and 700 bales of
cotton at Sheffield, Ark, were burned.
The loss is about S45, 600.
The Carlists are again moving in
Spain, and in Cuba the Spaniards are
growing much disheartened.
The Cumberland river has reached
high-water mark at Nashville, Tenn.
and is working great damage,
Senator Cullom says that Frank
Palmer, Harrison's public printer, will
have the Office under Mckinley.
McKinley's biography, written by
himself, occupies nearly half page OF
the new congressional directory.
New members in the house of the
Fifty-ffth congress will number las, and
1872 of them never were in congress be
fore.
Chairman Davis of the senate foreign
relations committee says that he will
urge early action on the arbitration
treaty.
The London Times thinks the adop-
ton of new tariff law by the United
States along the lines indicated will be
stride backward,
Charles Brown, an engineer of the
Little Mama railroad, died in his cab
on his passenger run between Column
bus, O., and Cincinnati.
Andrew ]. Showers, one of the best
known showmen in the country, and
proprietor of Showers Imperial shows,
died at birmingham, Ala.
The Mississippi river has about
reached the danger line at Nieksburg,
Miss, but the levees are intact and no
considerable damage is feared.
George Gibson, 1913 years old, who
lived near Boomer okla, is dead He
was born in Grafton, Va, and spent so
years of life in South America.
Grand preparations for a cordial re-
ception are being made at Havana III
expectation of ex-President Cleveland's
promised visit to the Cuban capital.
Many regard Capt.-Gen. Weylers late
order, directing the gradual evacuation
by the regular government troops OF
interior towns, as the beginning of the
end.
Charles Hun Reed, the murderer of
Theresa Schaffler, was found gully, at
st. Louis, of murder in the second de
gree and given % years in the peniten-
tiary.
Between 10000 and 10000 people
crowded the approaches to Trafalgar
square, London, Sunday afternoon, to
express sympathy with Greece and
| Crete.
A French line of steamships has
engaged to transport several thousand
Greeks to Athens, or the nearest port to
the Greek capital, at greatly reduced
rates.
A robbery of 5000 sovereigns was
committed on board the steamship
Oceanic, by which the last shipment of
gold to the United States from Austria
! liza was made.
Charles Baudrau, the tramp timer
who is charged with outraging an
eight-year-old girl of l.. h. Bacon at
Fort Scott, Kas., last Friday, was ar
rested at Sedalia, Mo.
Cipher Conerly, the young negro who
last April killed Ellis Magee, a white
boy of good family, was executed at
Franklinton, La, in the presence OF
witnesses. as required by law.
Apia, Samoa, advices state that sew
eral Hawaiian lepers managed to reach
Samoa and have spread the disease
among native Samoans. The authorl-
ties are now trying to check the dis
ease
The Transvaal is arming steadily, the
shipments of ammunition, guns and
military supplies from France alone
amounting to 500 tons monthly, All
are being lodged at important strategic
points.
the committee in charge of the APP
nroachinp celebration of the fortieth
anniversary of the founding of the lii
nois state normal university is actively
engaged in preparing for this con-
spicuous event.
Oloa Nethersole, the famous Engllsh
actress and DR.. Stuart Oliver, an En-
r1isb nbvsician in the East Indian SerV-
Ice win be married in London at the
close If Miss Nethersole's season IN the
United States.
Thirtv-five Sioux Indians, survivors
If those who took part in the custer
massacre, have applied for homestead
lands in North Dakota. They nave
been confined since the massacre on Inc
reservation at Standing Rock
In the vicinity of PrairietoWn' H.
German settlement, a peculiar dlSeaS'
has been raging during the past leN
weeks. which has up to this time oaIhe'
The skill of the medical profession III II
singularly fatal, some 40 persons nav
ing died with the malady'
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Tramps' Revenge.
--,,,s,urr Tenn. March 10