The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1897-02-20
GREENvLLE, WASHINGTON COUNTY, MISS SATURDAY,
OTHERWISE UNNOTlCED.

senator Grays antitrust bill was
Killed In the Missouri senate.
The senate agreed to the conference
report ON the immigration Jill-s4 to
81.
Navigation on the great lakes will
open at an unusually early date this
year.
The everglades have been conveyed
by the government to the state OF
Florida.
A bill prohibiting conspiracy ia
blacklist will be reported favorably in
congress
Chin Sing was hanged at the San
Quentin Call prison for a triple mur-
der committed in 1895.
Claus Doscher, Brooklyn multi.
millionaire, will enter into competi.
ton with the Sugar trust.
The death sentence of Alexander
Allen, convicted in Arkansas, has been
commuted to life imprisonment
Corbett is taking a few bets on the
side on the result of his battle with
titzsimmons, and is giving odds.
A Vienna dispatch says it is report
ed that two gunboats have been cap
tured near Canea by English men-of-
war
Two negro robbers and incendiaries
were lynched near Webb City, Tenn.
after being compelled to dig their own
graves
From the tenor of late dispatches it
would appear that Russia is the power
that has taken the part of King
George
Mrs. Henry Wetzel, wi fe OF farmer
near Alhambra, ILL.,, hanged herself
Domestic troubles are supposed to be
the cause
The comptroller Of the currency has
given authority for the organization
of the First national bank of New
port, Ark,
Phil Dwyer, one Of Corbett's back
ers, is afraid he may not stand hard
siege of training in the high altitude
Of Nevada.
Christopher Conillan, of Birming.
ham, Ala, shot at the fleeing despoiler
Of his home, killed his wife and com.
mitted suicide,
A statue of Brigham Young will
proba bly, be placed in the capitol at
Washington as Utah's contribution to
the hall of statuary.
More than 500 priceless documents
prove to have been stolen from the
Congressional library. Some of them
have been recovered.
The St. Louis jail is overcrowded to
an alarming extent. There are now
34l inmates, the greatest number con-
tanned since it was built.
Bob IngersoIls clerk attempted sui
eide in New York. Four persons close
ly associated with the agnostic have
killed themselves recently,
The Greater New York commission
has adopted the charter prepared for
the consolidated municipality as Il
whole. The vote was unanimous,
The Arkansas senate adopted resolu-
tions urging an early settlement of the
debt differences between the state and
federal government on the swamp land
grant.
The Spanish troops have been driven
out OF Bayamo, Cuba. The town is
now occupied by Gen. Calixto Garcia,
who, with strong force of Cubans,
besieged the place.
Robert Hunt, son of Sheriff Hunt of
Carson, H., in an nffray, cut Prof. NJ.
C. Alderman, prominent teacher,
with a knife across the bowels, in
tlicting severe wound.
A monument is at last to be erected
over the remains of Francis Scott Key,
author of "Star Spangled Banner" :"
The design of Alexander Doyle, of
New York, has been accepted
In Division No. 1 of the Missouri
supreme court Miss Victoria Conkling
Whitney, of St. Louis, was enrolled.
She is the third woman admitted to
practice before the supreme court.
Jesse Beeler, aged II, and Eugene
Kent, l6, of Cypress junction, H.,
stole about $50 from their parents and
left for parts unknown. 1t is thought
that the boys have started for Cuba.
Miss Katheryne Wright, of Pitts
burgh Pa, is to be married to Sir Ed
mund Lechmer, bart, in England.
Sir Edmund rescued Miss Wright from
a burning building in the fall OF 1895.
Arrangements have been made for II
wolf chase on large scale, to occur
five miles west of Tuscola, H., Satur-
day. Several hundred sportsmen from
the surrounding cities will take part
on horseback.
Representative Rebo introduced a
resolution in the Missouri house pro-
yiding for a committee of five to go
see the Corbett-Fitzsimmons fight, to
whether such contests may
be authorized in Missouri.
The Woman's Christian Temper
ance Union temple at Chicago has re-
ceived second donation of $4,000
from Marshal Field, making his pledge
$50, 900, the conditions being that
S3oo. 900 be raised to purchase the full
amount of bonds.
The largest Cuban expedition that
has vet sailed from any gulf port de-
parted from Port Cavallo about mid
wav between Galveston and Corpus |
Christi Tex. The vessel took away |
approximately 500 picked men from
Texas. Colorado and New Mexico,
PhIIadelphiA Horse show