The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1897-07-31
OTHERWISE UNNOTICED.

The new tariff law will increase the
price Of fine cigars
The gunboat Bennington has been
ordered to Honolulu,
Gen, Stewart l.. Woodford and fami-
y have sailed for Spain
William Suschcl, retired st. Louis
cooper, committed suicide by hanging
himself.
A Chinese university is the latest
new educational establishment pro
posed for st. Louis,
A St. Louis firm has placed an order
for 15o dozen miners shovels, to be
shipped direct to Alaska.
The United States probably viii reply
to Japan that the annexation affair
will not be discussed further
4 government expert will leave
Washington Saturday to inspect and
report upon the Klondi6e gold fields
Charles and Edward sons of James
Anderson, miner, were drowned at
Foster, Ia, while bathing in pond.
President Mckinley has received the
war record of his great-Frandfather
David Mckinley, made in the revolu-
tion.
The Maryland democratic conven-
tion declared for bimctallism without
naming a ratio. Senator German was
in control.
The Tennessee campaign will prob
ably be Turley and Taylor against
Bate and McMillin for the United
States senate.
Caleb Edgar, a ne-time Leading law
yer at Seneca, Kas., died at the county
poor farm after four weeks illness.
Alcoholism was the cause,
The fve-year-old daughter of H. Il.
Turner, of Moberly, Mo, while play
ing with matches, set fire to her cloth
ing and was fatally burned.
The operators of the Middlesboro
lKy.) district have given a raise Of ten
cents per ton to the miners, who have
resolved not to join the strikers.
Hon, Webster Davis, of Missouri, as
sis tant secretary Of the interior, will
make an address on Stanton Memorial
day, at Steubenville, o., August %.
Hugh Barr president of the Peoples
national bank, died at Washington,
Ind, aged 81. lie was i'll but ten days,
He leaves an estate valued at S125, 600,
Mrs Harriet Caldwell died at Kim
mundy, ILL.,, where she was visiting
relatives. The remains were taken to
her home at Bucyrus, o., for inter-
ment,
Secretary of the Treasury Gage called
on ex-President Cleveland at Gray
Gables, Wednesday, going over from
Marion on Mr. z, c. Benedict's yacht
Oneida.
Henry n. Sneed, aged about 80 years,
employed as engineer at the custom
house at Nashville, Tenn, was instant
ly killed while at work. He had filed
the position one day.
"Tot" Barnes, eight years old, son
of Joseph Barnes, a blacksmith, was
drowned in the Missouri river at st.
Joseph, Mo. He was pushed into the
water by another boy,
George NJ Gray, OF Sedalia, Mo, was
arrested on the charge of forging the
name of Jerry Gallivan, of Warrens-
burg, to a check for S1S5. He was com
mitted to jail in default of $500 bail
Jealousy led to cutting affray in
Knox county, Ind, which may lead to
the death of the wronged husband,
Seth Wagner, who objected to the at
tentions Tom Martin paid Mrs. Wag-
ner.
Mrs. Frances G. Allen, wife of Rev,
Hogan Allen, of Hamburg, Ark,
dropped dead at noon Wednesday.
She cooked dinner and was in ap-
parent health up to few minutes be-
fore death.
A leading Richmond (Va.) newspaper
protests against the proposition to hold
the g. A. K. eneampment there next
year. "Itis worse than affectation,
the editor says, "it is iusincere, and ad-
vocated for business reasons solely
Mrs. Amanda Clemens was found ly-
ing in a pig pen in dying condition
at her home near NARROW, Ill Mrs.
Clemens was apparently in the best Of
health when she went out to attend to
stock She died shortly after being
found.