The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1897-02-06

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for charity's sake.
The city council OF Knob Noster,
Mo, has passed curfew ordinance.
The Chester (Pa.) Guarantee, Title
and Trust Co, has failed for a million.
Mayor Strong says he will close all
New York concert halls in the next
few weeks.
Half the amateur cyclists of central
Illinois have been suspended for Sun
day racing.
Ambassador Bayard's dinner to the
prince of Wales Wednesday evening
was success.
Betting in New York on the Corbett.
Fitzsimmons fight is stationary at 10
to on Corbett.
Sugar growers say that 81, O4s, 900 is
due to them for bounties, and they ask
an appropriation.
Congressman Hubbard says that the
syndicate bid for Union Pacific may be
raised SO 600, 900.
O Lyman J Gage will resign the presi-
dency of the First national bank OF
Chicago this week.
The West Point military and the
Annapolis naval cadets will not attend
the inaugural ceremonies.
The breaking OF ice gorges caused
the sinking of 25 coal barges at
Pomeroy, o., and vicinity.
The Dawes commission finally re-
fused to make changes in the Choctaw w
treaty asked by Chickasaws.
The woman's parliamentary fran
chise passed the British house of com
mons on the second reading.
Miss Elise Castleman, of Louisville,
Ky, was belle of the great charity ball
in New York on Tuesday night.
George Link was held up in st. Louis
early Wednesday evening and robbed
of SAG, his months salary just received.
A dispatch from Bombay says that
the better classes among the people of
India are beginning to feel the pinch
of the famine.
Enoch Wright, 101 years old, and his
wife, Eliza, 90 years old, died of la
grippe in Claiborne County, Tenn.
two hours apart,
The autonomists of Porto Rico have
issued a manifesto announcing strong
dissatisfaction at the reforms recently
granted by Spain.
AT the request of Maj, and Mrs. Nc
Kinley, no wine or intoXicanus will be
sold at the inaugural ball. Mrs. Nc
kinleV is really reSOOnsi HE
St Louisans have in contemplation
a monster charity ball, to be held
within three weeks, at which every
lady must wear a new dress.
The Cornett-Swanson election contest
In the Sixth Virginia district was
settled in favor of Swanson, the demo-
cratic contestee, without division.
1t is announced that the East In
dian government has decided to make
use of the anti-plague serum discov-
cred by NJ. Yersin, French scientist.
A bill has been introduced in the
Missouri legislature to prevent rail
road employees "intruding attention
and conversation upon female passen-
gers"
Joseph L. Rawlins, member of the
law firm of Rollins a Critchlow, Salt
Lake, was elected United States sena-
tor for Utah. lie is free silver dem
ocrat.
w. b. Strickland an old Saline
county Qll.) pioneer, died at Harris.
burg of heart disease. lie was 62
years of age, and left a wife and eight
children.
Cotton" Schmidt, under sentence of
death for the murder of Bertram A.
Atwater, of Chicago, made an almost
successful attempt to break Jail at
Clayton, Mo.
j. Addison Porter, of the Hartford
Comm Evening Post has been ten
dered and has accepted the position of
secretary to the president in the in
coming administration.
William Hiuckley, middle-aged,
well-to-do farmer of the vicinity of
College Mound, Mo, claims to have
been held up at Macon by Mabel Hall,
a negro woman, and relieved of $50.
Already has President Cleveland's
family begun the work of packing
their personal effects at the White
House preparatory to shipping them
to their new home al Princeton, n. j.
The children of Joseph Zoch, of La
fayette, Ind, got hold of box of liver
pills and feasted on them. Two hours
later one of them died in terrible agony
and the recovery of another is doubt
full.
c. b. Doyle, of La Sale, H., was
struck by bridge over the Illinois
Central railroad just south of Dixon,
Ill.,, and instantly killed. He was
head brakeman on freight train No.
IA,
Walter X. Freeman, having been
second time found guilty, in New
Y York, of a criminal assault upon Sarah
&, Work, of Memphis, Mo-, was SEN
.enced to seven years and nine months
u Sing Sing prison.
A dispatch from Yokohama an
lounces that the British minister to
Japan, Sir E NJ. Satow, has commuted
he death sentence of Mrs. Carew, con-
'icted of causing the death of her hus. |
)and, to Imprisonment for life.
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HANNA AT PITTSBURGH.