The Greenville times., 1897-08-07
OTHERWISE UNNOTICED.

Robbers blew open safe at Cedar
Falls, la., and secured $500.
A party of St. Louis prospectors viii
seek gold on the Mackenzie river.
Curtis Fondice aged %, was drowned
while bathing in a pond at Bowen, Ill.
c. Darlington, OF Alton, Ill.,, was
beaten and robbed by tramps in East
st. Louis
At Bernie, Mo, Il. L Shoemaker
killed William Parker in a quarrel over
a dead dog.
Louisa Hauptmann was held for the
grand jury at st, Louis for numbering
her mother.
Andrew Eclshoif, an old settler of
Montgomery county, died at No1omis,
ILL.,, aged So.
Miss Rose De Lisle, formerly OF st.
Charles, Mo, has been married in Hon
duras to planter.
United States officials say that there
is no doubt that the Klondike gold
fields are in British territory.
During the burial of his little son,
at the grave at Alhambra Ill.
A heavy demand for small notes from
st. Louis, Chicago and New Orleans is
reported at the treasury department.
Louis Craig has sued John Hays for
IS, 600 damages for publicly horsewhip-
ping him last Sunday near Salem, Iii.
Crows have become so destructive in
Lane county, H., that farmers have
petitoned for a bounty for killing
them.
President Mckinley will recommend,
at the winter session, that the United
States take control of the Nicaraguan
canal.
Frank Cullens and James Kelley,
deck hands, were drowned in the Mis-
sssippi, at st. Louis, by the capsizing
Of a skiff.
Charles Wilderman, working in flour
mill at Ridgwny, H., was struck by
the fy-wheel of the engine and seri-
ously injured.
Ell Tolliver, the seven-year-old son
of Frank Tolliver, was drowned in the
Little Wabash river, near Louisville,
H., Wednesday.
Wednesday the colored people of
Missouri generally celebrated the an
niversary of the emancipation Of slaves
in the West Indies.
There are nearly 1000 applications
for the 81 places in the Congressional
library. One is from man who is
anxious to leave Alaska.
Maj. John NJ. Raum, brother of Gen.
Green b. Raum, of Chicago, died at his
home in Golconda, Ill. He had been
an invalid for several years.
The teamsters and shovelers working
for road contractors at Swift Ind,
have struck for higher wages, and
threaten troubleif other men are en-
ployed.
A nine-year-old son of Joe Appold, of
Fort Worth, Tex, tried to light the
kitchen fire with coal oil. lie was ia
tally burned, and his parents home is
ruin.
Two buildings collapsed at st. Jo-
seph, Mo-, and wrecked thousands of
dollars worth Of jewelry, clothing, fur
niture and saloon fixtures. Nobody
was hurt.
Secretary of Agriculture Wilson says
that his department has furnished beet
sugar seeds to ~ 900 farmers, The in
dustry, he says, is threatening the Su-
gar trust,
John NJ. Stringham, of jacksonville,
Ill.,, died an Denver, Col. Mr., String
ham had been agent for the Anheuser-
Busch Brewing association in Jackson
vile for % years.
Judge John II. Reagan, of Texas, the
sole surviving member of the cOnfeder-
ate cabinet, has announced his candi-
dacy for the senatorship in opposition
to Roger Q. Mills.
Michael Renaker farmer who lives
30 miles west of Larned, kas., in slid
ing from load of hay, struck upon
pitchforl1, the handle of which pene-
trated his bowels, inficting mortal in
jury.