The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1897-08-14
OTHERWISE UNN0TICED.

Hon. Champ Clark, Of Missouri, has
been invited TO take part in the Iowa
campaign,
At san Antonio, Tex, j. c. Proctor,
laborcr was killed by shock from u
trolly wire.
Train wrccliers were foicd in an at
tempt to wreck an excursion train ut
MuirkrlS, Md.
The Silver Dollar league hasa scheme
to purchase 40 tons of silver and try to
force the government to coin it,
Hon. W, j. Bryan win speak to the
Marion county CllD Old settlers at the
reunion to be held September 8.
Prof, Gray has perfected his telauto-
graph SO that facsimile messages in
handwriting may be sent by wrc.
The war department has ordered Il
cavalry troop detailed to eyict 2s fam
lies of intruders from the Cherokee
strip.
e Secretary Gage will be orator on the
occasion of the Bradley Polytechnic
institute dedication at Peoria, ILL.,, Oc-
tober9,
Miss Mai Hayes, aged 20, daughterof
a farmer living near Ramsey, ILL.,, was
thrown from buggy in a runaway
and instantly killed.
A saw-mill boiler exploded near
Cannelton, Ind, and Henry Gyr was
killed The engineer escaped -Four
persons were injured.
The negro JohffsGn who insulted
Mrs. Atwell at Key West, Fla, was
tried. convicted and sentenced to be
hanged all in one day.
1t is proposed to levy an occupation
tax against preachers at Fort Scott
Kas,, to make up u deficiency caused
by the closing of the saloons.
The treasury department has decided
that hides taken from cattle exported
must be regarded as dutiable when
brought back into this country.
Glass fragments that had been i'm
bedded 20 years were located and re-
moved from the hand of Felix Redlich,
at New York, by means of \ rays.
Columbus, o., has been selected as
the place for the national convention
Of mayors and councilmen, which will
be held September 2S to October l.
New rules by which only y persons
at a time may be taken through the
treasury building have been issued by
the secretary of the treasury at Wash
ington.
The Congregationalist, the official or
gan of the Congregational church, de
nounces the action of the trustees OF
Brown university in the matter o. Proi.
Andrews.
Normal, H., is excited over charges
of lying and ungentiemanIy conduct
brough against Rev. Il. A. Brown, fol
three years pastor of the First Method
ist church.
A farmer named Moulton at Marion
H., refused to pay $40 fine and went
to jail saying he could work his fine
out that way easier than he could make
it on a farm.
John Garnett one of Lewis county!
prominent stoclmen, lost the toes of hi'
left foot at his farm, near La Grange
Mo-, by slipping into the hopper Of
corn crusher.
Miss Dee Buclner, of Lewiston, cap
tured the honors and first prize, a dia
mond ring, in the declamatory contes
at Monticello, Mo. A class of ten youni
ladies contested.
A dispatch from San Sebastian Spain
says that Coli, the assassin, in tn
course of police examination, dc
clared that it would be Presden
Faure's turn next
Reports of the immigration oific
, show a large decrease in the number O
= foreigners who have come into tn
country in the last year. compared t
those that came in the year previous.
William A. Clifford, q Mexican veter
; an, died near Mount Vernon, H., a
the age of so years. lie was with Gen
Winfield Scott from the landing at Yer
Cruz to the capture of the City of Me2
= leo.
Lee Beasley, alias Jim Smiley, nt
gro. wanted in Amite county, Miss, fc
the murder of Julie Jenkins, a ncgr
woman, in 1894 died in the Drew cour
ty ARK. Jail from the effects of wound
received while resisting arrest.