The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1897-09-25
OTHERWISE UNNOTICED.

Another broad-guage road will be
built from san Francisco to Santa
Cruz.
The stampede to the new gold fields
en- Silesia creek, Washington, stiil
continues.
boy in China is to be sliced to
death because he accidentally killed |
his mother
The slump in silver and the rise in
exchange has paralyzed business in
Hong-Kong.
Mrs. Caroline Hess, who lived two
miles east OF Conway, Ark, was found
dead in bed.
John |. Brookshire aged 30, died at
Mo. lie was prominent in
Y. NJ. c. A. circles,
Mrs. Robert Wilkinson, aged Is, OF
Sycamore, ILL.,, died from injuries re-
ceived in a runaway,
United States Consul Heenan at
Odessa, Russia, says that crops over an
extensive area have failed.
The United States torpedo hottlla
probably as far as St. Louis
Ex-Sergt OF Police Charles Hay, OF
Vancouver, b. c., went to the Nlondike
last May, and has returned with 500
600.
Americans will supply the locomo-
tives for the Shanghai-Woo Surg rail-
way in China. English firms were not
in it,
Assistant Secretary of the Navy
Roosevelt is credited with saying that
the United States is on the verge Of
war with Spain.
The state presented the Eastern Hill
nois normal at Charleston with hand
some flag, with was unfurled with ap-
gropriate ceremonies.
The cornerstone of st. Andrews
church was laid at Peoria, H., with
the imposing ceremony Of the Protest
ant Episcopal church.
Jennie Davis gAmmitted suicide At
Paducah Ky, bM taking laudanum,
morphine and half a pint of whisky
Disappointment in love.
The housekeeper at an inn at Mel
than Moore, Yorkshire learns tt at she
is heiress to fortune Of $780, lett
by an uncle in New York.
Reports from various localities in
Texas show that the excessive high
winds and pelting rains have done
great damage TO the cotton crop
Presbyterian ministers OF Chicago
have forwarded a protest to President
Mckinley against work on the new
federal building in Chicago on Sunday
Alta dinner in Colorado Springs, Col,
Comptroller of the Currency Eekels
said he believed a great wave of pros
perity was sweeping over the country
John O'Brien, who edited the Rail
road Mems Advocate" at Oakland, CAL,
during the great strike of 1913, is locked
M at Oakland for robbing a saloon
till.
American securities experienced
slight decline in the various European
bourses on the rumor that the United
States had laid down an ultimatum to
Spain.
Dir. Stever Brooks, of the United
States marine hospital service, has re
turned from a tour of China and Japan
where he investigated quarantine con
ditions,
Ida Bella Martz, aged four years
DAUGHTER of Mr., and Mrs, Narrer
Martz. of Goodfeld, Woodford county
Ill.,, was burned to death, the result o
playing with matches.
w. C. Garrison, aged IS, wealthy
and prominent farmer, died near Noun
Vernon, Ill. Deceased had been town
ship assessor, supervisor, and had hel(
other positions of trust
SPANS monetary affairs have grow
woefully complicated. In case tina
government defaults France will bt
the main sufferer The hidalgo5 arr
negotiating another loan
Mrs. Il. NJ. Hatch, wife of the Liza
waiian minister at Washington, ha
returned to the United States for tn
winter. She will visit her mother
Oakland, Cal, before proceeding t
Washington.
Dave Millsaps was taken to LittI
Rock, Ark, by Deputy Marshal Nc
Casland and lodged in the penitentar
for safe-keeping Millsaps was tn
partner of Church, of the illicit sti
where Deputies Dodson and Iaylo
were killed.
Frank Short, a prominent countr
merchant, was found dead on the pui
lie road near Abingdon, Va, and on tn
very spot where two or three years ag
his broth n, Bird Short, killed I"
men, Frank Short was killed in rul
away, having been thrown from a "
hicle.
t London tailors, who solicited trac
e from Americans, displayed an Gag
f over their doors. Since the passage c
=, the new tariff bill, which limits tt
l. amount of clothes an American ca
bring from abroad to SlO0, the taIlo
have become angry, and will tai
: down the eagles,
Joseph j. Castles, aged 90, died
u Equality. Gallatin county, lI. NJ
castles was born in Philadelphia. |
e located in Gallatin county in 1876, l
was senior member of the firm
Castles & Temple, at one time u
largest manufacturers OF salt IN u
country. lie was viee-president of t
St Louis & Southeastern railro
when built. and was Hays elector
r. 1915.