The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1897-07-21
OTHERWISE UNNOTICED.

Rain has fallen in India and the re-
ief work viii be curtailed somewhat.
Edward Charles Barring, senior part
ier of Barring Bros, British bankers,
n dead.
1t Is said that Edward L. Winslow, of
Chicago, will be appointed minister to
Sweden.
William Fortune was drowned In Bee
saw lake, near Peoria, H., Sunday.
tie leaves family.
Former Consul to Japan Lillibridge
says that that nation is determined to
seize the Hawaiian islands.
Mrs. Zilla Clapper, the oldest person
n Monroe county, Mo-. died in Paris,
Mo-, at the age of 95 years.
Thorwald Solberg, of Boston, has
been appointed register Of copyrights
in the congre ssional library.
Turkey submitted new frontier
scheme to the ambassadors of the pow
ers. 1t was promptly rejected.
The Clan-na-Gael guards, of Chicago,
say that they will parade with arms
Logan day, despite the new law.
A party of senate employees, includ-
ing Senator Foraker's son, will go to
Alaska when congress adjourns.
The old warriors of the Arapahoe and
Cheyenne tribes are happy-they won't
have to give up any of their wives.
Samuel Johnson, of Bell Plaine, Ia.
killed himself because he could not
suit his relations in the distribution of
his fathers estate
Minister Hannis Taylor says that
there is no truth in the report that ia
pan and Spain have formed an alliance
against the United States.
Nearly thousand navy.yard and ar
senal employees at Havana, Cuba, have
gone on strike for back pay. Six
months wages are due them.
Zack Oakley, Tim Stovall and Jim
Swanson, farmers, who had just sold
their wheat crops, were robbed by
highwaymen near Perry, Okla,
Kansas G. A. R, men celebrated the
eightieth birthday anniversary OF
Mother Bickerdyke, who was famous
as nurse during the civil war.
Near Hardesty, Okla, Louis R. Haw-
kins aged go, was found dead beside
the road, having been overcome from
heat and fallen from his wagon.
Arch Williamson was seized with
cramps while bathing in Duck creek,
ten miles from Paris, Mo. He drowned
before assistance could reach him
The Klondyle gold fields are claimed
to be within British territory, but the
one hundred and forty-frst meridian
has not yet been definitely settled.
Heavy rain fell in the vicinity of EN-.
poria, kas., just in time to save the
corn. Rain was needed there more
than in any other portion of the state.
Anthrax has made its appearance in
the vicinity of La Crosse, Wis, and is
to be epidemic in some places,
Several farmers have lost all theil
cattle
Hon. Stewart L. Woodford, the new |
to Spain, was entertained at
Inner by Senior Depuy DeLome, the
Spanish minister in Washington, Sun
lay night,
Mrs. Horace Noble, of Erie, Pa, was
instantly killed at Dill's park, neai
here, by lightning. She was sitting
n the parlor with some companions
when the house was struck.
Dan Farrell Jr., a prominent manu-.
acturer and member of the directory
If the Transmississippi Exposition Co,
lied at Omaha Neb., from loclljaw, the
esult of a Fourth of July accident.
Russell Montgomery, the United
states naval cadet who disappeared
rom Annapolis, Md, over year ago,
las been heard from. He is working
uccessfully claim in the Klondyke
old field.
Gus Stiles, a well-to-do farmer, was
truck by a Burlington train near
tome, la, and instantly killed His
ody was found on the pilot Of the en-
inc. He was attempting to drive
cross the track.