The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1897-01-30
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OTHERWISE UNNOTlCED.

Two babies were burned to death a,
Linton, Ind.
Near East Norwalk, Va.. five mo,
were run over and killed by freight
train.
The immigration bill, as re ported b,
the conference committee, passed tht
house.
The national manufacturers con
vention adopted tariff and reciprocity
resolutions.
The battleship Texas will be ready
to go to sea February %. She will pro
ceed to Galveston.
Col John Hay will serve as first as
sistant secretary OF state in the McKin.
ley administration.
The National board OF trade has
made recommendation to congress re.
garding currency reform.
Two men were killed and three in,
jured when "A train dashed into a hand
car near Bluefeld w. Va.
Near New Roe. Ky, two children OF
Dan Elkins were burned to crisp in
fire which destroyed their home.
A large number of petitions favoring
the passage of the Torrey bankruptcy
bill were presented to the senate
Berry Wall was relieved of a $3.50
gold watch at Albans, n. Y, when he
went there to attend the Platt ban
quet.
The glove contest bill was intro
duced in the Nevada senate and re-
ferred to the committee on public
morals.
Wednesdays statement Of the condi-
tion of the treasury showed; Availa-
bic cash balance, 1929, 92O, $40; gold re-
serve, Sl43, $50, $50.
The senate defeated the amendment
to the military acadamy bill providing
that West Point cadets attend the in
auguration ceremonies.
The house committee on labor has
authorized favorable report on a bill
to prohibit the employment of prison
labor on government buildings.
w J. Bryan addressed the Texas
legislature and urged the enactment
of laws prohibiting corporations from
contributing to campaign funds.
John Wanamaker is going to build 4
church by way of a thank Offering for
the escape of his big Philadelphia store
from destruction by fire Tuesday.
The Merchants and Planters ma
tional bank of Bryan, Tex, which sus-
pended payment December %, 1856,
has been permitted to resume bust
ness.
Twelve men were indicted by the
grand jury in Chicago for swindling
the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Co. to
the extent of 81, 900 by means of forged
tickets
Charles II, Kearns is charged with
forging the name of D. L. Morehead to
a money order for SIS, issued October
10, 1896, at EIdora, H., and made pay
able at st. Louis.
Editor Rosewater of the Omaha Bee
is authority for the statement that
President-elect Mckinley is opposed to
the annexation of Hawaii or any other
foreign territory.
A dispatch from Milan, Italy, says
that, after repeated violent quarrels,
Princess Chimay packed her trunks,
paid her own bill and left her gypsy
lover, RigO, stranded
Premier Canovas will, in his reforms
for Cuba, make great commercial con
eessions to the United States as sop
to Americans to help them to swallow
the Spanish proposals.
Representative Erman, of st. Louis,
bill in the Missouri house
to appropriate $4,000 for statue of
Thomas Hart Benton in Belle
cemetery, st. Louis,
Gov. Mount of Indiana signed the
bill directing the Vandalia Railroad
20. to make an accounting as to its
alleged debt of about 1000, 600 to the
state school fund under an old char
Ter.
Otis Day, aged 81 years, whose par
.nts reside at Sumner, Mo, was in
,tantly killed by tree, which he had
'eIled on the farm of William Lilly,
lear Chillicothe. His head was liter
lily crushed.
Miss Lulu Carver, II years old,
laughter of prominent farmer near
Fulton, KY, was choked into insen-
ibility and outraged by negro. A
hundred men are securing the country
or the brute
The bodies of IA girls have been
ound in a small cave near the Spanish
at Guanabacoa. They
we're discovered by boy. The bodies
lad been cruelty violated and hacked
With machetes.
1t is probable that there will be leg
Station in the present congress in
reasing the pensions of survivors OF
he Indian aud Mexican wars. The
louse committee on pensions has re-
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