The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1897-06-23
GREENvIIE WASHINGTON COUNTY, MISS WEDNESDAY, JUNE
OTHERWISE UNNOTICED.

l. NNN' Wv AllN llOlut
IN Quincy, aged 70.
The sum of $40. 900 will be expended
on permanent improvement Of Jefrer
son barracks, St Louis.
The udeli Woodenware Co, of 81
Louis has made an assignment. The
concern was recently burned out
Thomas Dells was hanged at Zebulon
va lie died game. Four thousand peo
pie were in the gollows inclosure.
A cyclone passed over the outsl,irt,
OF the city of Paris, France, CAUSING
the loss of about 20 lives and iniurine
about 80 persons.
Several children were killed and ST,
persons injured by tornado that de.
stroyed the barn of the Illinois asvlum
for the feeble minded.
viii Mays, young man, has con.
tessed that he killed G. NJ. Masengill
of Bluff City, Tenn, to prevent him
from testifying in court.
A child, aged two years, son of Theo.
dore and Mollie Pepple, three miles
from sumner, ILL.,, drank some water
standing on fly paper and died.
Since January 1 S. 100, 900 has been
paid into the Spanish treasury bv
parents redeeming their sons from
military service in Cuba and the Philip.
pines.
While Rev. Cyrus Hedley was preach
ing near Shelbyville, Ind, he was in.
terrupted by fusillade of eggs. The
miscreants escaped, but arrests will be
made.
1t is reported that orders have been
given to transform 20 of the best yes.
sells of Spanish transatlantic lines int
armed cruisers for service in the West
Indies
Robert Coffey, prosperous farmer,
who lived on Round Stone Creek, near
Richmond, Ky, while fishing with a
dip net, fell into eight feet of water
and drowned.
At Trenton N. c., Lafayette Martin,
a middle-aged white man, committed
suicide by twice shooting himself and
then cutting his throat with a pocket
knife. lie was insane.
1t is reported that Queen Victoria in
consequence of the sad physical infrm-
ity which has befallen her, will abdi.
cate the throne, before long, in favor
of the prince of Wales. The queen, it
is reported, is almost blind.
One of the plans of the Greater Re-
public of Central America, now made
complete by the entrance of Costa
Rica and Guatemala, is for a general
currency for use in all of the five coun-
tries of the republic. Great enthusiasm
prevails over the union.
A young man, who says his name is
Ferdinand f. Pullman, was locked up
in Chicago on the supposition that he
is insane. lie stood at State and Mad
ison streets and told a crowd that he
was the son of George NJ. Pullman, and
would kill him on sight with re volver
or bomb.
Ernest Lipe, who shot and killed Miss
Leona Goodman at Rover, Ark, was
exonerated by the courts.
Miss Goodman was among a party of
serenaders who went to serenade Prof.
Lipe. He was aroused from sleep and
commenced firing his pistol. He killed
Miss Goodman instantly.
William Crawley, miner, met death
in horrible manner in the Nickel Plate
mine of the Jackson Coal and Mining
Co., north of Brazil, Ind. While draw
ing pillars the roof fell before he could
escape, and his body was crushed into
a shapeless mass by many tons of slate
was As years of age and mar
ried.
John Gugelheimer, a farmer, six
miles west of Davenport, Ia, was found
dead in the kitchen of his home, and
his wife was dead in the cellar, lie was
at one time insane. Investigation by
the coroner showed that he had mixed
with eggnog and given 1t
to his wife, afterward drinking the
poison himself.