The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1897-10-14
Current Events of the Day Epi-
tOmiZed.
DE LONE WILL RESIGN
Fire Almost Destroys the Little Town OF
ST. Elmo, Tenn.-Market Blown Up by
Dynamite--A Cotton Mill for Colored
Employees On'y-Suicide In Florida.

Friday night.
Hen. Hoke Smith has been unani-
Elously elected president of the At
anta board of education. e t
At Crawfordville, Fla, the wife Of
DR.. John Hall committed suicide by
taking two ounces of strychLine.
Major General Nelson A. Miles ar
rived at New York Friday night on
the st. Louis from Southampton.
The shops of the Central Railway
system at Macon, Ga, burned on last
Thursday. The loss is about $4,000;
no insurance.
Mrs. Lydia Bradley, wealthy Pc
oria Qll.) lady, has given $250,000 to
the building fund of the Bradley Poly
technic Institute.
William A. Stiles, editor Of Forest
and Stream, and park commissioner
of New York City, died last week of
cancer Of the stomach.
Fire broke out at Gibsonburg,y o.,
Friday night. Twenty-one buildings
were destroyed. The estimated loss is
100000; insurance small.
Fire almost wiped out the village of
st. Elmo, near Chattanooga, Thurs
day. Twelve buildings were burned,
with q loss aggregating $4,000.
At Morganfield, KY, thieves entered
the office of the Union County Bank
during the lunch hour and secured
over $1,000 from the cash drawer.
Careful estimates of the losses caus-
ed by Thursday mornings great fire
at Detroit, Mich, place the total fig.
hres at $64O,O00, with $685., 900 insur.
ance.
Henry Chower, colored, was taken
from the court room at Hernandez
Miss, by mob and hanged for the
seduction Of 15-year-old Dovie Fergu-
son last Wednesday night.
Mary Ortez, an Indian woman, died
at San Diego, Cal, Of old age, which
is variously estimated at from 102 to
146 her daughter believing her to have
been at least 13O years old.
Senor Calico, the Costa Rica repre-
sentative at Washington, states posi-
lively that the reports that President
Iglesias of Costa Rica has proclaimed
himself dictator are without founda
t:as.
Ben Hutto, colored, laid in wait fol
a negro man near his house at Co
lumbia, S. G. He fired five times a
the first person who walked by. Il
was his wife. She was killed Instant
ly.s Hutto fed. HrE.E HE
W. H. Bones meat market at Dal
las, Ga, was blown up by dynamite
Thursday morning. There was also
notice placed upon shade tree noti
flying the town council to change thu
town marshal.
Among the diplomatic changes re
ported at Madrid as being imminen
is that the Duke of Almordova or Sc
nor Muruaga will replace Senor Du
puy de LONE as Spanish minister tt
the United States.
Prof. Slaby, assisted by the militia
~ balloon corps, in experimenting
with Marcon's wireless telegraph a
Berlin, succeeded Friday in exchang
ng messages without wires at a dis
lauce of twenty-one kilometres.
at Columbia, s. G., contract tt
furnish machinery for 10000 spindle
cotton mill and 250 looms, In whiel
no white person will be permitted Il
work except in the capacity OF in
structor or foreman, has just beer
signed. fssaa
At Philadelphia relay of six thor
oughbred horses raced five miles OIL
the T'oga bicycle track against fou
crack bicycllsts, and the horses woi
in nine minutes and fify-two seconds
with the wheelmen only five yards be
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