The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1897-03-03
;, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 3, 1897.
OTHERWISE UNN0TtCED.

Five men in jail at Neosho, No,
sawed their way out Sunday morning.
Washington Is filling up with men,
women and children 10 witness the in
auguratiOn.
Charles Wilkins, of Wichita, Kas.,
mortally wounded a highwayman who
assaulted him.
Senator Davis, of Minnesota, viii sue
ceed Sherman as chairman of the for
eign relations committee.
An amendment to the sundry civil
bill adopted by the senate annuls the
recent forestry proclamation.
Petroleum wells in numbers have
been found in Texas and the Standard
Oil people are already on the ground.
Secretary Herbert has christened the
new torpedo boat now known as No. s
the Farragut, after the great war ad-
miral.
Unless L. 7. Griffin is confirmed as
pension officer at Detroit, Mich, pen
sioner5 will have to wait for money due
March 1.
The Danish steamer Dana, Capt.
Troengard, from Shields, which had
been given up for lost with her crew
of 30 men, has arrived at Philadelphia
Fifteen thousand Turkish troops have
been removed from Asia into Europe,
and are being pushed forward toward
Salonica as fast as transportation can
be provided.
A half block of fine buildings was
burned at Fort Wayne Ind, entailing
loss of SIPS, 900 Three fremen were
caught under falling walls and one of
them seriously hurt.
The New York Herald correspondent
at Havana says that Capt.-Gen. Weyler,
piqued over the pardon of Julio San
gully, has rendered his resignation to
the Madrid government.
Gen. Doe, assistant secretary of war,
and the adjutant-general have agreed
that the honorable discharge of soldiers
is to be printed on parchment and the
dishonorable discharge on paper.
Hon. Edward Ellis president of the
Schuectady On. " locomotive works,
republican presidential elector in 1892,
and member of the New York state
Worlds fair commission, died Sunday.
Col. Samuel Meelks, one of the origi-
nal Oklahoma boomers was married at
Clarkson, Okla, to Mrs. Bill Doolin,
widow of the most noted bandit that
ever made his headquarters in that
country.
The Allan liner Assyrian, Capt.
Hughes, arrived at Philadelphia much
overdue, from Glasgow, towing the
Wilson liner Cambrian. which was
adrift helplcssly at sea, with her main
shaft broken.
Gilmore Nelson, negress, was shot
in the back at st. Louis, Sunday night,
and died at the city hospital half
hour later. The bullet was intended
for another, and the person who fired
the shot is unknown.
The body of George Hartman, a drug
gist of Portland, Ind, was found under
the steps of the fair grounds amphi-
theater at that place, frozen stiff, and
beside him an unopened bottle of NOR
phine. He had been missing for week.
Gottlieb Brostadt, janitor in the Hoff
Office building at Ottumwa, Ia, was
found crushed to death under the ele-
vator. 1t is supposed that he was oiling
the machinery, and by accident started
the elevator, which descended upon
him.
Julio Sanguilly, the American citizen
recently released from prison in Cuba,
expressed his lasting gratitude to Con-
sul-Gencral Fitzhugh Lee, whom he de
scribed as a truly noble American and
man who should long ago have been in
Cuba.
An elegant life-sized painting of the
late Henry w. Grady was unveiled,
Sunday, for inspection in the library of
the state university at Athens, Ga.
The painting is the work of Mrs. Bessie
Taylor Hill and is pronounced life-lille
and realistic,
Their majestics, King Humbert and
Queen Margherita of Italy, gave ban
quet Saturday night in honor of Wayne
MacVeagh the American ambassador.
The principal foreign diplomats and
leading representatives of the Italian
nobility We're present.
Consul-General Lee has demanded that
George Washington Scott an American
under arrest in Cuba, be turned over to
the civil jurisprudence of the island
for trial This action was taken in ac-
cordance with instructions sent to the
consul general by Secretary olney.
The Globe Advertising agency has
been ordered by the postal authorities
to be placed on the fraud list. This
action is the result of an investigation
made by the post Office inspector, after
complaints against the
agency had been received from news
paper publishers that the concern does
not pay its bills.
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