The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1897-07-14
2NYLLE WASHINGTON COUNTY, MISS, WEDNESDAY, JULY A. 1891
OTHERWISE UNN0TICED.

>, 'h"H iie olout uled at Louisville,
Ky, from the effects of a fall from a
tandem.
E. Silk, of Moberly, Mo-, has been
sentenced to 20years' imprisonment for
killing boy.
Edmund Davis, a Boston lawyer, COM
mitted suicide. He had been arrested
for embezzlement.
Wu Ting Fong, the new Chinese min
lister at Washington, will be transferred
soon to Toxic, Japan.
Fire at Aurora, H., did $40. 900 dam
age to the drying kiln of the Western
wheel scraper works.
VIM. Hill, the legless st. Louis boot
black who killed VIM. Calvert, is held
ON charge of homicide.
st. Louis will send a delegation of
800 to the international Epworth League
convention at Toronto, Ont.
The three-year-old child of William
Tracy, of Butte, Mont, was fatally
burned while playing with matches.
Mexican physicians have discovered a
narcotic, which is harmless, and which
produces tranquil sleep for the insane.
Twelve prisoners are now packed in
each cell at the ST. Louis worlhouse.
and their condition is welI-nigh intol-
erable
jim Bing, New York laundryman,
cut prices. He is now missing, and
highbinders are suspected of having
cut him.
Pearl Taylor, aged % years was
killed by lightning during a thunder
storm, Friday four miles from Ovens
boro, Ky,
Capt. Mcmahon of the First royal
guards, British army, and heir to a
baronetcy, committed suicide. He was
heavily in debt
Judge W. c. Ong, of the Cleveland
(O.l common pleas bench, declared the
law prohibiting Sunday baseball un-
constitutional.
The remains of Barbara Thumet who
disappeared from her home in Burling-
ton, Ia, last winter were discovered in
the Mississippi Friday,
Essie Grigsley, aged Is, committed
suicide at home in Donuldsville, Ind,
because her parents objected to her re-
ceiving the attentions of a young man.
The boiler of a steam thresher burst
near Calhoun. Tenn. Lum Dewitt, the
engineer, was instantly killed and
John Moore was fatally scalded
James Hopkins, aged % years, was
killed in fight between a mule and
bull, about three miles south Of Ovens
boro, Ky. He was trying to separate
them.
j. r. Larllin, recently discharged
from the regular army, attempted sui
eide because he had been sentenced to
the rock pile in Leayenworth, Kas.,
for wife-beating.
Over 1000 Cheyenne and Arapahoe
Indians are holding a grand council
and dance at Arlington, Okla, and are
demanding that the anti-bigamy law
be not enforced against them.
A tornado passed through the coun-
try few miles south of Oakland City,
Ind, Friday, tearing down outbuild-
ings, fences, shade trees, etc. Miss En-
ma Pleach, aged Is, was killed by light
ming,
Philip Tashley, Dane, convicted in
the United States court at Tucson,
Ariz., of killing John Sanderson, a
United States soldier, at Huachita, a
year ago, was hanged Friday. He
made jocular remarks, danced a jig
and said; Let her go, Gallagher
OF all the hot days that have made
life burden since the warm weather
of 1897 began, Friday was the worst
There were more deaths of human be-
ings and of animals and the number
O. prostrations reported was greater
than upon any other day Of the long
hot spell.