The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1897-09-08
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chrsion Of counterfeit showers.
Peoria, Jacksonville aud Springfield,
H., jointly celebrated Labor day.
White caps have warned all worth
less negroes to leave BARTLETT, Tex.
Labor day was generally observed in
St. Louis, There was big parade.
c. II. Osborn one Of the pioneers OF
Greenup, H., died Sunday, aged 50
years,
Sam Watts has been placed in Jail at
Nashville, H., charged with criminal
assault
Jesse f. Heard, who killed S. T. Blair
in Little Rock, was acquitted at Perry
Vile, Ark,
The schooner Grace capsized and
sank off the South Carolina coast. The
crew escaped.
An Austrian priest says that he has
cured 80 persons of cancer by feeding
lizards to them.
Eugene O'lIara, a highwayman, who
broke Jail in New York city six years
ago, has been recaptured.
Two Oklahoma farmers fought duel
over land claim with a pitchfork and
shovel; the pitchfork won.
Horse thieves are active in Caldwell
county, Tex. More than 100 work
horses have been stolen recently.
The rebellious tribes of India are
concentrating. Already abut 1000 of
than, ora on tho Co t,oro,o ,,opua
Small farmers and cattlemen are hav-
ing trouble over fencing in of farms by
the farmers in Greer county, Tex.
The gold-seekers at Sltaguay were, at
last reports, working on the trail, and
hoped to have it open by Septembr 6.
The beheaded body of an unknown
woman was found near Laurel, Md. 1t
had evidently lain where found nearly
six weeks.
Ann Hughes, suspected of having
smallpox, was Drained with bed slat
by panic-stricl1en negroes at Columbus,
Miss.
Jacob Stelle, a veteran of the Eighty
seventh Illinois infantry, died Sunday
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boro, Ill.
The bodies of Mr.. and Mrs. Forrest
II. Parker, Jr., drowned in Chain lake,
N. Y, were recovered by the use of
dynamite.
George w. L. RUSSELL cousin of the
duke of Bedford, will ask the British
parliament to abolish private asylums
for the insane.
Otto Roeder was arrested Sunday at
Little Rock, Ark, on a charge of burg
larry preferred by the chief of police of
Fort WORTH Tex.
George Brown and Ransom Bazile,
of Alexandria, La, quarreled over a
crap game, and Bazile shot Brown
through the head.
Anarchist BarriI, who tpied to assas-
sinate the chief of police of Barcelona,
Spain, was tried Sunday, and will be
given short shrift.
The electric light plant at Morton,
H., was destroyed by an explosion.
Two children were killed and four other
persons were injured.
Charley Henry Osborn, aged IS, died
Sunday at Greenup, Ill. He was ma
tive of Pennsylvania, and had lived in
Cumberland county 50 years.
In response to a toast, King Humbert
notified Kaiser William that while Italy
would adhere to the dreibund she would
not impair her relations with other
powers.
When Thomas Hawkins, absconding
messenger of the District of Columbia
tax office, was searched after his ar
rest in Toronto, Ont, SS,a3i was found
on him.
A requisition for the return of L, NJ.
Thoman, of Chicago, from Palestine,
Tex, where he eloped with Mrs. Dona-
hue, has been honored by the governor
of Texas.
The cattle sheds belonging to the Ma
tional starch works at Atlantic, Ia,
collapsed Sunday The cattle sheds
have not been used for several years,
the starch works not being in opera
ton.
c. V. Crane, aged 2S years, town
clerk of Writings, Ind, and reporter
of the Writings Daily News went to
Elkhart Inn, Sunday to witness a
game of ball, and fell dead from heart
disease.
Benjam Arthur Arnold, aged 9o a
farmer of Blue Mound, H., jumped
from II fast freight of the Alton at the
depot at Lexington, H., Sunday, Both
of his legs were crushed, and he died
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