The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1897-02-17
OTHERWISE UNNOTlCED.

Hon. John Randolph Tucker, Of Vir.
ginia, is dead.
Kentucky toll.gate raiders blew a
gate TO splinters with dynamite,
The new Methodist church Cdifce at
Macomb, ILL.,, was dedicated Sunday,
The German emperor is going to try
and outshine the Bradley Martin ball.
The peach crop in Illinois is said to
have been badly injured by the cold
spell.
Ex-Congressmah Darlington, Of
Pennsylvania, Is accused of embezzls-
ment.
The Illinois Legislature will con
slider Gov. Tanners loan bill this
week.
Sir Alfred Miner succeeds Sir Her
eules Robinson as governor Of Cape
Colony.
Mrs Annie Besant, theosophist, will
make a lecture tour of the United
States.
Little else than appropriations will
be considered by congress from this
time on.
Castlemarys funeral Sunday was
the greatest ever accorded an actor in
New York.
A final vote will be taken in the
senate on the arbitration treaty
Wednesday.
Boys set the river on fire at EIwood,
Ind, and two bridges and an elevator
wero burned.
A Greek man.owar fired on a Turk
ish transport which was conveying re.
inforcements to Canea.
Harry Davis, fugitive murderer,
was betrayed to the police by his
brother at Denver, Col
William Phenix, of Sedalia, Mo,
tried to kill his wife because she was
too sick to earn money.
The Christians bombarded Canea
and drove the governor of Crete on
board Russian man-of-war
Ella Crouch, of Citronville, Ala.
scarce years old, is five feet "a inches
high and weighs 26O pounds
Extensive preparations are under
way to make McKinley's Inauguration
notable as Il spectacular event.
Harvard and Yale have at last signed |.
a definite treaty. A complete athletic |
reconciliation has been effected.
Ambassadors of the powers at Con.
stantinople have recommended that
their governments interfere at Crete. |
Ike Miller, farmer living four miles
from Lawrenceville, ILL.,, committed |
suicide by shooting himself in the
head.
The Odessa military division of Rus
sia is massing 10000 Cossacbs, with a
view of possible difficulties arising in
the east.
Out of work and respondent. Joseph !
Flagel, a tailor, aged 80, committed
suicide at Richmond, Ky, by jumping
into pond.
President Cleveland has placed his
country residence, Woodley, near
Washington, in the hands of real es-
tate agent for sale.
The police of San Francisco raided
the gambling dens of Chinatown and
500 Chinese. The raid was a
surprise to the Celestals.
The business portion of Mars, an oil
town, 20 miles from Pittsburgh, Pa,
On the Pitts sburgh & Western railroad,
mas been wiped out by fire
Notice of ten-per-cent. reduction
las been posted at the works of the
Steel Co. in Harrisburg,
- f,1- off
Henry Gottschlich, aged 90, employed
1t the Wainwright brewery, commit.
ed suicide at the home of his parents
oy hanging. No cause knowa.
One of the important measures pend
ng before tho Missouri legislature is
/ bill to increase the permanent en-.
lowment fund Of the state university.
The office of the Pittsburgh pa
POST was almost totally destroyed by |
ire Sunday morning, causing a loss to
he paper of about S6J, 600; covered by
insurance.
Addison King, Burton Washington
nd John Hoard are under arrest at
Cast st. st. Louis, H., for the murder
+ Daniel f. Obey, of Evansville, Ind,
n June last.
Mrs, Rebecca Chrisman, of Normal,
ormerly of Hayworth, ILL.,, was burned
0 death at her home. Her dress ig- !
tied while she was lighting FIRE. :
he was aged IS years. .
Tom Riggs and c, F, Thomson have =
iscovered an extensive deposit of pure i
sphaltum, II miles east of Fort Stock /
IN, Tex. There are several large
orings of oil on the same property. {