The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1897-09-09
GENERAL NEWS
Current Events of the Day Epi-
tomized.
MORE SOLDIERS FOR CUBA.
1oonshiners Plotting to Exterminate Rev.
enue Officers.-Sentence Commuted.-
A Monument to the late Senator George.
Train Robber Captured.

Smallpox has made its appearance
in Atlanta.
The Farmers National Congress is
now in session at St. Paul, MINI.
Mrs. John Drew, the famous actress,
led at Larchmont, N. j., the past
week
A heavy frost is reported to have
visited the northern part of Michigan
And Minnesota Wednesday.
"A fund will be raised throughout
Mississippi for the erection Of a mon
ument to the late Senator George.
The immigration for the month of
July, says the Treasury Department,
was ii, 1855, against 21,471 last year.
Seth Low, twice mayor of Brooklyn,
has been nominated by the citizens
union for mayor of Greater New York.
Robert Hendy, colored, was hanged
last week at Jacksonville, Fla, for
the murder of his wife in February,
1896.
Tuesdays statement of the condition
of the treasury: Available cash bal
ance, 1921, ,410,411; gold ueserwe, $144,-
2OG,275.
Mrs. Guthrie, wife of Luther Guth-
rie, a prominent citizen of Walnut
Grove, Ga, was killed by lightning
Wednesday.
Governor Taylor, of Tennessee, has
committed the death sentence Of Frank
Parora, the Memphis murderer, to life
Imprisonment.
The moonshiners of Pope county,
Arkansas, have plotted to exterminate
all revenue officers attempting to in
wade their region.
The British steamer Titania will in n
few days sail from Baltimore bearing
the first cargo of steel rails ever ship
ped to South Africa.
VIII Long, a member of the band Of
train robbers that are badly wanted at
Rome, Ga, for breaking open cars and
stealing freight, was captured at Rome
Thursday.
The large plant Of the Arkansas
Manufacturing Company at Little
Rock, Ark, was totally destroyed by
fire last week. Loss about $4,000; in
surance, $4,000.
Mrs. Thomas Coker and 9-year-old
son, at Topeka, Kan, were struck ana
instantly killed by westbound Santa
Fe train while crossing bridge east
of Cedar Junction.
At a cabinet council held at Madrid
it was decided to summon the next
class of $4,000 reserves, 2I0oo OF
whom will be sent to Cuba and $4,000
to the Philippine Islands.
Lord Salisbury's proposal for joint
guarantee of the indemnity to be paid
to Turkey by Greece has fallen
through owing to Russia's reluctance
and Germany's jealousy.
The free silver forces Of Nebraska,
composed of republicans, democrats
and populsts, have formed a tripart-
lie alliance, and will nominate a fu-
sion state ticket.
A Birmingham, Ala, firm has been
awarded the contract for erecting the
water works and electric light plant
for Scranton, Miss. at a special meet-
ing of the board Of aldermen, for $2o,-
1886.
By q vote of So to 26 the Pennsyl-
yania state democratic committee has
adopted a resolution declaring vacant
the seat of William f. Harrity, or
Philadelphia, in the national demo-
cratic committee.
Major Terrell, the negro who as
saulted and then burned the white
woman, Mrs. Thomas, near EDDa,
Ala, last month, and who, While IN the
act of being carried into the woods
by a band of lynchers, escaped and has
since been at large, was captured near
Ozark last Friday night and was put
IN jail at that place.
All the newspapers of Madrid pub
llsh strong protests against the mis-
slon of General Stewart L. Woodforu,
the new United States minister 10
Spain, thus causing Widespread irrl-
tat.on against the United States.
The army and navy departments
have decided to further strengthen the
defense of the Pensacola harbor IL
il understood that batteries for six
teen guns are to be erected. These
guns will command the entire inner
harbor.
The annual trade review Of the Gal
weston News for September | places
the Texas cotton crop for the season
OF 1Ho6-07, which closed Wednesday,
It 2,177. .026 bales.