The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1897-10-07
Current Events of the Day Epi-
tomized.
THE POPE EXTREMELY ILL.
Shipping Cattle to Cuba-A Favorite Actor
Dead-Famous Mines Sold to an English
Syndicate-Boneo Shaken by an Earth
quske-Death by Asphyxiation.

washington City had Sl.OOO,OOO
dle last Wednesday night.
King George of Greece has invited
NJ. Zanis to form a new cabinet
Gen. Baquedano, commander-in;
chief of the Chilean army, is dead.
Atlanta is to have another sky scra-
per In the shape of a ten-story Office
building.
Mrs. Caroline Rivinius and her four
children were found dead by asphyxi-
alton from gas last Week.
Henry George has been nominated
for mayor of Greater New York by
the democratic alliance.
]. P. Gurr, farmer living at Snow,
three miles frena Cnadilla, Ga, was
mysterieusly shot and killed on last
Friday.
Earthquakes, are reported to have
shaken many places Oh the northeast
coast of Bor,reo and a new island has
been thrown up near Memphkaul.
Advices received tend to confirm
the reported deal for the sale of an
English syndicate Of the famous Ros-
saland mine and the Leroy, in Idaho,
tog $5oeo,UO0.
II IS said that the Pope's weakness
Is increasing and that the church dig
nitaries are afraid he. win Not tally
from the extreme feebieness and ex-
haustion he HoW betrays.
Hosea Townsend of Colorado has
been appointed to succeed the late
Judge Kilgore as judge of the United
States District Court for the Southern
district of Indian Territory.
Reports that Colonel Baldermero
Acesta, Of the Cuban army. had been
captured by the Spaniards is untrue
He has safely landed in Vera Cruz,
out Is seriously wounded.
Harry Clifford .ohte a favorite ac-
tor, and who had been leading man
es Gester Wallack and Ada Rehan,
died in Bellevue Hospital, New York,
the past week, aged 35 years.
Otto Boehlin, a prominent cattle
buyer of San Antonio, Tex, has a
contract with the Spanish government
to ship 10000 head of cattle month
for several months to Cuba.
John r. Mclean has Withdraw WI
from the race for United States Sen
ator In Ohio. A. ]. Warner has an
aounced his candidacy at the hands
of the Legislature to be elected this
fall.
Fire at Willow Springs, sixteen
miles frcM Chicago on the drainage
eanAl, destroyed nearly half Of the
town and made fifty families home
less. The loss is $4,000, with little
Insurance.
officers have arrived at Deadwood,
s. D., from the Hole-in-the-Wall coun-
try having in their custody the three
missing Belle Fourche bank robbers.
The capture was only effected after a
lively Aght. 8Nf
Willis Collins was shot and Killed
by q. A. Leggett near Mayo, Fla, on
Friday Both men were prominent,
Leggett being chairman Of the DEM
ocratic legislative committee. They
quarreled over a pasture.
The Virginia Coal and Coke Coin-
pany, operating at Stonega, Va, has
awarded to ]. A. L. Minor & Go. the
contract. to build an additional 100
coke ovens at Stonega, Va. The work
win be commenced at once.
p James II. Drummond, a prominent
and wealthy citizen, and president OF
the Drummond Tobacco Company of
st. Louis, died Thursday. Mr.. Drum
mond's wealth, aside from his tobac-
co plant, is estimated at $3,O00,0O0.
The friends of John Y. McKane,
who was convicted several years ago
of political frauds, are making very
determined efforts to bring about his
release and have succeeded In obtain
ing promises of assistance from Sena-.
tor Plat.
Isaac Bell, the principal owner of
the Old Dominion Steamship line, died
of pneumonia at his home in New
York the past week, aged 50 years
Miss Viola Monday, the 16-year-old
daughter of well-to-do farmer, NV
ing five miles from Knoxville, Tenn.,f
on the Clinton pike, was criminally as
saulted last Friday by an unknown ne
gro, who was caught the following day
and landed in the Knoxville jail.
Senator A. o. Bacon has prepared a
deed to seventy acres of beautiful
wooded land In North Macon to be,
given to the city OF Macon, Ca, TO be
used for park purposes, the only con-
dillon being that the city agree to