The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1897-02-27

OTHERWISE UNNOTICED,

me usual proc amation has been Is
sued calling the senate in extra session
March 4, at noon.
1t is not improbable that the presi
dent will veto the Sundry civil and pen
eral deficiency bills
william }. Bryan was banoueted nv
John K. McLnean at the latter's Wash.
lngton home Wednesday night.
Heorge E, Leighton, of st. Louis, was
elected president Of the National Sound
Money league organized in New York
wednesday. 1t is non-partsan.
The house committees report recon-.
mends that all officers at the Leaven-
worth soldiers home be changed.
The president will either veto the
immigration bill or will allow it to be-
come law without his signature.
All of the Turkish archives were de.
stroyed by the burning of the gov
ernors palace in Canea, Crete, Wednes-
day.
1t is reported that the president of the
Cuban republic, Salvador Cisneros, mar
quis of Santa Lucia, died recently from
sickness.
Charles Collander, the old-time min
strcl and at one time well-known
theatrical manager, died at Chicago of
heart disease.
Kenneth, the noted SO 900 race horse,
owned by the Kenneth club of Mar
shall Mo-, dropped dead Wednesday
while being aired.
Three prisoners in Guanabacoa lCuba)
jail, who were accused Of seeing and
talking too much about the DR.. Ruiz
case, are missing
John D. Rockefeller has become
grandfather, his daughter Edith, wife
of II. F. Mccormick, giving birth to n
son in Council Bluffs, Ia, Wednesday.
Matilda Cass Ledyard, granddaugh-
ter of Gen. Lewis Cass, and Baron Won
ketteler, German minister to Mexico.
were married at Detroit, Mich, Wednes-
day.
The Texas court Of civil appeals de-
eide that the governor Of Texas can not
exercise the pardoning power in behalf
of person committed to prison for con
tempt of court,
aIt will take months to efface the raw
ages of the flood in the Monongahela
valley. The losses will foot up into the
millions. Suffering in many of the dis
tricts is intense.
While sitting on a sofa at his home in
Freeport, H., talking to his physician
about slight ailment, j. Brown Tay-
lor, cashier of the Second national
bank, fell back dead.
Congressman Bowers, of California.
says he has received an offer of $50 from
minister if he will secure the latter a
place on the board of visitors to West
Point military academy.
Nathan Huggins, colored, was shot
and killed at the old Bradford grave
yard, on the Hillsboro turnpike, near
Nashville, Tenn, while acting as
guide for body-snatchers
The American colony at Havana is in
a state of terror, and there is talk of
placing themselves under British pro-
lection in consequence of the apathy of
the United States government
The relations between the admins
tration and the senate have been still |
further strained by the refusal of Sec
retary Olney to transmit the senate's |
resolution of sympathy with Greece.
The youngest life prisoner ever re-
ceived at the penitentiary at Columbus, |
O., is from Indian territory. He is |
Taylor Hickman, aged 10 years, con
vic ted of killing and scalping a white
man.
Inaugural ball tickets are being rap
idly disposed of at Washington, and the
records show that a larger number have
been disposed of at this time before the
than ever before on sim
lar occasion.
The London Chronicle, calling on the
British nation to take active steps in
Jretan affairs, says; Organize, agitate
md denounce the dishonor to England's
lag by association with the sultan and
he coercion of Greece
Spanish officers are reported to have
nsulted Americans openly on several
in the suburbs of Havana, and
me small American flag over confec-
inerv store in Guanabacoa was de
troyed by squad OF Spanish soldiers
nd the proprietors warned not to put
Ip another.