The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1897-04-03
OTHERWISE UNNOTICED.

The Central America exposition was
opened at Guatemala city Tuesday.
The Missouri senate killed the house
bill doubling the state liquor license
| tax.
The Spanish army in Cuba is said to
be, for the most part, on the verge of
starvation.
W. j. Savage, aged rs, died at his home
in Nevada, Mo-, of apoplexy Tuesday
| afternoon.
Henry Osgood, farmer, of near
Ingraham, okla, was gored to death by
an infuriated bull.
A movement has been started to make
household economies study in the ST.
Louis public schools.
Patrick Quinn, who killed his room
mate, Michael Mccoy, in st. Louis, was
given 4O-years' sentence.
Tip, the famous elephant, became SO
vicious that he had to be strangled to
death at Bridgeport Conn.
Reports received st Burlington, Ia,
are to the effect that great flood is
imminent from the Missouri river.
In Texas S,7Oo positions are to be
filled by federal appointment, and 5000
applications already have been filed.
Mrs. Nj. A. Rush, one of Jackson's
(Tenn.) Oldest citizens, suddenly fell
dead while dressing She was rs years
old.
The Typographical union has pro
tested against the appointment of Har-
rison Gray Otis as assistant secretary of
war.
Forest Reynar, of New York succeeds
Price Lane, of St Louis, as private
secretary to Secretary Of the Interior
Bliss,
The appropriation bills that failed at
the last session of congress will be
rushed through the house under special
rules
The Turkish commander on the Greek
frontier says; "The spirit of Islam is
in our army, and you know what that
means"
Miss NJ. Strassinger, of Webster
Groves, Mo, committed suicide in
Chicago boarding house, after sending
her effects home
The flood situation in the lower Mis-
sissippi valley is on 'ly growing worse
on the Arkansas ID for 50 miles above
and below Memphis.
The Missouri university endowment
bill has been killed and buried beyond
the hope of resurrection by the present
session of the legislature.
Charcoala, the Indian murderer exc
euted at Macleod, n. W. T., uttered
three war whoops on the scaffoldSust
before he dropped to death.
Special cablegrams from Havana, tell
of the blowing up of a Spanish troop
train near Candeiaria in Pinar del Rio
province, with loss of 800 lives.
The Russian consul at Canea, Crete,
has received formal instructions to pro
claim autonomy for Crete, but the 9th
err consuls still remain without them.
Several hundred thousand bushels of
corn are thought to be in danger of
serious damage from leakage in the
Galveston (Tex.) Wharf Co.'S elevator.
Col. Vassos, commanding the Greek
force in Crete, has transferred his head
quarters to Sphagia, the most noun
famous and inaccessible position in the
island.
Importers are becoming alarmed over
the pending tariff bill, and the ware
house departments of the customhouses
throughout the country are being over
worked to get goods out of bond.
The king of Greece has decided to APP
point the crown prince commander-in-
chief of all the forces on the frontier
when they are completely concentrate
ed, probably at the end of this week.
In bill filed in the superior court at
Chicago for a receiver for the Pacific
Loan and Homestead association, it is
charged that De Witt c. Butts, who un-
til last summer was secretary of the as
sociation. is a defaulter, and has appro-
priated segGOOO Of the funds of the as
sociation.