The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1898-02-17
THE NEWS Of THE WEEK.
Happenings Of General Interest Fresh
From the Wires.
GE0Rs|As SECRETARY Or STATE RESIGNS.
Ensign breckenridge Washed Overheard
and Drowned Italian Wnrship
Ordered to Hayti-So Apol-
ogy to he Asked of Spain.

A canning factory will be built at
McMinnville, Tenn.
w. l.. Trent has been appointed
postmaster of Knoxville, Tenn.
Judge John NJ. Taylor, OF Lexing
ton, has announced his candidacy Tor
governor of Tennessee.
McKisson, the defeated senatorial
candidate in Ohio, will contest the
election of Mark Hanna.
Levi P. Morton's seven story office
building in New York was destroyed
by fire. Loss $500, 600.
Edwin s.. Cunningham, of Tennes-
see, has been appointed by the Presi-
dent to be consul at Alden, Arabia.
President Mckinley will not de-
mund an apology from Spain, as he Is
satisfied with De Lome's departure.
Italian warships have been ordered
to Hayti to enforce pending claims OF
the Italian government to the amount
of $120, 200.
Ensign J. R. Breckenridge was
washed overheard from the torpedo
boat Cushing, now in Havana harbor,
and was drowned.
Hon. Allen D. Gambler, of Georgia,
has rendered his resignation to the
governor as secretary of state, to make
the race for governor.
The corner stone of the Coleman
Cotton mill, ot Concord, N. c., was
laid Friday 1t is the only mill IN the
world owned and operated by negro
labor.
J. Hadley Clack who has been chief
of police of Nashville for many years
was defeated by the new police board
and Robert 'Sidebottom elected IN his
place.
A proposition is before the Loulsi-
ana Constitutional convention to pen
sion ex- -Confederates, which will Proba-
bly, become part of the new consti-
tuition.
After celebrating his 18th birthday.
George Hartman, living near Louis
vile, KY, became suddenly despond-
ent and plunged into cistern, and
was drowned
The house committee on commerce
killed the senate bill to permit the
state of South Carolina to control
liquors brought into the state in orig
inal packages The motion to report
| it fayorably was lost on tie vote.
A special from Bonham, Texas, says
that in an attempt to arrest William
Green and Bob Hunter, near there,
both men were killed, and Officer Tom
Milstead and Charles Bridges were so
badly injured that they will likely die.
One of the new bills introduced in
the Kentucky house of representatives
! Friday was by Mount, populist, pro-
posing to change the name of Carlisle
county to. William Jennings Bryan
county.
Official advices received by the
French foreign Office from Pekin say
Japan has notified China that she in
tends to keep Wei-Hai-Wei perma-
nently. Such a report, however, has
not been confirmed at Washington.
A Warsaw dispatch says: During a
funeral service in the synagogue at
Idzienciol, in Grodno, Wednesday, the
woman's gallery collapsed. In the
panic that ensued twelve women, hve
men and three children were crushed
to death and many others were serl-
ously injured.
The contest which has been waged
in the house committee on Invalid pen
sions ever since the assembling OF con-
gress over the question of barring from
the pension rolls the widows and chill
dren of soldiers who marry hereafter,
came to an end Thursday in the defeat
of the proposition.
The American line steamer st. Louis,
Captain Raddle, which arrived at New
York Saturday from Southampton, re-
ports the loss at sea of the Holland
American line steamer Veendam, Cap
tain Stenger, from Rotterdam for New
York. The passengers and crew OF the
Veendam were saved by the st. Louis.
The Goebel election law passed the
Kentucky senate Thursday and will be
rushed through the house. The gov
ernor will veto it and then it will be
passed over his head. The law is such
as to keep the republicans from carry
ing the elections in that the franchise
will be regulated to the interest of the
democrats.
The Spanish government mas re-
ouested the Clyde Bank Ship Building
Company to push Spanish work. The
company has dispatched to Spain a
high-speed torpedo cruiser, fully
manned by Spaniards. In addition,
two torpedo boat destroyers are being
comnletad for Spain, the crews for