The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1898-09-08
NEWS AND NOTES.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

NUE1 bF LNF aNeFlH 81 EhIFLHE county,
Va. 20 answer nu indictment charging
hm with Decorating confederate
graves at Bull Ron. near Manassas.
Tie Madrid correspondent % The
London Daily Mali says SPANS peace
commissioner viii be senior Leon y
Castillo, Spanish ambassador 40 Paris.
Senior Urrutlu Spanish minister Mt
Brussels the duke Of Najer. governor
of CudiH senior Mareortu aud Senior
AbaraHzt
Three sets 90 dies for making quar-
ters. dimes aud u]ictcis were discovered
iu tie coal mines Of the Kansas penj-
lcutiary at Beagcuwortb Ola the gnth.
A gang % coRvicts bad been mailing
counterfeit moucy for several weeks,
and might have continued had Dot O
fight occurred over the division OF the
coin.
Gen Don Carlos Bncll wns reported,
on the goth, to be dying 80 bis home
near Paradise ky He was taken sud
denly I'D. on the eth, and The attend
ing physician says tbathe can not live
lie rs SO years old.
The Oakland Red Cross society has
established a hospital at Piedmont,
across the bay from san Francisco.
Mai-Gen, Otis Is acting governor Of
Manila. In the absence Of Gen Merritt.
Halvor Fioren, aged 23, and Annie
Dlluar. aged IS, were drowned while
boating on Diamond lake, near Grove
City, MINI, on the 30th, Morris ELIOT.
sen aud Jennie Nelson, who were 10
the same boat, had narrow escapes.
The statement OF the condition Of the
treasury, on the a0lh, showed Availa.
BILE cash balance, s392, e25,isli gold re-
serve, s2ls 936. BOA,
Brig Gen Royal T. Frank hns been
assigned 10 command temporarily the
Third army corps, formerly com.
manded by Gen Wade, the Inter hav-
Ing been relieved to become a member
81 the Cuban military commission,
Admiral W s Sehley and Gen. WIN,
". Gordon, United States commission
ers 10 settle the conditions for the
Spanish evacuation Of Porto Rico,
gailed from New York, ON the alst, for
San Juan on board the steamer Seneca
a court-nhrtial at Nancy France,
has Just sentenced a private soldier TO
three months imprisonment and 500
francs tine for shouting Wye Iola'
james Elliott, Of DETROIT, Mich, one
Of the oldest Ore chiefs in the United
Sthtcs. died on the 3lst, Of stomach
trouble.
The Mckinley bale of cotton that
has been going the rounds Of the
boards Of trade Of The country, being
sold at auction for the benefit OF the
Omitted states hospital fund, was aue.
toned of on the Kansas City lMo]
exchange, on the 3tst, for s305.
The transport steamer 0livette, which
has been lying neur the quarantine
station, at E]ernaudina, Fla, through
some mysterious agency sank on the
8lst. Aboard the ship were the hos.
pitul corps OF 90 and a Of IS per.
sons, an Of whom escaped without in.
jury, but Ia seanty attire.
Unknown iucendiaries tried TO kill
the family Of Fred LnnRs a farmer
living near Melrose Park, a Chicago
suburb, by setting ire 10 bis home
Mrs Lnngs and her child were nsleeI
Ia the dining room ut the time, and ha,
a narrow escape from death,
-Four suspicious cases Of fever were
declureda at Taylor, Miss 40miles soutl
Of Holly Springs, on the 8lst
The Red Cross homo for GONZALES
cents Will be opened In San Franchise,
iii o few days, In charge Of Miss Laur,
McKiustry, young society woman o
that city.
Robbers secured $4,000 In cash iron
the Pacific Express Co IN Omaha, Of
the 3Ist, II was one OF the boldest, a
we'll as one Of the smoothest pieces o
work ever perpetrated there, nh
money was consigned BY the First ma
tional bank Of Omaha to the Citizen'
national bank Of St. Paul, MINI,
Admiral Scheley has ben selected t
command the Pacific squadron upo
the retirement Of Admiral Miller
about the middle OF October, Il Oh
Porto Rioan commission finishes lbs Il
Dor by thnt tune, lie will have vessel
Of the greatest steaming radius In th
navy.
a grand demonstration occurred 9
Canton, o., on the ist, in honor ot Il
visit Of President Mckinley aud Sc
retary Of State Day. Out Of respe.
for the presidents expressed wish tn
Ms viait be informal, the affair VI
20 q considerable extent unerganiEc.
and partOok largely Ok the nature Of
spontaneous outburst Of euthuatasI
The A. Geisel Manufacturing Go,
plant, on the northwest corner Of Clal
! avenue and Second street. ST. Loui
was totally destroyed BY fire thI
started shortly before midnight on d
list, The loss was estimated TO be sisC
I O0O-SlO0,00O on stock, $4,000 on TOO
aud machinery and $4,000 Oh buildiu
Al @ meeting Of the directors Of 4
Pacific Cable Co, Ia New York, on q
LIST, plans were considered for esta.
/ fishing cable communication with Il
Philippines, the Asiatic coast, Japy
and Australia, via Hawaii, Surve.
for a duplicate cable via SitlSa and q
Aleutian islands were ordered
The schooner Sophia Sntherlsa.
which left San Francisco Is montI
ago with q party Of treasure seeke
for the solomon islands, has returne
with o cargo Of cocoanuts. The me
were deceived by the protector Of q
enterprise, Z 2 S-orensou, who VA
pat ashore o one Of the islands,
The lighthouses in the southern Phi
ippines have been re-~established