The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1898-02-10
NEWS DOTS.

The Illinois legislature favors the
annexation of Hawaii.
A strike may be ordered in the New
Bedford. Mass, cotton mills.
At Savannah, Ga, e. L. Patton COM
mitted suicide by taking laudanum.
The United States cruiser Mont
gomery has arrived at Mantanzas, Cuba
At Hattiesb rg, Miss, Mrs. Willie
Ward was so badly burned that she
died. -,
At Camilla. Ga, Kim Smith shot
and instantly killed J. HI. Baggs Sat
urday.
The insurgents have dynamited and
DESTROYED pontoon railroad line near
San Felipe, province of Havana.
The Lake Shore and the New York
Central railroads have combined anu
are now under one management.
Can't. J. j. Arnold, chief OF the
Dallas. Tex, police department, acci'
dentally shot and killed himself.
Joseph Smith, director OF the Bureau
of America Republics, died at Manu.
Fla, Saturday, of heart failure.
Miss Blount, patient in the lunatic
ASYLUM at Jackson, Miss, was found
dead in bath tub the past week.
State of the condition of the treas
ury: Available cash balance, $224,-
155, 713; gold reserve, $164, 566,ooo.
Jack Delaney's nine-year-old daugh,,
ter and her grandmother were burned
IN death about five miles from SWANS
boro, Ga.
The trial of Sheriff Martin, who
figured in the slaughter OF the miners
in the Hazeltown, Pa, district, is now
in progress.
Winter grasshoppers have appeared
in great numbers ON the farm OF oam
Blackwell, near Wilhoite, Marshall
county, Tenn.
1t is asserted on high military au-
thority that General Gomez has been
called to New York by the Cuban
Revolutionary Junta.
The Rhode Island Locomotive Works
has filed a petition of insolvency,
placing its assets at 1913, 900 and its
liabilities at S616, 700.
Will Dyer, Waterman on the Vicks-
burg and Yazoo river packet Memphis,
fell overheard from that boat near va
ZOO City, Miss, and was drowned.
Commissioner of Health Reynolds,
of Chicago, has accepted an invitation
to be present at the National Quarantine
convention at Mobile, Ala, Feb. 8.
The republicans have organized their
congressional campaign committee IN
| Washington. Representatives were
| chosen and work for the campaign laid
| out.
The cornerstone of Sam Houston
college was laid at Austin, Texas, with
appropriate ceremonies. The college
is for the Christian education Of colored
youth.
The South Carolina legislature has
| passed an act putting telegraph and
express companies under the control OF
| the state railroad commission, just as
| railroads are.
| Archibald McLaren, has been arrest
| ed at Cleveland, O., on the charge OF
| appropriating to his own use $l5, 600
| belonging to the order of Scottish
| Clans, of which he was treasurer.
Ethan A. Hitchcock, of Missouri,
| now minister to Russia, has had the
| title of ambassador extraordinary and
minister plenipotentiary to Russia con-
ferred upon him by the president.
A horrible accident occurred in King
George county, Va, by which Mrs
Thadeus Sordell and young daughter
of hers were so severely burned that
they died within few hours OF each
other.
A secret organization, known as the
| American Patriotic League, has been
organized in New Mexico, the obiecs
| of which is to accomplish the death of
| the president aud his cabinet by the
| use of dynamite.
The M obile & Ohio railroad has or
dered 600 new freight cars, ten new
locomotives, and 10000 tons OF steel
rails are said to have been contracted
for for use of the Montgomery extern
sion of that line.
President Diaz, of Mexico, says he
cannot leave his country without the
consent of congress, and that body not
being in session, he is forced to de-
cline the invitation of New Orleans to
visit their Mardi Gras.
Fire at Wayne, w. Va, destroyed
Walkers dry goods store, Beams gro
Gerry house, Burgess millinery store,
Walker hotel, Pritchard's Ina, Smiths