The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1898-11-04

AN earLuHNaae htiuHh l9DsAr+f F
over Ottawa, Ont
CuICAeo IS tryinF to get the general
conference Of the Methodist church in
1900.
w.. IT, LE0SARD, while standing near
the engine ar Tayior's gin az Granger
Tex, accidentally fell on the driving
belt He was hurled with terrible
force against the side Of the house and
Instantly killed, nearly every bone in
his body being broken.
A TELEGRAM from 81. Petersburg
said that medical authorities admitted
that the epidemic prevailing IN Lower
Russia was the plague, The death rate
was reported very high,
Two fires occurred the other night
at C@orsicana. Tex, resulting in the to-
tai destruction Of several residences
and one saloon and the loss Of three
lives. William johnson and two small
children. johnson started the fatal
fire by using crude petroleum in his
kitchen stove.
IN q jealous rage, after quarreIing
with his wife for half au hour the
other night, August Harte, a tailor at
St Louis, shot himself in the right
temple and was not expected to sur
vive his wound.
THE grand jury at San Francisco has
voted to indict Mrs. Cordelia Botkin in
that city for the alleged murder Of
Mrs. John p. Cunning at Dover, Del,
nv noisonpd candy.
THE schooner St Peter sank on Lake
Ontario. near Sodus, and all on board
persisted with the exception OF the
captain, who was picked up by a life
saving crew in an unconscious condi-
ton. Eight persons at least went
down with the vessel
THE steamer l.. R. Doty, with acrew
Of Is men, was believed by marine men
to have been lost in the recent great
storm in midIake off Kenosha, Wis.
THE British cabinet has decided, it
was reported at Paris, to proclaim a
protectorate over Egypt by Great
Britain.
The Japanese steamer Mijagala was
sunk ia a collision at Kobe and so Ja-
panese were drowned.
A LARGE sawmill at Vancouver, b.
q ,v.s hrrno5 On h oetb ana o,n n,an
,,aro tbro,gn ont ~ onnIognant Tbe
I,ss amounted tn several hundred
tborsand doflars
Al a recent m~eetino of the yvira aud
nail manufacturer held at Pittsburgh,
Pa, it was decided to reduce the price
"a - I''9 y n0E ~ "
auFapcs 'ne price % g~a'Eaui@eo WIRE
uo'h suloOen anu OaiDeu' uNe oon0 PCT
lVu PouuuS'
HERE was q ool.SF oNPlosion IA Gne
sa"hill az "ess Marion lno.' "n'eii
ComPleGely "'eGNeu 1ue pl~uO "uo
laLa'ly inJureu three men
UNION painters at Indianapolis, mo
were locked out oy Jne Master am
ers, association on the 2oth because
the men woula o Withdraw a ooycoti
against a certain hrm.
AREAR.END collision occurred on the
Union Pacific sidetrack at Omaha,
Neb., between two freight trains, re
sulttng in the death OF three train
men and the serious injury of another,
THE steamboat Bolivia reached New
Orleans on the 25th with the largest
shipment ofimmigran is that ever came
to that port on a single ship, the hui
man cargo consisting Of 1, 1859 Sicilians,
who took passage at Palermo. There
were in the lot gs6 able-bodied men.
945 women. 81 children betweep The
ages Of Of four and 12 years, and s.
infants.
AN engine on the Santa Barbara
branch of the Southern Pacific ran of
the track neal Camalus. Cal. and En-
gineer Davis was eaugbt under tn,
cab and crushed to death. The fire
man IN The engine was s~eriouslv bu.
NOT fatally injured.
Cor. FREpSRrcK FUNSTON. Of til.
Twentieth Kansas regiment. was mar
ried ON the evening of the 25th to Mis-
Edna Blanxarl Of Oakland. Cal. Shr
$40 " 4f 49,