The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1899-10-14
Robbers secured S2O,O0oat bank
in IIoustonia, Mo.

] HlIlhts
1t is estimated l,5oO persons per-
ishod in the earthquakes in Asia
Minor.
New York City coal dealers have
adyafced the price Of anthracite
coal 2 8 cents per ton.
The sentence imposed on lola for
the part he took in the Dreyfus
affair is to be RENTED.
The right jaw of Lettie Stutsman,
Wabash, Ind, school girl, became
paralyzed from chewing gum.
Corn and beans from the United
States will be admitted into Nene-
zuela free Of duty for the next GO
days.
Pana, H., merchants are trying
to bring about a compromise be-
tween striking coal miners and the
operators.
F. J. Teineman, postmaster at
Kirkwood, Mo-, is missing, He is
short with Uncle Sam several thous"
and dollars.
VIM. J. Bryan, Gov Stone, Of
Missouri, and other party leaders
spoke at the democratic carnival at
Dallas, Tex.
Amos L. Allen, Thomas B. Reeds
former private secretary, has been
nominated for congress from First
Maine district.
/. r. Rankin was killed at Bren-
ham, Tex, by the explosion of a
stereopticon reservoir while he was
giving a lecture.
Gen. Garcia, commanding the in.
sergent troops of eastern Mandanoa,
has communicated to Gen. Otis a
desire to surrender.
Fred T. Moore, defaulting teller
of Boston bank, charged with en-
bezzling $4,000, has been arrested
in Valparaiso, Chih.
Senator James x. Jones, chair
man of the national democratic COM
mittee, arrived in New York City
from Europe on the 9th inst.
1t is claimed the supreme court OF
Hawaii, by its rulings, is sustaining
a system Of slavery of the worst kind
in the island, in violation of the con-
of the United States.
Louis Westerman set fire to hay
stack near Toledo, o., and as soon
as the flames spread he jumped into
the stack and was burned to death.
The Dallas county (Texas) grand
Jury indicted a number of wealthy
lumber dealers on the charge of be-
ing members Of the so-called lumber
trust.
President Mckinley has ordered
the cruiser Brooklyn and gunboats
Marietta and Machias to the Phil
ippines, to reinforce the vessels
already there.
Frederick Ross, molder of In
dianapolis, Ind, drank three ounces
of carbolic acid in the presence Of
his wife and three children, and
died within an hour.
To save her husband from a term
in the penitentiary. Mrs. Albert
Of st. Louis, swore that she,
instead of Kiuart, forged the name
of her father to a note.
The zinc mines Of the Kansas.
Missouri district have again shut
down, on account of the unwilling.
ness Of smelters to pay the prices
for ore scheduled by the Miners As.
ISOLATION.
Suit was brought against a whole
said liquor dealer of Fort Worth by
officers of an adjoining county to
determine whether liquors could be
c. O. D. into a point with
out the shipper taking out a local
license. The legal point involved
was whether the sale was made at
the place of delivery Or al the place
of shipment. The court held that
the sale was consummated at Fort
Worth.
News comes from Berlin that
company composed of French, Ger
man and Russian capitalists, with
capital of $40, 100000, has been
formed for the purpose of compel
ing with the American pork ex-
porters in Europe, particularly in
Germany, England and Scandinavia.
The plan is to raise hogs on large
scale in Siberia. 1t is claimed that
this can be done cheaper than in the
United States.
Charles Lehman, IA years old, set
fire to the clothing of Carrie Cart
wright, aged II years, at Spring
field, H., and before the flames
could be extinguished the girl re-
ceived burns which resulted in death.
The children were playing and the
little girl had wrapped herself in
some paper bunting. After he had
been warned against the act young
Lanham applied g lighted match to