The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1899-09-30
NEWS OF THE WORLD.

Andrew Carnegie gave $50, 600 fol
library building at Dallas, Tex.
The grand lodge, |. O. o. f.. vii
meet at Richmond, Va, in 1900.
Over 5000 persons are dead and
missing as result Of typhoon in
japan.
Fire destroyed a half million dol
lars worth of business property at
Lincoln. Neb.
The rumor that President McKn
ley will call an extra session Of con.
gress has been denied.
The burghers of the Orange Free
State pledge themselves to stand by
the Transvaal in case of war.
Carter Harrison will bea candidate
for the democratic nomination for
governor of Illinois next year.
Itis reported Gen. Algcr has with
drawn from the race for United
States senator from Michigan.
Hon. c. P. DAILY president of the
American Geographical Society, died
in New York City Of apopIexy.
Fifteen hundred ship ioiners at
the Cramp ship yards, Philadelphia.
struck on the 2Ist for a nine hour
day.
Twenty people. eight of them
women, were seriously injured in a
collision between cable cars at Kan
sas City.
John Keeton, train robber and
murderer. has been surrendered to
Texas officers by the Mexican gov
eminent.
Riot and bloodshed among coal
miners near Macon, Mo-, was ayerted
by the sheriff promptly disarming
the ringIeaders on both sides.
Gen. John B. Gordon has posi-
lively refused to accept funds being
raised with which to rebuild his
home, recently destroyed by fire.
All speeches delivered at the St.
Louis trust conference are to be
printed in pamphlet form and dis
tributed throughout the country.
Enormous coal deposits have been
discovered in the Klondike 10 miles
from Dawson City. This discovery
solves the fuel problem in that coun-
try.
Census Director Merriam requests
that farmers keep close record of
products this year, in order to and
the department in compiling correct
statistics.
Tom Dudley found his wife drink
ing with Jim Smith and Perry
O'Kelley in a wine room at Gaines
vile, Ga, and shot and killed the
two men.
Russian authorities express the
fear that the Paris exposition will
be the means of causing the beubonic
plague to spread over the entire con-
tinent Of Europe.
Cardinal Gibbons has assured
President Mckinley of the friendly
sympathies Of the Catholic church
in the effort to establish American
sovereignty in the Philippines.
Noah Finley, a negro highway
man, was hanged at Dublin. Va, on
the 10th. This is the first time in
the history of Virginia in which
highwayman was legally executed.
Grit Alley, a young white man.
was shot and killed at a Sunday
school picnic near Pittsburg. Tenn. |
AIIey WAS drinking, and raised a
disturbance with am officer, who shot
in self-defense.
Perry Gardner, a negro Is years |
of age, was hanged at Mobile, Ala, |
for assauIting white girl under 10 .
years of age. The hanging was
affair The moose was
not properly adjusted, and the CON
lemned, after dangling in the air
couple Of seconds, fell heavily to the
2 ound. He was carried back on
,he scatfold, suffering great agony,
he moose readiusted, and the trap
sprung the second time.
The Waters Pierce Oil Company,
representative Of the Standard Oil
company, has been refused a permit
0 do business in Texas by the sec
etary Of state, on the ground that
he said company is a member Of a
rust.
Operations against the Yaqui In
ians. now on thewarpath in Sonora.
lex, will be resumed by govern
lent troops early next month. 1t
said the hostile Indians are well
rmed with rifles Of American make.
Private Fitz Lee, colored, Of the
'enth regular cavalry, who was
warded a medal for gallantry in
wing wounded comrades at Togo
lcao. Cuba. died in distressed cir
at Leavenworth, Kas., {
st week.
Catholic priests protest against