The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1899-10-28

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A band of several hundred Mayo
Indians have joined the Haqui rebels
at war in Mexico.
A Hungarian has invented a
machine which telegraphs over l00,-
600 words an hour.
All news of the war in the Trans
yaal passing through English chan
nels is rigidly censored.
The frst-cass battleship Ken
lucky has been completed and will
be given a trial trip in a few days,
A mail train was held up in the
suburbs of Elburn, Ill.,, the robbers
making their escape with 2,0ooin
cash.
The English parliament has voted
support to the army that will enable
Great Britain to shortly subdue the
Beers.
A combination of all the firms
engaged in the calico printing trade
in Lancashire and Scotland is an
nounced.
Judging from the way prices of
cereals are fuctuating, spectators
are uncertain of the supply and
demand.
Mergenthaler, the inventor of the
linotype typesetting machine, is said
to be hopelessly i'll at his home in
Baltimore.
Pearl Hart, notorious female
bandit, escaped from jail at Tucson,
Ariz. She is accused of stage rob
berry and murder.
Hector Smith, San Antonio car
penter, is organizing company of
volunteers to fight with the Beers
against the English.
J. NJ. Jackson beat his way from
Western Kansas to Kokomo, Ind,
his boyhood home. and after greeting
his family swallowed a fatal dose of
morphine.
Chas. Orr, a merchant at Brew
ton. ga, after finishing a hearty
meal with his wife and children,
swallowed fatal dose of strychnine
before leaving the table.
The Pee Gee has cut the rate on
packing house products from Kan
sas City to Texas points ID cents
per hundred pounds. This action
it Is expected viii cause other roads
effected to maugwate bitter rate
war.
For the first six months after the
bankruptcy law went into effect
there were filed ,OOOvoluntary and
/, 200 involuntary petitions in bank
ruptey. A majority Of the petition
ers were mechanics, clerks and small
farmers.
a. According to a statement prepared
by the treasury department, but
So. 939, 25Oofthe outstanding United
States bonds are held abroad. Cuba
is the largest holder, having 81, 996, :
700. Next comes France, with $685.
600, and then England with $52l,-
$50. Spain holds 8S3, 500.
Daniel G. Reid, president of the
American Tin Plate Company, in
his testimony before the industrial
commission at Washington, stated
that Judge ". H. Moore, who organ
ICED the company, received $1,000
900 in common stock for his labors
Mr.. Reid also testified that the aver
age wage paid by tin plate mills is
So. 80 per day-the highest average
paid to any laborers in the United
States.
The 2-months-old infant of Dave
Tackett. a farmer near Paris, Tex,
met death in horrible manner.
The mother awoke in the night and
reached for the infant. Its touch
was cold, and when light was pro-
cured terrible sight was revealed.
The child's face was covered with
blood, one eye was gone and the nose
eaten off. The house was infested
with rats, and the supposition is
they gnawed the child to death.
The full strength of the army has
been reached, making 100000 men
now available for any service re-
CURED. OF this force 65, 900 belong
to the regular army and IS, to
the volunteer establishment Should
it become necessary to further in
crease the army, congress must act
before more troops can be secured.
Under the law the present army can
be maintained until June 30, 1901,
when it returns toits normal strength.
1t is estimated Gen. Otis now has
under his command $4,000 men,
With the regiments now on the way
and those to depart next month, his
strength by the middle Of September
will approximate $4,000 men.