The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1899-11-11
Vice President Hobort is danger

The Twentieth Kansas volunteers
we're mustered out October 2Sth
The defeated Shamrock sailed
from New York for England on the
LIST inst,
Walter Spence, aged l6, was killed
at Carthage, Mo, by coming in con-
tact with a live wire,
The remains Of the late Gen. Guy
V. Henry were inferred at Washing
ton October 30th.
A consolidation of the principal
bridge building firms of the United
States has been effected.
Gen. Gomez is writing a history
of Cuban warfare from 1868 to the
date of American occupation.
Capt. Nicoll Ludlow has been re-
tired from the navy with the rank OF
rear admiral after 30 years service
Geo. NJ. Lee, son of Gen. Fitz-
hugh Lee, has been appointed a first
lieutenant in the volunteer army and
assigned to duty in the Philippines.
Arthur Bird, merchant, was
found dead in the street at Ell Reno.
Okla, with bullet hole through
his head, His assassin is unknown
Mergenthaler inventor Of the lin
otype typesetting machine, died
practically poor man, though mil
lions have been made out of his in
vention.
Miss Francis Wood, a school
teacher at Greenwich, Conn, was
forced to resign by the school board
because she persisted in wearing
boomers.
L. H. Hartman, of New York
City, has formed a syndicate, which
will underwrite the reorganization
Of the Kansas City, Pittsburg &
Gulf railroad.
Tom Hayden. colored, was taken
from officers by mob near Fayette,
Mo, and hanged. Hayden muir
iered a young white farmer named |
Andrew Woods.
In a private letter Gen. Wheeler
states that the value of a church and |
monastery in the towns of the Phil
ippines often exceed in value all the
other buildings.
A stray bullet fired from a gun in
the hands of c. P. Mood in a battle
with officers at Irinton, Ohio, went
through a window and killed Mrs.
Lottie HenthOrn.
Circuit Judge Eversole refused to
go to Manchester, Ky, to hold court,
fearing assassination at the hands
Of some feudist. Charges will likely
be preferred against him, and he
may be impeached.
Henry Pridmore and Tom Don
oyan, at Oldtown, Tenn, settled
a feud by fighting a fatal duel with
pocket, knives, Pridmore was stabbed
through the heart and Donovan re-
ceived several wounds in the abdo-
men.
Civil suits for the collection of
penalties aggregating 100000 for
violation of the antitrust and pool
ing laws have been instituted by the
attorney general of Illinois against
80 corporations doing business i'll
Chicago.
The battle at Ladysmith resulted
in complete victory for the Beers,
The engagement cost the British
from 1,500 to 1000 men and six
7-pound screw guns. So far the
Beers have shown themselves to be
stern fighters and great military
strategists.
Robbers sandbagged the express
messenger on a passenger train in the
yards at Denison, Tex, and robbed
the safe in the car Of over $40, 900.
The robbery was discovered by the
driver of an express wagon when he
went to receive the local freight,
and found the messenger uncon-
scious.
Forty passengers on street-car at
Cleveland. O., had a miraculous
escape from death the other day.
Thecar jumped the track on bridge
which spans deep ravine. The
side railing of the bridge was torn
away and the front trucks went over
the side of the structure, after which
the car stopped, Overhanging the
gully, - feet below Had the car
moved another foot it would have
gone over.
The government receipts from
customs during October show a gain
Of 50, 900, 600 over the correspond
ing period last, while the internal
revenue collections we're 81, 100000
greater than during October, 1898.