Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1899-12-29

York amounted to AT, $50.
Thirty-hve recruits for the BoeI
Army were examined in Cincinnati.
The Beers now have twenty miles Of
ntrenched works at the Mo ider river
Colonel Wingate has succeeded Gen
Kitchener as sidar governor Of the Sou
Ian.
The British government has resolved
to stop all supplies CT foodstuffs for the
Transvaal.
The United States transport West
nlnster sailed from San Francisco for
Manila Sunday.
A dispatch from Modder river says
England needs 100000 more men to
md the war.
A truce was kept Christmas day for
tie observance of Christmas by the op-
posing forces in South Africa.
Secretary Gage will not extend ths
lime of redeeming the 4 and 8 per cent
ponds, which expired Saturday.
Mrs. Potter Palmer will be appoint
I'd director of thu American Wonan's
Department. at the Paris Exposition.
The inventory of the estate Of Capt.
W. P. Halliday has ben fled at Cairo.
rhs property Is valued at 81, 201, S33.
The Confederate Soldiers Home at
Richmond was presented with q c,m-
nunion service, sent by Mrs. Jefferson
Davis.
Emperor William strolled through
The parks at Potsdam and the poorer
quarters, distributing Christmas gifts
to the needy.
Edward Cain was convicted at Pal
sstine, Tex, of taking part in lynch
ing and sentenced to life imprisonment
in the penitentisry.
For the crime of murder, robbery
and attempted assault, James Martin
and Frank West negroes, were lynched
near Bolton, Miss.
The cruiser Brooklyn made the run
10 Ma aila in two days less steaming
time than did the New Orleans. The
distance was IS, 900.
National republican committeeman
Payne thinks Secretary of War Root
will be nominated for Vics President
IN the republican ticket.
President Cole Of the Glob, National
Bank of Boston was arrested at Redou-
10, CAL, charged with misappropriat-
ing government funds.
Senator Dubois, of Idaho, thinks that
the silver cause in the United States
will be strengthened by the prolonga-
tion of the war in South Africa.
A rumor is current in Washington
that Secretary Gage will shortly tender
his resignation to Pre-. ideat Mckinney
to become the president of New York
bank.
Gen. Shafter has te.egraphed a cir
oular to the presidents Of the chambers
IF commerce of number of western
,ities, inviting contributions to the
Liwton fund
A report has been put abroad from
Dutch sources that the British have
iisembarked troops at Lorenzo Mar
,uez who are marching toward the
fransvaal frontier.
The experiment station of the Agri-
cultural and Mechanical college at
starkville, Mise, was badly damaged
oy fire.
The Monetary League will probably
resent q case to the United States su-
RENE court that will cause ruling on
he constitutionslity of the act demon
stizing silver.
B. F. Scarborough, who lives about
six miles from Slidell, La. was mortal
ly wounded by assassins Saturday night
while walking from kitchen to his
house. His daughter, three years old,
was also shot and killed
1t is estimated that forty persons
were killed in the Braznell, Pa, mine
disaster. The bodies were horribly
mutilated. 1t is said the explosion was
due to q disregard of the mining laws.
United States District Judge Ds
Haven of San Francisco has decided
that minors over eighteen years do moi
require consent of their parents to en-.
list in the navy.