The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1899-11-25

i he Kentucky election middle
will be settled in the courts, or by
the state general assembly
Maugicia CARA, a notorious Mex
lean smuggler, was killed by Texas
rangers near Del Rio while resisting
arrest.
Lieut.. c, G. Wood, of the British
army, a grandson of jefferson Davis,
was killed in battle with the Beers
at Kimberley.
A disastrous railroad wreck oc-
CURED on the Michigan Central,
near La Sale, Mich, in which 32
persons We're killed.
Tarlac, the insurgents capital, has
been taken by the Americans. Agui-
haldo and his troops deserted the
town without Offering battle.
The United Daughters of the Con-
federaey has assumed the response
slblllty Of erecting a monument to
the memory of Jefferson Davis.
Housewives will be interested in
the fact that the price of brooms has
been advanced, said to be due ON ac-
count OF the short broom corn crop.
The president has appointed ex-
Gov. Joseph W, Fifcr, of Illinois, a
member Of the interstate commerce
commission, vice W. j. Calhoun.
resigned.
While John Yunsk and Conrad
Winske Wee engaged in a fist fight
on the railroad track near Enter
prise, Pa, AN express train ran them
down and killed them.
The price of zinc ore declined
from 543 TO S33 per ton in two
weeks in tie Missouri-Kansas dis
trict, due tc fight between miners
and owners Of smelters.
As result of bitter feeling en-
gendered OF election day, Lewis
Spicer and Julius Angel fought
duel with pts .olS at Beattyville, Ky,
each man being mortally wounded.
Dick Dickerson, crazy negro,
assassinated n. r. Graves and Arthur
Maxwell, prominent white citizens Of
Round Lake, Miss. Dickerson was
only recently released from confne-
ment.
Robbers blew up a general store
at Cedar Rapids, Ia, with dynamite.
J. D. Burrell, proprietor of the
store, who was sleeping in an up
stair room, was instantly killed by
flying timbers
Gatling, the man who revolution
lied methods of warfare by invent
ing the rapid-fre gun, has invented
an automobile plow, He proposes
to build the machine so it can be
operated by one man. 1t will do
the work Of eight men and twelve
horses. The propelling power will
be either gasoline or oil.
Major John A. Logan, Jr., son Of
the late Gen. John A. Logan, was
killed while leading a battalion in
an engagement with the enemy near
San Jacinto on the 18th inst. In
this battle six of Uncle Sans en-
listed men were killed. The enemy
was routed and left G5 of their dead
in the trenches.
A movement has been started to
bring the remains of John Paul
Jones to the United States and inter
them in Arlington cemetery, Wash
ington. John Paul Jones was the
American naval hero of the war for
independence. He died abroad, and
his resting place was unknown until
recently, when his grave was located |
in one of the old cemeteries of Paris,
France. Congress will be asked to
appropriate the necessary funds.
Frank Thompson, member of the |
firm which has the contract to bury |
the pauper dead at Memphis, was |
arrested in st. Louis, charged with |
traficking in dead bodies. -Four |
trunks, each containing a corpse and
assigned to Thompson, were seized |
by the police. The accused does not
deny his guilt, and says he has been
selling bodies to medical colleges for
some time, his plan being to pack
them with excelsior in drummers
zinc-lined trunks and take them with
him to their destination as baggage
Thompson was turned over to the
Memphis authorities.
The transport Indiana, bearing
the Tennessee volunteers, the last
of the returning volunteer regl-
ments. arrived at San Francisco on
the 18th inst.
Mrs. Ada Hill is in jail at Aurora
ILL.,. charged with causing the death
of her mother-in-law by pouring car
bolic acid down her back. Those
who claim the woman was murdered
saw Mrs. Hills motive was to get
nossession of her property, valued at