The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1899-09-02

The Tenth Pennsylvania Nolun-
teers were mustered ont at san Fran
cisco August ?3d.
Mrs. JOSIE Mcclure, white, was
arrested at Paris, Tex, charged with
numbering her husband by poison
ing.
Nine thousand brick masols went
on strike at Havana for am increase
in wages from $500 to $3.50 per
day.
Nine enlisted men were drowned
while crossing a river near Manila
by the capsiziug of boat August
| 2lst,
1t is said that an English sewing
cotton company will acquire all the
stock Of the American thread com
pany
Bruno Nordrup, who claimed to
be brother of the mayor Of Berlin,
Germany. died in the St. Louis city
hospital.
Hon. Thos. B. Reed forwarded
his resignation as a member Of con-
gress to the governor of Maine Aus
gust 22d.
The Hearst interest-one-third OF
the Homestake mine at Deadwood,
5. Dis to be sold to a London
firm for So, 5000
1t is claimed the Standard Oil
Company is backing a syndicate to
gain control of all the coal mines in
the Pittsburg district.
1t was necessary to call out 200 |
militiamen to prevent the lynching |
of a negro charged with criminal
assault at Savannah, Ga.
David BOYD, John Halman and
Henry Heath were killed by the ex-
plosion of a boiler at the Pittsburg,
Kas., vitrifed brick works.
There is talk of cooperation
among war vessels of different ma
tons now in Asiatic waters to sup
press a gang of Chinese pirates.
Henderson Pierson, colored, liv-
ing on Red river, near Davenport,
Tex. in a fit of anger, shot and
killed his wife and mother-in-law.
BY the explosion of a locomotive
boiler of the Mexican central near
Tampus seven men were instantly
killed and three seriously injured.
One thousand negroes have ar
ranged for transportation from Gal
weston to Monrovia, the capital of
Liberia, and will sail early in the
'all.
Those acquainted with the tactics
If the Yaqui Indians predict that
he Mexican troops will have to
wage a long war before subduing
hem.
Margaret Daniels crossed the river
rom Kentucky to Thacker, W. Va,
nd going in the back door of
iouse, cut Mrs. Belle Collins to
.eath.
The 1O-year-old son Of Z. NJ. Gray
vas burned to death at Honey Grove,
Eek, by the explosion of an oil can,
nth which he was attempting to $
.ght a fire.
The latest report is that a com.
any is being organized in New
'ork, with $5O,OOO,OOO capital, to
perate department stores through !
Mt the country.
The Portuguese legation has com
lunicated to the state department t
.atement from the foreign Office of J
'ortugal to the effect that few
uses of the bubonic plague have APP +
cared at Oporto and that the most C
nergetic measures were Immediately
lopted to prevent the scourge from
4
Andrew jackson Overall, Of New t
lbany, Ind, aged 50 years, and a
Iiss GilIey Ammons, aged 40 years, !
ere married last week. This is =
veraiPs seventh matrimonial vent e
Ire, and he is the father of twenty +
Dur children. lie has buried the
X preceding wives, none having
zen divorced from him.
A. T. Lapham, of Kansas City, d
cnt to Perry, Okla, to wed Mrs. I,
ldie Dyer The couple went be- d
re minister, who began the cere- t,
ony, when former lover of Mrs. W
yer asked Lapham if he knew that n
rs. Dyer had uever been divorced
ON a former husband, whereupon
rs. DYER burst into tears and con- o
ssed that she had a husband in o
exas. The wedding was declared v
+. q,
Gen. Fred Funston has been tenn
orarily relieved from duty and will
} to the second reserve hospital to /
ceive treatment necessitated by b
e reopening of an old wound. al
Rev. W. r. Wilburn, of Greenup,
y, was fatally injured by his h
vorced wife, who crushed his skull k