Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1900-11-23
WEEKLY NEWS In BREIF
CROP OF LONG STAPLE COTTON SOLD
FOR sEvEsNTEEN CENTS.
Degrad ton OF Prince Tuan Prevents Heir
Apparent,Becomlng Emperor---Fight Be-
tween Appaches and Mormons---woman
Assaults Emperor William.

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Minister WI has received cable
gram frolu China stating that Princes
Tnan and Chwang have been deprived
Of their rank, and sentenced to life i'm
prisonment Other princes and high
dignitsries are given lighter punish
ment.
The bubonio plague has been Off
cially declared to be prevalent in Cape
Colony.
The degradation of Prince Tuan
means tk,t MS son, the heir apparent.
can never be Emperor.
The Russians are abandoning sur
veillsnc Of the railroad FROM Twan to
Twang Tsou.
The wheat crop Of New South
Wales the coming season is estimated
at 18, 900, 900 bushels.
The son of Sir Edwin Arnold has
been committed at London for misap-
rropriating trust funds.
An insane woman threw hand
chopper at Emperor William as he
was driving through Breslsu, but
she failed to hit her mark and was Sc
cured by the police.
The Chicago Irish ambulance corps
which went to South Africa to take
part In the war there reached New
York Friday on their return home.
Mgr. Catesby has been bequeathed
by the late Lord Butte OF England an
annuity OF $500.
James b. Allen of Port Gibson,
Miss, has sold his entire crop OF long
staple cotton for II cents.
Attorney Geueral Griggs has de-
cided the members Of the Hague Peace
conference treaty need not be confir-
med by the Senate.
Gen. Horace Porter, United States
am bassdor to Paris, will be succeeded
by John Lslshmsn, minister to Berne.
The ChilIan government has appro-
priated $500, 900, to defray the eH-
penses of the Chillian exhibition ct
the Pan-American Exposition.
Tho total recsipts OF rice at Crow
Icy reached q point In advance
of the receipts OF this city for the
same period, and the CrowleyiteS are
jubilant.
The care OF the New Orleans Board
OF Trade against the Cumberland Tele-
phone and Telegraph Company was
decided In favor of defendants by the
Railroad Commission at Baton Rouge.
A Ksokuk, Iowa, lawyer has
brought suit against mining compa-
ny Tor . $500, 600 fee.
Capt. Richie, United States Engineer
has gone to New York with plans
for improving Galveston harbor at a
cost to the government of "a, OoO,o ooo
President Mckinley, it is said, is
strongly opposed to any movement
looking to q reduction Of the congress
s,onal representation of the Southern
states because Of tho disfrsnchisement
OF the negroes.
The Yals-Princeton football match
took place at Princeton. N. J Sstur-
day.
The Tennessee Coal, Iron and Rail
vay Company has again advanced the
price Of foundry iron No. ..
The Bratton brothers, prominent
citizens Of South Carolina, are being
tried at Yorkville for the murder of
Henry Brown.
Attorney General Griggs announces
that he will resign his place in the
cabinet March 4.
John L. Frost, sheriff OF Chambers
county, Tex, has mysterlously disap-
peared, and foul play is suspected.
Three men have been arrested in
Kentucky. for conspiracy to prevent
negroes from voting. 1t is charged
that convenient crap games were start
ed and the negroes playing were jailed
and Kept away from the po'ls.
The Parsons wing of the Knights OF
Labor have elected officers and ad-
ionrned to meet in Washington.
A North Carolina jad0e has issued
bench warrants for lynchers that the
grand jury failed to indict