The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1900-07-21
NEWS In BRIEF.
Compiled from Various Sources.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

Pike, Porpolse, Adder and Moccasin.
With view of improving it's steam
err service between New Orleans anc
Havana, the Southern Pacific Co. hal
taken two of it's best steamers, the
Chalmette and the Algiers. from the
New York service and will put them in
its Havana line. The Chalinette left
New York, on the 18th, for her new
berth.
Ii Hung Chang decided to remain in
Canton, and the American gunboat
which was waiting to convey him en-
route to Pekin, sailed on the 18th.
The rioters responsible for the recent
anti-Semite disturbances in Buetow,
Prussia, were, on the 18th, sentenced
to various short terms in Jail.
The Italian chamber Of deputies, on
the 18th, approved the commercial
treaty between the United States and
Italy.
United States Consul Adelbert S.
Hay, at Pretoria, is about to return to
the United States.
A report came by way of Berlin, on
the 18th, that the Chinese Boxers had
cut the grand canal, near Tien Tsin,
flooding the surrounding country, in
order to prevent the allies marching
on Pelin.
The army transports plying between
San Francisco and the far east have
again been placed on war basis, with
the result that no more passengers not
attached to the military can be car
ried on these vessels.
! Gov.-Gen. Wood of Cuba, on the 18th.
announced his intention to leave for
the United States on the 14th, to con-
suit President Mckinley with regard
to certain matters connected with Gu
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| After having been buried in a grave
in Woodland Park cemetery, at Lex
ington, KY, for three days, 16-year-oid
Maud Matthews was, on the 18th, dis
persons and, recovering from what was
claimed to be hypnotic sleep, stepped
from her casket with a CHEEKY ''Hello!''
to the gravediggers.
Lord Roberts reported to the British
war office, on the 18th, that the Beers
had succeeded in capturing Nitrals
Mex, IS miles from Pretoria, which was
garrisoned by squadron of Scots
Greys, with two guns and a battery of
the Royal artillery, and five companies
of the Lincolnshire regiment. The
British losses were heavy.
A report from Chinese sources, by
way of Shanghai. says that the two re-
manning legations, the Russian and
British, were attacked on the evening
of the 9th, and by the morning of the
nth both legations were destroyed and
ell the foreigners were dead. while the
streets around the legations were filled
with the dead of both foreigners and
Chinese.
President William Mckinley and |
Gov. Roosevelt of New York were |
formally notified of their nomination |
as the republican candidates for presi-
dent and vice-president of the United |
States, the former at his home in Can
ton, o., and the latter at his country
seat, "Sagamore," near Oyster Bay,
Long Island.
'Old Hi'' Pierce, known wherever
there are men who sit about green
covered tables, is dead. Outside the
craft he was known as Hiram Franklin
Pierce. In his calling he was an
aristocrat. He was known as a
nephew of Franklin Pierce, once presi-
dent of the United States. "Old Hi"
died ut ~, poor and homeless.
The announcement is made that,
after October 1, oil will be substituted
for coal as fuel on all engines of the
Sante Fe system engaged in traffic on
the Pacific coast. If this can be done
economically, the advantages to be
gained are too many to need enumera-
ton or comment.
Senior Silvela, the Spanish premier,
says that no Spanish war vessel will
go to China, Spain having no interests
to defend in the extreme orient.
Four hundred strikers paraded at
Belle Isle, on the 18th, carrying black
flag. They declared themselves de-
termined to do no work and to permit
none to be done while their leaders
were imprisoned. The strikers induced
all the men who had come to work to
throw down their tools, the non-strik-
ers being unable to obtain lodgings or
goods on the island.
r. G. Dun & Co.'S Weekly Review, is
sued on the 14th, said: Failures for
the week have been 1856 in the United
States, against 1863 last year, and 26
in Canada, against "a last year"
1t was announced in London, on the
18th, that the queen had approved the
selection of the earl of Hopetoun as
governor general of the Australian
A st. Johns IN. F.) dispatch of the
18th, said: "a coast mail steamer
which has returned from Labrador re-
ports the Straits of Belle Isle are still
filed with ice."
Very heavy rains are reported
throughout Chile, washing away many
bridges and flooding several cities.
Reports to the treasury department
show that thousands of people have
gone into the Cape Nome district who
have no means of getting out, and that
while the steamship companies are of
fering them every inducement to go
into the country, no inquiry is being
made as to their ability to get out.
Capt. Joseph Cogalan and wife are
at Colorado Springs, Col. The captain
has been sufferer from pleurisy, and
has been nine months III hospital
Since his arrival he has been closely
CT mined to his room at the hotel, and
has been attended by local physician.
His condition, however. has improved,
il anything. since his arrival
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