The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1900-04-07

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Tom Sharkey defeated Stocking
1t Conroy in prize fight at Baltimore
Portugal must pay England SIS,
IS $4,000 on the Delagoa Bay claim
Congress will appropriate $3.50,
900 for the pneumatic tube posta
n service.
: Since January l, 1899, 3,420 la.
borers from Japan have arrived al
e San Francisco.
Turkey announces that in the fu-
ture she will prohibit the importa-
| ton of American pork.
Over 5000 Mormons from Utah
have settled in the state of Chihua-
hua, Mex, the past two months.
Fire losses in st. Louis in 1899
amounted to 1898, 3O1, with 1884,
159 loss to the insurance companies.
The shops of the Texarkana,
Shreveport & Natchez railroad at
Texarkana were completely destroy
ed by fire.
Hon. j. NJ. Stone, for ten years
governor of Mississippi, died at his
home in Holly Springs March 2Gth
of erysipelas.
Mrs. Hettie Green, richest woman
i'll the United States, denies the re-
port that her daughter is engaged to
marry an Italian duke.
The New York legislature passed
bill repeating the law legalizing
boxing, and after September LIST no
more bouts will occur in the Empire
State.
The report that Great Britain is
to loan the Portugal government
large sum of money in exchange,
for privileges in Delagoa Bay is
denied.
Ex-United States Senator Sawyer
passed away at his home in Oshkosh,
Wis, March goth. He was a mil
l;onaire, and made his wealth in the
lumber business.
A dispatch from the state of So
nora of March 25th says Gen. Tor
res force of Mexican troops had sue
ceeded in surrounding 800 Yaqua
Indians, and their early surrender
or complete humiliation seems GER
tain.
Republican Secretary of State Ca
leb Powers, after a preliminary trial
at Frankfort, lasting four days, was
bound over to the grand jury on the
charge of completely in the Goebel
assassination. In remanding the
prisoner, the trial judge stated that
it was not his belief that Powers
fred the pistol shot, but that he
knew of a plot to assassinate the
democratic leader.
immigration returns for the
quarter ended December 81, 1899,
how an increase of 1914 arrivals
It New York over the preceding
quarter, and 23,012 more than IN
he last three months of 1898. in
he latter quarter the arrivals num-
,ered $3.50; in the same three
months of 1899, 1882, and for the
quarter ended in September, 1899,
'6,97S. In point of numbers the
Southern Italians still retain the
cad in immigration, the arrivals of
hat race being nearly one-fourth Of
he total
During the preliminary trial of
'aleb Powers at Frankfort TRACE
" in the court room was narrowly
verted. A witness and one of the
ttorneys for the prosecution got in
o a heated argument, and
hen it seemed like they {
-ould come to blows, over 100
zen among the spectators
ushed to the railing enclosing the $
curt and attorneys with drawn re-
divers. At. this juncture Ex-Gov {
'rown, counsel for the defense,
rose and, in a commanding man
er, demanded that the crowd pre-
erve the peace. /
The attorney who succeeded in
about the settlement be 7
yeen Carnegie and Prick, the steel
manufacturers, received a fee of
i 100000 {
The marine hospital service has h
sued circular to state authorities C
rging that vigorous measures be $
ken to stamp out smallpox. With i
the past few weeks there has been a
ported over 1000 cases in Illinois, t.
nd Kansas reports 437 cases during t
ebruary. o
Geo. Kruger was convicted at
aukegan, ILL.,, of the murder of '
S wife and mother-in-law and Civ II
a life sentence in the peniten-
airy. n
A special to the Globe Democrat h
VS. Gov. Taylor, of Kentucky, is Sc h
ously considering retiring from Of a
re as soon as the court of appeals n
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