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

NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

d 9th, ordered to Chinese waters.
e The composite brigade or 1900 mel
who raised the investment of Tien Tsil
and pushed on to help Admiral Sey
mour has probably saved him, but Thu
> news had not, up to the 9th, reached
: Che Foo, the nearest telegraph point.
Pers ons going into the Kiowah-Co
manchs and Apache Indian reserva
ton for the purpose of acquiring
: mineral lands will be elected as ''Soon
} ers" and kept off the reservation unit
: it is formally declared open to settle
ment by presidential proclamation.
Seventy-one millions of silver dol
lars, coined to represent the last issue
of silver certificates, have just been
transferred from the old mint, in Phil.
, adelphia, to the new bullion building
!, in that city, the vaults of which have
a capacity of 100000 silver dollars.
General heavy rains were reported
on the 2fth, as having fallen in Wiscon-
sin, Minnesota and North and South
Dakota. The rain came at an oppor-
tune time in the last-named states, and
it is believed the wheat crop can now
be saved.
Ex-Gov. Taylor and wife, of Kentuc-
ky, reached indianapolis, Ind, from
the east. on the 27th. Taylor had
shaved off his moustache, and his APP
pearance was much changed. He
looked i'll.
A severe storm swept over southern
Indiana, on the eth, and creeks were
swollen and many bridges swept away.
The wheat crop was almost totally de-
stroyed and other crops were dam
aged.
| A spark entered dust collector in
the factory of the Standard Starch
Co., at Kankakee, ILL.,, on the 9th, and
caused an explosion that injured six
girls employed in the packing depart
ment and boy, who was blown from
a second-story window.
Miles Ogle, the celebrated counter
feiter, died, ON the 9th, at Mount
Carmel hospital, Columbus, O., aged &c
years. A wife and several children re-
side at St. Louis, but they have been
estranged for many years.
The navy department received ca
hlegram from Rear-Admiral Kempff,
on the 27th, at Che Foo, saying:
'Peliin force and ministers reported
with Pekin reliefexpedition, intrenched
eight miles from lien Tsin."
Six children were injured, one ia
tally, and the house of Ed Billiard,
farmer, wrecked by most peculiar
and destructive freak of storm, two
miles south of Whiting, Ia, on the
9th. Lightning struck the house, and
it was demolished as if blown up by
dynamite.
A terrific wind storm struck Fender,
Neb., ON the 9th, doing considerable
damage. One large barn was wrecked,
the railroad DEPOT was partially un-
cofed and telegraphic wires were
blown down. Several houses were part
ly unroofed. Other towns in the path
of the wind suffered also.
Horace Sedger, well-known the.
atrical manager, and his wife, Ethel,
an actress, were arraigned and remand
ed at the Bow Street (Londor) police
court, on the 28th, on the charge Of
fraudulently obtaining goods by means
of worthless checks.
The New York board of health has
decided to thoroughly disinfect the
Chinese quarters in Manhattan, Brook
Ign and Coney Island, as measure of
precaution against the plague.
The Colorado state board of health |
advises the maintenance of the Guaran-
tine against Chinese and Japanese on
account of bubonic plague at San
Francisco.
Prof. Ferdinand Won Ritchoffen has
been appointed director of the newly
established Museum of Oceanography |
at Berlin.
At the permanent automobile ex-
position in Berlin, applications for
space have been SO numerous that an
enlargement of the original area was
necessary.
When the British ship Hudson leaves
the port of Philadelphia, for Japan.
within few days, she will carry an oil
plant, the first ever shipped to that
country.
Queen Victoria will present to the
municipality of Dublin, in memory of
her recent visit, a gold loving cup,
weighing 100 ounces.
A masked robber started through a
Pullman car on the Omaha-B Billings
train on the Burlington after leaving
York, Neb., soon after midnight on the
morning of the 28th. He got two
watches and $40, but became alarmed,
pulled the air brake and left the train
before completing his work.
president of the United States.
The committee which was appointed
some time ago for the purpose of rails
ing fund for the benefit of Mrs. Guy
v. Henry, the widow of Gen. Henry,
of the United States army, met in New
York, on the 2sth, and the treasurer's
report showed that there was on land
about $1s,5oO.
w. s. Stratton, the Bonanza king,
has donated $4,000 cash toward Sc
curing the location at Colorado
Springs of the national home of the
B. P. o. of Ells, which will soon be
erected at cost of $9OO, 200. A suitable
site and additional cash will be offe red
by Colorado Springs citizens.
oklahomA is shipping several trou-
land bushels of peaches a day to
northern cities, and the people of the
erritory are reveling in the luscious
ruit from six to ten inches in circum-
erence at from 80 cents to 80 cents Q =
ushel. Peaches have been ripe since J.
une 10. q