The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1900-09-15
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

DR.. Morrison, under date of August
81, says to the London Times (from
Pekin): To-day the foreign COM
munity was thrilled with horror at
the news of the massacre of the mis-
sionaries at Pao-Ting-Fu, who were
under the protection of the imperial
troops. Children were butchered be-
fore the eyes of their parents. White
women were assaulted and carried
into captivity"
A dispatch to the Central News
Iondon) from Pretoria says the
Transvaal Republic will henceforth
be known as the Vaal River Colony.
Another dispatch from Pretoria says
Gen. Baden-Powell has been appoint
ed chief of the Transvaal police.
Adjt.-Gen. Scurry of Texas, after
looking over Galveston, on the 18th,
declared the situation to be worse
than previously reported. 1t was his
belief that Galveston, as a seaport.
was ruined, and that the loss OF life
would reach 5000.
State troops are enforcing martial
law in Galveston. This was rendered
necessary by the looting operations
of the lawless element and extortion-
ate prices eXacted by soulless traders.
All goods have been taken in charge
and schedule of prices fixed for the
public to pay.
Mayor Walter c. Jones of Galveston
estimates the number of dead at s.
900, and he is considered conservative.
Over 1890 bodies have been taken
out to sea or buried in trenches.
Other hundreds are yet to be taken
from the ruins.
The storm that devasted the south
ern coast of Texas pushed it's way in
land, and by the afternoon of the
18th struck the lake region. All navi-
CATION out of Lake Michigan ports
was suspended, and many Illinois
towns reported considerable damage
by high winds.
Immediately on hearing of the ter
rible disaster at Galveston, Miss
Helen Gould realized that there
would be immediate need for food,
and, after securing information from
the war department. issued rush"
orders for $4,000 rations to be imme-
diately shipped there.
The Central Trust Co. of New York
instituted foreclosure proceedings, on
the 18th, against all of the property
of the United STATES Flour Milling Co.,
commonly known as the Flour trust.
The bill asks that the property be
sold, the company having failed to
make the first payment of interest
under a mortgage dated May 1, 1899,
issued to cover a bond issue of $751;
100000.
While big windstorm was at its
height at Paris, Ont, on the 18th, fire
broke ont in Meldrum's -four mill, de-
stroying all the business portion of
the town. Over thirty stores, includ-
ing the customs office, post Office and
the Bank of Commerce were burned.
The loss will possibly reach $3.50, 900;
insurance not known.
At the second days session of the
Sons of Veterans national encamp-
ment at Syracuse, N. Y, on the 18th,
the matter of the location of the Sons
of Veterans university was taken up,
and by vote of 142 to 10 the report |
of the committee in favor of Mason
City was adopted.
At q meeting convened by the lord |
mayor of Liverpool, on the 18th, it |
was decided to open relief fund for
the sufferers from the Galveston dis
aster, and 1900 was Immediately |
subscribed, exclusively of over 6 500
raised by the Cotton association.
The plague is again increasing in
India. Over a thousand deaths from |
the disease are reported to have oc-
curI ed during the week ended on the |
Sth.
President Mitchell of the United |
Mine Workers of America, declared n
strike, on the 18th, in the anthracite |
regions of Pennsylvania, which calls |
142 900 miners to quit work on the |
17th.
Adjt.-Gen. Corbin telegraphed to |
Gov. Savers, on the 18th, saying that |
II the federal government could be of |
any further service to the people of |
Texas in their present trouble, with
in the limits of the statutes, to tele- |
graph him in what way.
The Transvaal republic will hence
forth be known as the Vaal River col |
ony.
The fight Of President KRUGER from
what is now designated as the Vaal |
River Colony, and his arrival at Lo-
renzo Marquee, is regarded in London |
as indicative of an early end of the
hostilities in South Africa.
1t is learned that the military at |
Galveston, under Adjt.-Gen. Scurry,