The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1900-02-17
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

Nathaniel A. Boynton, the inventor
of heating apparatus and president 1T
the Boynton Furnace Co., Of New York,
dieo. on the night of the 18th, aged
n years.
The week ended February 10 wit
messed an increase of nearly three
million dollars in the gold held by the
United States treasury, reaching to-
tai of $406, 4Ss,64e.
The recent jump in cotton is en-
planned by st. Louis cotton man us
due to the failure of the crop in India.
England and the far east buyers came
to the American market for cotton,
and the Americans popped up the
price. When the buyers had got all
they wanted, the price went down.
and then the American mills bought.
you Americans will do said an
English buyer in St. Louis, when he
got all he wanted, and awoke next
morning and found the market lower.
Rewards aggregating $4,000 have
been offered for the capture of Goe-
| bells assassin or assassns. The detec-
yves are VII thS thSCiJ 'hut q
conspiracy existed.
The Canadian government is equip
ping a large surveying party for an en-
animation of the immediate territory
living between the Great Slave lake and
HUDSON bay. This stretches from the
Rockies to the Atlantic. 1t is 1000
miles wide and is supposed to contain
rich mineral stores.
A bill was introduced in the senate,
on the 18th, by Senator Foster, of
Washington, providing for the con-
struction of government cable from
the United States to the Philippines.
1t is expected that at dinner to be
given at the Hotel Manhattan in New
York early next month, John d. Rockc-
teller will announce further gift of
81 500, 900 to Chicago university, maxi
irg his total contribution to that insti-
tuition $S,5OO,O00.
Congressman William SulZer, of
New York, made a tentative admis-
sion, in Chicago, on the 10th, that he
was candidate for the vice-presiden-
cy on the democratic ticket with Mr..
Bryan.
On the 10th Gov. Taylor refused to
sign the Louisville agreement, after
long consultation with his friends.
He issued proclamation reconveninS
the legislature at Frankfort, on the
18th. He says he will leave the mat
ter entirey with the courts. The mill
tia, with the exception of battalion,
was ordered home. The democrats re-
fused to recognize Taylor's proclama-
ten, and continued their legislature
and state government at Louisville.
lii the United States circuit court of
appeals in Cincinnati, ON the 18th,
Judge w. H. Taft heard arguments for
over three hours on the applications
for injunctions against the Kentucky
state board of election commissioners
and the contestants for the state Of
fees other than governor and lieuten-
unt-governor. He reserved his decision
until the 14th.
Gen. Lord Methuer, who had been
considered unfit to command since the
battle of Belmont, and to whose mad
ness the serious reverse of Magersfon-
tein was charged, has been suppressed
ed as commander of the western col
umn of the British army in South
Africa by Field Marshal Lord Rob-
eTts.
According to a dispatch from Brus-
sells, Belgium and France intend to
protest against any treaty which
would completely hand over the Nj
caragua canal to the United States, as
their treaties with Nicaragua stipulate
that they shall share in the control o1
all waterways connecting the oceans.
Gen. Pho Del Pillar, the Filipino in
surgent leader, died of fever. recently,
in the Morong mountains. The lead
ers. after his death, held Il meeting, at
which il was recognized that it would
he futile to offer further resistance to
the Americans. They therefore dis
banded their forces.
A statement prepared at the post
office department of the gross postal
receipts for January, 1900, as COM
pared with the receipts for the same
month of the preceding year, shows an
unusually large percentage of in
crease. The total receipts were ST.
OBJ, 9l9, an increase OF $3s9,653, or 10.G
per cent.
In all parts of the country the nine
ty-first anniversary of the birth Of
Abraham Lincoln was celebrated, on
the 18th, by banquets and sp+sch-mak-
ing.