The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1900-08-25
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PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Rail
road Co, the Commercial national
bank of Chicago and the Adams Ex-
press Co. Somewhere between Chi
cago and Burlington paper was SUD
stituted for the currency IN the pack
age.
DISPATCHES received through jap
anese sources, on the 18th, said that
fighting was still going on in Pekin'
part of which was burning. The EN-
press dowager was said to be pris-
oner in the Forbidden city, having
been detained by Prince Lu.
Lord Roberts has issued a prOclama-
ton, which, after reciting the faci
that many have broken the oath to
maintain neutrality, and that the
leniency extended to TIP burghers is
not Appreciated, wa pms III WHO break
Their oaths in the future that they
will be punished by death, imprison-
ment or fine, and that farms may be
devastated
Two-thirds of Kansas west OF the
three easternmost tiers of counties is
experiencing one of the most severe
droughts in the history of the state
and the general opinion is that the
Kansas corn crop will be the smallest
in proportion to its requirements for
feeding that has been made in many
I years. ! 4 "A
! The Rock Island RAILROAD Co. has
followed the example of the Union
Pacific by placing ban on cigarettes
Notice has been served on the en-
ployes of the company in the Armour
dale (Kas.) yards that those who are
audited to the use of cigarettes must
give them up or lose their positions.
Forest fires are burning east OF
southfork, Col, in an area from five
to twenty-five miles wide, and de-
stroying valuable. timber, mine ma
Schinery and buildings. The monetary
damage will run into the millions OF
| dollars.
A dispatch from London, on the
18th, said: 1.-The consensus of opinion
expressed by the morning papers
tends to the belief that the legations
at Pekin are now safe with the'allies."
The steamer Monarch, with 1,15o
horses for the British army in South
Africa. cleared from New Orleans,
on the 10th, for Cape Town.
John Pritzlaff. ofrMilwaukee, one OF
kthe largest wholesale hardware mer-
Iehants in THE west and welllknown
throughout Wisconsin, died, on the
10th, Of diabetes aged 80 years. !.
Samuel <Amidon, a prominent busl-
ness man of Ashtabula, o., while play
ing bah. on the 10Th, was struck on
1 the head by Al pitched ball and in
SANITY killed. - ~
Two Italians, Natabe Maresca and
Michil Guida, have been detained at
Quarantine, New York harbor, then
deportation to Naples, Italy, being
recommended to the secretary of the
treasaryA They ha.lgbeen reported
from Renee to be anarchists who
might attempt the life of the presi
dent. n
The Jury at Georgetown, KY, in thu
case of ex-secretary of State Calel
Powers, charged with complicitysn
the killing of Senator Vim. Goebel, re
lturned verdict of guilty, on the 18th
after being out about an hour. Tn
, punishment assessed was imprison
| ment for life.
/ The city treasurer of Concord
/ H., ldst wkek,paid out $382.5O in boun
a tips hppn gTasshoppers, at 81
' btshel, kunae9 the state law. In
= largest contributors were Andrew !
e Abbott, of West Concord, 200 bqshel'
= and B. Frank Varney, of Pen2coal
/ 1854 bushels. =
: There are eleven nations whic
e have suffered as result OF the OH
r turbancse III Chi1M. III will expect
g settleme kt pfsdaihag when nav ~
e resulted frdmgthf Boxers, outbreak
the murierS of Missionaries! and tn
!, distructisn IF legation 'proRerty.
- The statement of the treasury ba
ances in the general fund, exclusive
- the $3.50, 1000, 900 gold reserve in these
& yisiAn of redemption, issued on u
;" 18th. showed Available cash balanc
~ S141, 55O,6s gold, S72,eoo.41s. @
g r. G. Dun & Co.'S Trade Review,
=, ., sued on the 18th, reported; f''Failur
=. for the week werey161 in the Unit
i States, akainsh 15Sslayt 'ye4r, and .
in Canada, against "a last yehr."-
is Sir William Stokes, surgeon in orc
"a nary to the queen in Ireland, and co
ct sulting surgeon to the British 1orc
at | in South Africa; died IN Durham N
rs tai, on the 18th. 49,
er Germany produced 1,5So,OOO tons
SO. raw sugar during the IL months en-
ie, ling July 81, as, against 100000 to
ID for the previous IL months.
ew Ger,uany's exports of war mater
Ito China last year aggregated S,16
,FOOo marks, as against S,4SO,OOO
~ 1898.
The entire plant of the Kelly
20 Manufacturing Co., at Alexandr
Ind. valued,at 100000, was destroy
i 4 BY ARE on the night of the 10th.
was the largest ak factory in
NJ world, employing some eight hundl
~ or a thousand men when cunning
~. full force. The company had just
IaTged the Factory, Increasing the o
put fully one-third.
on, The wooden steamer Argoni
IN shf1Yg a(leal1, on, the 10Th, after t
eed Ing on on cargo of iron ore, and ST
hill at her dock at Escanaba, MICH.
900, of the steamships boilers blew up
ION der pressure, and Asa. McFarlant
ON fireman, from Port Huron,was sevs
ac- ly scalded. The Argonaut wasife'
ton to go to sea when the leak WAS
the covered.
re- I'D. Besler, general superintend
the of the Chicago, Burlington & Qpi
railroad, was injured, on the 10Th,
an explosion of escaping gas in
oi company's office building, at Chico
u caused by lighted match. Mr.. Be-
'a was severely burned, but was ablt
i1oS go to his home in carriage.
~ ;, On the goth William Henry L