The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1900-09-22
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

81, says to the London Times iron
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
| London) 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 nth,
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 1900 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 bond issue of $751;
100000.
While big windstorm was at its
height at Paris, Ont, on the 18th, fire
broke out in Meldrum's flour 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 LAP to 10 the report |
of the committee in favor of Mason |
City was adopted.
At 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 500 was Immediately |
subscribed, exclusively of over 500
r.ai coI l.xy no E0ff0p
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 a
strike, on the 18th, in the anthracite
regions of Pennsylvania, which calls
142 900 miners to quit work on the
18th.
Adjt.-Gen. Corbin telegraphed to
Gov. Sayers, on the 18th, saying that
If 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-
reno Marquee, is regarded in London
as indicative of an early end of the
bOStiIitiaS in South ARr;oo
1t is learned that the military at
Galveston, under Adjt.-Gen. Scurry,
have punished by death not less than
IS men, mostly negroes, guilty of hay-
ing robbed the dead. Two-thirds of
this number were shot down when
caught committing the robberies.
Fire, driven by a 70-mile gale, on
the 18th, destroyed the great Rock
ingham hotel, Sherry's beautiful and
Casino, the Hazard block, the
of Pythias hall and a score
of smaller buildings at Narragansett
Pier, R. l., entailing loss of $3.50, 900.
France and Russia have officially
notified the United States that they
are agreed upon the advisability of
their legations and
troops to Tien-Tsin. The time and
manner of withdrawal will be left to
their representatives in the Chinese
capital.
The New York Democratic state
in session at Saratoga, on
he 18th, nominaed John b. Stanch-
ield for governor on the first ballot,
nd William F. Mackey for lieutenant
overnor, together with full state
icket.