The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1900-07-28
TOPICS CT THE DAY.
NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

- three days. More than two hundr,
go, singers, representatives of a score
~. societies. were present.
:, Gold shipments on the La Bretagn
which sailed from New York, fC
HavIe, on the 10Th, amounted to So
m 209,500, all bars.
he The Missouri Pacific Railway Co., o
n the 10Th, filed with Secretary of Stat
NJ Lesueur, at Jefferson City, Mo-,
40 statement of increase of stock fror
S55.000,O00 TO $7O,000,000. The fee pai
was $500.
IN The commission for Gen. Adna r
II Chatfee as major-general of volunteer
a was prepared at the war department
= on the 10Th, and sent to the Whit,
y House for the presidents signature
Notification of his promotion, together
with special instructions, will be cableG
: to Nagasaki, Japan, so as to meet Gen
( Chatfee or his arrival there.
The selection of w. w. Rockbiu Ia
e be the governments special agent in
China was announced at the cabinet
meeting on the 10Th. The appointment
Of such an agent was suggested by the
, president. Mr.. Rockhill, though a
: democrat, was selected because of his
eminent fitness for the task. He is
not only an orientalist, but diplomat
The United States transport Rawlins
arrived at Santiago, Cuba, from
Maianzas, on the 10Th, with battalion
of the Tenth infantry, Capt. Murphy.
commanding, on board. This bat
TALON went to relieve the Fifth in
fantry, garrisoning the Moro. The
Fifth will embark for New York.
As the ri sult of conferences in Wash
mgton, it has been decided to reduce
the strength of the army in the Phil
ippines to 10000 men, which number.
it is estimated, it will be necessary to
maintain on the islands for year
longer.
Following the conferences with Gcv.-
Gen. Wood, it is given out as the pur-
pose of the administration to establish
an independe mt civil government in
Cuba at the earliest practicable mo-
ment. constitutional convention
will be soon sailed and the way paved
for the change.
Gov. Aliens report to the president |
on conditions in Porto Rico was very
encouraging. 1t showed that the new |
government is gradually fulfilling its
various functions and that the people
seem entirely satisfied. The governor
is highly pleased with the adaptability
shown by the Porto Rican appointees
to Office.
The Washington idea of sending Mr..
Rockhill to China" says the London
Standard, editorially, sis I'M excellent
one, and might advantagec usly be imi-
tated by the British and ether govern
nnen1s."
The long wooden building known as
in the Charlestown (Mass.0
navy yard, was burned at midnight of
the 10Th, together with its contents,
which comprised more than 100 ships
cutters, barges and launches, many
nmsts in various stages of completion,
a quantity of hard pine lumber and
patterns, entailing "a loss of fully $780,
600.
1t is learned from an official source
that Cardinal Francis Satolli, first pa
l'al delegate to this country, 1S93-97,
has been appointed project of this prop
uganda by Pope Leo XIII. This news 7
came direct, on the 10Th, from Rome,
where Mgr. Satolli has resided since
leaving Washington three years ago.
Secretary Long telegraphed to Ad- e
niral Remey, on the Goth: "Conger tel
agraphs that he is under fire at the C
British legation, Pekin. Use and urge :
Every means possible for immediate I
'elief." c
Victoria crosses were, on the goth, f
gazetted in London for Capt. Meikle- s.
Ohm and Sergeant-Major Robertson,
10Th of the Gordon Highlanders, for a
bravery in the battle of Elandslaagte; e
md Lieut.. Norwood, of the Fifth dra- h
,oon guards, for rescuing a fallen r
ROPER at Ladysmith. n
Miss Jessie Morrison, whose prelimi- :;
ary trial for the murder of Mrs. Olin n
'astle, had been in progress at FL :,
orado, Kas., for several days, was, on =,
he 20th, held without bail to answer
ne charge of murder in the first de-
rec. just before the young prisoner =,
vas taken back to Jail she embraced
er father, and both wept bitterly. The
Gene was most pathetic, and there ..
'ere few dry eyes in the court room. y
Under instructions from Gov.-Gen. ~
Wood, the First United States infantry =:
egiment, stationed at Pinar del Rio "
ity and Guanajay, is preparing for T.
eparture from Cuba. A troop of the ~
eventh cavalry will be stationed at oN
uanajay. mt
r. G. Run & Co.'s Weekly Review, is ga
led on the 21st, said: Failures for ~
Ist week have been 231 in the United OF
tates, against 145 last year, and 81 in fr
anada, against 90 last year. ne
a forest fire, extending over a terri We
'ry of 25 square miles, and which tic
lreatened with destruction nearly a al
'ore Of towns in the vicinity of Patch by
Ne, Mass, was the result of a blaze WI
arted, on the 10Th, by berry pickers.
The Chinese who attacked the Rus
an town of BlagovestcheDsk concen- De
ated on the right bank of the Amur.
hey were severely routed at the vii
&c of Sakhalin, which was burned by rec
lie shell fire of the Russians. The Rus Lo
ans captured II guns and killed 1000
the Chinese. The Russian loss was Il
str
1t has been decided to raise 100000 mi
memorial to Rear Admiral John att
=. Philip. Naval Constructor Bcwles POI
the Brooklyn navy yard, and Com eve
ander d. Delehanty, governor of Sail me
s. Snug Harb0r are in charUa of Al, | fro