The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1901-09-14
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
NEWS PROM EVERYWHERE
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.


most completely demolished, part OF
the money chest being blown through
the outer wall of the Sunbury res
taurant, rs feet distant. The robbers
took all the money and notes, and
left without leaving q clew.
Fire, which broke out in the Mer-
chants hotel at Madison, Mimi, ON
the ed, destroyed the town hall and
IS business buildings, entailing loss
estimated at $4,000.
DIR. Rixey said, on the ED, that
there had been no material change in
the condition of Mrs. Mckinley, and
that she was doing as well as could
be expected. Drives are being taken
daily.
While handling loaded shotgun.
on the ed, the nine-year-old son of
John Adler, of Marshfeld, Wis, ac-
cidentally discharged the weapon, the
load squarely hitting his 11-year-old
sister, who was standing near. The
shot entered the child's head and
neck, terribly mangling the features.
A Manila dispatch of the 22d said
that Gen. Fred Funston, who had
been in the hospital for about week,
suffering from appendicitis, had I'M
dergone a successful operation and
was improving.
Boer raiders are reported to be
oyerrunning Cape Colony. They are
said to be on both the lines and with
in 40 miles of Cape Town. Many CO.
lonial rebels have taken up arms.
President Roosevelt sharply re-
buked boy with a camera who en-
deavored to get snapshot of the
president as he left Grace church, on
the Goth, telling the boy he ought to
be ashamed of himself for trying to
take mans picture leaving the
house of worship.
The chemical and archaeological
examination of the remaining bullets
and pistol show that the missiles used
by Czolgosz, the assassin of President
Mckinley were not poisoned, as had
been suggested.
A Havana dispatch says that with
in few days Senior Tomas Estrada
Palma will be proclaimed a candidate
for the presidency of the Cuban re-
public, with the Endorsement of all
the political parties.
President Roosevelt has made it
quite clear that he intends to have no
guards on his daily coming and going
from the White House. He has be-
gun the practice of walking about the
city as freely as any other citizen of
the capital, and it is believed he will
continue it.
Broom corn is on the boom. brush
that recently sold at Arcola, ILL.,, free
ly at sos and 500 brings $3.50, and
hundreds of farmers refuse to sell
even at that figure. There short
age of fully so per cent, owing to the
drought.
Miss Helen Long, daughter of Sec
rotary of the Navy John D. Long, who
left Colorado Springs, Col, on the
a1st, for bingham, Mass, OH q visit
to her father, reached Denver in IA
SbdtC DOluCliHS OA COlld IJSCs uC
trip east may be abandoned.
Mrs. Roosevelt and family will take
up their residence at the Cowles |
house. on N street, Washington, prior
TO entering the White House. Their |
advent at the capital will be the sig |
nal for number of social events, all,
however, on a very quiet and in
formal order.
Richard Nevins, locating engineer
'or the Kansas & Southern railroad,
started at Emporia, Kas., on the 23d,
With gang of surveyors, to run di-
'ect route to Omaha, Neb., for that
'oad. This road was projected |
some time ago, and $4,000 in bonds
vas voted by Emporia city and Lyon
county.
The duke and duchess of Cornwall
md York spent the day of the 23d on
he Ottawa river and in the forest lin
ng its banks, and were given COM
,lete exposition of lumberman's life.
They shot the timber slides on RATS,
unched in lumberman's shanty,
md enjoyed days outing novel to
hem.
City Marshal Geo. C. Welsh of st.
dary's, Kas., was shot and perhaps ia
ally wounded, on the 23d, by Ed
nund Williams, whom he had arrest
d for a trivial offense. A lynching
vas threatened, and Williams was
tut in the county Jail and guard
'laced over him.
Judge Joseph W. Ady, aged IS years,
prominent attorney, formerly of
Newton, Kas., died in Colorado
springs, Col, on the 23d, of con-
By the collision of passenger and
freight train on the Grand Rapids
Indiana road, near Cadillac, Mich,
n the 23d, Engineer Fred Zimmerman
nd Brakeman Hiram Winthrop were
Tiled, and four others injured.
The nine anarchists who had been
nder arrest in Chicago since the as
assination of President Mckinley,
ot their freedom on the 23d. Judge
hetlain so ordering, after the prose-
ution had admitted that there was
o legal evidence against them.
President Roosevelt, on the 23d,
DolS up his official residence at the
White House, and the flag was raised
D full staff. The president occupied,
Or the first time, that night, the pres
lent's chamber. He was joined by
[rs. Roosevelt and family on the 25th.
Charles A. Hensel, a well-known
Dung Bureau county Qll) farmer.
as indicted by the grand jury, at
on the ed for the MUIR
pr of his wife, who was burned to
cath a month ago. Mrs. Hensel's
fe was insured for $4,000 three
eeks before her death.
It is understood. at the Hague. that