Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1901-03-15
LATE WIRE FLASHES.
Cream of Late Specials in Condensed
Form.

The export duty on tobacco from
Cuba will be abolished after April 1.
The text of the ex-communication
of Count Tolstoi has been made pub
lie.
The Delaware Legislature adjourned
without electing United States SEN
ator.
The Colombian revolutionists are
employing tactics similar to the
Beers.
The Dressmakers' Protective Asso-
citation of America has been organized
in New York
The French training ship Duguay
Trouin has sailed from Santiago for
New Orleans.
Famine has decreased the popula-
tiou of the central provinces of India
by /, 10000
A fleet of sealing steamers has
sailed ON the annual hunt from st.
Johns, n T.
Baron Won Stumm Halberg, Con-
servative member of the German
Reichstag, is dead.
A crisis has arisen in far Eastern
affairs due to Russia's determination
to occupy Manchuria.
The Boer general, Botha, and his
forces will, it is expected, surrender
to General French.
Evelyn B. Baldwin expects to sail
on his polar expedition from Dundee,
Scotland, next June.
At Amsterdam, Queen Wilhelmina
christened new war vessel, naming
it "Hertzog Hendrix.
w. s. Fl. Stevenson.of Dallas is re-
ported to have been killed in duel
with pistols in Colorado.
Warrants will be issned for the ar
rest of the "slaveholding' planters
of Anderson county, s. @.
+. o. Matthiessen, director of the
American.Sugnr Refining company and
other corporations, died in Paris.
A e-inoh gun undergoing official
test at Fort Wadsworth, near New
York, burst No one was injured.
The British steamer Avlona was
wrecked at Bilbao, Spain. All on
board are thought to have perished.
Experiments with new process
somewhat similar to the Roentgen x
rays are being secretly conducted at
Berlin.
General Kitchener has granted the
Boer general, Botha, an armistice OF
seven DAYS pending negotiations for
surrender.
The Dutch have captured the
Achinese fortress at Pajarenbee, on
the Pedir river. Seventy seven rebels
were killed.
The deadlock in the Montana Leg
islature was broken, and Hon. Paris
Gibson, democrat, was elected United
States senator.
A former member of the Astor Bat
terry is reported to have discovered a
gold mine on the Island Of Mindanao,
in the Philippines.
The Philippines Commission has
provided an additional 81, 600, 600
Mexican currency for the improve
ments of Manila harbor.
The new Pacific mail steamer Ko-
rea. the largest vessel ever built IN
the United States, will be launched
at Newport News, March 23.
The condition of ex-President Har-
rison, who is i'll at Indianapolis, is
causing alarm among his closest
friends.
The Manila Board of Health has
announced that ON an estima ted pop
ulation of 800, 900 for the city of Ma
nila the annual death rate is "a per
thousand.
Forty Filipino officers aud 200 men
have surrendered to United States
troops. 1t is feared that the strikes
at Marseilles may become a real po-
litical danger.
1t is reported in London that, early
in April, J. Pierpont Morgan will
meet representative of leading CON-
meroial syndicates in Berlin to ar
range terms of combination between
German and American trusts.
1t is said that Lord Pauncefote will
shortly submit proposals for the re-
vival Of the Hay-Pauncefote treaty
and for harmonizing the points OF
difference between the United States
senate and the British government.
J. 7. Jones, of Buffalo, president
of the Gulf and Ship Island Railroad,