Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1901-02-01

LATE WIRE FLASHES
Cream of the Telegrsphic
News for Our Readers.
GLEANINGS OF INTEREST.
Happenings Of General Interest on Land
and Ssa-Crimss asd Casualties
Briefly Noted.

on socialism
Herr Zelle, former mayor of Ber-
lin, is dead.
Ex-Oongressman Wi lliam E. Finck
is d BAD at Somerst, o.
Sam Williams, negro, was legally
hanged at Mansfield, La.
Fire at Rogus, Texas, destroyed
property valued at $25, 900.
A call for militia has been made to
suppress the Indian troubles.
The wheat crop of Argentine and
Uruguay is in bad condition.
The dimensions of the Lawson cup
defender have been made pub blic.
The Josiah Morris Bank at Mont
gcmery, has temporarily suspended.
One Of the students at the Univer-
sity at Austin, Texas, has smallpox.
1t is reported that oil has been
struck twenty-five miles south of La
parra Tex.
Two men were killed and eight
were injured in an explosion in Walk
ersville, Mich.
The postoffice safe at Bolivar, Tenn,
was blown open and all the money
and stamps stolen.
The Federal party in the Philippine
Islands has petitioned for the passage
Of the Spooner bill.
President Mckinley has been in
vted to attend the Knights Templar
conclave to be held at louisville in
August.
Gage and Alonzo Gill, charged with
the murder of Avery r. Draughton al
Tangipahoa, October Z, 1899, were ac-
quilted.
1t is estimated in New York that
tho insurance on the life of the
Queen aggregated between 81, 900, 0oC
and IS, 900, 0Oo'
The house adopted the conference
report upon the army reorganization
bill. The naval appropriation bill was
finally passed.
The cruiser Lancaster sailed from
st. Vincent, W. l., for La Guayra.
The gunboat Scorpion arrived at Gu.
racoa from La Guayra.
More robberies have been dis
covered at the Vatican, a number OF
art treasures of great value having
been made away with.
General Russell A. AlgeT has been
awarded verdict for s201, Ui4. OF
against T. B. Anderson ct al. in the
Tennessee mine sailing case.
The resolution providing for the
holding of state constitutional con-
vention in September has been favor
ably reported to the Texas senate.
The first section of the Cuban con.
stitution, constituting Cuba a sover-
eign and independent state, was
adopted by the Havana convention.
An attempt was made to assassi.
nate the Queen Regent of Spain
while she and her children were
boating in the royal park near Mad.
rid.
J.Loutfian, a ward of the Sutton OF
Turkey, was hazed by his six fellow
students of the Medico- -Chirurgical
College, Phila delphia, who shaved of
his moustache.
In a head-end collision between
two freight trains at Dimit S tatiop
on the Midland road, in Alabama, re-
suited in the death of the fireman,
the engineer and brakeman.
The Porto Ricans who passed
through New Orleans recently for
Hawaii started mutiny on an island
near Honolulu becaus e of delay in
feeding them.
The stockholders of the Illinois
Central railroad have increased the
capital stock of that road So, 900, 600,
to s66, 900, 900. A large portion of
this will be expended on improve
ments in New Orleans.
The preparations for the Queens
funeral are assuming definite form.
The procession will probably traverse
London from Victoria Station TO Pad
dington Station, whence the funeral |
will depart for Windsor. The King
and Emperor William will ride ON
horseback at the head Of the process
sion.