Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1901-05-17
WIRE FLASHES.
What is Going on in a Busy
Busting World.
CONDENSED ITEMS
The News in Miniature for Hur-
ried Readers---Crimes and
Casualties.

Chill is said to sbe fortifying the
Straits of Magellan.
The American Confederate Mu-
| sicians convened in Denver.
Four men were killed fy boiler
explosion at Mount Dallas, Pa.
The National Conference of Chari-
ties and Correction met in Washing
| ton.
The State Lumber Company's plant
At Mermentau, La, was destroyed by
| fire.
The Russian minister of finance
has authorized the issue Of loan of
424, 900, 900 francs
The steamer Erik has been char
tered by the Peary Arctic Club for
the cruise of 1901.
w. H. Brown of the University of
Mississippi, won the Gulf States
oratorical contest.
Machinists and blacksmiths at Kan
sas City are demanding shorter hours
and higher wages.
The largest shipments of coal ever
known from Pittsbnrg left that city
for the South.
DR.. Abraham of Leipsic has be-
| queathed 400, 900 marks to establish q
music library.
American soldiers now in Pekin
will remain until ordered from Wash
ington to leave.
The right of striking workmen to
"picket" shop was denied by the
courts in Chicago.
Samuel Bolton, Jr., q millionaire
brewer, was burnt to death in vat
of boiling beer at Troy, N. Y.
Mr.. Conger, the United States min
lister to China, and Mr.. WI, the Chi
nese minister to the United States,
exchanged visits in Washington.
| Unpleasant friction sprang up in
the Ohio party on the way to San
Francisco to witness the launchiny
of the Battleship Ohio.
The American Federation of Mu-
sioians, in session at Denver, decided
that local unions have no right to bar
| women from mem bership.
|
The third note of the Porte regard
ing the postal seizures was promptly
returned by Ambassador of the
powers.
The attack of William O'Briens pa.
per upon the character of King Ed
ward awakened intense interest
throughout Europe
Marked antag onisms have sprung
up between Spanish and American
Catholics regarding the disposition of
| church property in the Philippines.
Acting Governor Hunt of Porto
Rico implied that Bonda and Balbas
had been misrepresenting conditions
in their reports at Washington.
| At the Southern Baptist convention
in New Orleans, So. 527. 35 as SUBJ
scribed for the benefit of the Jack
sonville fire sufferers
James J. Hill, the railway mag
nate, with tears in his eyes, stated
that he had nothing whatever to do
with the Wall street panic.
Charles NJ Schwab, president of the
United States Steel Corporation, emu
merated the advantages of consolida-
tion.
The treasury department has i'm
posed an additional duty of 10 GEN.
taros per kilogram upon Argentine
sugar.
jackson Brothers, of the Oousoli
dated Exchange in New York, as
signed for the benefit of their cred
itors.
Foster Brothers, managers of the
New Amsterdam Hotel in New York,
filed a petition in bankruptcy, with |
liabilities of $64, 600 and no assets.
Congressman Latimer of South |
Carolina, stated that the McLaurin |
movement" was not indorsed by the |
people of South Carolina.
The annual meeting of the State |
Epworth League of Mississippi opened
at Jackson, Saturday.
The arrival at Thibodaux, La, of
the first train over the Texas and Pa
cifo Railway, was enthusiastically
celebrated.