The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1901-12-28
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
NEWS FROM EvERYWHERR


ing q serious grievance.
Henry j. Lenderink, secretary Of
the United States legation in Santiago
\ de Chile. has resigned the poEition
and win soon leave for home.
4 The current issue of 6impiissimus
the comic paper, was coniscated, on
the 10th, at Breslau, for an offensive
cartoon directed against Emperor
william.
Secretary of State Hay, in . letter
to Superintendent of State Prisons
Collins, at Albany, N. Y, declined the
invitation to designate an Official rep
resentative of the government to be
present at the electrocution of Cool
gosz, the murderer of President Nc
| Kinley.
Augusta de Forest, the well-l1nown
actress who played leading roles with
Alexander Salvini, John Mccullough
and Edwin Booth, died, ON the goth,
at her home in New York.
Yale university began, on the goth,
the celebration of the twentieth an
niversary of the founding, at New
Haven, Conn.,, Of Yale college. The
bicentennial Of the great institution
of learning was ushered in with cere-
monies essentially religious.
The doctors of Vienna are puzzled
over the case Of young man, 90
years old, who has just died after six
months of painful illness, which
proved to have been caused by swal-
lowing bluebottles' eggs which
Matched in his intestines and COM
pletely riddled them.
The shortage in cotton at Liverpool
is becoming serious. There are only
a few cargoes on the way. 1t is al
most inevitable that part of the
machinery will be stopped, and that
there will be repetition of the fam
inc of year ago.
Fire, on the 20th, destroyed the
leather goods factory of Heating.
Smith & Shoemaker, in Chicago, caus-
ing loss of 100000. While clinging
to the top rung of high ladder and
fighting the blaze five firemen were
thrown to the ground and severely
injured.
The American hog has . European
rival. Denmark has come into the
field az a producer and exporter of
hogs and hog products, with growth
at least interesting, if not suggestive
to American producers of a COM
modify whose export value grew
from $s4,sOS,69S in 1891 to $119,061,-
sos in 1901.
Commander-in-Chief Torrance Of
the Grand Army of the Republic has
named Gen. Henry M. Dufield, of De-
troit, Mich, as Judge advocate general
and Maj. A. Noel Brakeman, of Mount
Vernon, N. Y, as chief of staff.
To crown a romance begun In Ger
many more than half century ago,
Meyer Selig of No. 500 East Sixth
street, New York, who is so years old,
married, on the Goth, Mrs. Rosa
Reichman, of Newark, who is 70 years
old and grandmother.
The state department has been i'm
formed by United States Consul Cald-
well, at San Jose, that new duties ON
boots and shoes imported into Costa
RIGA have been imposed. which are
much in excess of any heretofore in
force and are practically prohibitive.
The American line steamer st.
Louis, which sails from Southampton
for New York, on the 26th, will have
among her passengers Mr.. and Mrs.
Andrew Carnegie and Lord Paunce-
fote, the British ambassador to the
United States, and Lady Pauncefote.
Two of the leading banks of Bos-
ton, the Shoe and Leather national
and the National Bank OF Redemption,
each with capital of $1,000, 900, have
decided to consolidate. The National
Bank of Redemption win absorb the
Shoe and Leather bank.
Secretary Gage, having formally ac-
cepted his election az treasurer of the
William Mckinley National Memorial
Arch association, appeared at the
meeting of the executive committee,
on the goth, and took an active part
in its proceedings.
Capt. Richard p. Leary, former gov
ernor of Guam, has been detached |
from command of the receiving ship |
Richmond and ordered home on three |
sick leave.
A number of deserters from Span |
ish dragon regiment have reported |
themselves to the gendarmes at Per- |
pignan, France. The soldiers say they |
deserted on account of incessant ILL |
treatment. They refused to return to |
Spain.
The differences between the en-
ployes and proprietors of the Mac
beth-Eyans lamp chimney factory at
Elwood, Ind, have been settled to tho |
of all and the plant re-
sumed in all departments on the 21st. |
The French mail boat LIE Nord, ON
her arrival at Dover, England, on the
21st, reported that ten of her engine
hands had been seriously injured,
some Of them fatally, by an explosion.
The passengers were safely landed.
A fatal ARRAY took place, ON the
e1st, during the municipal elections
1t Lingitizzeta, Corsica, between po-
itical factions. Three men were killed |
with daggers and six were fatally
wounded.
Commencing January 1, the Ham
ourg-American Packet Co. will extend
Is service from Hong Kong to
Manager Schladerer of the Credit
Bank of Oedenburg, Hungary. whose
extensive defalcations caused the fall
ire of that institution, made con-
iession to his wife, who handed him
PISTOL and advised him to kill himself,
which be did.
A double killing near SalersviIle,