Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1902-12-12
DOings of a Busy World Told in
Terse Paragraphs.
CONDENSED NEWS
Happenings of Interest Over
Land and Sea = Personal
and General.

An epidemic of grip prevails
throughout Great Britain and Ire
land.
Paris has been seriously affected
by the sensational fall in Spanish Sc
curites.
"Pittsburg Phil" the plunger,
won 5000, 600, on the races the past
season.
As result of the cold snap coal is
again selling at famine prices in
New York.
King Alfonso of Spain has charged
Senior Silvela to form a new Con
servative Cabinet.
Jean De Rydzewski, the Russian
who shot Mrs. Ellen Gore in Paris,
will be prosecuted.
William c. Whitney and New
York syndicate will attempt to get
control of the lighting industries of
Paris.
1t is believed the warning sugar
factions. have settled their differ
ences and that the sugar war is
over.
Lieut.. Keglevicth declares his in
tention to rescue his wife, Princess
Louise of Coburg from the Linden
hof Asylum. near Dresden.
The anthracite coal trust will be
capitalized at s4OO, 900, 900. and Mr..
Morgan is prepared to buy out in
dependent concerns for $145, 900, 900.
Citizens of Waukegan, ILL.,, unable
TO find the mayor or the judge, en-
joined street railway company
from building track by turning
the hose on the laborers.
The Norwegian steamship Kitty,
fruit-laden for Mobile, Ala. has been
wrecked off Rancador reef. All on
board were saved.
Mrs. Stella Lawrence, a bride of
three weeks, at Eureka Springs,
Ark, took a fatal draught of car
bolic acid by mistake a few DAYS
ago.
Colonel l.. Victor Baughman, says
German is the logical candidate of
the Democratic party for president
in 1904.
Germany and England have be-
gun common action in earnest
against Venezuela. The two fleets
will use the port of Laguayra as a
naval base.
A New York physician has dis
covered that tumors can be cured
by an injection of boiling water.
The miners have scored telling
points in the anthracite coal strike
investigation at Scranton, Pa. One
witness said be had received money
in wages only once in seventeen
years.
Englishmen are watching with
curiosity the evident attempts of
certain sections of the New York
press to find pretext for jingoism
in the Venezuelan situation.
The Prince of Wales mandate to
wake up England is even invading
the closely guarded preserves of
British agriculture. Minister Han
bury will adopt American methods.
Democratic ideas are making sure
way in the British Navy. Admiral
advocates opening the
gates for officers of every grade SO
that the humbIest sailor can aspire
to stand ON an adlniral's bridge.
No court will be held in Zapata
County. Texas, until the people
there guarantee horse feed for ami
mails of jurors and witnesses.
A large number of unskilled per-
sons are out of work in England and
municipal bodies will hold meetings
and discuss relief plans.
Rev. Joseph Jones, brother of
Rev. Sam Jones, the well known
evangelist, died suddenly the night
Of Dec. A, at his brothers residence
in Gainesville, Ga. The deceased
had himself considerable reputa-
ton as an evangelist. He was 56I
years old.
The House passed the pension ap-
bill, carrying $40, 900.
900, without word of debate.
San Antonio, Tex. is to have q
$50, 900 fruit and vegetable cannery.
Americans are buying hundreds
Of thoroughbred cattle in England.