Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1903-01-02
NEWS IN
MINIATURE
Doings of a Busy World Told in
Terse Paragraphs.
CONDENSED NEWS
Happenings of Interest Over
Land and Sea s. Personal
and General.

by an earthquake in Russian Asia.
Seven men were frozen to death
during the blizzard in Pennsylva-
MIA.
The Attorney General of Illinois
will investigate the Chicago Coal
Trust.
The Roumaniau Senate passed a
bill permitting the naturalization OF
Jews.
Mrs. Walter Legley and her twin
boys were burned to death at Cuero,
Texas.
Dolly Earl, a member of the
dMerry Widows" Company, sui
cided In Philadelphia.
The New York banks viii dis
burse about $3.50, 600, 600 in interest
and dividends on January 1st.
Eastern capitalists have purchased
e5, 900 acres of timber land in north
west Alabama for $4,000
. The almost universal wish in
London is to see the end of the
Venezuelan controversy.
Bank robbers at Union, Mo-, ter
rorized the town and secured $l5,-
600 from the safes vault.
The officers of the United States
training ship Hartford were re-
ceived in audience by the Pope at
Rome.
The British West Indian papers
are unanimously supporting the at
titude of Great Britain regarding
Venezuela.
William Dawson, plantation
owner OF Ware, Ala, was accident
ally shot and killed by one of his
tenants.
The Chilian Cabinet crisis has
been settled by an agreement that
all the Ministers shall remain at
their posts.
The remains of DR.. Temple, Arch
bishop of Canterbury, were inferred
in the cloister of Canterbury Cathe-
dral.
The German Government is disap-
pointed by President Roosevelt's
declination to be arbitrator in the
Venezuelan controversy.
A negro named Sanders killed a
woman at Hodges, S. c., after ac-
cepting her hospitality.
The coldest weather of the season
prevailed throughout the southern
states, freezing temperature being
reported as far south as Tampa. Fla.
Ice was plentiful along the coast.
The Rock Island Railroad will
spend $50, 90, 900 in extensions and
improvements in the west during
the coming year.
President Roosevelt's note on the
subject of Venezuelan arbitration
was presented to the Italian Foreign
Office at Rome by Ambassador
Meyer
Queen Alexandria entertained
the widows and orphans of the
British soldiers who were killed in
South Africa at a Christmas dinner
in London.
Twenty eight persons were killed
and thirty others injured in a col
lisiou between a passenger and a
reight train on the Grand Trunk
Railroad near London, Ontario.
"Public Regulation Of Railroads
was discussed by Interstate Com
merce Commissioner Charles A.
Prouty and Walker D. Hines at the
second day S session OF the American
Association at Philadelphia.
The Supreme Court of the United
States has certified to the Supreme
Court of Alabama that it has no ju-
risdiction in the appeal of Sanford
Jacoby, sentenced to twenty years
for assault upon Montgomery girl.
The Michigan Central Railroad
Company has entered suit against
the State of Michigan for $4,000. 900
damages for revoking its charter.
Washington.-Formal orders is
sued Monday by the navy depart
ment detailed Rear Admiral Glass
as commander-in-chief of the Pacific
station. He will succeed Rear Ad-
miral Casey, who has been placed
on waiting order.
1t is reported that the oil compa-
nies operating in the Beaumont oil
field are quietly effecting a combi-
nation t control prices and the pro-
duct of the wells.
Three men were killed and two
injured as result Of collision be-
tween passenger train and work
train on the Illinois Central Rail-
road in Kentucky.
Oliver Wideman, colored, and his
wife, were lynched at Troy, ). G.,
for the murder of w. X. Jay, a
farmer