Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1903-05-15
NEWS OF THE DAY
TERSELY RELATED.
Doings of Great Busy World Told
in Terss Paragraphs.
WAVES FROM THE MAGIC WIRES
Condensed and Served While Hot To
Our Readers in Labor Saving Slices.--.
Cream OF Late Dispatches From The
Pour Quarters of the Globe.

Mr.. Witte. Finance Minister OF
Russia, has resigned.
subscriptions to the TransvaaI
loan have closed in London.
King Edwards prestige at home
has been strengthened by his trip
abroad.
A mosque at Kinpriul. Turkey,
was blown up with dynamite by
Macedonians.
Russian troops have been with
drawn from New-Chwang, Man.
churia.
A number of Christians and Turks
were killed during the recent riot
at Monastir.
Cardinal Vaugan's condition is SO
serious that he has received the last
sacrament.
China is giving way before Rus
sian pressure. The weakness OF the
Chinese foreign Office excites pity.
In letter over his signature Mr..
Cleveland says he is not desirous OF
the presidential nomination.
Chief of PoLics Sylvester of Wash
ington, will attend the Convention
of Police Chiefs at New Orleans.
Thirteen christians were killed
and nineteen wounded iE the dis
turbance at Monastir.
II Colombi fails to ratify the ca
Eal treaty Panama will seek annex
alton to the United States.
The Lamorie dam in Rapides par
ish, La, has beer destroyed by ex-
plosives, presumably by persons
living about the dyke.
The conductors and trainmen en-
ployed by the Mobile and Ohio Rail-
road went out on a strike for an in
crease in wages.
The Duke of Devorshire, in
speech in London, severely criti-
cised Andrew. Carnegie's profit
sharing plan.
Rear Admiral Cotton has been in
structed tC take the United States
European squadron, now at Vile
francte, tc KieI.
The Pekin correspondent OF the
Associated Press says that the
alarming stories eminating from cer-
tain quarters to the effect that
massacre OF foreigners by Chinese
is content plated are untrue.
The German Government regards
the Turku-Bulgaria situation as
being grave, but responsible Off
cials say that il collision can be
STAYED off through the summer more
sober counsels can get hearing in
the winter when military action is
impossible.
The opinion prevails ! London
that an 4 Anglo-J Japanese American
combination is the only thing that
will prevent the dismem berment of
| tbo Celestial EroDirp
The Pope through Mgr. Bisleti,
the Master of the Chamb Der. has for
warded to the Rev. Francis ]. Van
Antwerp, of Detroit. Mica, an au-
tograph letter addressed to Presi-
dert Roosevelt, thanking him for
bis jubilee present.
The Shreveport and Red River
Valley Railroad has been reorgan-
lied under the name of the Louis
lana Railway and Navigation Com
pany, with capital stock of $12.-
10000 The line will be immedi-
ately extended to New Orleans.
A resolution was introduced in
the Southern Baptist Convention at
Savannah. Ca, by George Hilly, OF
Atlanta, Ga, to change the name of
the body to the Baptist Convention
of the United States. Under the
rules the resolution will be acted
upon next year.
The State Depar tIrent has re-
ceived from Minister Conger coE-
firmation of the dispatches to the
Associated Press from Pekin that
the Russians re-entered New Chwang
and then retired.
Great interest is manifested in
the coming republican convention
in Ohio. A bitter fight IS promised
, between the Hanna and Foraker
: factions over resolution iEdorsing
president Roosevelt for renomina-
, tioE.
, Admiral Walker has just return &c
from the Isthmus OF Panama, and
( reports that he found no serious op
position to the Panama canal treaty
L. &. Foster. Of Boston, has beeI
offered the presidency OF the New
: Orleans Railways Company. Mr.
Foster is one OF the most remark
able street railway men iE the coun
: : try, having started as a conductor
: and has never had a strike or an
labor trouble. and is popular i
Boston.
A charter has been taken out q
= rhwovonorf for thn ouiciana Raj