Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1903-02-06
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fight shows any sign of yielding.
The salary of the governor of Ala
bama has been increased to $4,000.
British battleships, burning fuel
oil, have left Portsmouth for long
cruise.
M. Jusseraud, new French am
bassador, has arrived in New York.
The bill providing for general
staff for the army has passed the
senate.
Active prosecution of the Lincoln
county, Miss, white caps will be
begun soon.
The differences between the Ven
ezuelan allies is said to be more seri-
Gus than has been stated.
Mrs. Florence Maybrick will not
be released to testify in her suit in
this country.
A mass meeting of negroes at
Richmond has protested against the
speech of Hayes.
The Standard Oil Company is said
to be trying to purchase Gil lands in
the Mamou, La, district.
Director Roberts has ordered the
furlough of twenty-eight employees
of the New Orleans mint.
IL is asserted that the Grown
Prince of Saxonv will renounce his
succession to the throne.
Senator McLaurin, of South Caro-
lima, says the race issue was never
more dangerous than now.
The Standard Oil Company has
purchased the Guffey Petroleum
Company, at Bayonne, N. ].
Tive Americans have forced the
bloc kade at Puerto Capello for the
purpose of lighting with Venezuela.
Amendments proposed to the anti
trust bill make its provisions more
sweeping.
Senator Wellington has intro
duced a constitutional amendment
prohibiting the holding of fortunes
exceeding slO,OOO,O9O.
The complete organization of the
international Mercantile Marine
Company announced in New York.
Mr.. Nj. B. Trezevant has been ap
pointed chief of the Southern Pa
cific Literary Bureau, vice Henry
Mayo.
Negroes in the vicinity OF Nacog-
doches, Texas. are panic-strlcken
over the taking away OF one OF their
number by mob.
City Marshal Bow nan. of Punta
Gorda, Fla, has been assassinated
by an unknown party.
George Clough, the telegraph
operator who is said to be respon-
sible for the wreck on the Southern
Pacific Railroad near Walls, Ariz.,
has fed to Mexico.
Five men are believed to have
been lost by the sinking of an oyster
schooner off Thimble Light, Va.
Liverpool and Manchester, hith-
erto deadly rivals in trade, have
entered into a partnership in order
to bring about cotton growing with
in the British empire.
The Crown Princess of Saxony,
who eIoped with a French professor,
has been deprived of all her rights,
titles and dignities by the Saxon
court.
The Bankers Trust Company,
with a capital stock of 81 900. 600
and surplus of 100000, has been
organized in New York.
A call has been issued for the
Confederate Southern Memorial As
sociation to hold meeting in May,
during the reunion of. the United
Confederate Veterans, at New Or
leans.
Three hundred engineers and
firemen belonging to the Holland
railroads have joined the strike Of
the employees of the transportation
companies at Amsterdam.
The situation in the Balkans has
reached the threatening stage. The
French yellow book discloses the
fact that conditions are more war
like than ever before.
The Louisiana has been placed in
the Havana trade and the Excelsior
transferred to the New York line.
The Alabama house of representa-
tives has passed sweeping anti
cigarette bill.
| A number of sugar refiners in
vaded the hall Of the Austrian
reaichsrath at Vienna and attempt
ed to present their views, but sew
eral members of the horse objected
and riot followed.
Barney Kelley was given YER
dict at Houston. Texas, for $50, 900
against the Southern Pacific Rail-
road for personal injuries.
The Austrian Ieichsrath has rati'
fed the Brussels sugar convention.