The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1904-07-09

Among the kilograms OF congrat-
ulation received by President koose-
velt upon his nomination, was one
from Mrs. Mark Hanna.
According to an official report
1851 persons lost their lives IN the
destruction of the steamer General
Slocum, which burned near New
York city several weeks ago.
The method of teaching geogra-
ply and the shipping routes OF
steamers plying between Philippine
ports and various cities of the world
is one of the unique displays in the
educational building of the Philip
pine section at the st. Louis EXPOSE
ton
Will Hammond and G. P. Cole
we're instantly killed and Chas. Ze-
lev and Joseph Besser badly In
iured in a street fight at Leaven-
worth, Kan. The fight was the re-
suit of an attempt to place Cole,
deserter from the army, under
arrest.
jim Potts and George Watkins
were found at the Katy stock yards
in Windsor, Mo-, the former dead
and the latter in a dying condition.
The men had fought terrible bat
tie. wounds on their scalps showing
that they had butted each other I'M
til there was no skin on their era
NUNS.
The numerous defeats for the
Russians has caused the Manchurl-
ans and the bandits to openly favor
the japanese. Large bands of rob
bers are giving the Russian out
posts much trouble northeast OF
New Chwang. The japanese, it is
said. have supplied the robbers with
1000 modern rifles and much am
munition.
Sterling Durham, a negro, was
hanged by mob in the public
square at Eupora, Miss. Durham
had assaulted three little girls on
different occasions. His last VIC
tim placed the moose about his neck
and after the rope had been made
fast to the limb of tree led from
under him the horse on which ne
was seated.
Henry Bragg of Wabash, Ind
who was sent to Jail for refusing to
pay a dog license, has appealed to
the British consul at Chicago to
make his case an international at
fair because he is a British subject
About the only consolation Bragg
can get is lot of free advertising
and ridicule for being chump OF
the rankest type.
Crazed from fear of starvation
and with her husband hopelessly In
sane in the asylum, Mrs. Anna
Kelsdzick of Chicago gave up the
struggle for existence, killing hel
three small children and then end
ing her own life. Illuminating ga
was the means of destruction sh
adopted, and when the bodies wer
found all four had been dead sew
eral hours.
While Joseph Folk received tn
democratic nomination for govern
or of Missouri, as per instruction
of the voters, the convention wa
controlled by the Stone-Cook-Allen
Dockery element, who dictated tn
platform and selected the followln
delegates at large to the nationa
convention: Senator Stone, Coy
Dockery, Congressman Cham
Clark and Congressman DeArmont
Because Mrs. J. W. Fix, wife c
farmer of Wileyville, W. Va, re
fused to cook him a breakfast, a
unknown tramp blew off the top c
her head with a shotgun. The ma
appeared at the Fix house just a
ter the farmer had finished breal
fast and asked for something to ca
He was offered cold meat, brea
and butter, but refused that, an
Ion the refusal of Mrss Fix to pr
pare a meal he pushed by he
seized a shotgun and shot her hea
almost from the shoulders.
Fortv-three fremen were owe
come by smoke and gas in the celia
of a building in New York cit
The men were rescued with diff
Guilty. and four of them could HI
be revived.
The president has denied the a
plication for pardon of Charles
Cole. convicted in Boston of misa
plving funds of the Globe Nation
Bank, and sentenced May IA, 1870
to Imprisonment for eight years
the jail at Greenfield, Mass
1t is reported that a number
Colorado miners held in bullpe
and later deported have been driv'
insane from i'll treatment, and VIC
nv over being separated from the
families.