The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1907-04-27
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will give $5o,ooo,ooo for the education
of the Chinese
The saith annual convention of the
National Order of Bnai Birth was
held in Memphis this week.
Nine negroes IN New Orleans will
be used by the State Board of Health
of Louisiana to test the purity Of
molasses
Secretary Taft and party arrived at
Washington Monday night after a
months absence in Cuba, Porto Rico
and Panama
The general board Of education of
the Southern Methodist Episcopal
church met in St Louis Monday for
two days session.
Eight hundred men employed at
the Larimer, Pa, coke ovens of the
United States Steel Corporation went
on a strike Monday
Cardinal Gibbons, in an interview
at New Orleans, has reiterated his
belief and satisfaction in the sepera-
ton of the Church and State.
Oklahoma Republicans will fight
the State constitution on account of
"obnoxious features It contains, and
will put no ticket in the field.
The Attorney General Of Kansas Is
to make the most determined effort
that has ever been made in that state
to enforce the prohibition law.
Severe volcanic eruptions continue
in the southern part of Chile. The
town Of Valdavia is covered with
ashes and overhung with clouds.
So severe is the famine in China
that famished refugees and the dogs
OF the streets fight over the supplies
that are split at the distributing de-
pots.
A dispatch from Toxic announces
that NJ. PAX Yong Wha, chief of the
Board Of Auditors of the Korean I'M
perial Household, was assassnated at
Seoul.
President Roosevelt is endeavorins
to capture the New York State Re
battle cry is My policies, but not
myself
Fifty-three men out OF a venire Of
100 summoned to try a murder case
in St Louis were excused for ex-
pressing their belief i'll the ''unWrit-
ten law
The wooden lumber barge Arcadia,
which LETT Manistee. Mich, April II,
is believed to have been lost in Lake
Michigan with her captain and thir-
teen others.
Prominent railroad officials in the
Memphis territory met with lumber
industry representatives the first of
the week TO adopt plans to relieve
the car shortage.
Congressman Burnett. Of Alabama,
does not share Secretary Taft's opti-
mism about Cuba and is confident
the islanders will never be able to
govern themselves.
A Philadelphia Quakeress, Miss
Anna f. Jeanes, has given a million
dollars for the blshment OF a
fund for the rudimentary education
of negroes in the South.
Beekmau Winthrop during the
last three years Governor of Porto
Rico. Tuesday took the oath Of of
flee in Washington as Assistant
Secretary of the Treasury.
Thousands Of discharged employ
es from the WoolWich arsenal parad- |
ed the streets Of London and sent a
committee to the House of Commons |
to state their grievances
The revival Of CIeveland's street /
railway 6ght was signalized Tuesday /
by the issuance Of ain injunction |
against Mayor Johnson and the For t
est City Railway officials
The Postmaster General has made /
an order forbidding p0stmasters to T
allow the department funds to be
used by banks as assets or to be min
gled wish the regular deposits
The Supreme Court OF the United |
States dismissed the appeal of Lord |
Frederick Seymour harrington, un
der sentence Of death al St Louis for
the murder OF James T. Mccain.
Coz Magoon has signed decree
granting amnesty to the members
of the armed forces ofiCuba who have
been found guilty of committing Of
lenses during the recent revolution
In the famine district OF China
dogs devour children and there is
nothing left to eat but the bark Of
trees and potato vines. In nearly
every house there is fever or small
pox.
In stirring address at the railroad
meeting held in Memphis Monday w
W. Finley, president Of the Southern
Railway made strong appeal for
fair play by the people in regard to
railways
There is a hitch in the peace nego-
tiations among the Central Ameri-
can Republics due to the fact that
Nicaragua wants to hold Honduras.
liable for damages inflicted during
the war
President Roosevelt will leave
Washington for his summer home at
Oyster Bay on June II. This is much
earlier than has been the practice of
the President to leave Washington
for the summer
The Rhode Island Republican
State Central Committee adopted re-
solutions indorsing Col Sam Pome-
roy Colt as the majority candidate of
the Republican party for the United ),
States senatorship.
According to Madrid newspaper |
the Spanish Ministry of Marine has |
received a cablegram from Cartagena
saying that the plague IS raging at
that port and that 500 persons have
been sent 10 hospitals.
BY a majority of at least two
thousand votes the citizens of Web t
ster county. Ky, decided against OPP
en- saloons in that county. A fairly tt
light vote was polled and the Ii +
luor-side was simply swamped.
Bourbon county. KY. is so overrurf :