The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1907-09-07
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The Ohio STATE Fair at Columbus
was formally opened Monday Gov.
Harris delivered an address.
S. ]. Mcdonnell. special agent OF
the Southern railway at Columbus.
shot and killed a negro Tuesday
nioft, who was found III an open car.
! The Teachers Institute of Mar
shall county met at Holly Springs
this week, with noted state profess
sors in charge as instructors.
The National Irrigation Congress
began its fifth annual session Mon
day at Sacramento. Cal. Vice Presi-
dert Fairbanks delivered an address.
The postoffce clerks opened
their nationale convention Monday at
Peoria. Ill More than 500 delegates
are in attendance
The burial of Richard Mansfield
took place Monday at cemetery
near Seven Oaks, his summer home
in Connecticut
A cablegram from Toxic says: 'sNo
protest has yer been received from
the Chinese government in regard to
Japan's occupancy Of Kantao IN be-
half of Korea.
James r. Keene is gioted as say
ing that despite fact that his horses
have earned Sa5o,ooo this season. he
has not made money by his racing
ventures
The Haviland porcelain works at
Limoges, France, are partially af-
fected by strike of 5000 workmen
which threatens to involve $4,000
men
Burning Day" will be inauguratcd
at Gulfport for 5he purpose OF clear
ing the Gulf Coast front of the city
of all the wreckage of wharfs and
bath houses tfat line the water frocs.
President Caceres has issued call
for an extraordinary session of the
Dominican Congress September 10,
to deal with the latest proposition
for the contract for a $4,000. 900 loan
from a New York banking firm.
The Black Hundreds have started
another reign of terror at Odessa.
An artillery officer and four police
men were killed Sunday by a bomb
Subsequently several people were
killed in street riots.
Elliott Shepard, of New York,
while speeding over the fifth circuit
in the a1torndbile race at Brescia,
Italy, Monday, plunged into the
river at Monte Chiari, breaking his
collar bone.
News Of serious unrest in the
province of Corrientes, Argentenia.
aas reached Beunos Ayers. Armed
bands have appeared on the frontier
and a revolution is said to be inn
minert
1t is reported in Toxic that the
new Anglo-Russian agreement di-
vides Persia into two sections, but
the respective spheres of influence
of the two nations remain unchang-
ed
Roswell P. Sfafer. a prisoner in
the Ohio lpententiary at Columbus,
sent up for manslaughter. commit
ted suicide by winding sheet
around his neck and strangling him
sell
THE condition of the Little j..
railroad, branch of the Y. & NJ. ",
running from Jackson to Natchez,
has stirred up much indignation
among the people Of the town along
the line.
The planters of the south and
southwest portions of the state held
a sround-1rp institute" at Starkville
this week Prominent agriculturists
! from many States attended the meet
ing and gave the attendants the bcne-
fit Of their researches and thought
The Mobile and Ohio, the Sea-
board Air Line. the Southern, the
Frisco system. the Chattanooga
Southern, the Alabama Great South
ern and the Atlanta. Birmingham
and Atlantic railroads put the two
and one-half cent passenger rate and
the commodity rate into effect IN
Alabama last Monday.
| The Kinds county grand jairy will
probe the theft of the several sec
tions of the code chapter on the SUI
| pervision of common carriers which
were lost or stolen during the dying
| hours of the last legislature A sus-
| pic1on exists, against a certain party
who is believed to be responsible for
| the loss OF the sections.
William R. Hurst and Samuel Com
pers were the principal speakers at
/ the labor day celebration at the
| Jamestown Exposition. Mr.. Hearst
declared that there sf1ould be an ap-
probation Of the different parts that
capital and labor play in the indus
trial world between both sides and
said that the troubles In. Colorado
were disgrace to the country
The hack drivers of Hattiesburg
which is a dry town, are giving the
city much worry over their eonni-
vance with the blind tigers, according
to the Hattiesburg Daily Progress.
This paper claims that these negro
drivers take the strangers to the
blind tiger joints, and hide the illicit
goods. etc, and declares that the
only solution 10 the problem is the
extension Of the street railways 50
that all the street traffic will not
have to be done by the hacks