The Grenada sentinel., 1888-11-24

J. w. BUCHANAN, Manager & Proprietor
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Cs.yilsA from Varies. sssrssA
THE President and Mrs. Cleveland have
accepted an invitation from Secretary
and Mrs. Whitney to be their guests for
week after the 4th of March.
IT was reported on the 18th, that Pres
ident Cleveland is about to offer his Oak
View villa for sale. He expects to realize
200 per cent on his Investment
The Washington aqueduct investiga-
ton has unearthsd a thoroughly or
ganized conspiracy to deceive the in
spectors and defraud the Government
EMPEROR WILLIAM escorted his mother,
the Empress Frederick, and her daughters
to the railway station, on the 18th, where
they took the train en- route to England
WEAKNESS resulting from exertion
during the campaign led Mr. Blaine to
decline the invitation to the banquet of
the Boston Home Market Club on the
18th.
THE castle Of Libenwerda, near Halle,
Saxony, was burned to the ground on
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child and two servants perished in the
flames.
IN fourteen furnaces employing 1,4W
men, at Sharon, Pa, the wages OF en-
ployes were voluntarily advanced by the
owners, on the 18th, ten and fifteen cents
per day.
Mrs. BENJAMIN HARRISON has replied
to all the telegrams and letters of con-
gratulations she has received on her hus-
bands election by dainty letters in her
own hand.
SoLoN G. JENKINS, of Walliugford,
Conn, shot and killed Stephen Anthony,
his father-in-law, aged sixty on the 18th,
and then attempted suicide, shooting off
his right ear.
AT q meeting of the American Ornitho-
logical Union at the National Museum in
Washington, on the 18th, papers by DR..
Merriam, Dr.. shufeldt aud Mr.. Whitmer
Stone were read
DEMOCRATS concede the election of J.
H. McGinnts, Republican, to Congress
from the Third Virginia district, hereto
fore known as the "Gibraltar of Democ-
racT" in that State.
THE Czar of Russia has ordered Zichy,
the court artist to paint large picture
representing the recent railway disas ter
at Borki, where the imperial family mar
rowly escaped destruction.
THE French Government works at
Chatellerault for the manufacture Of
small arms were destroyed by fire on the
18th. This will cause suspension in the
manufacture of the Lebel rifle, the new
French arm.
FIFTEEN HUNDRED guests partook of
the banquet given by the Home Market
Club of Boston, on the 18th, in celehra-
ton of the Republican National victory,
which the club contributed SO much to
bring about
UNITED STATES Treasurer Hyatts re-
port on the sinking fund of the District of
Columbia, made public on the 18th, shows
that the principal Of the District debt has
been reduced from S24 Q92, 40, in 1873, to
$40, 5S1, 40 July l, 1888.
MARY ANDERSON, who appeared for the
first time since her return to America at
Palmer's Theater, New York, on the 18th,
received very warm welcome at the
hands of her old friends, who filed the
theater to overfOwiug.
MINISTER PHELPS, speaking before the
Judicial Society of Glasgow, Scotland,
on the 18th, praised the effective manner
in which the laws were executed in Great
Britain, but thought legal proceedings
were far too expensive.
H. P. CHEATHAM, Republican candidate
for Congress in the Second North Caro-
lima district, telegraphed, on the 18th, that
the official count gives him GIL majority
over Mr.. Simmons, Dem, who at present
represents the district
THE Producers Protective Association,
which was organized at Bradford, Pa,
one year ago to curtail the output Of
crude petroleum, will, on the last Of the
present month, wind up its affairs and
dissolve the association.
THE Supreme Court of the United
States decided, on the 18th, that the pro-
ceeds of life insurance policy can not,
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