The Grenada sentinel., 1888-11-24
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

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| The house of Mrs. Frances KnechtI O
| Plymouth, Pa, was burned on the 14th
Her two children persisted in the flames
| Upon learning of her loss the bereavet
| mother became a maniac.
UNITED STATES MINISTER PHELPS wa:
enthusiastically cheered at the banquet
given in his honor by the Glasgow (Scot-
land) corporation, on the 14th. In 70.
sponse to the toast to "The Guest Of the
Evening" he said that so long as Scotland
sent to America the kind of men she had
hitherto sent, the doors Of the country
would swing on their hinges to receive
them from Maine to California
The houses of the People's'Ice Com.
pany of Dedham, Mass, fell to the
ground, on the 14th, burying nearly q
dozen men in the ruins, all of whom sus-
tanned serious, and some perhaps fatal
injuries.
The first meeting of the Woman's Con-
gress in its sixth annual convention of
the Association for the Advancement of
Women, convened in Detroit, Mich, on
the 14th. The president Mrs. Julia
Ward Howe, delivered an address, in
which she called attention to the progress
made in recent years in woman's sphere
and the enlargement of her work.
The British Government, on the 10Th,
asked for vote of f5,000,00O for the pur-
pose of extending the Ashbourne act
A BAD accident occurred, on the 14th,
on the Baltimore 4 Ohio road ten miles
west of Grafton, W. Va, q freight train
being dcrailed and passenger train run
ming into the wreck on account of no flag
being displayed.
The strike of the Louisville. New AL
bany g. Chicago brakemen at Lafayette,
Ind, assumed serious aspect on the
14th. The strikers uucoupled cars,
creased the track aud otherwise thwart-
ed the trainmaster in his efforts to get
out freight trains. Three strikers were
arrested, and several engineers, who re-
fused to take out trains without brake
men, were Immediately discharged.
The semi annual meeting of the Board
of Bishops Of the Methodist Epis copal
Church, which had been in session in
Boston Tor nearly a week, adjourned, on
the 18th, to meet next May i'll Delaware,
Ohio.
DoUGHERrY, the crazy admirer of Miss
Mary Anderson, the actress, was COM
mitted to the care Of the New York Com
misslouerS of Charities and Correction,
on the 18th, and will be confined until a
medical commission decides upon his
case.
The Pasteur Institute in Paris was
formally opened, on the 14th, in the pres
ence of President Carnot several govern
ment minister's the foreign ambassadors
and the Russian Grand Dukes, who are
visiting the city. NJ. Pasteur received an
ovation from the people present.
KING CHRISTIAN celebrated the twenty.
fifth anniversary Of his accession to the
throne of Denmark, at Copenhagen, on
the 18th.
IT is emphatically denied in Russian
circles that the recent
changes in the organization of troops in
Western Russia have warlike intent
The only object sought is to preserve
balance as compared with the
forces maintained by neighboring pow
ers.
THE Comptroller of the Currency, on
the 18th, authorized the American Ma
tional Bank Of Sioux City, Ia, to begin
business with a capital of $3.50, 900.
D. W. VAUGHN, blacksmith of Dem
yer, Col, who acted as peace maker in a
saloon fight on the morning of the 14th,
was followed by one of the combatants
and shot dead.
JAMES LEROY CoRTELYAN, proprietor Of
the Nassau IN. " Hotel, was burned to
death, on the night of the 14th, by the ex-
plosion of kerosene lamp.
THE London Tines Zanzibar corre-
spondent, on the 10Th, says the southern
mail brings news that the ports are filed
with insurgents, and that the anti-Ger-
man feeling is unabated The burning
Of Minengani Tunghi is confirmed. The
Governor Of Mozambique is prevented
from returning to his capital by a hostile
chief on the zambesi.
AFTER sixty years Of married life, Peter
o well-known farmer living
near Lordstown, O., on the 10Th, deliber-
ately shot and killed his aged wife.
THE Irish Bishops have received an
other papal rescript which orders them
to actively execute the instructions con-
tanned in the former rescript
HERMAN ANDERSON and a young lady
friend left Rice's Point Wis, several
days ago in skiff, intending to go to
West Superior to attend q dance. Moth
ing has since been heard of them, and it
is supposed that they were drowned.
COLONEL EUGENE A. CARR Sixth cav
airy, has been assigned to the command
of the District of New Mexico, with head
quarters at Fl. Wingate.
The Ottawa (Ont) government has re.
fused to permit prospective NJ ormon i'm
migrants from Utah to take their po-
lygamous wives into the Northwest Ter
ritory.
CAPTAIN JOHN MILLER, of Jimtown, l.
T., was killed by jim Ables, on the 14th.
Captain Miller was seventy-two years
old, and is said to have killed thirty men
during his life.
THREE young women were run down by
passenger train on the canal bridge Of
the Cincinnati e. Miami Valley railroad,
at Circleville, o., on the 18th. Emma
Nickens jumped upon stringer of the
bridge and saved her life; Mamie Tam
lost leg and died from the shock, and
Allie Redman was instantly killed and
horribly mutilated.
THE report of the Paris Board Of Trade
for the month of "A, 1872, 900 francs and in
exports of H. 53G, 800 francs.
The dome of the Exposition building
was demolished and the Ladies' Indus
trial department in the structure COM
pletely wrecked during gale which pre-
vailed at Glasgow, Scotland, on the 10Th.