The Grenada sentinel., 1889-08-17
CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

)f 7th, caused great excitement among a
'r classes in Liverpool, who had been watcl
II ing the trial with intense interest. Afte
the verdict became known thousands
20 people assembled around the entrance I
" the court room and hooted the Judge q
4 soon as he made his appearance.
POSTMASTER LEWIS and the Republican
leader Colonel A. E. Buck were burne
= in ettigy, on the Sth, in front of the court
3 house in Atlanta, Ca, in the presence o
1 probably ten thousand people, for tn
appointment of a negro to place in tn
, registry department of the post office.
!, THE National Electric Light convention
, at Niagara Falls, on the 7th, adopted
memorial to Governor Hill of New York
asking him. to use his influence for tht
repeal of the law for execution by elec
tricity.
, PEOPLE in the wool trade think tina
Brown, Steese Sc Clarke, wool dealers o.
Boston, who failed on the 7th can settle
their affairs so as to pay all debts and
leave about ninety cents on the dollar
for the stockholders.
SAMUEL HuLIARD, of Philadelphia, was
on the It'll, declares. elected grand chan
celor Of the Knights of Pythias of Penn
] L
burgh, was chosen master r-at-arms.
THE man arrested at Scots boro, Ala.
has been positively identified as the abb
Sconding Treasurer Tate of Kentucky.
One of the detectives who arrested him
has since been arrested on an old indict-
ment for burglary.
| OFFICER ROBEL of Mankato. MINI, was
shot, on the Ith, while attempting to ar
rest two tramps who were annoying peo-
| pie. The tramps made their escape.
ON the afternoon of the 1th, two explo.
sions occurred on board the yacht Cedar
| Ridge, lying at the wharf il Buffalo, N.
Y, by which four deaths by fire and
drowning occurred, and three persons
We're severely injured. The explosions
were due to naphtha, by which the boil
ers were heated.
THE popular movement in Liverpool,
London and elsewhere in England, to
obtain a reprieve for Mrs. Maybrick
sentenced to be hanged for the murder Of
her hus band, is assuming enormous pro-
portions.
BURT JEFFERY, the ticket agent and
operator on the Rome, Watertown s. Og-
densburg railroad at Mller's station, N.
Y, is missing, and his accounts have
been found to be $500 short.
The train on the Rio Grande railroad
known as the 'Modoc" was held up by
traiu-rObbers near Crevasse Col, on the
9th About $500 and twenty watches
were contributed by the passengers.
The steamer Henry E. Bishop for
Coney Island, with about one hundred
passengers aboard, was found to be on
fire just before leaving her pier at West
Tenth street, New York City, on the Sth.
The passengers were all landed safely,
amid some excitement, and the fire,
which was in the engine-room, was soon
put out.
UP to the Sth no trace had been found
of the Thompson Springs (Utah) tram
robbers.
FERDINAND ". HoEFFLE, of New York,
partner of Z. S. Allen III the iron busi-
ness, was arrested, on the Sth, charged
with completely in Aliens issue Of forged
street railway stock.
Ar a meeting of Johngtown, (Pa.,)
business men, on the sth, it was decided |
to heartily support Messrs. John Thomas |
& Sons in their suit against the South |
Fork Fishing Club.
In the Photographers convention at |
Boston, on the Sth, it was decided to |
issue request for dollar subscriptions |
for the proposed Daguerre monument.
THE London Board Of Trade returns for |
July show that the imports for that |
month increased E5,170,0 0O) and the ex-
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'Lle VI pal'ILnoFo ,II, T." OHtO haIFo"o Nompany'
HlsI'eu Leolins' w. Ea'' Oh lne oIu'
a4u sate o'uei > lot .Le uAScnarse VI slAIy
Ih"oil4ulS' ~ 10 "uu o"' poI'els iroh 'ho SnopS
'Heie'
nhN'' F. ofANpAoEh' WIZ was the
PllH'IPai witness against MRS. ourratt'
hanged al ash!ngton' IN 1860, on the
charge OF conhlVlnS at the ASSASSINATION
Ol fresldeht Llncolh, dled' on Inc oth, IN
tIe Maryland pehitehtlary.
IHE nndlng or dead bodies at Johns
Town, "a, Is yet dally occurrence. On
the oth tne Dody OF hlteen-year-oId
glrI was founu on Locust street, near the
business par' Vi tne to"h' "here IL Aau
Oeen tamped over for months by thou-
SANDS OF people
The Russian and French press take no
pains to conceal the annoyance which
seems TO be telt III poth countries at the
warmth WIN "nlch emperor I4llalu was
received IN England
lHE Fr!nce OF wales mas entlre!y re-
covered from MS recent severe lhulSpo-
sltlon.
1T Is announced tlat the Italian w ar