The Grenada sentinel., 1893-11-11
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

! CHAIRMAN PECK reports the Worlds
fair treasury in a healthy condition.
All obligations have been met and
there is a cash balance on hand of g..
100000. The gate receipts from now
on and the salvage, it is figured, will
pay the current expenses until the
end. SO that the stockholders, who have
holdings representing $4,000, 900. upon
which they scarcely expected to realize
anything. will be paid fifty cents on
the dollar.
A FIGURING mill boiler exploded. on
the 1st, at Windfall, Ind, instantly
killing Lewis Mill. Everything was
wrecked.
THE silver repeal bill was entered
upon the records at the White House,
on the ed, and the official parchment
copy was sent to the state department
for fling with the archives of the gov
ernment.
Ara congress of revolutionary so.
cialists held in Brussels, on the 1st, it
was resolved to carry on an active prop.
aganda to bring abouta strike among
the soldiers of Belgium and elsewhere.
THE Viking started from Chicago,
on the I'd, for St. Paul, Minn., to which
city it was presented before the close
of the Worlds fair.
THE public debt statement issued on
the 1st showed net increase in the
debt during October of s5,141, ,05s. OF.
Cash in the treasury, $729, ,447,014.
The paid admissions to the Worlds
fair on the ed were S.64o.
On the Sd the London admiralty
court awarded sl,250 salvage against
the Dutch steamer Maasdam in favor
of the British steamer Winchester and
her crew, the latter to receive $3.50 Of
the award.
NJ. B. CURTIS, the actor, who is
wanted in San Francisco as witness
in the case of McMaddus and Dunn,
charged with bribery in the Curtis MUIR
der trial, left that city, on the I'd, on an
east-bound train, putting himself be.
yond the jurisdiction of the California
state courts.
Ten THOUSAND persons witnessed the
unveiling of the statue of the late Sir
John Macdonald at Hamilton, Ont, on
the lst.
On the Sd orders were sent to the SUI
perintendents of the United States
mints at San Francisco and New Or
leans to resume the coinage, suspended
some time ago, of standard silver dol.
lars.
Miss ANNIE HOWARD, who was to
have been married to the late Mayor
Harrison Of Chicago, left that city on
the Sd for her home in Biloxi, Miss.
LATER reports say that but six lives
were lost by the burning of the steamer
City Of Alexandria, off the Cuban coast
though seven others were still missing
on the Sd.
THE new French tax on bourse trans.
actions, which became operative on
July 10 last, has yielded in four months
the sum of 2,O7o,O00 francs.
The president signed the Chinese bill
amending the Geary act on the Sd.
PAID admissions to the Worlds fair
on the Sd were $500.
The old hotel in Apple Creek, o.,
made famous a. the home for many
years of the noted lion-tamer, Herr
Driesbach, was burned 70 the ground
on the night of the I'd.
On the I'd Buffalo Bills Worlds fair
Sioux Indians arrived at Rushville,
Neb, looking like university students,
we'll dressed and we'll conducted. Red
Cloud himself and over 500 warriors
met them with q grand reception. The
Indians were well pleased with their
trip. They were under the charge of
Maj. Burke.
Miss LIZZIE BELLMoRE, % years old,
was found dead In her apartments at
4s>f' Virginia avenue, Indianapolis, on
the morning Of the I'd. There was no
scrap Of paper nor scratch Of q pen in
the way of explanation, but death was
evidently the result Of poison taken
with suicidal intsnt