The Grenada sentinel., 1897-04-03
OTHERWISE UNNOTICED.

Una Melton, an American CORE
spondent, is dying in Cabannas fortress
Havana.
A British steamer arrived at Della
ware breakwater Sunday with tel
cases Of smallpox on board.
The Wichita country will be opened
about May l. Discoveries Of precious
metals will lead to q great rush.
Seven thousand school children will
take part in the exercises Of the com
ing international turnfest at St. Louis
A bill has been introduced in the
house providing for site for the es
tablishment Of q dry dock near Sabine
Pass.
Bloomington lawyers are making q
strong effort to secure the removal OF
the Illinois supreme court from Ottawa
to that city.
The Orange Judd Farmers winter
wheat report shows the crop to be the
lightest of record, with the single ex.
ception of 1885.
The crew Of a Spanish gunboat are
said to have mutinied, killed the COM
mander and turned the launch over to
Cuban insurgents.
The comptroller of the currency has
granted authority for the organization
Of the Ozark national bank of Spring
field, Mo-; capital, 100000.
Joseph Smith, of Ohio, has been Sc
lected by Secretary Sherman as di-
rector Of the American Republics bu-
reau, in place of Clinton Furbish.
Edhem Pasha, the Turkish comman-
der on the Greek frontier, will have un-
der his command 10000 men, which
will constitute his army of operations
The senate passed the bill introduced
by Senator Berry, ratifying the terms
of the settlement Of the claims of the
government against the state of Arkan-
sas.
George W. Brown, colored, has with
drawn from the race as candidate for
mayor Of Harrisburg, Ill. He was
threatened with mob violence by the
white citizens.
E. L. Haymaker, Of Canton, O., has
purchased of Guy c. Grouse, Of Dayton,
q pair of chestnut sorrels for the use of
President Mckinley. They will be
driven tandem.
Frank Denton, prisoner at Macon,
NO., who had arranged to break jail,
spoiled his plans by writing letter,
with which he intended to throw the
sheriff off his guard.
Miss Mollie La Tour, the champion
female cyclist of the L. A. W., has
been indefinitely suspended for failure
to show up in race at st. Louis in
which she had entered.
The four young desperadoes captured
in a running fight and taken to Ben
tonville, Ark. Saturday. were indicted
and sentenced, Monday, to ten yYlrs
each in the penitentiary. n
The jury in the case of Mc( on
trial at Bloomington, ILL.,. for the S9nur-
der of John Bullock, of West Virginia,
failed to agree after six days delibera-
ton, and were discharged.
The New York Herald correspondent
in Montevideo, Uruguay, reports that
the United States cruiser Yantic ran
aground Monday at Port Nucva, Pal
mira, at the mouth of the Uruguay
river.
1t is said that Emperor William has
offered to the sultan the services of
Gen. Won Goltz and other German Of
fcers in case the Turkish government
desires to avail itself OF them in the diff
fculty with Greece.
The best Judges Of popular feeling in
Athens agree that the determination of
the Greek people to accept no solution
Of the Crctan difficulty but the annexa-
ton of Crete is increasing steadily. The
cry is for no surrender.
Judge William R. Day, of Canton. O.,
has been selected by the president as
special commissioner to Cuba to partici-
pate as the representative of the presi-
dent in the investigation into the death
Of DR.. Ruiz at Guanabacca.
The Spanish soldiers in Cuba are on
the verge of mutiny, and say that
they will not wait any longer for their
back pay. The officers, too. are tired
out. and make no attempt to check the
spirit of revolt in the ranks.
A mine accident occurred at Oronopo,
Mo-, resulting in the death Of Lewis
Cunning and fatal injury to Ben Brew
er. They were working at the Circle
mines, and were in the act of thawing
out giant powder, when an explosion
A dispatch from Havana says that
Gen. Ruis Rivera and Col. Bacallo, his
chief of staff, captured in a recent en-
yagement after being dangerously
wounded, will be tried by drumhead
which means that they
will be shot.
The inquest on the remains of DR..
George d. Purinton, who committed
suicide at the Lindell hotel. st. Louis,
in q verdict Of death from
prussic acid, taken with suicidal in
tent while suffering from q temporary
mental alteration"
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CROSeY'S BODY.