The Grenada sentinel., 1898-12-17

I / street ana central avenue, New YOrl
! burst at Ave O'Clock on the morniuR I
the llth and an area Of 20 blocks ",
inundated, foundations Of houses b
I ing washed out, trolley and telegram
poles torn down and many person
: nearly drowned aud made homeless
! Tho damage may reach $500, 900
A REAR-END collision occurred ON til
Oregon railway, l! miles east Of Per
dleton. Ore, between . fast mail an
; a freight train aud four men were q
riously injured.
THE great six day, or rather 2-hou,
bicycle race at Madison Squar
garden. New York, came to an end o.
the night of the 10th. The score wa
as follows: Miller, 2, 007 miles; Waller
1855; Pierce, 1.9o6; Albert !,saa
Gimm, 1,7S2; Lawson, LIFT; Aaronson
1,729; Nawn, l.72l; Forster. l,66s
Stevens, 1879; Hale, 1.6O2; Julius, 1, 1855
MISS REEL, superin tendent Of India,
schools, in her annual report 70 tn,
secretary of the interior makes strons
plea for the industrial feature OF ed
cational work among the Indians. q
ARTICLES Of incorporation Of tn.
Continental Tobacco company were
filed with the secretary OF state a,
Trenton. N. J.. The capital stock IL
&75, 600, 900.
THE national convention Of the
American Federation of Labor met in
Kansas City, Mo-, on the 1sth Samuel
Gompers, president of the federation,
presided.
A MILK trust with capital OF 3lo,.
600. 900 is an assured fact In Chicago.
ROBERT MOORE, farmer living Eve
miles east Of Hazleton. Pa, shot and
mortally wounded Charles and Paris
Decker, brothers, at the village church
door on the night of the 18th. The
trouble arose over the question Of fenc-
ing the church property.
AT Dexter, I. T.. William Lot fatally
stabbed John Shaw. The men quar-
relied over trivial matter.
REPORTS received at Dallas Tex, on
the 9th stated that q severe blizzard
ragged all over Texas.
THE total loss by recent fire in the
works of the Standard Oil company at
Los Angeles, CAL, amounted to $685..
600. t%c
POINT PARK, on Lookout mountain.
in Tennessee, has been transferred to
the government as part Of the Chicka-
mauga-Chattanooga national military
park. ,..
The steamer B. F. Young ran into a
rock nea, Decatur, Ala
and sunk one of her barges with 1000
Tons of coal.
THE.hat factory of John w. Green &
Co., one OF the largest in Dan bury,
Conn.,, was completely destroyed by
Ire the other night Loss, $l25, 900;
$10l, 200. Four hundred men
we're thrown out of employment
TIE river Neva suddenly rose nine
'eet the other night, flooding the lower
quarters of st. Petersburg, and COM
was carried on by boats.
The Inhabitants were panic-stricken
md there was great loss Of life and |
property.
THREE men were killed and eight
Injured, three of them probably
atally, by the explosion OF press
aill and four grinding mills In the
iagley yard Of the Dupont powder
Eorks at Wilmington, Del.
THE Farmers' National congress at
Tort Worth, Tex. ON the sth adopted
esolutions favoring aid in construct
ng the Nicaragua canal; government
ontrol OF the same; favoring the de-
elopment of the beet sugar industry;
recommending the passage OF laws pro.
iding that grain be separated from
eeds of noxious weeds before being
ut on the market; favoring the lease
r sale of arid lands, so as to make
hem taxable, and asking congress for
,creased appropriations for rural free
'ail delivery. 'r -r II
A CHAMPAIGN. ILL.,, dispatch stated
nat a pure food and pure seed confer
nee. taking in the entire state, will
e held at the university of Illinois
'ecember 1S for the purpose of consid-
ring the adulteration OF foods and
uttinR on foot movement which
ill bring legislation against adulter-
tions.
WHILE fighting fire in the dock of the
ehigh Coal & Coke company at West
uperior, Mich, four men were buried
nder thousands Of tons of burning
'al. One was got out In q precarioua
'ndition; the Others have undoubte
perished. It was thought 10000
ms Of coal were burned. =" .'s1lI,
The post Office at Clifton, 20 miles
'uth OF Fresno, CAL, was robbed the
her night by two masked men who
I'D up A. T. Wilkinson, the postmas-
r. and secured everything Of value
the place. a+i+s3I
The United States transport New.
'rt, bearing the Twentieth Kansas
giment, under Lieut. Col. Little, with
le Wyoming light battery, which left
70 Francisco November 8, arrived, at
anila on the 7th. S'ya
THE business failures in the United
;ates for the week ended the 9th
ere 237, according to Bradstreet's
report, against 2o2 for the
'rresponding week in last year.
The four statues of the confed ersts
ldiers' monument on Capitol hill st
ontRomery, Ala, were unveiled on
e 7th. They represent infantry,
'valry, artillery and navy. The ia
nfederate states were represented I