The Grenada sentinel., 1898-11-26
CURRENT TOPICS.
TEE NEWS IN ERIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL,

of deputies the Depuy ministry has
been sustained in its policy in favor
of granting justice to Dreyfus, al
though the same body IL few weeks
ago turned out the Brisson ministry
for a similar attitude in the same case
EN-Mayor P. p. Mast. of Springfield,
o., died on the Goth, aftera lingeringill.
ness of several months. His estate is
estimated at over a million and half,
invested in manufacturing interests.
He was father-in-law of +. b. LOomis,
United States minister to Venezuela.
The Maryland board of public works
has decided to sell all the interest of
the state IN the famous Chesapeake d.
Ohio canal. This interest has cost the
state III on" way or another about $685.
100000, but its present value is inde-
! terminate. as it is now in the hands of
receivers.
Two freight trains on the Chicago,
Rock Island e. Pacific collided at Mos
COW, Ia, Oh the 18th. One man was
killed and one injured. A wrecking
train which was about to start to the
scene from Wilton was run into by
fast mail train. The fireman of the
mail train was badly hurt. and 16
men on the work train were injured,
some seriously.
In the gloom of smoke, storm and
fog that darlened the rails of the
Pennsylvania railroad, on the morning
of the 18th, between Jersey City and
Harrison. IA belated suburban train
dashed into gang of workmen, kill
ing II and injuring four. Five others
lad remarkable escapes. All the VIC
Tins lived in Jersey City.
The dead BODY of j. b. Gronninger,
a wealthy ranchman of Terry, Mont,
was found on the Big Four tracks at |
Delaware. O., on the 18th. There was |
strong evidence that the man was mur-
dered and his body placed on the
track.
Herr H. II. Meier. founder of the
North German Lloyd Steamship Co.,
died in Bremen on the 18th. lie was
SO years of age.
The transport Minnewaska. with the
First engineers and representatives Of
the Red Cross on board, left Ponce, P.
R.. for home, on the 18th.
Two persons were injured. an en-
CINE and passenger coach destroyed
and a railroad station burned by
rear-end collision, on the 18th. be-
tween two local passenger trains on
the Camden e. Amboy railroad at
Florence, n. J.
John Worrel keely. inventor of the
keely motor, died at his residence in
Philadelphia, on the 18th, aged II
Years. Mr.. keely had been sick only
/ week. He contracted a severe cold,
which developed into pneumonia.
The first pension claim of the Span
sh war was granted on the 1Sth-$17
| month-to Francis Gates, Second
i nited States artilIery,who was struck .
n fight before Santiago on July 2.
" shot from a machine gun, which
'roke his upper jaw, tore his lips and
nocked six teeth out.
The European powers have been
onsldering carefully the Philippine
ltuat!on. All have, within the last
ew days, decided that Spain's pro-
asts and struggles are hopeless as i,
gainst the claims of the United
tates.
A Paris dispatch of the 18th says: ,
is safe to say that the peace confer =
nee will come to speedy end, as the =
merlcans know their business and :,
ave no alternate proposition to offer :,
nd will listen to none from the other ,
de. "
1t was reported at League Island Y
avy yard, on the 18th, that orders
ad been received from Washington a
rec'ing the cruiser Topeka to leave ,
n Havana on the 10Th.
AS soon as congress reassembles a 4
gislative proposition to increase the y
anding army of the United States to n
10000 men will be introduced at the !,
stance of the secretary of war. 1t T.
understood that a rough draft of .
le proposed bill has already been pre- Z,
,red under the direction of the Sec !,
.tary of war. &
There are now pending before the G
'nson Office 174 navy Exclusive of Il
e Maine) claims. and 1,947 war d
aims. on account of the war with II
pain. and it is expected that this num- G,
r will be largely augmented as soon r,
the various volunteer organizations O.
e mustered out. N
The Spanish government, it is semi
Fcially announced, intends to notify
e Cuban bcndholders that Spain will
It pay the Cuban debt, which will II
It be mentioned in the peace treaty.
le government considers itself COM
ptely freed from these entanglements,
hich fall upon the nation exercising
vereign'y and collecting taxes in NJ
lba. II
A Chicago & Erie freight loco sc
otive boiler exploded near Lima, n
, on the goth, killing David Little, dl
e fireman. ara probably fatally in
ring Walter ]. Hirtleff, engineer; III
lward Quick, conductor, and Frank dt
NTH, brakeman. About twenty-five sc
RS were wrecked, and the track was sc