The Grenada sentinel., 1898-12-17
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Cleaned By Telegraph and Mail
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

THE Rocky Mountain News at De-
yer, COL, recently received the follow
ing telegram from the secretary +,
war: 1T is proposed to send reguls
regiments to relieve the volun teers i
Manila just as soon as transportatio
can be arranged. The volunteers wi
be returned to the United States
the order in which tn ey left"
The French government was RI
ported to have resolved to take up tn
case OF the French holders of Cuba
bonds and it was believed Franc
would declare that the repudiation Q
the bonds was the result of the treat
which the victorious nation impose,
upon Spain. They argue, it was stated
that through the treaty responsibilit,
has been shifted upon America ant
therefore the French government viii
endeavor to exact some pledge for tn
payment or guarantee of the bonds.
The navy department received
cablegram from Admiral Dewey on tn,
9th summarizing the existing condi
tions at Manila and such points in tn,
Philippines as have been visited by hi!
officers. Advices were also received
from Gen. Otis, and they both showed
a notable improvement in conditions
and the growth of better spirit
among those factions of the natives
which promised to give trouble.
Dr. J. J. WALTER, pastor Of the Cen.
tenary Methodist church OF Portland,
Ore, has been appointed missionary in
charge of all Method st work in Alaska.
Col. WILLIAM J. BRYAN has resigned
his command at Savannah, Ga
REPRESENTATIVE WALKER, chairman
Of the house committee on banking
and currency, said that there was no
probability for legislation on the cur
rency question this session and prob.
ably not in the Fifty-sixth or Fifty.
seventh congress, as the questions
raised by the late war will occupy the
time of congress-
GEN. CALIxro GARCIA, the distin.
guished Cuban insurgent and patriot,
died at Washington on the 11th from
an attack OF pneumonia in the sixtieth
year of his age.
WILLIAM BLACK, the novelist, died in
London on the 10th.
THE peace treaty between Spain and
the United States was signed BY the
representing the two ma.
tons at Paris on the night of the 10th.
The Americans were in jubilant
mood and the Spaniards extremely
1owncast The treaty in full makes
II articles
GEN. LEE and staff sailed from Sa-
7annah, Ga, on the 11th for Cuba on
The transport Panama. He will land
It Marianao and remain there until he
.ntars Havana.
A PARIS dispatch of the 10th stated
hat the conviction was gaming ground
n France that war with England is
Inevitable. The French also recog-
,ized that war with their transchannel
leiThbors meant almost certain defeat
or france, yet it could not be seen
1pw war could be averted, as England,
hey said, seemed determined to force
frances back to the wall.
MISCELLANEOUS.
THE main building of the foundry at
Pa, was burned. Loss,
&c, 900.
By fierce fire which occurred in a
lat in Brooklyn three persons met
heir death on the 18th and the fremen
we're searching the ruins for Others
WILLIAM H1rCHINGs, while cutting
Vood near Free Toll. Mich, killed John
lunt, his brother-in-law, Thomas Hay
Yard, a hired man. and Mra Hunt He
hen cut his own throat.
WHILE sewer was being constructed
Barcelona, Spain, the brick work |
ollapsed, burying many of the work.
aen. Eighteen bodies were recovered.
The citizens Of Chicago held mass |
MEETINGS on the 9th In various parts |
{ the city to protest against franchise |
xtension.
JORDAN WEBB, colored, was legally
anged at Courtland, Va, for an as
ault on an aged woman.
The schooner Ganges was reported |
rozen fast in . great field OF Ice of |
lar point, Lake Erie, on the 9th.
IT was 20 degrees below zero at Val.
ntine, Neb., on the 9th.
FoR IL years and more George Ogle |
ad worn convict's stripes In Sing
ing prison in New York and faced |
he horrors Of life sentence without
promise Of release. The other day 4
ardon reached him. In 1887 man
amed James Brown was stab bed to
cath in saloon At New York. Two
len swore Ogle wss the sssailant, and
e was convicted and sent up for life.
ecently one of the men confessed
,at he had committed perjury.
THREE corn shelters and 1000 bush.
. Of corn, Of Mertens, Brandon 4
lums, were destroyed by fire in Hill
,unty, Tex. I
THs explosion Of . gasoline stove In
abithe hospital ct Lincoln. Neb., the
Eher evening resulted In Mary Stein.
Ter, = nurse being burned TO desth
i'd DR.. &Wilmeth and q medical stude dent
ling badly burned. 45.
TIE steamer. Jonn N. Harbin, plying
tween Mehphia Tenn, and Pine
luh, Ark, struck . snsg nesr Swan
ke and SINK before : landing could
} made. All on board wsrs safely Il
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