The Grenada sentinel., 1899-08-12

suicided because the woman he loved
refused to marry him.
Sol Lewis, colored, was hanged BY
q mob near Forrest, Ala, for at
tempted assault on young lady.
England's greatest heiress, only
daughter of Lord Rothschild, is soon
to wed young officer of the British
army.
John Thornton. an engineer, wa
murdered at Webb City, No., and q
woman is under arrest charged with
the crime.
I. G. Kellogg, wealthy mer.
chant of Dallas, Tex, shielded BY
shooting himself through the head
with o revolver. t
Joe Patchen, the great pacing
horse, was purchased last week by
Ed Mills, of Boston, from G. W.
Marks for $4,000.
Gov. Chanler, of Georgia, has is.
sued an appeal to the people to join
hands with the officers and put an
end to mob law in that state.
Farmers of North Dakota are pay.
ing from 50 to 42.25 per day for
harvest hands. Laborers were never
SO scarce in that country before.
Albert Unless, aged rs, Of St.
Paul, Minn., was struck on the
head with hoe by his father and
died in a few hours from lockjaw.
The transport Hancock, having
on board the Nebraska regiment and
two batteries of the Utah artillery,
arrived at San Francisco July 30th.
Miss Fannie Goodwin, q young
milliner of Fairvicw, KY, shot and
fatally wounded Byron Allegree, who,
she claims. made sighting remarks
about her.
Charles and Ed Provis, aged IA
and 16 years, were arrested at Jop.
lin, NO.. charged with drowning a
companion named Tommie Whalen,
aged IL years. The boys went in
swimming and young Whalen was
drowned. The body was recovered
and examination showed that his
drowning was not accidental.
Solomon Chambers, a 13-year-old
boy living with his parents near
Chattanooga, Tenn, was sent to the
we'll after dark for a pitcher of water.
just as he reached the we'll an older
brother jumped out of the darkness
at him, and the little fellow was SO
frightened he burst q blood vessel,
dying before a physician could be
summoned.
The withdrawal Of troops from
Cleveland, O., was followed by the
wrecking of another street-car with
dynamite. Fortunately no one was
seriously injured, although the car
was crowded with passengers. Busi.
ness men fear to ride on the cars
on account the threat of the strikers
and their friends to boycott all who
patronize them.
A Georgia paper gives the follow
ing account Of a lynching in that
state: "A quiet lynching occurred
just across the branch from Blakely
at 2:45 o'clock this afternoon. The
contracting parties were Lewis Hen
derson, colored, and q party of citi-
zens from the Rock Hill district.
Crime, assault upon d 6-year-old
child"
The German navy, according to
the report issued June 30th last,
musters 16 admirals, 81 naval off,
GERS, 40 officers of marine, 1873 en-
gineer officers, l4S surgeons, 81
ordnance and artillery officers, Al
torpedo officers and engineers, 1O4
paymasters, 26 retired officers, 2O7
midshi hipmen, l20 cadets, 1868 deck
officers; 4,74O non. commissioned
officers, II, 597 men, 173 bandsmen,
l40 artisans, 216 ambulance men,
l4o assistant paymasters, IL gum
smiths and 1000 cabin boys, a total
of rs, 76S. The German feet con.
sists of II battleships, 8 coast IRON
clads, l3 ironclsd gunboats, 10 large
and 70 small cruisers, 3 gunboats,
100 torpedo boats, l6 training ships
and l3 ships for special purposes.
Charles Haight, Alpha Haight,
Charles Crabtree, George Overly,
Cecil Priest and Raymond Howe
were killed near White Cloud, Mich,
by the explosion Of q thrashing
machine engine. ~