The Grenada sentinel., 1899-05-06
NEWS OF THE WORLD.

NEWS UF lHE WURLD
The United States has been allotte'
81, 500 square feet at the Paris expo
sition of 1900.
. On April 3Oth a cyclone passet
through Iowa, Kansas and Nebraska
doing great damage.
Edward Har, living near St. Marys
Mo-, was murdered by man nance
Hagan, whom he had sheltered ant
fed.
1t is reported the "chair of poll
tics" in Princeton university has
been rendered ex- President Cleve.
land.
Col. Patty de Clam is reported to
have fled from France to avoid ar
rest for alleged conspiracy in the
Dreyfus case.
An excursion train was wrecked
near Rochester, N. Y, Sunday.
Three people were killed and about
q dozen seriously injured.
The banking house of c. F. Shin
kle, Ellsworth, ILL.,, was robbed of
$1,10O by burglars, who blew open
the safe with gunpowder.
Loss Rider. an Omaha youth IA
years old, committed suicide by
shooting the top of his head off be-
cause his father scolded him.
Charles X. Bedford. the man who
is said to have first perfected the
sewing machine, is reported living
in poverty near Lynnfeld, Mass.
On May lst the wages of all en-
ployes of the Tennessee Coal and
Iron Company was increased 10 per
cent. The company employees about
5000 men. most of them coal miners.
Mary Lecase shot and mortally
wounded young man named Har-
rington, prisoner in Jail at Lees
vile. La. Harrington was under
indictment for assaulting the girl.
A bill has passed the Wisconsin
legislature providing that license
be procured and announcement of
same be made five days previous to
the performance Of marriage cere-
mony. #
A man at New Madrid, Ind, who
refused work at s. per day, prefer
ring to live off what his wife earned
as a menial, was given rs lashes with
switch on his bare back by citizens
and made to leave town.
The Missouri legislature voted to
submit an amendment to the consti-
tuition to the people. empowering
the next general assembly to appro-
pirate 81. 900. 900 for a state exhibit
at the st. Louis fair to be held in
1908.
Chicago counterfeiters are said
to have made considerable money by
furnishing Cinnamon coming into
this country and Mexico with forged
passports. A batch of the bogus
certificates were seized in Julaz,
Mex. last week.
Mrs. Sloane. for years one of the
leaders of New York society, was
granted a divorce from Henry T.
Sloane April 2Sth, and the following
day was married to Perry Belmont.
Both Mr.. Belmont and Mr.. Stone
are millionaires.
1t has been decided by Washing
ton authorities that innocent dealers
who paid for cigars bearing the coun-
terfeit stamps forged by the Penn
sylvania cigar dealers will be per-
mitted to keep the goods, provided
they re-stamp them.
Judge Henry c. Caldwell, United !
States circuit judge OF the Eighth
circuit, says there is no foundation
In the report that he would soon re-
tire from the bench. BY serving
three more years Judge Caldwell may
retire on full pay.
1t is announced as useless to make |
application to the war department
for the discharge of volunteers now
in the Philippines, as Gen. Othis
has been instructor to discharge
every volunteer soldier who himself |
makes application for discharge.
Col. Funston, who CALAMITY led
! small detachment of men from the
Kansas regiment across the river to
Calumpit under heavy fire from the
enemy, succeeding in driving them
back and holding them at bay while
other troops were crossing, has been
promoted to brigadier general of
volunteers.
DR.. Reuben Ludlam, a noted Chi
,sgo physician, was stricken with
heart disease while performing q
difficult operation on a patient and