The Grenada sentinel., 1899-12-02

buildings, occupied by about 20 busi
ness firms, were destroyed. Loss est
mated at from $4,000 to 60,000; in
surance. about half.
The State bank of Bluff City, Kas.
was blown up with dynamite an,
robbed on the 26th. The robbers es
Gaping with 81 900 in gold besides somt
silver and bills. This was the eight
bank robbery in the state of Kansas
within three weeks.
Wallace Ross, the oarsman. di"d
at Charing Cross hospital, London, on
the Goth. after brief illness. He had
been at the Earlscourt exhibition and
was just preparing to return home
He was buried at Fulham.
Ii Hung Chang's appointment as
Pekin as distinctly step in the right
direction and as likely to tend to i'm
prove greatly foreign commercial re-
lations with China.
Baron Paul Vie:inghoff, repre-
sentative of the Russian government, is
in Chicago buying horses for the
czar's army and for breeding purposes.
A. E. Delfno, Venezuelan consul gen.
eral in New York, will be replaced by
Gonzales Estves.
Rev Dr. Edward McGlynn is serious.
Iy i'll at his home in Newberg, N. y.
suffering from congestion of the lungs,
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The Zanzibar cable was again inter.
rupted. on the 26th, causing delay ir'
the transmission of dispatches from
South Africa.
Secretary of the Navy Long received
cablegram from Admiral Watson, IN
the Goth. informing him that the prov
nce of Zamboanga, Island of Min
danao. had surrendered uncondition.
ally to Commander Very of the Castine.
The surrender was made on the 18th
The last Filipino council Of war was
held by the retreating leaders at Ra
yambang on November Is, in the
house now occupied by Gen. MacAr-
thur. The council recognized the fu-
tilty of attempting further resistance
to the Americans with united forces.
and agreed that the Filipino troops
should scatter and should hereafter
follow guerilla methods.
The course pursued lately by the
yellow French press in caricaturing,
sometimes indecently. Queen Victoria,
has thrown the British public into "A
rage. and threats are openly made of
boycotting the Paris exposition if it
is persisted in. The people say: "You
may attack our policy, but hands off
our queen"
The Ninth brigade. under Lord
Metbuen. Went out on the morning Of
the 25th TO attack the Beers. who
we're said to be holding the hills in
the vicinity of Gras Pan, ten miles be-
yond Belmont. They engaged the
enemy. fought them four hours and
beat them badly, driving them to the
north.
During the fighting at Gras Pan, on
the 25th, Commander Ethelston Of the
cruiser Powerful. with naval rri-
gade. was killed, as was also Maj.
rlumbe. from the Doris, and Capt.
Scnser from the Monarch, both off
GERS OF marines. Flag Captain Proth-
ers, of the Doris was severely and
Lieut.. Jones. also of the Doris, slightly
wounded.
The London telegraph says: "Mah-
dism has been destroyed, root and
branch, end the seal of victory has
been set upon the sirdar's conquests
by the sequel to Omdurman. With the
death of the khalifa. and his emirs,
and the utter annihilation of all that
remained Of his savage hordes, VIM
gate stursped out the last vestige q:
Maldist terrorism in the Soudan.'
j. W. Cathron. who was shot at
,Johnscn's Crossing, Okla, by Al Clar-
dy. willie attempting to rob Clardy's
store, is dead. A coroner's jury re-
turned verdict that the shooting was
iuHtiiable. Edward Cathron, who es-
capped at the time, has surrendered and
is in jsil at Tecumseh.
DR.. Edith McCreary was found dead
in her bed at the Emporia hotel, En-
rcria, kas. ON the 26+h. Death had oc-
cured some time during the night,
caused by dose of strychnine taken
with suicidal intent. The woman has
relatives at Monmouth, III.
American manufacturers are selling
to the outside world over S10O,00O,0O0 |
worth of iron and steel in the calen.
dar year 1899, or $20,O0OOOO in excess
Of any earlier year in their history.
Associate Justice White, of the Unit
I'd States supreme court. is confined to
his home, at Washington, with an at
tack of the grippe. lie was reported
slightly better, on the eth, and hoped
to resume his duties in few days.
Samuel II. Elbert, ex-governor OF
died in Galveston, Tex, on
the 9th. He had been in failing health
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