The Grenada sentinel., 1899-07-22
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Oomuiled from Various Sources.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

18th signitied her intention of estah-
fishing manual training school to he
operated in conjunction with the ). j.
Lees collegiate institute at Jackson,
Ky.
Among the passengers on the steam.
er Athenian, which arrived at Victoria.
B. C., from the orient, on the 14th,
were Bishop Horne, who has been in
specting American missions in Japan.
and Mr.. Wolcott. of New York, who
has been hunting in the Land of the
Rising Sun.
The White Oak breaker at Archi.
bald, Pa, was entirely destroyed by
fire ON the 14th. 1t was owned by
the Delaware & Hudson Co.. and its
destruction entailed loss of at least
$4,000. The fire was started by To-
comotive spark. .A
Blazo Petrovics. a relative of Prince
Nicholas of Montenegro, was arrested
in Belgrade, Servia. on the 14th, on
charge OF completely in the recent at
tempt to assassinate former King Mi.
Ian of Servia.
The $so,OOO,OOo bicycle trust, which
was all but completed, went to pieces
en- the 14th. The eastern bankers
floating the concern withdrew because
of hitch in the final consolidation.
Patrick Carney, Clarke county Is.
d. farmer, reports that IL strange in
sect is doing damage to wheat in his
locality. He had 40 acres entirely de-
stroyed. while few other farmers
also suffered losses. The insect seems
to sap the life from the plant, causing
it to fall over and wilt.
On June IA a great quantity al
gunpowder exploded in a go-down ut
the military division at Shinkei-iei,
japan, and over 200 houses surround.
ing the place were destroyed and so
lives were lost.
Col. Charles II. Brown, assistant
chief of division of loans and currency
of the treasury department, died 1T
Pittsfield. Mass, on the 10Th.
A beavy wind storm passed over Min
neapclis, Minn.. on the 10th. accon,-
panied by lightning and rain. The
front of the Minneapolis e. St. Louis
ticket Office, was blown in and many
trees were broken short off or torn
up, and awnings and signs scattered in
all directions.
Twenty-seven business houses, the
pumping station of the waterworks,
the fire engine house and the city Jill
at cambridge. Ca. were destroyed ny
fire on the 10th. Loss, $4,000; insnr
ance, $4,000.
On the 18th the city council of Co.
lumbus. O., by a vote Of Is to 3, inn
peached and removed from office Jo.
seph W. Dusenbury. director Of public
safety.
Lord Curzon. viceroy Of India, will
start on tour of central India. on Oc-
tober 20, accompanied by Lady Curzon.
On the nth the contributions to the
Dewey home fund, amounted to $40,
making $14,4s0 in oil.
On the 18th James MacGuire. CASH
ier of the National State bank of Eliza
beth, N. j., was appointed receiver for
the Middlesex County Bank of Perth
Amboy, \. j., recently wrecked by its
cashier, George w. Valentine.
The war department has chartered
the steamer Siam to carry 300 cavalry
horses to Manila.
On the 18th ex.Secretary Foster left
Washington for his summer home on
Lake Ontario.
On the 18th the first and third bat.
talions of the Ninteenth infantry left
Camp Meade, for the Philippines, via
San Francisco, over the Pennsylvania
railroad. There were five trains.
The british steamer Hoibein, Capt
Sherlock. which arrived at Liverpool
on the 10th, picked up Capt. William
4. Andrews, known as the "Lone Navi.
gator" who left Atlantic City, \. j., on
June IS. in 6. little craft named "rhe
Dores," barely IL feet in length, to at.
tempt to cross the Atlantic. Capt. An.
drcws was found in an exhausted con.
dition.
A tempest has been started by q
"Round Robin" signed by quite NUN
ber of press correspondents in the
Philippines criticising Gen. Otis cen
sorship methods. which, it declares, by
excision of their reports, makes them
Il party to misrepresentation ofeventi
and conditions there.
While all the world has been watch
ing the Transvaal complications, and
British forces are being rushed te
South Africa, England has collected a,
st. Johns, n. f., the largest feet tina,
has ever assembled under the British
| flag on this side of the Atlantic since
the war of 1912.
G. j. Simcnds, aged 30 years, VIII:
recently started weekly newspaper
which was suspended after three is
sues, in Camp Point, ILL.,, was arrested
at Quincy for passing three forged
checks. purporting TO have been signet
by well.known residents of Quincy.
During violent thunder storm tha
passed over Christian county, Ky, OF
the evening OF the 18th, lightning
struck a herd of thoroughbred short
horn cattle belonging to ex-Congress
man John ID. Clardy, killing the regis