The Grenada sentinel., 1899-08-19
OTHERWISE UNNorICED,

Fire destroyed part of the Square at
Greenville, ILL.,; loss. $1,000.
Over $4,000 Texas ex-conredcrates
have filed applications for pensions.
Son Domingo merchants are in ia.
yor OF using the money of the United
States.
Three buildings were burned at st,
.Mary's kas., Tuesday. entailiny loss
OF $4,000.
l.. b. Atkinson. of Conway county,
Ark, was held up and robbed in Sc
dalia. Mo.
Connecting lines have inaug,lrated a
boycott ON the Kansas City, pittsburg
& Gulf road.
Kansas war veterans have petitioned
the president to remove Pension Com
missioer Evans.
The Transvaal government is pay
ing high prices for mules and buying
all on the market.
In the Bombay Qndia) presidency
there were 3,45O deaths from the
plague last week.
Great Britain has dispatched troops
to occupy stragetic pass. which was
held by the Beers during the last war.
The Missouri crop report indicates
that the early corn crop is made, and
that the late planted is in danger from;
heat.
President Mckinley addressed 5000
persons Mt the Catholic summer school
in Plattsburg. n. Y, evoking much pa.
triotic enthusiasm.
Max Metzger, accused of passing q
bogus check on Il st. Louis merchant
is said to be wanted in Kansas City
| for similar offense.
Near Milan, Mo-. a young man killed
himself after making Il futile attempt
to murder his sweetheart because she
would not &C to Il picnic with him.
At Gale. l. T., three masked mer
held up the Missouri, Kansas & Texa.
ticket agent, getting about 90 cents
The robbers escaped on their horses.
Two battalions of French troop.
searched the woods around Rennes fo
the assailant of NJ. Laboriall day Tues
day, but without capturing the fugi
tive.
John OConncr, one of the self-con
fessed n!urderers of Charles Brant, a
st. Louis, was given preliminary,
hearing, and hell for the grand jur,
without bail.
a half brother of the late Josep1
Ecnoist, of Kansas City, Mo-, will con
test his brothers. will. which left mos
of his estate to charitable and re
ligious organizations.
Warrants for the arrest of Postmas
ter Ellis at Quenemo and Postmaste
Myers at Mayetta, Kas., were issue
Tuesday night. The charge is embes
cling government funds.
| A filibustering expedition in the II
terests of Jiminez, leader of til
Dominican revolution, has bee
stopped by the United States author
ties at Santiago, Cuba, and the carg
ccntiscated.
lro Coe, well-known fruit grove
a. Quincy, ILL.,, was killed in Il run;
way. His team became frightened {
a barrel falling from the wagon. II
was thrown under the wheels an
frightfully crushed.
The infant child of Mr.. and Mrs. W;
liam Bane, of Newman, ILL.,, died .
pneumonia after two weeks Hines
, The child was being treated by Chris
ian scientists. No physician was calle
until the child was dying.
The Illinois board of health is to
called upon Immediately for advi'
and assistance in checking the spre,
Of the mysterious cutaneous disea
) which is rapidly spreading in Dow
. township, Mclean county.
I, MIR. Mills, clerk in the headqua
I ters of Gen. Brooke, at Havana, w
stricken with yellow fever. Tuesda
ard has been removed to the hospit,
. Other clerks having rooms at Il
house where he lived have been qua