The Grenada sentinel., 1899-10-21

vaal, is 76 years old. (
The Beers are said to have 10000
well equipped troops.
"We must now make South Africa
free or the white mans grave" says
President Kruger.
Admiral Schley will accept the
home proposed to be erected in Wash
ington by public subscription.
Robbers broke into the bank at
Schell City. Mo-, gagged and bound
the watchman, and secured $4,000
from the vault.
The total value of the lead and
zinc taken from the Missouri mines
for the nine months of 1899 is esti-
mated at SO, 100000.
Frank Galbreath and Luke John
son, both co]ored, fought duel with
shot-guns on a farm near Paris, Mo.
Both were riddled with buckshot.
Official dispatches state that no
less than 5000 people were killed
by an earthquake on the Coran Is
lana, in the Netherland West Indies.
The city council Of San Antonio
passed an ordinance regulating the
hours of street-car employees SO
as not to exceed nine hours per day.
Last week Admiral Dewey laid the
cornerstone of Dewey hall, which is
to le a part of Norwich University,
at Northfcld, VT, where the hero
of Manila received his earliest mill
tary training.
James Bish. a young business man
of Fort Scott, Kas., shot his atfi-
ance, Miss Clara Stainbrook, and
then fired bullet through his brain.
The girl was only slightly injured,
and at Bish's funeral made an un-
successful attempt to cut her throat
with a razor.
A decision of Importance in bank
ruptcy cases has been handed dowr
by Judge jenkins in the United
States court of appeals. The court
rules that a judgment secured against
an insolvent person within four
months preceding the filing Of bank
ruptcy proceedings is void.
The transport Indiana sailed from
Manila for San Francisco October
9th, with the Tennessee volunteers
on board. This regiment disem-
barked after being on ship ready to
sail for home and took part in an
engagement with the insurgents near
Manila, aiding materially in the VIC
tory.
p. R. Preston, living in Cooper
county, Mo. committed suicide with
laudnum, on account of financial
troubles. He was afraid he would
lose his home. A neighbor came
over at night to give Preston the
papers that would release his home,
but found him unconscious and dy-
ing. Preston's wife was presented
with the mortgage by the holder.
The monthly bulletin of the ex-
ports Of domestic breadstutfs, pro-
visions, cotton and mineral oils,
issued by the bureau of statistics,
for the month of September, 1899,
with comparisons with September,
1898, shows as follows: Breadstutfs
s25, l40.47l increase $2,2s4, SOY;
cattle and hogs s2,299, ,736, increase
sS2, 70l; provisions $13,09s,37
decrease 1904, 746; cotton s17, ,OS2,-
792, increase IS, l53,952, mineral
oils $7,OO4,62S, increase $2,225,
602, Or total increase in exports of
these articles of $12,O92,216. For
the last nine months these exports
were $3G, G,354.376 less than for the
corresponding period in 1898.
The October report Of the statis-
tican of the department of agricul.
ture shows the average condition of
cotton on October l to have been
GA, as compared with 6s.5 last
month, 75.4 on October l, 1898, 70
at the corresponding date of 1897
and 1875 the mean of the October
averages for the last ten years. The
decline during September affected
almost the entire cotton producing
region, being 7points in North Caro-
linaand Indian Territory,4 4 points in
South Carolina, 5 in Georgia and
Texas, Gin Alabama end Louisiana,