The Grenada sentinel., 1899-05-13
NEWS OF THE WORLD.

MI UNUSUAL lnlnS LOT tllS season O.
the year.
James Kavanaugh was killed by ;
pitched ball during a game at New
ark, N. j.
The postotfice department reports
that the postal service of Porto Rice
is now self-sustaining.
A Washington dispatch says ar
extra session of congress will be
called, to meet in October.
Richard Harding Davis, the novel.
ist, and Miss Cecil Clarke were mar.
ried in Chicago on the 4th inst.
St. Louis has been made head
quarters of the western division OF
the rural free mail delivery service.
Near Saratoga, n. Y, James Will
Jams. aged IS, murdered his wife
and then mortallv wounded himself.
In fight between union and non
union miners at Decatur, ILL.,. several
of the participants were seriously in
jured.
Citizens of Detroit, Mich. are
to decide by vote whether that city
shall purchase and operate the street
car lines.
Admiral Dewey is soon to return
home. an order having been issued
to Admiral Watson to relieve him
at Manila.
The battleship Alabama, now be-
ing builtat Cramps ship yard, Phila-
delphia. will be completed within
three months.
Ben keelum. colored. was fatally
burned while attempting to rescue
some horses from burning stable at
Logansport. Ind.
The Italian government has ex-
tended for three months the time
in which the claims against Colum-
bia may be paid.
The Car has made an assignment
of 100000 rubles to the Red Cross
society in aid Of the famine sufferers
in the eastern provinces.
The residence of Gen. Wade Hamp-
ton near Columbia, S. G., which was
destroyed by fire recently, is to be
rebuilt by public subscription.
The number of failures in the
United States for the month of April
were the smallest in any month since
records by months began, and 3S per
cent smaller than i'll April of last
year.
The authority Of S. ". Fordyce
and Webster Withers. receivers of
the Kansas City. Pittsburg 4 Gulf,
has been extended over the entire
system from Kansas City to the Gulf
of Mexico.
A laborer while digging in cellar
at Cincinnati, unearthed a tin box
containing eleven $1,000 bonds,
which belonged to the estate of a
deceased manufacturer. The bonds
had been missing 10 years.
The British secretary of state for
the colonies has made demand upon
the Transvaal republic that it must
observe its obligations to the queen
as the paramount power by securing
peace and order within the republic.
George Curley was convicted Of
murder i'll the first degree at Mus
cogee and sentenced to be hanged on
July II, 1899. Curlev killed a
white man in the Arkansas river
bottom, near Muscogee, ABOUT a
year ago for what money he had
made as cotton picker.
Judge Woolson, at Des Moines,
Ia., decided an important question
involving the rights of minors under
the bankrupt law. A young man
20 years old engaged in the mercan-
tile business failed and filed petit
ton in bankruptcy. His creditors
objected to the granting of . dis
charge from his obligations on the
ground that he was minor, and,
therefore, not "person" entitled to
take advantage of the law. The
court hold that a minor is "person, y
and as such entitled to the benefits
of the law.
A cyclone swept over southern
Oklahoma and the Indian Territory
on the 9Th. At Chickasaw sixteen
buildings were destroyed and a num-
Der Of persons injured. Near Can
tonment, Okla, the family of J. H.
Ware went into storm cave. Dur