The Grenada sentinel., 1899-11-18

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Cuban convicts object to wearing
stripes and having theirlocks clipped
Vice President Hobert is not ex
pected to long survive his presen
illness.
Robbers blew open the safe in tn
postoffice at Sycamore, ILL.,, securing
$1,000.
1t is reported all the principa
southern lime kilns have been bough
up by trust.
An American engineer has dis
covered three lodes of gold ore neal
Osmara, in Egypt.
Gems. Macarthur, Lawton and
Wheeler are making it interesting
for the Philippines.
Amos J. Allen, republican, was
elected to congress from the First
Maine district, to succeed Hon. II.
B. Reed.
At Gracey, KY, Jack Mason shot
and killed Henry Gather over a
game of cards, in which there was
10 cents at stake.
J. F. Bennett, chief of police OF
Hattiesburg, Miss, was shot and
killed by I. N. Hollingsworth,
travelling salesman.
A disastrous railroad wreck oc-
Cured on the Michigan Central,
near La Sale, Mich, in which 80
persons were killed.
The United Daughters of the Con-
federacy has assumed the RESPONSE
sibility of erecting a monument to
the memory of Jefferson Davis.
The president has appointed ex-
Gov. Joseph W. Fifer, Of Illinois, a
member of the interstate commerce
commission, vice W. j. Calhoun,
resigned.
Illinois coal miners threaten to
strike if the mine operators ship any
more coal to points in Kansas, Mis-
souri,. Arkansas and the Indian Ter
ritory where miners are already Oh
strike.
A municipal pawn-shop, operating
under state law. has been opened
in Chicago. The institution loans
money at per cent per month in
sterd of the customary 5 and 10 per
cent charged by regular pawnbrokers.
The object is to protect poor people
who at times are compelled to bor-
row money on chattcls. If the plan
proves q success, other cities will
more than likely adopt it.
The report OF Postmaster General
Bates, of the army, shows the fol-
lowing main items of expenditure
during the last fiscal year: Regular
army. s35, III, 225; volunteer army,
s34, 81, ,1"7; disbandment of the
Cuban army, s905, 100; extra pay to
volunteers in the war with Spain,
s202, 592. Gen. Bates recommends
that ''under no circumstances should
men be appointed to the office of
paymaster |who are over 40 years of
age, nor until they have passed an
examination us to their physical,
moral and mental fitness for the
position
The necessity Of adequate coaling
stations for United States war-ships
is urged by Rear Admiral Bradford,
chief of the naval bureau of equip
ment, in his report to the secretaly =
Of the navy. He relates the diff
Culties encountered during the war
with Spain in securing coal, trans
porting it and getting it aboard the
ships. While these efforts were sue
cessful, the admiral says lit was due
almost entirely to the near prox-
unity Of the thcater of war to our
own coast"
Martin Williams, student in
seminary at Buckhannon, W. Va,
together with other students, burned
the president in effigy. A policeman
hastened to the scene, and when the
boys ran he fired at them, killing
young Williams.
The transport Indiana, bearing
the Tennessee volunteers, the last
Of the returning volunteer regi-
ments, arrived at San Francisco on
the 18th inst.
Gen. Wheeler writes that he is de-
lighted with the Philippines. Out
of the 100000 people in these
islands tho ronoro1 covs Aru;poIdo