The Grenada sentinel., 1899-05-06
The Missouri legislature passed {
beer-inspection bill.

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plague is raging in Canton, China.
The Grant statue in Fairmoun
Park, Philadelphia, was unveiled o.
the 9th.
The pope will hold a consistory i,
May. when ten new cardinals vii
be elected.
The Cudahy company is preparin!
to erect a modern packing house a
Kansas City.
Tim Murphy, the comedian, il
reported seriouslyill with pneumoni,
at Oshkosh, Wis.
Lee Roy, a Chinaman, is lying a
the point Of death in New Yorl
City with leprosy.
May dewey Day-was cele'
brated in many of the principal cite.
of the United States.
The encouragement Of Indians
is preparing to proceed against trusts
operating in that state.
Three men were killed by a fall ot
slate in the Pen Argyle valley quarry,
70 miles from Eaton. Pa.
Atlanta negroes want the colored
schools placed under control Of a
negro board of education.
The first national congress of the
Disciples of Christ was held at St.
Louis April 26th to 2Sth.
At jamestown, N. ", Edward
South, aged Is years, was stabbed
to death by his drunken father.
Benz. Love and Auton Schaefcr
fought duel with pitchforks near
O't'allon, ILL.,, in which Schaefer
was killed.
Prices in the Pittsburg steel market
reached high-water mark the past
week. when steel billets sold at s26. SO
per ton in 100O-ton lots.
There has been no decrease in the
exports from Spain to her former
colonies since the close of the war
with the United States.
Twenty young girls were kidnapped
from near Paris, France, under the
promise of remunerative positions.
They were taken to Sicily.
The PHILIPPINE insurgent leaders
have been notified that an uncon-
ditionul surrender will be the only
terms considered by the U unitedStates.
1t is reported the largest copper
lodges ever discovered in the west
have been found north of Mount
Rainier, 60 miles east Of Tacoma,
Wash.
Michel Daniel, colored. was shot
to death near Leesburg, Ga. because
he expressed himself freelyabout the
recent lynchings of Hose and Strick-
and.
In fight following a cEarivari of
! couple just married in Douglass
county. Mo-, James Mcintosh was
stabbed to death by his cousin, John
Miller.
The remains of Hon. s'Dick"
Oglesby, who was a veteran of three
wars - the Indian. Mexican and
,ivil-were inferred with military
lonors.
Hon. Thomas B. Reed, speaker
If the national house, and Richard
Iroker, the Tammany leader, sailed
or England on the same steamer
April 26th.
The British army in the Trans
'acl is being steadily augmented,
md President Cruger has ordered a
nore rigid inspection Of the Dutch |
military forces.
Gov. Tanner vetoed a bill passed !,
" the legislature appropriating
$1,000 for the payment of a bounty !
III sugar made from sugar beets
aised in Illinois.
The new extradition treaty be-
wcen the United States and Mexico
vent into effect May 1st. That
country is no longer q safe retreat |
or American criminals.
Half million dollars worth of
property was destroyed by the cy-
lone which swept through Kirk /
lille, Newton, Chillicothe and other ;.
Missouri towns April 9th.
$. B. Downey, deputy collector Of |
Internal revenue, arrested in Lam
;ster, Pa, charged with completely
!, the counterfeiting Of bogus cigar
lamps, has confessed his guilt.
At Galena, Kan, Chas. Williams,
olored, was shot to death in the
onnty jail by a mob composed
Wholly Of negroes. Williams MUIR
cred his mistress by strangling her
0 death.
Dispatches Of the 27th state that
guinaldo's army was fleeing from
'alumpit before American troops.
he town of Calumpit was taken by