The Grenada sentinel., 1899-08-19
NEWS OF THE WORLD.

StrOyed Dy an explosion.
Mrs. J. II. Hill was held up at
her home near Ponce City, Okla,
and robbed of $3.50 in cash.
A company composed entirely OF
Kentucky mountaineers has been re-
cruited for service in the Philippines.
Albert Rawlings and Charles A.
Daniels, police officers at Dallas.
Tex, killed each other in duel
with pistols.
Bryan Hedges, aged l3, attempted
to blow up a stump with blasting
powder near Pawnee, Okla, and lost
his life by a premature explosion OF
the powder.
Joseph Tomlinson, a merchant at
Jacksonville, ILL.,, blew his brains
out because his bride of a few weeks
deserted him.
The secretary of the navy will
recommend to congress that float
ing dry dock be built at Cavite,
Philippine Islands.
A Philadelphia firm has been
awarded the contract for building
the steel bridges of the 1mpe |
Government Railroad in Japan.
. Gen. Torres, commander Of lae
Mexican troops, upon learning that
the Indians had murdered his young
nephew, had 60 Yaqui prisoners shot.
Mamie Melcher, 13 years old, of
Albany, Ind., and her little brother
were e]ectrocuted by coming in con-
tact with a live electric light wire.
A duel with pistols occurred on
the main street Of Cameron, lex.
between Ross McCard and Dave
Remson in which both men received
mortal wounds.
While melting carbolic acid crystals
over a stove Mrs. Fred Gregg, OF
Springville, Ia, was fatally burned
by the explosion of the vessel con-
tanning the liquid.
Two Mormon elders were taken
from school house in which they
were preaching at Wise, Va, by a
gang n mountaineers, tied to tree
and beaten into insensibility.
The exports Of American manu-
factures for the fiscal year just closed
amounted to s33s. .667, .34, being
about rs per cent in excess Of i'm
ports Of manufactured articles.
Lightning struck the large barn
Of Abraham Shock, near Middles-
bury, Ill.,, burning it. together with
five horses, a large quantity Of grain
and hay, and many farm implements.
It is estimated 100000 acres of
wheat in Nebraska and North Da-
kota were destroyed bya severe hail
storm last week. The crop in Min
nesota was also considerably dam
aged.
Erick Eckstrom. who was placed
in the insane asylum at Norman,
Okla. after three unsuccessful at
tempts at suicide, hung himself to
the bed-post, making rope out Of
Q bed sheet.
Mamie Jones died at her home
near Jonesboro, Tenn, aged 95.
Mrs. Jones was one of the four
revolutionary widows receiving PEN
sions from the United States gov
erment. Her husband was 80 years
old when he married her, a girl of
1G.
Fifteen Cinnamon were last week
deported from Western Texas to
China for violating the immigration
laws. They were members Of a
band of 5000 Cinnamon who were
imported to Mexico to work on the
Mexican Central Railroad. They
quit their jobs in order to make their
way into the United States.
J. F. Green, who served with
Roosevelt's rough riders, was assas-
sinated at Havana by a Cuban who
refused to meet him in a duel.
Green belonged to a prominent Kan
sas family.
Mrs. VIM. Daugherty, Of near
Dallas, Tex, and VIM. Lincome
were killed by James and John Rob-
inson, Sunday, who used shot.guns
loaded with buckshot. Cause of
tragedy unknown.
M. Labor, leading counsel for
Dreyfus, was shot in the back by an
unknown assassin on the 14th as he