The Grenada sentinel., 1899-11-11
A packing house Is to bs srected
at Oklahoma CITY.

The inheritance tax on the Van
derbilt millions is S., 700, 900.
Gen. Otis now has an army o1
10000 men in the Philippines.
Fire at Philadelphia destroyed
$3.50. 200 worth of business property.
The main penitentiary building at
Sing Sing, y. Y, was destroyed by
fire.
Three thousand immigrants were
landed at the port of New York
October 3Oth.
All claims for loss of property
during the war in Cuba will be re
ferred to congress for action.
AS a result of the cool weather,
quarantines in the yellow fever dis
tricts haae been raised.
The Kansas volunteers were given
royal reception upon their arrival
at Topeka on the I'd inst.
The hanking house of D. A. Sayre
& Co.. at Louisville, KY, founded
in 1920, made an assignment.
John Goosby, colored. was lynched
near Macon, Ca, for fatally stabbing
his employer, John Robinson.
Geo. Wells, colored, was lynched
at Weir City, Kas., for the murder
OF Gus McArdie, a barkeeper.
The steamer George Calwell was
wrecked in q storm near Charleston
and 13 Of the crew were drowned.
A factory for the manufacture of
thorite, powerful explosive recently
discovered, is to be erected at Manila.
The Beers requested President
kruger's permission to use dum-dum
bullets, but he Indignantly refused.
Gen. Joe Wheeler, in a letter to
Il personal friend. says he intends to
resume his seat in congress when
that body meets.
Four thousand people were killed
by an earthquake on the Island of
Carem, part Of the Dutch posses
sions in the far east.
Belle Howard was convicted of the
killing of Hughetta Binkley at Dub
lin. Ill.,, and sentenced to seven
years in the penitentiary.
Three Cinnamon at Fort Worth
We're found guilty Of being in this
country in violation of the exclusion
act. They will be deported at once.
The civil service commission has
decided that the solicitation of cam
paign funds from government en-
ployes by letter is violation Of the
law.
The English troops in the Trans
vaal are eating American canned
meats. An order was placed with
Chicago firm last week for 5000, 900
pounds of this food.
According to official figures in the
office of the state bureau of labor,
the increase in wages of Illinois coal
miners has averaged 500 for each
miner in the last year.
United States treasury depart
mcnt statistics show that of the &c.
S33, 059, GOO gold produced since
1892, 5,34l, S55, 800, or consider-
bly, more than one-half, has been
produced since 1860, and $3.50, ,26O-
400, or more than onc-fourth, since
1885.
Ottman Mergenthaler, inventor of
The linotype typesetting machine,
,ne of the most wonderful inven.
ions of the century, is dead. He
vas born in Wurtemberg, Germany,
LG years ago. lie learned the watch
makers trade, and came to this
country in 1870.
1t is said Washington authorities
ire in possession of undisputable
evidence that the Japanese have been |
furnishing arms and ammunition to
he Philippine insurgents. Ameri-
an troops in the Island of Luzon
lave captured many stands Of arms
# Japanese manufacture.
The expenditures Of the govern
nent for all purposes, both civil and
military, the first 10 months of the
'ear, were $3.50, 100000. Last year
'p to November 1st the expenditures
we're $235, 100000.
A six-story building on West Lake
treet, Chicago, occupied as a seed