The Grenada sentinel., 1899-10-28

at war in Mexico.
A Hungarian has invented a
machine which telegraphs over lOO,-
900 words an hour.
All news of the war in the Trans
vaal passing through English chan
nels is rigidly censored.
Mary E. Hawley, after spending
fortune in the temperance cause,
is living in poverty at Chicago.
The first-class battlcship Ken
lucky has been completed and will
be given trial trip in few days.
The English parliament has voted
support to the army that will enable
Great Britain to shortly subduc the
Beers.
Judging from the way prices of
cereals are tluctuating, spectators
are uncertain of the supply and
demand.
Mergenthaler, the inventor of the
linotype typesetting machine. is said
to be hopelessly ill at his home in
Baltimore.
Pearl Hart, notorious female
bandit, escaped from Jail at Tucson,
Ariz. She is accused Of stage rob-
berry and murder.
Hector Smith. a San Antonio car
penter, is organizing company of
volunteers to fight with the Beers
against the English.
J. N. jackson beat his way from
Western Kansas to Kokomo, Ind,
his boyhood home. and after greeting
his family swallowed a fatal dose Of
morphine.
Chas. Orr. a merchant at Brew
ton, Ga, after finishing a hearty
meal with his wife and children.
swallowed d fatal dose of strychnine
before leaving the table.
The Pee Gee has cut the rate on
packing house products from Kan
sas City to Texas points 13 cents
per hundred pounds. This action
it is expected will cause other roads
effected to inaugurate a bitter rate
war.
According toa statement prepared
by the treasury department. but
So, 93a, $50 ofthc outstanding United
States bonds are held abroad. Cuba
is the largest holder, having 81. 1885,
700. Next comes France, with $685. :
600, and then England with $751;
$50. Spain holds sS3, 800.
There have been organized in Cuba
and Porto Rico sections of the United
States climate and crop service. and
weekly climate and crop bulletins
are now issued regularly from the
central stations at San Juan and
Havana, printed in both Spanish
and English.
Daniel G. Reid, president of the
American Tin Plate Company. in
his testimony before the industrial
commission at Washington, stated
that Judge ". II. Moore, who organ
lied the company, received 1,OO0,-
600 in common stock for his labors.
Mr.. Reid also testified that the aver
age wage paid by tin plate mills is
$3.50 per day-the highest average
paid to any laborers in the United
States.
A bloody fight took place in a
school room near Lebanon. Mo. G.
". Northrip, the teacher, had some
trouble with Bob Palmer and Charles
Hudson, two pupils. The school
directors and the parents of the boys
met with the teacher to patch the
matter up, but they all got into a
fight, in which knives and clubs were
freely used. Isiah Clifton, Hensley
Palmer and Bob Palmer were SER
iously injured.
The full strength Of the army has
been reached, making 100000 men
now available for any service re-
quired. OF this force IS. 900 belong
to the regular army anc $4,000 to
the volunteer establishment. Should
it become necessary to further in
crease the army, congress must act
before more troops can be secured.
Under the law the present army can
be maintained until June 30, 1901,
when it returns toits normal strength.
For the first six months after the