The Grenada sentinel., 1899-05-06

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In the recent senatorial election:
in Spain the government carried q
majority.
| Eleven fine bloodcd horses were
burned to death in barn near Ia.
maroa, Ill,
Sam 4. Jack, the theatrical man.
ager, died in New York City OF
cancer of the liver.
Mrs. Mary Sweeney, aged 113
years, the Oldest person in Illinois,
died at Jacksonville last week.
Austria is planning to increase her
navy, preparatory to an active par
ticipation in the partition of China.
Census Director Merriam declares
census supervisors will be selected
from both the democratic and re-
publican parties.
Apowder press at Dupont's powder
works, near Woodbury., N. j., ex-
plodcd, killing four men and injur-
ing three others.
E. j. Boles, aged 20 years, ap-
piled for license at Guthrie, Okla.
to wed girl of IA. The clerk re-
fused to issue the license.
Gen. Otis reports as missing Capt.
Rockefeller. He has not been seen
since April 2sth, and it is feared he
was captured by the insurgents.
Senator James K. Jones, chair
man of the democratic national COM
mittee, accompanied by his son,
sailed for Europe on the I'd inst.
French army officers guilty of
wrong-doing regarding the convic-
ton of Dreyfus by manufacturing
evidence against him, are to be prose-
cuted.
An investigation is to be made
into report that arms and amuni-
tion have been purchased from Amer
ican manufactures for the Philip
pine insurgents.
Mrs. A. E. Mayne died April 9th
at Battle Ground, Ind. She was
the mother Of four Methodist min
listers and lacked but five years of
being centenarian.
A mortgage was filed in New York
city last week, covering the Whit
ney electric plants, the revenue on
which amounted to Sl0,5O The
mortgage was for s2l, 200, 600.
At Maryville, Mo-, Mrs. Ida Ew-
ing was acquitted Of the charge of
numbering her sister-in-law. Mrs.
Kittie Ewing. The defendant did
not deny the killing, but claimed it
was accidental.
The body of Mrs. May Stark. q
wealthy Evansville, Ind, widow.
Was found in field six miles from
the above place. She went driving
a few nights before her body was
discovered with some unknown per-
son, and was evidently murdered.
Mrs. Jane Tuttleton and her four
small children were murdered at
their home near Maiden. Mo. The
bodies were partly incinerated in the
ruins of their home, which was set
on fire by the murderer. Il. H.
Tuttleton, step son of the dead
woman, was arrested on suspicion.
Two gigantic corporations filed
charters last week in the state of
New Jersey. One was the Amalga-
mated Copper Company, with an
capital Of $75,OOO,O0O,
and the other the United States
Flour Milling Company, capital
stock, $25, 900. 900.
A bloody riot took place at Ward
ner, Idaho, Apri, goth, in which
of lives were lost and much
destroyed. Striking min
ers, armed with Winchesters, went
to the Sullivan and Bunker Hill
mills, drove the non-union employees
off and blew the properties to pieces
with giant powder. The property
destroyed was valued at $500. 900.
Seventeen farmers of Pemiscot
county. No., were arrested by Fed
eral authorities charged with cutting
The Mississippi river leeve. The
men do not deny their guilt, and
claim it was necessary to cut the
evee in order to drain their lands.
The otfense is punishable by fine of
$4,000, or both fine and imprison-
ment, at the discretion of the court.
A cyclone swept through the towns
If Kirkville, Chillicothe and New
ton, Mo-, on the evening of April
eth, leaving death and destruction
in it's path. At Kirkville about 40
people were killed and many more
injured. The number of killed at
Newton is reported at II, and at
IL lives were lost. On
the same date a severe storm swept
The country near Onawa, Ia, doing