The Grenada sentinel., 1899-07-29

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The canning factories Of Califor
mia have consolidated.
j. c. Jarvis and Claib Quinn wer'
killed by a cave-i in at q Joplin, Mo.
zinc mine.
Gen. Shafter will be retired from
the army in October on account o.
the age limit.
Miss Mary Vaughan, of Waterloo
1a., cied as a result Of being bit BY
"kissing" bug.
1t is estimated the output this veal
from the Klondike gold mines viii
reach SIS. .O00,0 900.
St. Louis brewers will test the
constitutionality Of the beer inspec'
ton law of Missouri.
Newspaper correspondents have
been warned to leave Clay county by
the warning factions.
An earthquake shock was dis.
tinctly felt at San Diego and Los
Angeles, CAL, July 22d.
Bob Ingersoll, the great agnostic,
died at his home at Dobbs Ferry, N.
y, July 2lst Of spop!exy.
Within the next year France will
add to her navy l battleship,
cruiser, 4 torpedo boats and rs
torpedo boat destroyers.
Telegraph operators on the Inter-
national 4 Great Northern railroad
threaten to strike unless a redress of
grievances is granted them.
John Porter and VIM. Marion
were killed by the premature ex-
plosion Of a stick of dynamite in a
zinc mine near Aurora, Mo.
DR.. J. NJ. Lafater was shot and
killed in his office in Manchester,
Tenn, by Campbell Green. The
difficulty arose over a mule trade.
Frank Embree, colored, was taken
from officers by mob in Howard
county, Missouri, and lynched. The
father of the girl Embree had as
saulted directed the work of the
mob.
The Cleveland, Ohio, street-car
men are again on strike. The last
trouble was settled by the company
agreeing to reinstate all old en-
ployes without prejudice. The men
claim the company violated its agree
ment by Systematically discharging
the former strikers.
At Kahoka, Mo-, Army Hull shot
and mortally wounded his sweet.
heart, Miss Florence Gordon. Hull
proposed to her, and when she de-
clined to become his wife he drew
a revolver and shot her. lie fled
but was pursued, and when hard
pressed shot and killed himself.
Mrs. Blanche Davis. of Kansas
City, has filed suit against her former
husbands R. II. Davis. from whom
she was divorced two years ago, for
$40, 900 for breach of promise. She
alleges Davis importuned her to re-
marry him, to which she assented,
but that he now refuses to carry out
his promise.
Boys in swimming near Perkins,
Okla, by STOPPING in the water and
declaring it of depth to come up to
their necks, induced a companion
named Everett Mullin, aged ", to
dive head-flrst from a l4-foot bank
into Is inches of water. His head
was completely buried in the sand,
and his skull was fractured, result
ing in death.
A statement read by tho secretary
Of the Southern Lumbermen's Asso-
ciation at the ninth annual conven-
ton, held last week in st. Louis,
showed Texas to be the leading state
in production for the first five
of 1899. the total cut there
being 1853, ,996, GG4 feet. Arkansas
and the Indian Territory (combined)
came next with 142, 1856, 49G feet.
The other states produced as follows:
Louisiana, 103. 800. 329; Mississippi,
92.S16,221; Alabama. 48,72S,813;
41,O75,5S7 feet.
The Tennessee Druggists Asso.
citation passed resolution request
ing all druggists in that state to
guard the sale of cocaine. \
The total production Of pig iron
in the United States for the first
half of 1899 was $3.50, 167 gross
tons. against $500, 7O3 tons in the
first half of 1898, and 5,9O4,23l