The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1900-07-28
NEWS OF THE WORLD.

will be supplied by Chicago packers.
During the month of June six
Deaths occurred at Havana from
yellow fever.
Two deaths from bubonic plague
occurred at Manila, P. l., during
the last week in June.
Many full-blood Cherokees have
declined to be enrolled as citizens by
the Dawes commission.
Ten assistant surgeons have been
ordered to San Francisco, for duty
in the Philippines or China.
Gov. Roosevelt is to make a tour
of the West and then put in the last
three weeks Of the campaign in New
York state.
At a meeting of the cabinet it
was decided not to call an extra ses-
sion of congress to deal with the
Chinese situation.
The price of refined sugar con-
times to advance, an increase of 10
cents per 100 pounds being an
nounced on the 10th.
Gen. Joseph Wheeler, commander
of the department Of the lakes, has
asked the war department to assign
him to duty in China.
The commander of the Second
regiment, Illinois national guard,
has rendered the services of the regi-
ment for duty in China.
The manager of the st. Louis
Street Railway system refused to
submit differences between striking
employees and the company to arbi-
tration.
The Japanese charge de affairs at
Washington asserts that his govern
ment would oppose the dismember-
ment of China or the extension of
European acquisitions in the Orient.
John Gingrich, Of Moberly, Mo-,
attempted suicide by shooting him.
self in the head with revolver. He
was separated from his family. and
this and dependency on account o1
business misfortunes were the mo-
tiyes for the deed.
Fire broke out in the wheat fields
of Pawnee county, Kansas, one OF
the largest wheat-growing sections
of that state. Everybody turned
out to fight it, but large amount
of wheat was destroyed before il
could be subdued. 1t required thu
hardest kind of work to prevent il
from sweeping over scope of coun
try where hundreds of thousands O
bushels of wheat was in the ricks.
An excursion train on the Wheel
ing & Lake Erie railroad wa
wrecked at Bowerston, o. Th,
coaches were completely filled, an'
while going at good rate of spee'
the tender suddenly left the track
throwing the six coaches, engin
and baggage car into the ditch
Four of the coaches turned com
pletely over, but aside from fe,
bruises and general shaking up, n
one was injured.
Seven people we're injured, on
fatally, by falling walls in fir
on Michigan street, Chicago, cause
by lighting. The file started i
Venemeyer's broom factory, and dc
stroyed 5000, 900 worth of property
Josie Koble, l6 years old, Kati
Schaef, 10, and Mary Wheeler, II
while out driving in a buggy, WEI
struck by train at crossing nea
Shelbyville, Ind. and instantl
killed.
Col. f. H. Liscum, who fell j
battle at Tien Tsin, entered tn
army as corporal in the First Vel
mont infantry in 1861. He rose i
the regular line to colonel of th
Ninth infantry on April 25, 1899.
Five blocks of business houses ,
Prescott, Ariz., were wiped out b
fire ON the 14th. The total loss
placed at 81, 800, 900, with less tina
100000 insurance. Only seve
business houses in the town were le
standing.
1t is believed that Senator Jone
after naming the executive commi
tee and the various sub. committee
will retire from active labor
chairman of the national democrat
committee.
Because his divorced wife refuse