The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1900-07-21
NEWS OF THE WORLD.

Consul Hay will shortly return
home from South Africa.
Cattle are dying by thousands in
the drouth-stricken sections of Ari-
IONA.
There were SO deaths and 95
prostrations from heat in Chicago
last week.
Senator John H. Gear, of Iowa,
died at Washington on the 14th of
heart disease.
President Mckinley has issued a
proclamation of trade reciprocity
with Germany.
The American troops landing in
China are being provisioned for an
advance on Pekin.
r. G.. Dun, founder of Dun's
commercial agencies, is slowly dying
from dropsy at Dunmore, n. j.
On account of much trouble be-
tween claim owners, Cape Nome
has been placed under martial law.
The army transport Hancock ar
rived at San Francisco from Manila
on the 14th with a large number of
sick and wounded soldiers.
The interior department has de-
cided not to lay out and survey any
townsites in the Cherokee Nation
until the Cherokee treaty has been
finally acted upon by congress.
James Pool, president of the Ok
lahoma Anti Horse Thief Associa-
ton, was killed in a battle with out
laws thirty miles west of Bartletts-
vile. The posse headed by Pool,
after he was killed, succeeded in
wounding and capturing three of
the gang of thieves.
An imperial decree, setting forth
Chiua's side of the present trouble,
has been issued. 1t states that the
bombardment of the Chinese forts at
Taku precipitated the crisis in Pc
kin, notwithstanding the Boxers for
months had been committing the most
heinous crimes against foreigners
at the very door of the Chinese cap
ital, which the government was
either unwilling or unable to pre-
vent.
An Illinois passenger train was
held up and robbed on the night of
the 18th two miles south of Wyck-
life. Ky. The robbers, three in mum
Der, after tagging the train down,
cut off the engine and express car
from the rest of the train, and after
going about a half mile away, blew
open the door of the safe in the ex-
press car. The robbers secured
but little money. A nan named
Kelley, arrested at his home not far
from where the hold-up occurred,
made a confession, giving the names
of two men residing in st. Louis
known as Chas. Barnes and j. n.
Nelson as his pals, The former was
taken into custody. but the latter,
after a desperate battle with the Off
ccrr, made his escape.
A semi-oficial dispatch received at
Washington on the 10th confirms
the reports heretofore sent out from
Shanghai to the effect that every for
eigner in the Chinese capital was
murdered July 9th and 9Th. After
exhausting their ammunition, the
foreigners engaged the fanatics in &
hand to-hand battle, which contin.
ued until the last mar of them had
been slain. Hundreds of Chinese
were slain, but not Il foreigner, man.
woman or child, wa left to tell the
story of the diabolical work of the
merciless Boxers. The revolt il
spreading throughout the empire
and thousands of native and foreign
Christians are daily being put tt
death in the most inhuman manner
A mysterious plague has broker
out among the negroes of Caldwell
parish, Louisiana, that proves fata
in almost every instance. Some thinl
the epidemic is a very malignan
form of smallpox.
At the session of the Youn,
Peoples Christian Union, of tn
Universalist church. held in Atlant
last week, a resolution enlisting tn
influence of members to secure law
to prohibit the manufacture an
sale of liquor was defeated.