The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1900-09-01

Fully 100000 visitors attended


the G. A. R. encampment at Chi
cago.
The court house at Kingfsher,
Okla, with all records, was Destroy
ed by fire.
Gen. Oliver, one Of the Boer COM
manders, has been taken prisoner by
the British.
During two days fighting around
Pekin, August 18th and 10th, the
American losses were six killed and
thirty wounded.
The secretary of the interior
has issued an order authorizing
the immediate collection Of tribal
taxes in the Indian Territory.
A Chicago packing house has
just closed a contract with the Rus
sian government for 100000
pounds of beef on hoof, to be deliv-
cred in China. 1t will take 5000
head of fat cattle to fill the con-
tract.
Reports indicate that the Chi
nese spirit has not been broken by
the fall of Pekin, and that the anti
foreign movement continues tc
spread The Boxers are concentrate
ing in large numbers in the vicinity
OF Pekin.
Professional jealousy led to
duel between DR.. J. J. Sarrazin and
: DIR. Armand Mary, New Orleans
= dentists, to fight a duel. The mel
met on the street and agreed to set
= tie their difference at some secluded
q, spot. They repaired to a vacan
!, house in the residence portion o
0 town and when inside the buildin:
D May drew a revolver and shot Sar
i rain, mortally wounding him.
t Louis Peck, the negro who as
n saulted 4-year-old Christina Maa
d at Akron. and whose crime Is alon
l. responsible for the fearful riotln
5, that occurred at Akron, was con
d victed of the crime and sentenced t
Il the penitentiary for life at hard la
l. Dor. He had been indicted by spe
cial grand jury. Within two mil
a utes after the sentence had bee
ST pronounced Peck had been place
g. on board a Cleveland, Akron & C'
70 lumbus train, and in charge of tt
" sheriff and an assistant he was tai
* en- to the penitentiary.
ID A deputation of German SUI
rs jects, residing in the Transvaal, a
lie rived at Berlin to lodge complain
ne with the German foreign office r
ce garding alleged cruel treatment
1t. johannesburg. They assert tn
D. 400 German subjects of both sex
I'd were arrested there and sent to
Ill seaport, from which point they we
be shipped to Flushing, where Il
he British landed them pennile:
of They were arrested, according
,f- the statement of the deputation,
tv shops and taverns and even in the
lat beds, and were hurried away bar
he footed and only half clad, losil
al everything they had. They are ur
Int ing the foreign office to demal
m damages for the brutal treatme
all and the loss of property.
,ut During the siege of the Britt
get legation at Pekin, where all the fC
lge eign ministers and their stats h
nd taken refuge, 65 people were kill
ain and 160 wounded. A musician ma
,an ed Titus, a member of Company
a 18th U. S. infantry, carved out
me place for his name in history by
md ing the first man to plant the Anne
a can flag on the great wall surrour
mes ing the Tartar city. Titus sea-
rye the wall by means of rope a
md hook. When the foreigners enter
,lo- the city, they found their besies
all, countrymen in a sad plight, W
on only rations for a day or two, a
oor had the relief been delayed for
ack week they must have been compel
two to surrender.
lets At Gilman, ILL.,, an attempt
in serve a warrant on Mrs.
'ere Wright, charged with causing
lob, death of 16-year-old girl, resul
eek in the killing of two officers,
ICED fatal wounding of two others, ;
the wounding of Mrs. Wrig
big When the officer went to her ho
ago they found that Mrs. Wright
on barricaded the doors. When an
ack- trance was forced, Mitchell Ry
of the first to enter, was shot thro'
the heart. His companions retr'
,or ed. and three of them were $