The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1900-09-08
OTHERWISE UNNOTICED.


against the evacuation of Pekin.
DIR. Albert Merrell has been appoint
| ed pension medical examiner for st.
Louis, vice DR.. Hill, deceased.
1t is reported that Gen. Delacey.
| the Boer commander, died of wounds
received at Glands river.
Fire broke out in the Venice (Il.)
canning factory, Tuesday night,which
entirely destroyed the plant in an
hour.
The interior department announces
the disbarment from practice before
it of holland d. Williams, of Natchez,
Miss, charged with shady practices.
John Salmon, chief of police of AS
sumption, H., died in that city Fri
day night. Three weeks ago he was
taken with a violent spell of hic-
coughing, and could get no relief.
Influential Chinese at Hong-Kong
state that the flame of rebellion has
been famed in the southern provinces,
and predict a tremendous ~conhagra-
ton within a month.
Senator NJ. A. Hanna will open the
republican campaign in Ohio at
Youngstown next Saturday. Senator
Depew will probably be with him.
One thousand w-oodworkers of Chi
cago are on a strike because their
employers attempted to return to the
nine-hour working day system.
More than 500 letter-carriers, in
convention at Detroit, Mich, pro-
tested emphatically against the new
law requiring letter-carriers to work
As hours per week.
Granite City, H., is happy over the
signing of the scale for the tin plate
workers at that place by the repre-
sentatives of the National Stamping
Co.
General Mosly and his wife, ne
groes, are in jail at St. Louis, &C
cused of stealing a wagon load of
goods from various residences in
which they had been employed as
servants.
James j.. Gilpin was arrested at
Batesville, Mo-, by Deputy United
States Marshal Osmer, of st. Louis, on
a charge of manufacturing and circu-
lating counterfeit money.
Police signal service officials at Chi
cage say hat city is likely to witness
Just such an accident as that which
occurred in St. Louis Monday night.
The annual reunion of the old set
tiers of Woodford county, ILL.,, was
held in the Mission tabernacle at
Eureka.
The German papers continue to dis
russ the coal famine, which now
threatens to become a public calam-
ity.
John d. Rockefeller has made SPELL
man seminary, a negro college of At
lanta, Ga, under Baptist auspices, a
present of $500
Rainfall has been general through
out Arkansas, and cotton has been
benefited to some extent, especially
in the bottom lands. Cotton is open
ing rapidly in most sections, and pick
ing is general.
Both houses of the Kentucky legis-
la tuTe have a number of election bills
before them, some of them amending
lle botDtl Id anu tIlCl ltPCdlih
it.
James Seymour Grinnell, who has
held many positions of national inn
%portance, died at Greenfield, Mass.
after a long illness, aged 10 years.
Anna Senkrah, an American violin
list, who was a Miss Hardness. anC
who married Herr Hoffman, an at
torney practicing at Weimar, commit
ted suicide at Berlin.
Erskine NJ. Phillips, a millionaire
merchant, and for many years promi
nent in democratic political circles, il
seriously i'll at his home in Chicago
His condition is considered critical.
Mr.. and Mrs. Noble are receiving
the congratulations of their neigh
bors at Catlettsburg. KY, owe thu
birth of a ten-pound daughter. Mrs
Noble has passed her sixtieth yea,
and her husband is 10 years old. Thi
is the first child born TO Mr.. Noble.