The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1900-08-18
NEWS OF THE WORLD.


On the 18th inst. 80 persons died
in New York City from heat pros
tration. IN
One-half the British war loan of
f10,000,0 900 has been subscribed for
in the United States.
The Chinese government has
consented for the delivery of cipher
messages to ambassadors at Pekin.
A telegraph system connecting
the Klondike mining country with
the outside world will soon be COM
pieted.
Fifty cases of yellow fever were
under treatment at Havana August
9TH, and the disease is reported on
the increase.
In Italy the authorities are max
ing war on anarchists, and propose
to rid that country of this danger
Gus element.
Nine persons who sought shelter
under some trees in New York CITY
during a storm were struck by light
ming. Four of them were fatally
injured.
Ii Hung Chang is reported as
having acknowledged that the Chi
nese government is unable to sup
press the Boxers. All foreigners
have been ordered to leave Chin
Kiang, but those at Hong Kong are
said to be safe.
Fifty thousand dollars of the
100000 appropriated by the Ken
lucky legislature to defray the ex-
penses of arresting and prosecuting
those responsible for Goebels as
sassination have already been ex-
pended.
Dallas (Texas) street car strik-
erS or their sympathizers have been
making life miserable for those
who operate or ride on cars by the
free use of dynamite. At least half
O dozen cars have been wrecked but
fortunately no one has been serious
ly injured.
Baroness Won Kettler, whose hus-
band, the German ambassador at
Pekin, was murdered by Boxers, is
reported safe in the German lega-
ton at Pekin. The baroness is an
American, and it vas reported she
was murdered at the time her hus-
band met his fate.
The Germen meat bill prohibiting
the importation of American canned
meats goes into effect October LIST.
The main provision of the bill is as
follows: "The Importation through
the customs houses of meats in air
tight, scaled cans or other vessels.
of sausages and other mixtures
made from finely cut meats, is pro-
hibited."
Gen. Chaffee t~elegraphed the war
department on the 9th as follows
"Yang Tsun occupied today.
Wounded; Second Lieut.. Frank r.
Long, Ninth infantry, moderate
casualties about so men Ninth
United States infantry, Fourteenth
infantry and battery F, Fifth artil-
lery. Nearly all from Fourteenth
infantry. Many men Frustrated,
heat and fatigue" Yang Tsung is
~ miles from Tien Tsin.
Counsel of Nicely, who is accused
of embezzling Cuban postal funds,
and against whom there has been
proceedings for extradition to Cuba,
applied to Judge Wallace at Alba
ny, n. Y, for a writ of habeas cor
pus, which was denied. However,
an appeal was taken to the United
States supreme court, which cannot
be heard before the middle of Oc-
tober. In the meantime Nicely
will be kept in custody at Albany.
The st. Louis street car strike has
not yet been settled. A car on d
suburban line was blown up by dy-
Mantle the other day in broad day
light, and explosions are numerous
at night.
Bob Fitzsimmons knocked out
Gus Rubin in the sixth round of a
hard-fought battle before the Tween
tieth Century Club in New York
City on the night of the 10th inst.
Fitzsimmons weighed 165 pounds
and Rubin 1877 pounds.
A case of bubonic plague is re-
ported at Berlin. Germany.
An order has been madn ~nlacino