The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1900-02-17
Havana is now free from yellow

an estate valued at $6.00O,0 00.
Ex-Congressman jerry Simpson
is a candidate for United State
senator from Kansas.
Thos. r. Bard has been elected
United States senator from Cali
fornia to succeed S. NJ. White.
The Western Union Telegraph
Company will expend $40, 900, 00(
in extending and improving its
lines.
Experts estimate that the enum-
Grafton this year will show that the
United States has a population Of
7S,000,000.
Dispatches of the 9Th report that
Gen. Buffers army had again cross
ell the Tugela river, and a fierce
battle was in progress.
There is a general strike among
building laborers of Chicago. In a
riot one man was shot and killed,
and several badly injured.
Gov. Roosevelt, in a private let
ter to President Mckinley, positive
ly declares he is not Il candidate for
the republican nomination for vice
president.
A cablegram from Paris says the
object of DIR Leyd's visit to that
country was to negotiate a loan for
the Transvaal, in which he was I'M
successful.
The war department has issued a
statement which shows that the to-
tai collections for the port of Ha-
ana for the year 1899 aggregated
S 1,097,154.
VIM. Trusdall, colored, was hang
ed at Charlotte n. c., for the MUIR
der of his sweetheart a year ago. He
broke down and had to be carried to
the scaffold.
The house committee on claims
fayorably reported the Cooper bill
for the payment of the southern
cotton claims. The bill involves an
expenditure of $10,OOO.OOO.
Al Mountain Grove, Mo. Dave
Atkinson plunged a knife into Ben
Arber, ~inficting a fatal wound.
As Arber sank to the sidewalk he
drew his pistol and fired at Atkin-
son, who was running away. The
aim was true, and Atkinson fell
dead, the bullet entering his back.
going through his heart.
Admiral Hichborn's statement of
the condition of naval construction
shows that ali of the eight battle
ships so far authorized by congress
are already under construction. The
Kearsarge, Kentucky and Illinois,
at Newport News, are set down at
SO per cent, 81 per cent and "A per
cent of completion, respectively.
The senate committee on priv
leges and elections recommended
that the proceedings to unseat Sen
ator Scott, of West Virginia, be
dropped. Senator SCOTS right to
his seat was being contested on the
ground that he received one vote
less than a majority of all the mem
bers of the legislature.
James Gordon, colorcd. a tenant
on the farm of Geo. Rawlings, near
Chattanooga, Tenn, murdered Mrs.
Rawlings by cutting her throat from
ear TO ear. just as the crime was
committed Rawlings entered the
room where his wife lay. Seeing
what had been done, he grabbed his
shotgun and shot the negro dead.
Gordons motive was robbery.
Herr Won Bloch. the Russian au-
thor Of the treatise on wal. which is
said to have awakened in the car
theideas which led to his call for the
peace congress at The Hague, says
neither England nor the Beers will
win in the present contest, but that
after a long struggle and great loss
of life and property the differences
between the two countries will be
by arbitration.
Mrs. Williford, wife of a saloon
at Cripple Creek, Col, tried
to commit suicide by shooting her
self, and when her husband inter
fered she turned the weapon on
him and sent a bullet through his
heart.
Two robbers rode into the town
of Las Cruces, Mex, and with
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