The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1900-12-15
OF THE WORLD.

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| have been abandoned.
Chas. A. Towne has been appoint
ed United States senator from Min
nesota to succeed Hon. C. X Davis,
deceased.
Since hostilities began in South
| Africa over $4,000 British officers
and mel have died from wounds,
fever and exposure.
A meeting of mid-road-populists
has beer called. to be held at Ind
annapolis Dec. %, for the purpose
of organizing 4 new party.
Geo. l.. Won L. Meyer has been
nominated by President Mckinley
to be ambassador to Italy, vice Am
bassador Draper, resigned.
The report of the isthmian canal
commission submitted by the presi-
dent TO congress gives as the unani-
nous conclusion of that body that
"the most practicable and feasible
route for an isthmian canal under
the control and management and
ownership of the United States is
that known as the Nicaragua
route The commission esti-
mates the cost of this route at
5000. SAC. 0G0.
The telegraph operators employed
on the Santa fe road from Calves
ton to Purcell. Q. T., struck on the
9Th. The men demand ten consecu-
tive hours rest out of each twenty
four and a small increase in wages.
The company refused the demands.
When the order for the strike flashed
over the wires every operator be-
tween Galveston and Purcell quit
work, putting a complete stop to
traffic between the two points. On
: the following day the men on the
entire system went out on a SYM
: pathy strike for the men out be-
t tween Galveston and Purcell.
: Commissioner of Pensions
; Evans report, as submitted to con
. gress. shows that at the close Of the
l last fiscal year there were on thu
pension roll 993,225 names, a ne
!, increase of 2.010 over the fisca
= wear 1899. The number added tt
the rolls during the year was IS,
344. The amount disbursed TO
: army pensions during the year wa
S134.e00.591 "a. and for navy pen
: sions So, 761,533.4 II, a total o
Sl3S.4G2, 1870. 65, which shows a
e increase over the previous years eN
It penditure of $101 ,077.10. Their
L we're GS4 names added to the roll
during the year by special act
passed at the first session of tn
fftv-siXth congress.
In a speech in the French senat'
n when the naval bill was under dii
d cussion. Gen. MERCER caused a ser
is sation when he said: In view {
II the possibility of war with Grei
~ Britain. the use of the army is M
sufficiently taken into account. III
s, times are not the same as they we.
SIS a hundred years ago. Steam, Il
u navy, the telegraph and the raj
road have rendered the problem
the invasion of England nut
he easier of solution. Moreover, En-
us land herself is no longer the san
oe The T%ransvaal war has shown tn
IN the British army, although bray
90 is not equal to the task which En-
tie land expected it to perform. T
so British navy is powerful, but it h
- many coasts to defend. France
"a therefore, numerically EnglanC
equal at certain points, and ev
her superior in instruments Of {
est struction. History furnishes ma
Is instances of mutiny in the Engli
10. navy at the moment of battle.
an landing in England is, thereto
ley not beyond realization.
The sultan of Turkey has issg
an order to the minister of mari
10 to report what measures are nee
ty, sary to place the Turkish navy on
IS equality with the meritime matte
she of Europe.
Gen. Breckenridge shows that
cost of a soldier in 1896 was 1871.
nse and in 1900 was $%1,014.66. CO
~ pairing the cost of the army in pc
and war, the inspector-general fl
/. os an increase of cost during the
the Of S213.16.
ex' A Washington dispatch amour
.her that President Mckinley has fo
inc ally expressed himself as being