The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1900-01-06
NEWS OF THE WORLD.


Ore averaging IS, 900 in gold to
the ton has been found at Cripple
Creek.
Manufacturers of cotton thread
have advanced the price of that arti-
Gle rs per cent.
Andrew C~arnegie's latest gift is
$4,000 for a public library building
at Lincoln, Neb.
The Thirty-eighth and Fortieth
volunteer infantry arrived at Manila
December 9th.
Headquarters of the Pacific En-
press Company has been removed
from Omaha to st. Louis.
Four negroes were killed in as
many different rows at Birming-
ham, Ala, Christmas day.
L. W. Rothschild, eldest son and
heir of Baron Rothschild, has VOL
unteered to fight the Beers.
+. II. Hershey, of Lancaster, Pa,
county treasurer, is short sec, 900.
1t is believed he has gone to Canada.
Five couples eloped from Clarks-
vile, Tenn, Christmas day, and
succeeded in having the nuptial
knot tied.
Albert Morrison, of Mount YER
non, N. Y, shot and MORALLY
wounded his wife, installing her
for a burglar.
Gen. Chafree, now on duty in
Cuba, may be assigned to service in
the Philippines. as a result of the
death of Gen. Lawton.
The 1899 output of gold from
the Cripple Creek district is placed
at 1872, sos tons OF ore, with a bullion
value of $40, IA 100.
a keeper at the Vienna geological
garden entered the cage of lions and
six of the animals rushed upon him
and tore him to pieces.
The postoffice department will set
up and exhibit at the Paris exposi-
ton every device used in the
American postal service.
English soldiers in South Africa
complain Of neglect on the part Of
those high in authority in providing
sufficient food and other necessities.
The Beers threaten to reduce the
rations of British prisoners if Great
Britain stops the entry of food into
the Transvaal via the Delagoa bay.
Boer agents at Cincinnati have
been warned 10 stop enlisting men
to 90 to South Africa. such action
being in violation of the neutrality
laws.
j. L. Booker, an insurance agent
at Richmond, Ky, after eating
Christmas dinner with his family,
swallowed a dose of carbolic acid,
dying in great agony.
The diplomatic controversy be-
tween the United States, France and
Great Britain over the extension of
trade concessions in China has been
settled satisfactorily.
Mrs. Mary Harding fatally
wounded Henry Whitman at Brazil.
Ind. The parties were neighbors,
and the shooting was the result of
enmity of long standing.
Viola johnson, colored, of Bee
vile, Tex, left her 2-year-old child
alone. and when she returned found
il burned to I crisp. Its clothing
caught from the Fireplace.
Cards and WHISKY caused a Christ
mas tragedy at Weldon, H.. in which
Harry Somers, son Ct a prominent
citizen, was shot and killed by a
farmer named Doc Marcum.
The b%euLonic plague has broken
out in Honolulu.
Flina Lopez, a young Mexican,
was shot and killed by some one un-
known in the Catholic church al
Brownsville, Tex, while midnight
Christmas mass was in progress.
Miss F1ossic Weaver, a prominent
young lady of Xenie, H., walked
a half-mile to a pond late at night
made an opening in the ice anc
drowned herself. The faithlessnes
OF a lover caused her to take her life
Simpson & Co., owners of a biz
cotton mill at Bagdad, Fla, poste(
a notice that they would no longe
employ members of the knights o
4 Labor, but ALL pay 10 per cent ad