The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1900-12-29

population in the central provinces OF
Turkey, in which w Christians have
been killed.
Theo. d. Poole, United States mar
shall for the northern district of New
York; member of the F~ifty-fourth
from 1894 to 1896 and q civil
wal veteran, died of apoplexy at SYRIA
cuse on the cad.
John Riley Chamberlain, a veteran
of the civil war and a graduate of
Miami university at Oxford, o., died
in Cincinnati, on the 23d, aged 72. He
had been engaged in newspaper work
in Cincinnati for IS years.
Prof. Carl Becker, the German his
torical painter, whose eightieth birth
day anniversary was celebrated on the
18th, and who was then the recipient
of a congratulatory address from the
Berlin academy of arts, died, on the
Goth, of influenza
1t is reported in Wichita, Kas., that
Frank Rockefeller is negotiating for
the purchase of 100000 acres of land
IN Kiowa and Clark counties with a
view to stocking it with horses and
high grade cattle, sheep and hogs, es-
specially horses, for which he sees a
profitable future.
We're Foster, who had been engaged
for so years in assisting the emigra-
ton of nearly twenty-thousand young
women from the congested districts
of the west of Ireland, and in the
building or furnishing of over twenty
two hundred national schools in every
part of ireland, died in Belfast, ON the
21st.
Advices from southern Luzon say
that a lieutenant and 60 men of the
Ninth United States cavalry attacked
a large body of insurgents recently
near ~Guinobatan, Province of Albay.
After the battle As dead insurgents
were counted, together with many
wounded. Only one American was
wounded.
j. G. Stowe, consul general of the
United States to South Africa, with
headquarters at Cape Town, arrived
at New York, on his vacation, on the
new Red Star liner Vaderland on the
goth. He had not been in America for
three years. He left for Kansas City,
Mo, on the 21st, to spend Christmas
with his family.
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The British secretary of state for
war, Mr.. st. John Broderick, an
nounced, on the 21st, that, in view of
the prolongation of the war in South
Africa, members of the imperial yeo-
many will be paid five shillings in
stead of one shilling and two pence
pei day. Militiamen are promised
priority of return over regulars.
Capt. p. +. Horn, one of the Oldest
Missouri river steamboat men, died AT
his residence in Pierre, S. D., on the
goth. Capt. Horn made his first trip
TO the head of navigation on the Mis-
souri, in 1866, and has navigated the
river continuously since then, with
the exception of one year, when he
eerved as a pilot on the Yukon river.
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At the request of the secretary OF
war, the house committee on insular
affairs, OF The 18th, reported a bill in.
creasing the salary of the commission,
er of education of Porto Rico from SO,
900 to $4,000. Prof. Brumbaugh relin
pushed a position paying $1,000 q
~.a- frDpa n uapgn Af n,,I1so I,%.v -
accept the Porto Rican commissioner
ship.
William w. Thomas, Jr., United
States minister to Sweden and Nor
way, on the night Of the 10Th, ad
dressed the English society in Stock
holm on scandinavian Colonization
in America and its Influence on Ameri
can Civilization" The address wa
well received, and a portrait of Pres
ident Mckinley, handsomely framed
was presented to Mr.. Thomas.
Two newspaper reporters employed
on the Omaha (Neh.) World-Herald
on the 2lst, located the house in whicl
the kidnapped youth Eddie Cudahy wa
held prisoner for more than a day
While exploring the premises with
lighted lamp they had a narrow es
cape from being shot by police officer
who had just arrived upon the seen.
and mistook them for the child-rob
beers.
DIR. j. E. TODD, state g~eologist 70
Soxth Dakota, has issued a warnin,
10 farmers ON the possible exhaustion
of the artesian water supply. III
holds that the great basin underlying
most OF the state may be exhasuste'
by wastefulness, and recommend
smaller wells, checking the flow d
winter and when not needed and re
striction Of the number of wells IL
stated areas by legislation.