The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1900-02-03


A Columbia (Mo.) man was fined
SO for calling a man a liar over the
telephone.
The Italian government has de-
cided on the rearmament of her army
with new field artillery.
A resolution of sympathy for the
Beers was tabled in the Iowa legis-
lature by a vote of 81 to 22.
Congress will be petitioned to pass
an act for the reorganization of the
national guard under national con-
troll.
The sheriff prevented a much
advertised prize fight between st.
Louis pugs being pulled off at Vicks-
burg, Miss.
1t has been discovered that recent
earthquake shocks disclosed evidence
of the existence of petroleum near
Delmar, Cal.
The prices of lumber have been
advanced in Arkansas, Texas, Louis
lana and the Indian Territory fully
soc on the thousand.
A majority of the committee on
privileges and elections reported ad-
versely to the seating of Senator
Quay, of Pennsylvania.
Henry A. Hazen, n of the chief
forecasters of the weather bureau
at Washington, died from injuries
received in a collision with a bicy-
clist.
Chief Postoffice Inspector King
and his assistants are making a de-
termined effort to round up all the
''green goods. men in the United
States.
Pearl Paris, of Columbia, Mo-,
ended her life by swallowing Is
grains of strychnine because her
sweetheart Tilted her and married
another.
The United States marine hospital
laboratory at Washington has begun
the manufacture of q serum us an
antitoXin for beubonic plague, to be
used if the plague should reach this
country.
A Berlin paper published a dis
patch dated January 2Sth, to the
effect that Gen. Warren was enticed
into S%pionkop, where the Beers fell
upon him and captured fifteen of
his cannon.
The United States court of APP
peals has affirmed the decision of the
lower court in the case of former
Capt. Oberlin Carter, L. S. E.. con-
victel by court-martial of defraud-
ing the government and sentenced
to six years in prison.
At Washington, Ind, viii Daggs,
13 years old, shot and seriously
wounded his. 1l-year-old sister be-
cause she called him too early fol
breakfast. Abouta year ago Willie's
S~-year-old brother, Gus, shot and
nearly killed younger brother.
Charles Wagner and Joseph Nc.
Daniel were badly injured in rescu.
ing twenty women from a burning
factory building at Kokomo, Ind,
; Wagner and Mcdaniel hammered
down an iron door that imprisoned
the women and all escaped. The
men were hurt by falling walls.
A large loss of life and great de
struction of property was averted a
Terre Haute, Ind, by the timel,
=, discovery of IA blaze in the drus
store Of DR.. j. G.. Castro. Afte
the fire was extinguished it wa
found that careful preparation hat
. been made not only to destroy tn,
| drug store, but two adjoining store
owned by Castro. Enough dyna
mite to blow the buildings to piece
had been placed SO it would do tn
5 most destruction. and had the fir
a reached it about so people sleeping
t in the upper stories of the building
t would have been killed. Castro an,
two of his clerks were arrested.
: Tom Queenan shot and killed hi
b young wife in a hotel at Oklahom
= City and jumped from the secon'
i story window to the stone pavemen
It below. Quecnan was badly iniure'
but will recover.
IS Montague White, the South Afr
j. can diplomat now in this country
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