The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1900-09-01


dian Territory have been damaged
by the drouth.
The commanders at Pekin have
called on their various governments
for more troops.
Ex-Gov. Hill, of New York, will
tour the west during the campaign
for the democratic presidential
ticket.
Forest fires the last few weeks de-
stroyed $1O,O00,000 worth of prop
erty in the mountains of Colorado
and in Wyoming.
Gen. DeWet and Delaney, with
a force of 5000 men, are moving to-
ward Pretoria, giving battle to the
English en- route.
A number of secret service men
have started over the country to de-
tect violations of the automatic
coupler law, which became effective
August 1st.
The United States has decided
not to agree to a cessation of hostili-
: ties in China until the other powers
are heard from and ample protec-
ton is given all foreigners in China.
! The peoples party national COM
mittee met at Chicago August 27th,
and acted on the declination of
e Chas. A. Towne as vice presiden-
: tial nominee of the party, substi-
tuting the name of Adlai E. Ste
venson.
Y A closed street car on the River
t view line at Beaver Falls, Pa.
jumped the track on a steep grade
: overturned and plunged into two
n trees, where it hung suspended, 15C
Il feet above the Fort Wayne Railroad
tracks. The car contained about
q fifty passengers, many of whom
!. were injured. Vincent BURY, age(
q 21, of Beaver Falls, may die. Jen
ME Lee, aged 20, of Beaver Falls
was also seriously injured. Hal
u the car not lodged in the tree al
+ the passengers would have been in
u stantly killed.
Akron, O., was the scene of
d, bloody riot on the night Of Angus
~ 22d, the result of an assault on {
year old white girl by negro brut
. named Peck. The child was play
ht ing on the sidewalk when Pee
90 came along in buggy and induce
We her to take a ride. A few houl
later she was found in pitiab
condition in the outskirts of tt
pi city. When arraigned in polio
he court, Peck acknowledged his gull
on News of the outrage had spread RAJ
of idly, and mob of several thousan
gathered in front of the city ha
re and demanded that the prisoner
lot turned over to them. Peck, in Il
he meantime, had been spirited out
or the city. The mayor and police o
ficers, who had gathered at the ci
he hall, assured the mob leaders tn
lry the man they wanted was not in Il
lsh city JAIL, and a committee was {
nd lowed to search each cell. AS mig
came on the mob became more deI
sb. onstrative, and both the county j
Tho and court house were searched, b
,yo Peck was not found. Failure to G
rn- hold of the rapist seemed to enra
the people beyond all reason, al
at ~ o'clock at night the mob aga
ape surrounded the city hall and beg
out to fire into the building. Soon
ave torch was applied to large fral
oe building next to the city hall, a
while the fremen were making
ex- futile attempt to prevent the fan
'wn spreading, some one placed laI
can quantity of dynamite. on the grou
to floor of the building. The exp
sion completely wrecked the hi
st. but the police and prisoners c'
the fined in the cells on the ground I'll
is managed to escape through b'
per entrance. During the rioting
children were killed by stray bull
orc, and about fifty people badly
lzed iured. The civil authorities W
ath- utterly unable to cope with the m m
title and the militia was called out. T
lsed was taken to Cleveland and pla
in Jail for safe-keeping.
oops A strike of butchers in the
BOX packing houses in Omaha, Chc
! IN and Kansas City is threatenend
lam. account of the refusal of the pa
ded' ers to sign the butchers scale
5iisn wages.