The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1900-09-08

the British.
The grand jury failed to return
any indictments in the race riot oc-
currences in New York City.
Il. 8. Washburn, president of the
Kansas City, Fort Scott & Memphis
Railroad, died on the 1st inst.
An effort is being made to merge
the principal banking institutions of
New York City into syndicate.
Typhoid fever has become epidem-
ic at Paris, France, and the mortal
ity from the disease is unusually
large.
Gen. Chaffee, commander of the
American forces in China, is to be
appointed brigadier-general in the
regular army upon the retirement
of Gen. Joe Wheeler.
Russia has suggested to the pow
ers that troops be withdrawn from
Pekin. The United States has also
forwarded note to the powers, sug-
gesting that Lii Hung Chang be per-
mitted to communicate with his gov
ernmcnt and its military command
ant, which action will be necessary
to any suspension of hostilities.
The new first-class battleship AL
ALBANIA has won the title of queen of
the American navy. In a trial trip
she made an average of over ~
knots an hour for four consecutive
hours. The vessel was built by the
Cramps under a contract that re-
quired an average speed of 16 knots
an hour. She will be ready for
delivery in six weeks.
The act of the New York legis-
lature repeating the Horton law,
which made prize fighting permissa-
Bile, went into effect on the 1st inst,
and as consequence there will be
no more slugging matches in the
Empire state, whereby the "pugs"
were enabled to fill their purses, and
in many cases ''buneo" patrons of
pugilism by fake battles.
1t is believed Russia will attempt
to annex Manchuria on the plea
that China declared war and invad-
ed Siberia. Germany is anxious to
secure Chan Tung province as in
demnity for the murder of Baron
Won Ketteler, and Japan has an eye
on Corea or Annoy. Just what terri
tory England and the other foreign
powers will claim has not been init
mated, but if there should come a
division of any part of the Chinese
empire, all will want share, and
there is where the greatest danger
lies to all concerned.
The Cotton States Commissioners
of Agriculture, in convention at Ra-
leigh, N. c., issued the following
statement as their estimate of the
1900 cotton crop: Alabama, s21,-
900 bales; Arkansas, 100000 bales ;
Florida, 10000 bales; Georgia, l.
025,OOO bales; Indian Territory,
100000 bales; Louisiana, 6O3,OOO
bales; Mississippi, $4,000 bales
Missouri, 10000 bales; North Car
olina, 495,OOO bales; Oklahoma,
100000 bales; South Carolina, sol, :
900 bales; Tennessee, $4,000 bales ;
Texas, 100000 bales; Virginia,
$4,000 bales; other sources, 500
bales, making a total of 1884, 500
bales.
A deputation of German sub
jects, residing in the Transvaal, ar
rived at Berlin to lodge a complaint
with the German foreign Office re-
garding alleged cruel treatment at
johannesburg. They assert that
400 German subjects of both sexes
were arrested there and sent to a
seaport, from which point they were
shipped to Flushing, where tho
British landed them penniless.
They were arrested, according to
the statement of the deputation, in
shops and taverns and even in their
beds, and were hurried away bare
footed and only half clad, losing
everything they had. They are urg,
ing the foreign office to demand
damages for the brutal treatment
and the loss of property.
Henry Bachner, 16-year-old boy,
was arrested at Princeton, Ind,
charged with making and passing
counterfeit money. The boy is said
to have made the molds and done
the casting all alone.
A Chicago packing house has