The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1900-10-13
NEWS OF H WORLD.

aRdlIlSt Tie TOAtTS III 1lluu.
The British now hold about &c.
600 Beers as prisoners of a
Great Britain and Germany con-
tinue to send troops to China.
The Pennsylvania railroad will
put into effect January LIST a system
of pensioning employees.
Democratic and republican cam
paign manager charge each other of
planning to colonize voters in New
York City.
1t has been officially announced
that one-half the japanese troops
now in China will be withdrawn
Immediately.
The big shoe factory of Dayton
& Co, at Williamsport, Pa, was
destroyed by fire on the Sd inst.
Loss, 100000.
Ex-senator German, of Mary
land, denies the report that he has
resigned, as a member of the demo-
cratic national committee.
American citizens at Tien Tsin
have forwarded a protest to Wash
ington against the withdrawal of
American troops from China.
The parliamentary election in
Great Britain resulted in a COM
plete victory or the govern
ment's war policy in South Africa.
Two men attempted to hold up a
passenger train on the Burlington
road near Council Bluffs, To-, when
one of the robbers was shot dead by
Chas. Baxter, the express messenger.
The other man escaped.
Not a collier of the Reading
Railroad Company vas in operation
on the Sth. Instead of the men
breaking rank and returning to
work for the ten per cent advance
offered. thousands who had remain
ed at work Joined the strikers, max
ing the shutdown complete.
DIR. R. f. Graham, a prominent
bacterologist of Missouri, has dis
covered a serum for the cure of hog
cholera. Out of a herd of 100 head
that had been exposed to the dis
Ease, after incubation, not a single
one became infected. The treatment
will be thoroughly tested by govern
ment experts.
James Black, a ~16-year-old boy
of Memphis, adopted a novel scheme
to raise a few dollars, and as a re.
suit had to languish in jail for sew.
eral days, or until his parents re-
Tented and paid his fine. Black
prepared a number of bogus tele'
grams, which he addressed and de
livered, collecting sums on each fol
transmission. His victims were
mostly colored people.
The Brotherhood of Locomotiv,
Firemen, at their annual convention
bed at DesMoines, Ia, voted an ap
prcpriation of $4,000 for the cree
ton of a home at some point II
the west for invalid and crippled
,rairmen. Other orders have ey
pressed a willingness to cO-operat
and a home to accommodate al
classes of railroad men will likel
be the outcome.
A motion to discharge the jur
selected at Georgetown, KY, to TT
iYoutsey, one of the accused in th
Coebel murder, on the ground ths
all the members were democrat
was overruled.
Mrs. VIM. Smith, of New Yor
City, became suddenly insane an
murdered her two children, aged
and II years respectively, by shoe
ing them as they lay in bed. Aft
committing the awful crime Il
woman took her own life.
The appointment of Young l
as one of the peace commissions
of China has been withdrawn, o'
ing to protests from the power
who charge that he encouraged Il
Boxers.
The Beers have not all laid dov
their arms or been captured. Lo
Roberts reports that a British wa
on train accompanied by six
mounted men was attacked ne
Pretoria October LIST. Only twel
of the men escaped.
All lines Of business have be
practically suspended in the anthl
cite coal regions of Pennsylyal