The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1900-02-24
OTHERWISE UNNOTICED.


\ w.lliam II. Beard, the well-known
mist died in New York Tuesday
night. . al J.,
st.ptly killed, at Sycamore, Ill, by a
switch engine.
&c u Colthern was found mortally
.,5ed in his store at Centralia, Ill,
Tuesday morning.
Tbe citizens of central Missouri are
n~et;tioning congress to improve the
dhornel of the Missouri river.
Kansas City is leading in the race
&c.. .be national democratic conven-
tion. and gaining ground steadily.
TN. interior of the Masonic temple,
ho oostliest structure in Arcola, ILL.,,
wac qutted by fire Tuesday morning.
The Yale faculty has consented to
the petition of the junior class asking
for the abolition of the sophomore So
ciety.
The Missouri university fired a sa-
lute in honor of the enrolment of the
b,,ndredth approved school in the
state.
The Turkish minister at Washington
requests the gentlemen of the press to
let tbc affairs of his household severe
~ alone. .
John Ouirk, the Oldest resident OF
Arcola and probaly of Douglas county,
I'll, is dead, aged SO years. He located
at Arcola in 1858.
The members of the Society of
Douobters of the American Revolu-
ton. in session in Washington, called
OF, the president Tuesday.
According to a dispatch from
Eennes. France, a factory there has re-
ceiyed an order from the Transvaal
government for 100000 artillery shells.
Admiral Dewey says our fleets will
be a sufficient guarantee of the neu-
trality and safety of the interoceanic
canal in time of war, as well as in
peace.
Fred Godt was shot and fatally
wounded by Harry Andrae at st. Paul,
Nc. because he had expressed the
opirion that Goebel deserved assas-
sination.
Peter Englehart, aged about a.
wears, died at the St. Louis city hos
pital from injuries sustained by fall
ing down a stairway at his home, last
Sunday.
Rumors current at Vienna point to
impending hostilities between Bul-
garia and Servia. There is no doubt
that both are massing troops on the
frontiers.
Nine. MacMahon, duchess of Ma
genta, widow of Marschal Patrice Mau.
r1ce MacMahon, second president OF
the third Republic of France, died ir
Paris Tuesday.
A dynamite explosion occurred II
the Union Pacific gravel pits, 80 mile,
west of Cheyenne, Wyo., Tuesday, il
which two men were killed and thre,
seriously injured.
South Africans contend that what
ever may be the strategic points of thu
campaign, the capture of the Ere,
State capital would be a staggering
blow to the Dutch chuse.
The French officers serving with tn
Beers were paid a bonus of 5000 OF
starting, another 5000 on arrival in thu
Transvaal. and receive from 5000 t.
5000 a month during the campaign.
Secretary of the Treasury Lyman j
Gage was the guest of honor at a din
ner given, Tuesday evening. at tn
Auditorium, Chicago, by the Nations
Association of Merchants and Travel
ers.
Charles Kumle Rowe and William A
Schmidt, who were buried at the sam
hour, at st. Louis, Tuesday, were life
long friends and had served as fore
nen in the same printinghouse for ,
years.
The Society of Planters of Cuba ha
agreed to petition the government I
raise the duties on importations, wit
a few exceptions, in order TO increas
the income of the island without re
sort to direct taxation.