The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1900-07-21

Prospectors returning from Cape
Nome declare that the country is a
fake, and that not enough ore has
been taken out to pay for the pro-
visions consumed by the thousands
Of misguided miners who rushed
into the country last spring.
The report of the state depart
ment of labor of Missouri gives the
total number of pounds of poultry
marketed during 1899 at LOG, $685.
10 pounds. The number of doz-
ems of eggs marketed is given at
"a, S75, O4O, and the aggregate value
to the products of poultry and eggs
was s12, 091, 04S. This SUN equals
in value all other farm products
raised in the state during the
year.
High military officials who have
made a study of the situation assert
that it will require at least 100, 900
troops to make their way to Pekin,
and then the task cannot be accom-
plished without hard fighting and
heavy loss. Japan is preparing to
send additional troops that will
bring her force up to $4,000, while
the other powers are fastening REIN
forcements to the assistance of those
already on che ground. ,
The manthly report of the de.
partment of agriculture shows the
average condition of cotton July l
to have been 1853, compared with
S2.5 last month, SIS July l., 1899,
91.2 at a corresponding date in 1898
and a ten-year average of $40.
The condition of the principal
states is reported as follows: North
Carolina. 80; South Carolina, 10;
Georgia, "A; Florida. rs: Alabama.
70; Mississippi, GA; Louisiana, 81
Texas, IS; Arkansas. rs; Tennessee,
76; Oklahoma, SO; Indian Territory,
80.
By the filing of a suit for divorce
by her former husband, Samuel JUS
tice, Mrs. Shipley, of Anderson,
Ind, has been made acquainted with
the fact for the first time that for
twenty-three years she has had two
living husbands. Justice and his
wife separated twenty-five years ago,
and two years later the wife, hear
ing that her husband had been grant
ed a divorce, married Milton Ship
ley. Justice recently returned from
the west, and, finding his wife had
married again, instituted suit for di.
vorce.
1t turns out that two of the gang
who robbed an Illinois Central pas,
senger train a few miles from Wick.
life, KY, resided in the fashionabl,
section of St. Louis, where they
were known as gentlemen of means
One of the men, named Nelson, es
capped from the detectives after hi
house was completely surrounded
Chas. W. Barnes, another one of thu
robbers, was taken into custody b,
the St. Louis police, and he made
confession in which he claims tina
Nelson planned the robbery.
Adispatch received at Washington
on the 10th gives an account of
terrible battle at Tien Tsin between
the allied forces and the Boxers
The allied forces attacked the cit
of Tien Tsin proper and were met b
20, 900 Chinese with guns MOUNTS
on the walls surrounding the city
who poured deadly volley after vol
lev into the ranks of the attackin
army. The ninth infantry of tn
United States suffered greatly
losing in killed and wounde
rs per cent of the regimen
Col. Liscum, of the Ninth, VIZ
killed, also Col. French, of tn
Twenty-ifth infantry, and Cap
} Davis, of the marines. On the morn
ing of the 14th the attack was r,
newed, when the allied forces con
| plctely routed the Chinese and cal
| tured the city. The allied fore,
lost about S0Oin killed and wounde
t while thousands of Cinnamon we
slain.
2 Crops in central Arizona have bee
practically ruined by the drouth.
President Mckinley returned
e Washington from Canton on Il
S 18th to look after matters in come
q ton with the Chinese situatio
While it is n fact that a state of W