The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1900-02-17
Crop conditions in Cuba are re-
ported to be very favorable.

gan, Jr., were inferred at 10ungS
town, O., on the eth.
Abe Gelstrap was killed in
mine at Joplin, Mo-, by the prema
ture explosion of a shot.
The dominion government vii
pay all salaries and expenses o
Canadian troops sent to South AT
rica.
Sixty-six Irish members of par
Lament voted for a resolution tC
put a stop to the war in South AT
RIGA.
England has declared foodstuffs
to be contraband of war when in.
tended to supply an army in the
field.
Col. Bryan is said to be in favor
of an early convention to nominate
candidates for president and vice
president.
An ambulance corps of Fl Ameri-
cans left Chicago Tuesday on its
long Journey to join the Boer army
in South Africa.
United States Consul Skinner, at
Marseilles, reports to the state de-
partment that there is a coal famine
in France, due to the strike of
miners.
Reuben Ross. colored, WIS hanged
at Lumberton, n. c., FOR crimi-
nal assault upon a white wom.-
an. Ross denied committing the
crime for which he forfeited his life.
but confessed to assaulting a young
white woman neal L~umberton sew
cral months ago, for which a negro
named John Evans was hanged.
Samuel Gompers, president of
the American Federation of Labor.
has gone to Cuba to explain to the
Cuban workingmen the methods
employed by the workingmen of the
United States, and to aid in obtain
ing laws looking to the protection of
the lives of employees, the sanitary
inspection of workshops and fac
tories and the prohibition of child
labor.
a severe storm passed through
portions of Missouri and Illinois on
the morning Of the Sth. At Col
.linsville, ILL.,, fifteen people were
badly injured, and several houses
demolished. Considerable property
in the towns of Kansas City, Joplin
and Jefferson City was destroyed,
and at the latter place Anton Hes
ter, aged 70 years, was blown from
the door of his residence and in
stantly killed.
After a trial lasting several
months, the jury in the case of Ro-
land B. Molineaux. in New York,
brought in IA verdict of murder in
the first degree. The case is n of
the most celebrated in the criminal
annals of the country. Molineaux.
who was a prominent member OF
New ork society, was charged with
-
the murder of Mrs. Katherine B.
Adams December s, 1898, by send
ing her a box Of poisoned candy.
The December figures of the
treasury bureau of statistics show
for the month OF December exports
Of considerably more than $4,000
600 to Cuba and imports valued at
100000 from Cuba: to Puerto
Rico, exports valued at 1912 900.
against $4,000 in December.
to the Hawaiian Islands. en-
exceeding $1,000.00o in value.
against $o36,000 in December.
1898: and to the Philippine Islands,
$4,000, against $4,000 in De-
cember, 1898. Taking The entire
year and the five islands or groups
islands, Cuba, Puerto Rico, and
the Hawaiian, Philippine and Sa-
moan Islands, the total for 1899
shows an increase of more than 100
per cent in exports to those islands
the year 1898. while the i'm
ports from them show an increase of
nearly 30 per cent over those of
1898.
The Kentucky situation remains
a muddle. The application for
an injunction against the state cleo
ton board to prevent it certifying
to the election of democrats other
than governor and lieutenant gov
ernor was argued before Federal
Judge Taft at Cincinnati Monday.
Justin Goebcl has issued an open