The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1900-02-03

Admiral Dewey has been invited
to deliver an address to the Missis-
sippi legislature.
BY a vote of 81 to 3S, the senate
refused to reconsider the vote by
which the Samoan treaty was rati-
fed.
1t is denied that DR.. Leyds, diplo-
matte representative of the Trans
vaal, vas officially invited to visit
Germany.
The movement of British troops
to relieve the besieged town of Lady
smith had not succeeded up to jan
uary 2Sth.
The trust has made a cut in the
price of window glass. The indie
pendent manufacturers decline to
meet the cut.
Fred Lempke, a christian scien-
fist of st. Cloud, Mimi, committed
suicide by placing his head in a red
hot heating stove.
Among the British officers killed
in battle with the Beers January
oath vas Col. Riddell, a veteran OF
the Niger war of 1881.
Mrs. Rich, an American, was con-
victed at Jaurez, Mex, of poison
ing her husband and sentenced to
fourteen years in prison.
On the first real test of strength
in the Kentucky legislature over the
Goebel- Taylor contest, the democrats
won by a vote of 81 to As.
The war department has made
an order allowing 80 cents for every
twenty miles of travel to discharged
soldiers making their way home.
The indictment against John
Whalen of Louisville. KY, charg-
ing him with attempting to bride a
democratic senator, was quashed on
a te~chnicality.
Germany's im%portations in 1899
aggregated $500, 900. 900 marks,
Sc, 900, 900 more than those of 1898.
Her exports amounted to 4, 500, 0O0,-
600 marks, an increase of 14O, O00,-
900 over 1898.
Several Americans were killed by
Mexican troops in the state Of
Sonora, Mex, in the Yaqui Indian
campaign, and American cowboys
threaten to invade tie country and
avenge the deaths.
Ambassador Clayton will investi-
gate the killing of six Americans,
said to have been shot by order Of
Gen. Torres, commander of the
Mexican troops, because they were
found with Yaqui Indians.
A. j. Honeycutt, a farmer near
Center, Tex, killed his 16-year-old
daughter by stabbing her Through the
heart and fatally wounded his wife
and son. Honeycutt is about 60
years old, and is a religious enthus-
last.
Surgeon General Wyman, of the
marine hospital corpse, has issued a
booklet giving a history of the dread
disease. beubonic plague. For over
1000 years this plague has been the
dread of the far East, and on sew
eral occasions has invaded Europe.
Webster Snyder, of Terre Haute,
Ind. paid dearly for a kiss. In a
playful skufle with his sweetheart
a needle i'll the young lady's cloth
ing penetrated his arm, and in try
ing to pull 1t out two inches broke
off in the arm. BY the aid of an
X-ray the piece of steel was located
and removed.
VIM. Goebel, the Kentucky demo-
cratic leader, was shot and seriously
wounded by an an assassin January
30th as he was passing through the
state house yard at Frankfort. Sew.
eral shots were fired from a Win.
chester, but only one took effect. A
farmer named Whitaker was arrested
charged with having done the shoot.
ing. The contest committee reported
in favor of seating Goebel and Beck.
ham as governor and lieutenant gov.
ernOr.
The United States government
has refused to surrender to the Texa.
authorities a soldier who is alleged
to have killed a citizen during a rio
at Fort Ringgold.
Consul Smith, at Victoria, in
forms the state department that tn
Indications are there will be a grea