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

The gold standard bill passed the
senate by a vote of 46 to 26.
Argentine and Portuguese ports
have been declared free Of the bu-
bonic plague.
Webster Davis, assistant secretary
of the interior. is en- "oute home
from South Africa.
Will Burts, colored, was lynched
near Akin, S. c., for attempted as
sault on the wife of a white planter.
Congressman c. A. Chickering
fell from a second story window of a
New York hotel and was instantly
killed.
Col. Bryan is said to be in favor
of an early convention to nominate
candidates for president and vice
president.
Mrs. Amelia Saffel, a widow who
conducts a boarding house at Frank
fort, near the state building, SAYS
she saw Goebel shot, and that the
shooting was done by a man in the
state house yard. Her statement
will be investigated.
Mrs. Rosa Roberts. a widow living
near Jacksonville, Fla, has grown
son and daughter were found muir
dered. The crime was committed
with an ak, the murderer chopping
his victims in a terrible manner.
The motive was robbery.
United States tariff appraisers of
New York City, in a case before
them las week in which an import
er set up the claim that no duties
could DC collected on articles from
Puerto Rico, on the ground that it
is a part of the United States, over
ruled the claim.
In a new Spanish tariff just put
into effect considerable increase has
been made in the duties on a num-
Der Of articles now exported from
the United States to Spain. Consul
General Lay, at Barcelona, has re-
ported this matter to the state de-
partment.
Lord Rosebery, in a speech in the
house Of lords, asserted that the En-
glish government last December
made urgent overtures to Germany
and the United States for an al
lance, but hat the overtures were
not received with such encourage
ment as to warrant the government
to pursue them. Lord Roscberv also
declared a crisis was Mt hand for
Great Britain, and hat the gov
eminent must not keep its eyes on
South Africa alone.
The Kentucky situation remains
in 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.
and on Wednesday he handed down
a decision denying the injunction,
but held that the cases could be
brought into federal court on error
after they had been passed upon in
the state courts.
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
S~1,355,000 from Cuba: to Puerto
Rico, exports valued al 1912, 900,
against $1S3,000 in. December.
1903; to the Hawaiian Islands, ex-
ports exceeding 81, 0O0 900 in value
against $4,000 in December.
1898; and to the Philippine Islands
$4,000, against 10000 in De
cembcr, 1898. Taking The entire
year and the five islands or groups
of islands, Cuba, Puerto Rico, and
the Hawaiian, Philippine and Sa-
moan Islands, the total for 1899
shows an increase of moro than 100
per cent in exports to those islands
over the year 1898, while the i'm
ports from them show an increase of
nearly so per cent over those of
1898.
The courts of New York have de.
clded that the trust fund of S5,0OO,-
900 left by the late W. H. Wander
bilt for his grandchildren is subject
to the inheritance tax.
Lord Rosebery's statement in par
Lament to the effect that last De-