The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1900-08-25

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Chicago is 1,69S,575, an Increase in
ten years of sos, 725, or 54.44 per
cent.
Gov. Beckham has called an ex-
ira session of the Kentucky legisla-
ture to meet August 2Sth, for the
purpose of modifying the Goebel
election law.
A cyclone did 100000 damages
to buildings and other property at
Sheboygan, Wis, on the goth. AL
though several houses were COM
pletely demolished, nc lives were
lost.
The late @. P. Huntington was
the son of a poor tinker with a large
family. At the age of IA young
Huntington, who had been com.
PEELED to work all his life, started
out for himself as a peddler of tin.
ware. He left an estate worth $50,
900, 900.
Secret service officials claim tc
have discovered a plot among an
archists to assassinate President Nc.
Kinley. The plot is said to have
been planned in Naples. Several ar.
rests have been made of anarchists
arriving in New York from foreign
ports.
Details of the capture of Pekir
, show that the japanese, at nightfal
on the 18th. after fighting had beer
going on all day, crawled up to the
eastern gates and blew them up, i'm
mediately entering the city. Th'
| Americans and British entered from
the south side about the same time
The annual report of coal pro
d%uction, prepared by the govern
ment geological survey, shows tina
the United States in the fiscal yea,
ending June 80, 1900 advanced
from third to first plac'
among the coal producin:
countries of the world, and nov
gives the world 80 per cent of it
total production.
The population of Greater New
York, as indicated by the count jus
completed at the census office, a
Washington, is 3,437,2O2. This in
cludes the population of the Dor
oughs of Manhattan, Bronx, Brook
lyn, Richmond and Queens. An ap
propriate estimate of the increas
since 1890 shows it to have bee:
37.9 per cent.
Mrs. Wesley Workman, livin
near Emporia, Kan, made a heroi
but unsuccessful effort to save tn
life of her 2-year-old son. The Iii
tie fellow was playing around
well, when he stepped on a loos
plank and fell in. The mother dt
scended into the well, which VIZ
thirty feet deep, by climbing dow
the wall, stepping from stone
stone and clinging by hands an
feet, and in the same way made hi
way back to the top, with the chi
held in one arm. All efforts to r
suscitate the babe were unsucces
full.
Crazed from drink DR.. Sturle
Harrison, of Farley, No, preeiI
, tated a row that resulted in a qua
ripple killing. Harrington had son
trouble with his wife and loaded
on whisky. Meeting his uncle, il
Wallace, he accused him of me
d ding with his affairs and shot hi
: dead. After this crime the murdt
. er went to Wallace's home and {
g manded of Mrs. Wallace that S
# tell him the whereabouts of ]
h wife. To the woman's answer tt
r she knew nothing of Mrs. Harm
b toms whereabouts the physician 81
d her dead. Leaving the Walli
10 place, the crazed man went to
'r store and purchased some cartridg
By this time the sheriff with a pc
ty started after him. AS the ofic
es came upon him in the street H
Of rington shot Sheriff Dillingh
through the head. Harringt
" started to retreat, but a bullet fir
I'd a pistol in the hands on a son of
he dead sheriff pierced his heart {
Il. put an end to his bloody work.
of Three hundred delegates atte
ng ed the reunion of the Liberty G
r. gress of the National Anti-Imp
n alist League, held at Indianapc
he The League endorsed Bryan.
he A desperate battle was fou
on near Aberdeen, Miss, between j
,as Lanier and his three sons on
it one side, and Homer and Wa