The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1900-08-18
The press of Germany is urging
the partition of China.

the partition of China.
A Southern Pacific passenger
train was wrecked neal Tennille
Ga, and thirteen people were badly
hurt.
The italian. consul at Chicago has
applied to the police for protection
from anarchists, who have threaten
ed his life.
Frank Craig, a farmer, and Joe
Philpot, his stepson, were held up
by highwaymen and murdered near
st. Joseph, Mo.
Count Won Waldersee, of the
German army, has been named as
commander-in-chief Of the allied
forces in China.
Great Britain is landing a large
force at Shanghai as a precautiona-
ry measure in case of an outbreak in
that part of China.
The full-blood Creek Indians are
refusing to take their allotments
and have established a pure Indian
government of thir own.
Although the war in South Afri-
ca appears to be over Lord Roberts
has asked for reinforcements to re-
place those sick and wounded.
Jack Belts, a negro, was lynched
at Corinth, Miss, for rape on a 10
year-old white girl. He was taken
from Jail and hanged to a telegraph
p9le on the public square.
Coils p. Huntington, the great
railroad magnate and president of
the Southern Pacific system, is no
more. Col. Huntington died at
Pine Knob Lodge, his summer home
in the mountains of New York state,
August 14th. The cause of death
was heart trouble.
The navy department decided to
reject the bids for armor plate pre-
sented by the Bethlehem company.
the Carnegie company and the Mid
vale company. While the secretary of
the navy has at his disposal $1,000
900 with which to erect an armor
plate plant, he has not yet decided
to do so, and will readvertise for
bids.
In a dispatch to the wal depart
ment Gen. Chaffee stated that the
forces marching toward Pekin ar
rived at Ho 81 WI August 9th, a
distance of only thirty-three miles
from the Chinese capital. The en-
press dowager, it is reported, has de-
clared her intention of leaving Pc
kin before the allied forces arrive.
The August report of the Stats
tician of the department of agricul-
ture shows the following averages of
crop condition upon August list:
Corn, S7.5; spring wheat, 56.4;
oats, $50; barley, 71.6; spring rye,
40; buckwheat, S7.9; potatoes,
$50; timothy hay, 1919. The av-
erage condition of corn declined 2
points during July, and on August
LIST it was "a points lower han at
the corresponding date last year, but
IS point higher than on August 1,
1898, and 1.3 points above the mean
of the August averages for the last
ten years.
Judge Monroe, assistant attorney
general of the United States, has
rendered a decision to the effect
that a native Of Porto Rico, who has
resided in the United States for a
year or over, is not entitled to a
vote, inasmuch as the treaty of
peace with Spain provided that the
question of the civil and political
rights of Porto Ricans who did not
become citizens of Spain within the
year should be left to congress to
determine, and, congress not having
taken action upon the matter,
Porto Ricans are still aliens in the
true sense of the word, and are still
regarded as foreigners within the
meaning of our naturalization laws.
The two bandits who held up a
Union Pacific passenger train in
Colorado August 5th met death
near Goodland, Kas., at the hands
of officers after a fierce battle. The
men were located at a farm house
near Garland, Kan, and when a
posse went to arrest them they
opened fire with Winchesters. One
of the men was shot down while try
ing to escape from the house and the