The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1900-03-24
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

st. Patrick's day was celebrated with
extraordinary enthusiasm throughout
South Africa.
The Music Hall building in Quincy,
Mass, was burned on the 18th; loss,
SOS, 900.
1t is reported in London that the
government contemplates the repeal
of the coercion act, which is still OPP
erative in Ireland. The move originates
in the general good feeling toward Ire
land, on account of the gallant work
done by the Irish troops in Africa.
In official and diplomatic circles al
Washington a denial is authorized OF
published reports that there have
been conferences with a view to the
dispatch of additional ~warships anc
United States soldiers to China, and
that Jews of the gravest character
had been received from the United
States minister to China.
Rev. j. b. Francolon, who comes of
distinguished ancestry in Brittany,
France, left Manitou, Col, at mid
night of the 18th, under threats OF
lynching for abuse of small boys. He
came to this country as secretary OF
Archbishop Chappelle, and is very
wealthy.
The influx of Immigrants into Okla
Iona this spring is something ire
m%endous. Every train bears settlers
and investors to the towns and coun-
ties on the railways, and hundreds cf
white-topped wagons, each carrying Il
family and household goods, can be
seen daily on the way to the baci,
counties.
Miss Sylvia Green, daughter of Mrs.
Hettie Green, who is known as the
richest wonan in the world will
soon, it is reported, become the
duchess dc Ia Tore, of Spain. An in.
innate friend of the duke de Ii
Tore, in New York, gave it out, on
the 18th. that the duke was engagef
10 Miss Green.
The oldest woman in Dubuque. Ia.
Mrs. Christian Lange, celebrated he.
one hundredth birthday anniversary
on the 18th. She takes a walk daily
=, is quite vigorous and reads withou
glasses. She was born in Bavaria, AM
has lived in Dubuque 20 years.
Kansas will have IA big exposition il
1904, in celebration of the fiftieth an
niversary of the organization of III
h territory of Kansas. Steps in that al
n rection have already beer taken. Tn
plan proposed is to hold the expos
ton in Topeka.
An attempt was made, on the nigh
S of the 18th, to wreck the Lake Shor
fast mail, ~westbound, at Olmste
Il Falls. about twenty miles west @
n Cleveland, .. A rail had been lai
across the track. The engineer sa'
n the obstruction in time 10 apply tn
r air brakes and save his train.
4 Two thousand women are said I
have paen formed into an Amaze
corps at Pretoria. They are dressed j
) Khaki kits, armed with rifles an
thoroughly drilled in yollcy firing
i They practice behind intrenchment.
Il The burgherS say these women are q
widows of Beers slain or captured an
i that they have provided themselve
I with rifles taken from British prison
ers.
The total amount of old bond
turned into the treasury, on the 1911
in exchange for the new two-peI
h cents, was S27, 900, 900, making the tota
= to that date ST., 0o0,0 900. OF the entir
amount all but $2,sG3, 500 was on he
half of national banks which alread
,e had bonds on deposit to secure eli
J. culation or public deposits or both.
Tie military governor of Cuba, afte
4 a consultation with the secretary q
n war. has decided to nave Cuba repre-
sented at the Pan-American expos
ton in 1901.
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