The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1900-01-13
NEWS OF THE WORLD.

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The New York bank balances last
week were the largest on record.
Mrs. Langtry, the Jersey Lily
has returned to the United States.
E. j. Lechman, who established
the first department store in Chi
cage, is dead.
A Pennsylvania firm has the con-
tract to build 500 steel cars for a
French railroad.
j. II. Tuttleton and Milo Gregory.
condemned m%urderers, escaped from
Jail at Kensett, Mo.
Seventeen frame houses were de-
molished by al explosion of sewer
gas at Knoxville, Pa.
At Bonneville, Mo-, the 9-year-
old o of Bert Lake was kicked to
death by a vicious horse.
At ~Ellenworth, Ill.,, Lena Daggs,
aged Is years, was shot and killed
by her S-year-old brother.
Representative Quarles, of Vir-
ginia, offered resolutions of sympa-
thy for the Beers in the house.
The report from London that Gen.
French had driven the Beers from
Colesburg was without foundation.
Hon. Joe Blackburn was chosen in
the Kentucky democratic csucas for
senator, and his election is assured.
Smallpox has broken out among
the prisoners in the United States
penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kas.
A dispatch from London on the
9th stated that Gen White. though
hard pressed, still held Ladysmith.
Gideon Hawley, for so years an
engineer on the Lake Shore road.
has been retired on a pension of s97
per month.
Sharkey has accepted a challenge
to fight Jeffries % rounds within 80
days, the winner to take the entire
gate receipts.
The house investigating commit
tee on the case of Brigham Roberts
will recommend that he be excluded
from congress.
The past years r sales from the
Kansas zinc mining dis
trict reached over S11, 900, 900, the
greatest in its history.
The surveyors of the Choctaw,
Oklahoma, & Gulf railway have COM
pleted their survey from Weather
ford, Okla, to Amarillo, Tex.
Henry Brunat plead guilty at
Taylorville, H., to numbering his
aunt, Miss Jane Brunat, and was
given a life sentence in the peniten-
tiary.
Winston Churchill, who was a
prisoner Of the Beers, and who
made his escape, says it will take
$50, 900 troops to subdue the Trans
walters.
Miss Eta Thomas, a niece of
Gen. Joe Wheeler, has entered suit
against W. H. Fahrney, of Chicago,
for SIC, 900 damages for breach. of
promise.
Maj. Knox, inspector general of
the army, recommends that a law be
framed to admit Spanish and Philip
pine war veterans to the national
soldiers home.
The senate committee having the
matter in hand decided by a vote of
4 to 3 to make an adverse report
upon the seating of Senator Quay,
Of Pennsylvania.
President Mckinley will shortly
convey to congress his conclusions as
to rewarding naval officers who par
ticipated in the destruction Of &C.
fleet off Santiago.
H. G. Stiff, speaker of the Mon
tana house of representatives, in his
testimony before the senate commit
tee on elections, declared that he was
offered 500, 900 to vote for Clark for
the United States senate.
The commission appointed by
President Mckinley, under act of
congress, to determine the most
feasible and practicable route for a
canal across the Isthumas of Pan
ANA, sailed On the 9Th inst. for the
scene of its labors.
Capt. Leavy, naval governor of
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