The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1900-01-20

practlcaity oNcl
The fund being raised for the
widow of the late Gen. Lawton has
reached over $4,000.
Gov. Tanner, of Illinois, opposes
the reelection of Senator Cullom to
the United States senate.
j. l.. Dunn, of Quincy, ILL.,. sur
rendered and confessed to robbing a
mail sack at Effingham, III.
Italy has requested of the United
States that the lynching of five Ital-
ians in Louisiana last fall be inves-
tigated.
A son of Crispi, the Italian states
nan and former premier, has been
sentenced to four years imprison-
ment for theft.
Geo. Dixon was defeated by Ted
McGovern in New York for the
fe~atherweight championship in a
battle OF eight ounds
While digging a well on his farm
near Carlinsville, ILL.,, Jacob Kline
struck an apparently inexhaustible
supply of natural gas.
The residence of Joseph Pulitzer,
publisher of the New York World.
was destroyed by fire. Two servants
persisted in the flames.
The report of the American board
of foreign missions shows that dur
ing 1899 the sum of S633,016 was
collected and expended.
The Mississippi State Teachers
Association, by unanimous vote,
adopted a resolution against a uni
form system of text books.
Robt. Lincoln and N. B. Ream,
executors of the estate of Geo. NJ.
Pullman, were allowed 425, 900 for
their services by the court.
DR.. G. W. Appleby, in a fit of in
sanity, killed the 1O-months-old
child of Henry YEARLY at Hampton,
o., by choking it to death.
Gov.-Gen. Davis says only about
l per cent of the inhabitants of
Puerto Rico understand the respon-
sibilities of self-government.
Mrs. Ella Ladue, a prominent
woman of Chicago, while visiting in
New Orleans, was attacked on the
street by a negro and robbed of
$4,000.
According to the evidence of some
of the witnesses in the Clark case, it
cost the gentleman a good deal of
money to be elected to the United
States senate.
An enquiry from the King of Bel
GUM if the time had not arrived for
mediation in the South African wal
has been answered in the negative
by Queen Victoria.
Two robbers. one dressed as a wo-
man, entered the millinery store OF
Mrs. Wheelock, in Chicago, bound.
gagged and robbed Mrs. Wheelock
and set the store on fire.
Elizabeth Gladstone, aged 60, has
secured judgment in the superior
court of California against Joseph
Boardman, aged 10, for $50, 600 fol
breach of promise of marriage.
Frank Conrick, of Chicago. com.
mitted suicide by shooting himself
through the head. Conrick was bit.
ten by a dog, and the dread of by.
drophobia had unsettled his mind.
Three masked men entered thu
office of the Lehigh Valley Goa
Company in Chicago in the day
time and at the point of a reyolve.
compelled the cashier to fork owe,
$1,000 in cash-all there was in tn,
safe.
1t is the opinion of high official
at Washington that when Adelber
Hay reaches Pretoria to assum,
charge of the United States con
sulate at the capital of the Soutl
African republic he viii, be informed
by Kruger that he is persona mol
grata.
Lieut.. Blue, q. S. N, was pre-
scented with a medal by the womel
of South Carolina, his native state
in recognition Of his services in tn
Santiago de Cuba campaign.
Lorenzo Snow, president of tn
Mormon church, has published
declaration announcing that til
church does not approve the con
tinuancc of polygamous relation