The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1900-07-07
NEWS OF THE WORLD.


Japan has provided hospitals at
Yokohama for the wounded soldiers
of the powers.
Speaker Henderson was renomi-
mated for congress from the Third
district of Iowa by reclamation.
England has a scandal over the
manner in which her soldiers were
treated in the hospitals in South At
RIGA.
President and Mrs. Mckinley are
at their old home in Canton, o.,
where they expect to remain for sew
eral weeks.
American missionaries have been
warned to leave Southern China, as
it is feared the rebellion will soon
spread to that section of the coun-
try.
The United States war depart
ment will shortly issue a map of
China, showing that part of the en-
pire where the present trouble ex
lists.
Adyices from South Africa say
that the Beers are deserving Gen.
De Wet. \ number of deserters
WHO were captured have been or
dered shot.
Gems. Garcia, Conception and Pho
Del Pillar, held as prisoners by Gen.
Macarthur, have taken the oath of
allegiance to the United States and
been released.
The battleship Oregon is aground
in the gulf of Pechi Ii, fifty miles
west of Che Foo, China. Command
er Wilde reports the vessel only
slightly damaged.
Storms swept over portions of
Indiana June 30th, destroying con-
siderable property. A number of
people were killed in demolished
building and by lightning.
A company of volunteers has been
recruited at Ell Reno, Okla, also one
at Ardmore, l. T., and their SER
vices rendered the government in
case they are needed in China.
1t is reported the Russian min
lister of war has sent a confidential
circular to all high military authori-
ties to prepare everything for a
mobilization of the entire army at
a moments notice.
A committee of the Young Turks
party has sent a manifesto to the
various embassies, describing tbs
situation in Turkey, and declaring
that it is time for the powers tc
terminate the sultan's regime.
Archbishop John Joseph Keane.
founder and the first rector OF the
Catholic University at Washington
has Just been appointed archbishop
of the see Of Dubuque, to succeed
the late Archbishop Hennessey.
Ten thousand Alabama coal mi.
ners are idle, on account of failur;
to reach an agreement with the op
orators as to wages. The meI
have demanded an increase, and tn,
operators claim they cannot atfor(
it.
The st. Louis street car strike sit
uation has grown quiet, and but on
company of the sheriff's posse re
mains on duty. The cars are beinl
; run regularly on all lines, but tn
patronage is not so great as befor
the strike, due to the boycott, whicI
is still in force.
The president has committed
five years the sentence of life-im
: prisonment imposed en- Alphonse
Jennings, convicted in Chickasha,
> r., in February, 1900, of train rot
rey. The attorney general consid
! cred the sentence Of Jennings ur
> Just, as others convicted with him &
the same time received lighter SCI
, fences.
| According to reports from of
GERS Of a steamer which arrived {
Portland from Cape Nome la
IS week, the latter place now has a POI
% ulation of 10000 souls, all but 800
r. of whom are living in tents. Mo
!. of the gold seekers, it is said, a,
a disappointed with the country. E
&c erything is very high, a goo
n square meal costing 81.
ia Fire in the machine shop of Il
Best Manufacturing Compan
NJ Pittsl,urg. Pa. DESTROYED $4,000