The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1900-01-06

Gen. French defeated the Beers
at Colesburg and drove them from
the town.
Philadelphia Hibernians pledge
themselves to raise $3.50 10 to aid
the Beers.
The Duke of Conaught has been
placed in command of the British
forces in Ireland.
Macrum, American consul at Pre-
toria, will be called upon to explain
why he left his post of duty.
kid" Mccoy defeated Mayer
in a five round prize fight before the
Coney Island Athletic Club Janu-
airy LIST.
The case of Representative-elect
Roberts, of Utah, will come up for
final action about the middle of
January.
The remains of ISL victims of the
Maine disaster were inferred in Ar
lington cemetery, Washington, ID.
G., December 2Sth.
The 2-year-old daughter of Mrs.
Lillian Hammond was kidnapped from
her home in st. Joseph, Mo-, by an
unknown man and woman.
The publishing house of Harper
Bros, New York, which failed sev-
eral months ago, will resume bust
ness under lew management.
At West Liberty, KY, Jas. Pat.
ten shot and killed Harlan Cisco.
Patten died a few minutes later from
knife wounds inflicted by Cisco.
Germany has asked England for
an explanation of the seizure of a
German steamer on the high seas.
Elwood Madden. who disappeared
from krokomo, Ind, 80 years ago,
returned last week from Cape Nome,
Alaska, where he made $40, 00O, 900.
Emily Blake was hanged at Bran
don, Manitoba, for the murder of
Mrs. Lane, for whom she worked.
The murderess vas only22 years old.
W. IL. Mackoy, anti Goebel demo-
crat, and A. NJ. Cochrane, rcpub-
lican, have been appointed state
election commissioners of Kentucky.
Something like 1925, 600, 900 will
be paid out in interest and dividends
in New York. Boston and Philadel-
phia soon after the beginning of the
new year.
Under the new Chinese Mexico
treaty, the latter country put no re-
strictions on Chinese immigration,
with the hope that this class of labor
will solve the problem of developing
the mines of Mexico. Heretofore it
has been difficult to secure miners
that could withstand the hardships
of the life.
DR.. Schepler, a minister of Marin
cite, Wis, interrupted his Christ
mas sermon to give chase to a sneak
thief, who was carrying off a num-
Der of holiday gifts from the parson-
age. After catching the thief and
turning him over to policeman, the
minister returned and finished the
divine services.
S. d.. Mills, q bill collector for a
Chattanooga, furniture dealer, COM
mitted two horrible murders and
mortally wounded a third victim
over "a debt CT so cents. Miller went
to the home Of Mrs. May Venable
and demanded the so cents due on
an article of furniture. The woman
told him she did not have the money
and asked him to call again. This
tho collector refused to do, and, seiz-
ing a bed-spread. started off. Mrs.
Venable followed him into the yard.
A scutfie ensued. and Mills drew a
revolver and shot the woman in the
shoulder and breast. Mrs. Ncnable's
son, hearing the shots, ran to the
door and was shot dead by Mills.
At this point a l2-year-old daughter
ran to the PROSTATE form of her
mother, when the frenzied man be-
gan firing at her, inflicting Il fatal
wound. Mills then quietly left the
place and went to the store of his
employer, where he was arrested.
A party of despcradoes fired into
a north bound Houston & Texas
Central train about IL miles from
Dallas, terrorizing the passengers
but fortunately hitting no one.
A Berlin newspaper caueed a SEN
sation by publishing a report that a