The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1901-07-27

be almost a total failure on account
of drought.
Ex-Governor Stephens, of Mis-.
souri,, will be a candidate for Con.
gress at the next election.
Gov. Jennings, of Florida, called
out a company of militia to prevent
the lyching of a negro murderer al
Lake City.
Earl Russell, arraigned before the
British house of lords for trial on
the charge of bigamy, entered a plea
of guilty and was sentenced to three
months Imprisonment. Earl Russell
secured a divorce from his first wife
in the United States, where he mar
ried Lady Somerville. A divorce Sc
cured in this country by an English
subject is not held to be legal in
England.
A dispatch says one of the large
trust companies of New York city
has decided to make an effort to COL
lect or compromise the bonds issued
by the Southern states during the
reconstruction period following the
civil war, and since repudiated in
whole or in part by those states. 1t
is further said that an official of the
company admitted that a circular
inviting cooperation in this venture
had been sent out to persons known
to hold some of these repudiated
bonds.
A head-end collision between two
local freight trains on the NJ, X. &
L. road near Wymark, 1. T., killed
five men and probably fatally in
jured three others. The dead: Joe
Morris, Parsons; James Levelle,
head brakeman, Parsons; Frank
Fitzgerald, head brakeman. The
collision occurred on a bridge over
the Arkansas river. There is a
sharp curve near the bridge, and
when the engineer saw the danger
the engines were too close to each
other to be stopped. The two en-
gines came together in the middle
of the bridge, the bridge collapsing.
and both engines fell into the river.
Despite the dropping of 3s,OS2
names from the pension rolls through
the death of that number of pen
sloners during the fiscal year ended
June 30, there was a net increase
OF 4,305 names to the rolls by the
granting of new pensions, and the
number OF names carried on the
rolls on June 80 was 997,S34. There
was an increase of 2,273 in the num-
Der of pensioners who died during
the year, as compared with the
record of the previous fiscal year.
The total expenditures on account
of pensions and administration was
$13S,531,494, being an increase of
$69,353 V the disbursements of
the previous year. The number of
claims filed with the pension bureau
account Of disabilities incurred
in the Spanish-American war ag-
gregated up to June 80 45,710, of
which 7,0S6 were granted and 1859
were rejected.
The census Office has issued a bull
letin concerning the urban popula-
ton of the country. 1t shows that
2S,411, G9S people in the United
States live in cities and towns of
over 1000 population. This is 37.3
per cent of the entire population, a
gain of almost 5 per cent since the
census of 1890, when the percentage
32.9. Compared with the re-
of 1880 the report shows a
gain in the urban population of more
han a third in percentage and of
o than double in
actual numbers. There were in 1880
$50 places of more than 1000 per-
ions each, with an aggregate popu-
alton of 1885, 40, or 25.S per cent
If the then population. The per-
'entage of people living in cities
md towns, as compared with the
population of the other places,
'anges from 91.6 in Rhode Island
o 2.5 in Indian Territory.
Oriental advices give details of
he terrible destruction of human
life in northern Java last month by
sudden and terrific outburst of the
Kloe. For fifty miles
round coffee plantations and other
states we're destroyed by showers of