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

For the fifth time G. D. Graham
made a trip in a barrel through tn,
rapids of Niagara Falls on the 14th
The United States army depart.
I ments of Alaska and the Columbia
are to be consolidated about Sep.
TENDER L.
The prolonged drought in Eng
land while not threatening absolute
ruin to the farmers, has already en-
tailed serious losses.
1t is said the steel trust has sent
agents to the south for the purpose
of employing colored laborers to
take the places of strikers.
Catholic authorities in the Phil
ippines declare that the friars will
not be withdrawn, but that they will
no longer exercise temporal power.
Hon. W. J. Bryan, in his paper
declares the Ohio democrats made a
grave mistake in not endorsing the
Kansas City platform.
General Daniel Butterfeld, a dis
tinguished soldier of the war be-
;ween the states, died at his home in
Gold Springs, N Y, on the 18th
Japan has withdrawn her claim to
increased indemnity from China,
and will accept the sum originally
determined upon by the ministers.
A posse of revenue officers were
ambushed by moonshiners in the
mountains Of Putnam county, Ten
nesee, and Officer Thos. Pine was
killed.
The fifth international convention
OF the Epworth League opened at
San Francisco on the 18th. with
10000 delegates and visitors in at
tendance.
Gov. Longino has offered a re-
ward Of 500 for the arrest and con-
vlction of each party who took part
in the lynching of two Italians at
Erwin last week.
Chas, Iitzman, a Chicago boy II
years of age, has just completed a
trip around the world, breaking all
previous records for travel. He
made the trip in sixty days.
A special report which has Just
been received at Washington gives a
gloomy view of the industrial condi-
tons in Germany. Thousands of
manufactures of that country are
idle, due mainly to overproduction.
The postofice department has is
sued an order that hereafter rural
letter carriers shall not act as agents,
statesmen or solicitors for express
companies, letter-box manufacturers.
wholesale houses, corporations or
firms, nor engage in any business or
avocation which would interfere with
the proper performance of their Off
cial duties.
Owing to the unprecedented
drought and excessive heat, the SUD-
ply of stock feed of all classes in all
portions Of the country will be much
below the average, and in most Sec
tons will be very scarce and expen-
sive. Already a large amount of the
surplus stock has been thrown on
the market, so that less feed will be
required than in the average year.
At the same time every indication
to a great shortage in cattle,
hogs, sheep, horses and mules next
and to the fact that abnor-
high prices will then prevail.
The Siberian crops are nearly a to-
al failure, according to reports
by special agents sent into the
great grain-producing regions. AL
most the entire growth of cereals has
1erished as a result of the two
months drouth in the grain districts
# Minussinsk and Krasnoyarsk. The
outh Russian crop may be described
lpon the whole as fairly average,
ret there are disastrous shortages in
he populous districts in the Eka-
rinoslaff government, and an in
lance is cited of the utter d~estruc-
ion Of about forty thousand acres
# grain by hailstorms and the Hes
ian fly. :
But little relief has been felt from
he drought throughout the county, ,
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