The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1901-02-02

uicdi iHNeutoi, uicu dt HIS HOliie III
Chicago on the 21st.
Congress has voted a quarter mil
lion dollars for a soldiers home at
johnson City, Tenn.
Burglars secured $4,000 by
blowing open the safe of David
Offers bank at Shiloh, o.
Gen. Eagan, the retired army Off
Ger, has leased 100000 acres of coal
lands in Mexico and will develop the
same.
Hon. j. W. Bailey was elected
United States senator by the Texas
legislature with only seven dissent
ing votes.
The japanese government has de-
cided to levy additional taxes to
meet the expenses Of the japanese
army in China.
The governor of Kansas SAYS that
ne will see that members of the mob
who burned the negro rapists, Alex
ander, are punished.
The English government has de-
manded an income tax of per cent
from American holders of British
government bonds.
President Mckinley has COM
pletely recovered from an attack of
, grippe, which caused him to remain
in bed for over week.
Geo. T. Rice, editor of the Daily
Bulletin. at Manila, has been "de-
ported to The United States by or
der of Gen. Macarthur. His offense
consisted in charging the captain of
the port with exacting excessive pilot
. age and portage fees a percentage o!
!. which, it was alleged, he had kept
: for himself. The authorities investi-
gated the matter ard found that the
. editors charge was not well founded
: hence his deportation.
! Chairman Hull, of the house mill
tary committee, sums up the essen
tial points of the agreement on th'
army reorganization bill, on whicl
an agreement was reached by the con
ferees of the two houses: The ar
tillery corps organization is adopt
ed, with a chief of artillery, who vii
serve on the staff of the general com
manding the army. The battery be
!, comes the unit of artillery organiza
u ton. The strength of the staff corp
is left as the two houses provided, ex
= T. cept the quartermaster's department
y in which compromise is made ad
- ding two majors and six captain;
providing for retaining twenty-fiv
: volunteer quartermasters as long a
their services are needed.
N Mrs. Nation, who demolished tn
y furniture in a saloon at Wichits
e. Kas., several weeks ago, and fo
4 which she was confined in Jail unit
l. released on the ground that she wa
l. irresponsible for her acts, is /
&c trouble again. Together with thre
r. other women, Mrs. Nation swoope
TO down OH two dramshops at Wichit
D. on the 21st inst, and in less tha
re ten minutes the places looked
IL though cyclone had swept throug
Sc them. The women were owe
as powered and placed in Jail after
n, hard struggle, during which Mrs. N
1T ton slapped the sheriff in the fa'
Is, and wrung his ear until he cried fl
no help. She is large woman, viii
se the sheriff is a small man. III
n. value of the property destroyed
ny given at $4,000.
~ Both the Creeks and ChoctaN
nc have organized in every county
:" the two nations in opposition to t
nc whites. They are notifying frien
lv Indians not to rent lands to I
~ whites nor to employ them, al
.ie have sworn to furnish those W
,ie ,,ie violate their order by giving fiji
lei lashes on the bare back for the fiji
'S' offense, the ears to be cut off for t
second and death is the penalty pl
las scribed for the third. They al
ms threaten to destroy all the railroa
ties in the two nations, but the oflici'
'he think the insurgents can be
ext strained with but little trouble, or
they are convinced that troops W
H., engage them if necessary. The fu
ip- bloods of the Choctaw nation he
the meeting near South McAlest
int and passed resolutions deposi
,is- Gov. Dukes and elected full-blo
for named Bell governor. They sent
enacial messape IN Gov Dukes IL