The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1901-08-24

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surrender.
The Bocs declare no attention will
be paid to Lord kitchncr's Danish
ment order.
New gold discoveries have recently
been reported in McDutlie, Lincoln
and Wilkes counties, Georgia.
The president of Venezuela ac-
cuscs the government of Colombia of
aiding a force of rebels to invade
Venezuelan territory.
Senator Platt of New York ad-
viscs the republicans to nominate an
independent democrat for MAYOR in
order to defeat Tammany.
About forty ocean steamers have
been tied up for several weeks at
San Francisco on account of inability
to secur help to load their cargoes.
Miss Myrtle Rocssles, of st. Louis,
attacked a burglar at her home, and
after a fierce scuffle compelled him
to drop an armful of plumber and
flee.
The severe gulf storm of last week
did considerable damage at Mobile
and to railroad and other property
along the coast from Pensacola to
New Orleans.
1t is reported there is great suffer-
ing on the island of Panay, P. l.,
among the farmers from failure of
crops and the death of thousands of
head of cattle.
Mrs. VI. j. Moss, of Wheelock,
Tex, killed twelve rattlesnakes with
out being bitten, though she stepped
into the nest before becoming aware
of the presence of the snakes.
Heavy rains in East Tennessee on
the 18th and 18th washed away
miles of railroad track and numer-
Gus bridges. The damage to crops
and farm property is enormous.
The commissioner of internal
revenue has decided that the internal |
revenue bureau of the treasury de-
partmcnt has no authority to cancel
imprinted stamps and then return
them TO the banks, individuals or
who send the stamps in for re-
icmption. This will entail a
heavy loss to the national banks
throughout the country.
President Theodore C. Search of
he National Association of Manu-
.acturers has called a special meeting
If the executive committee of that
organization for September 4 to con-
idcr the question of reciprocity in
I'll its phases, after which it is said
call will be ssucd for a national
'ciprocitv convention to be held in
Philadelphia.
The department of agriculture has
ccelyed a cablegram from Buda
'esth announcing the official esti-
Of August 10 for the Hungar-
an grain crop of 1901. 1t shows
n thousands of Winchester bushels
he following estimate. compared
With the figures for the crop of 1900:
12,,693.5 bushels, against
10000. Rye, 54,403.2 bushels,
galnst l4,300. Barley, 46,S22 BUSH
Is against $4,000.
Russia is on the eve of another
from a failure of the wheat
rop. The famine-stricken area ex-
eedS half a million square miles, and
bout the same area as that of the
.reat famine of 1891. The popula-
ion numbers 5000, 900. The hopes
ounded on the report of the two
months have vanished. The havoc
.as been wrought By the intense heat
nd entire absence of rain when
coded. Aftcrward there were tor
entail downpours and hailstorms.
he appearance of innumcrable pests
; completing the destruction.
As a result Of the steel workers
trike great damage is being inflicted
pom the United State steel corpora
ION in the tin-platc industry. Every
ln-plate worker in the United States
: a member of the Amalgamated
association. and the majority are
british workers who were born and
cared in the strictest of British con-
options Of trades unionism. So
thoroughly Is the tin-plate branch of I,
he steel trade organized among the
'orkcrs that the steel corporation has
cen unable, after offering liberal
Onuscs. to secure skilled worknr. l.,