The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1901-11-30
CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

of the $3.50, 0OO, 900 gold reserve in the
division of redepmtion, issued o n the
god, showed: Available cash balance,
$164, 304,017. Gold, sos, 941 ,972.
The towboat Fritz, sent out from
Cairo, Ill, on the 22d, to raise the
wrecked steamer Hartweg, sunk neal
Randolph landing, Tenn, struck the
same snag hat sunk the Hartweg'
and went down in six-and-a-half feet
of water. No lives were lost.
On the 22d r. G. Run G. Co. report
ed: Failures for the week numbered
21S in the United States, against 23S
last year, and 81 in Canada, against
20 last year"
The launch of the first iron steamer
constructed in Chile occurred at VAL
p~araiso, on the cath, and was a great
success. The ceremony was attended
by the president, Senior Jerman Ries-
co, the federal authorities and a large
assemblage of people. The entire
ship, from keel to truck, was con
structed in Chile.
At Highland. Kas., on the gath, d.
+. Ward. a member of the city coun-
ell. crushed j. L. S~pringer's skull WIN
a club, fatally wounding him, after
Springer had twice shot him. The
quarrel was the result of an old time
family feud.
On the oath Charles Anderson and
Carl Lentz, section men. were killed,
and s. j. Smith, a section foreman,
was injured in a collision between a
hand "a and a freight train on the
Burlington road near Usage City
Wyo.
President and Mrs. Roosevelt re-
turned to Washington, on the oath
from their outing down the Potomac
river.
A dispatch from Manila, dated No
vember IA, said: THE local steamer
Alerta, with 200 passengers, including
some discharged American soldiers
from Olongapo, Subig Bay, to Manila
is believed to have been lost"
Mr.. Dickinson, the special diplo
matte agent of the United States, VIII
has been conducting the negotiation:
for the release of Miss Ellen NJ. Stone
arrived at Constantinople, on thu
gath, from Sofia.
The Philippine constabulary, which
was organized last August, Is proving
! itself a valuable adjunct to the mill
: tary authorities and is making An en-
viable record.
!. Numerous churches in the Spanisl
! provinces have been destroyed, re
Gently, by incendiary fires. The polic'
/. have secured no clews as to the cul
+, prits.
N. c. Rathbun was indicted by tn,
special grand jury at Jefferson, Ind.
on the 22d, for the wilful murder o
Charles Goodman, the tramp whom h
: had chosen as his victim in his self
confessed scheme to defraud the in
surance company which had issue'
$4,000 against his life. Rathbui
pleaded not guilty.
The application of the Chicago
Union Traction Co. and the Consoli
dated Traction Co. for an injunction
| restraining the state board of equal
) Zation from assessing the capita
: stock of those companies for 100
r was denied by the federal court a
> Springfield, ILL.,, on the ed.
Andres Cronic, a brother of the ia
= nous Boer leader, now a prisoner /
= st. Helena, is among the ~ex-burgher
= who are enlisting men against tn
Beers, and who are taking up arm
= against their former companions i
arms and in favor of the British.
a President Roosevelt's policy of rec
ognizing merit and ability in maxim
appointments was evidenced, on til
22d, in his appointment of Capt. Gre
zier to be chief of ordnance, with tn
e rank of brigadier general, over tn
:. heads of 81 senior officers.
Count Won Observation-Disclosures
e who, a few days since, retired frol
t the post of German ambassador I
r Great Britain, died at the embassy
London on the 22d, from asthm'
complicated by congestion of II
lungs.
Ex-President Cleveland, on his r.
IS cent return home, to Princeton, !
l. j., from a hunting trip. was take
with a chill and has been threatent
II with pneumonia, At last accoun
= his condition was not considered dal
a gerous.
a Five thousand foreign corporation
n doing business in Chicago, are ju
h now facing fines of $1,000 each fl
noncompliance with a law, enact'
two years ago., making it compulsoi
IL for them to pay a fee for doing bus
As ness in the state of Illinois.
Another alleged conspiracy has be-
u nipped in the bud at J~ohannesbur
:. South Africa. Twenty arrests we
- made at midnight, recently, in hous
- in various parts of the city. A gre
sensation followed.
IL The Atlantic coast, in the vicini
of New York, was swept by a terri
northeast gale, on the gath, resulti1
- in the wreck of docks and numero
-, small craft. Much valuable proper
90 at the Long Island and New Jers
summer resorts was destroyed.
a. Ignacio FOLIAGE, commander of {
IT. Colombian gunboat Pinzon, notia
80 tho Apnnplnr