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

Up to the 18th 100000 admis-
sions to the Buffalo exposition had
been registered.
The receipts from the sale of town
lots at Lawton, Okla, will exceed
half a million dollars.
The American and Continental
tobacco companies have been alb
sorbed by a $l50,00O,O0 trust.
General Gomez declares that UNI
der no circumstances would he ac-
cept the nomination for president of
Cuba.
BY the collision of a trolley car
with a passenger train at Chicago
four people were killed and eleven in
jured.
Lieutenant Henry Watterson, Jr.,
U. 5. A.. was married on the 10th to
Miss Esther Casanova, a Cuban
hciress.
a strike is theatencd among en-
ploycs of eastern cotton mills on ac-
count of a reduction of IA per cent
in wages.
The attorney general of Ohio
threatens to prosecute the American
Steel Company for violating the an
THRUST law.
Employees Of the steel trust at
Joliet. Ill.,. and Milwaukee voted
unanimously to obey President SHAFT
fer1s strike order.
There is serious talk in Indiana
of an effort to have the state place a
statue of Gen. Henry W. Lawton in
statuary hall at Washington.
Mayor Taggart, of indianapolis,
Ind, is an avowed candidate for the
Craftsmanship Of the national demo-
cratic committee to succeed Senator
Jones.
Mrs. William Glou, of Great Falls,
Mont. horsewhipped the president
and secretary of the trades council
because a boycott had been put on
her store.
Many volunteers who have re-
turnsd to England after expiration
of their terms of enlistment in South
Africa complain that the govern
mcnt has failed to pay their salaries.
The affairs of the George H. Phil
lips Commission Company of Chi
cage have been placed in the hands
of a receiver The big corner on corn
engineered by Phillips was the cause
of his failure.
Since Inc first date of President
Shatfee> strike order. the ranks of
the strikers have been daily increased
by the addition of men heretofore
looked upon as non-unionists by
their employers.
y passenger on the NJ, X. & 7.
was robbed by eight masked men at
a paint in the Indian Territory,
twcnty-eight miles from Dcnison.
Tex. The express ear was blown
open. the safe wrecked and the mail
sacks riAed. The robbers also went
through the train and took all the
money and valuablcs found on the
passengers.
Five men were burned to death.
four were drowned. three and posi-
bly, four were s~utfocated and several
injured as the result of a fire which
destroyed the temporary w~aterworks
crib two miles off the Cleveland. o..
harbor on the 18th. When the fire
broke out the tunnel contained TWEEN
t.y-olX men, seventeen of whom cS-
capped on floating pieces Of wreckage
and were picked up by a rescuing
party.
\ dispatch from EIoulton, Kan.
tells Of a most remarkable occur
renee at that place. The 5-year-old
child of a Mr., McPrease died or ap-
peared to be dead. The funeral was
arranged, and on the way to the
cemetery the casket containing the
child was struck by a bolt of light
ming and split open. To the aston
i,hmcnt Of the frightened party the
child sat mp and called for lis
mother. The horses were Knocked
down, but no other damage was
done. The little girl is in a fair
way to recovery. 1t is believed she
was in IA cataleptic state, from which
tho shock Of lightning aroused her.
The state democratic platform of
Pennsylvania adopted in convention
last week does lot mention the Kan
sas City platform, but arraigns the