The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1901-03-23
IN BRIEF.
Compiled from Various Sources.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

himself, leaving seven orphaned chill
dren. The babe was found by neign-
bors in it's dead mothers arms. COW
cred with blood.
The trial of the most prominent
rebel in the. colony of Natal, South
Africa, n man named De JAEGER, has
been concluded at Pietermaritzburg.
He was sentenced to five years inn
prisonment and TO pay a fine of G5,-
900. De jaeger was a Boer command
ant
The will of former Secretary of
State VIM. Evarts was filed for pro-
bate in New York on the 14th. All
of the estate is left 10 the family.
The California state supreme court,
on the 14th, granted a new trial to
Mrs. Cordelia Botkin, who was con-
victed of the murder of Mrs. j. Z.
Dunning, in the summer of 1898, and
sentenced to life imprisonment.
A French torpedo boat which had
been sent to meet an incoming trans
port, the Lerhin, at Brest, sprang a
leak, on the 18th, and suddenly began
to fill, sinking in a few minutes. The
crew narrowly escaped in the boats.
China has strenuously objected to
the limitations Of the M~anchurian
convention respecting the importa-
ton of arms, the reorganization of
the army and the practical control Ivy
Russia owe Chinese officials.
Fire in Pittsburgh, Pa, N the 18th,
destroyed the felt factory of the Hi
ram W. French Co., in which it origi-
mated; the main building of the expo
%sition, two extensive lumber yards
and three small dwellings. One fire.
man was killed and three badly in
jured by a live wire coming in con-
tact with the nozzle of the hose. The
property loss is estimated at $2j0,000;
well insured.
The prohibitionists of Denver, Col,
have nominated a ticket composed en-
tirely of women for the city offices
to he filed at the election on April .
next. Their candidate for mayor is
Mrs. A. A. Hawley, president of the
State Women's Christian Temperance
union.
Harvard and Yale, American, have
challenged oxford and Cambridge,
English. for a regular set of track
games, to be held in New York during
the early part of next July.
The transport Fitzpatrick with 400
sick soldiers arrived at San Francisco,
on the 18th, from Manila. Four pri-
Yates died on the voyage.
Patrick Donohoe, publisher of the
Boston Pilot, died at his home, on the
18th. He had just reached his nine
tieth year. Since the 18th he had
been at the point of death, and the eff
forts of his physicians were to keep
him alive for his birthday anniver-
sary.
A Washington dispatch says: Sue
cess of the ST. Louis Worlds Fair leg
islation came through the ignoring OF
party considerations. Any attempt in
st. Louis to make political capital out
of the result must distort and mis-
represent what took place here"
The London Daily Mail, which
makes a bid for tariff protection, de-
clares editorially that "the real
causes of Americas wonderful com
mercial succes may be summed up in
the words tariff and great alert
ness"
George Hunt, encouragement OF
the state of Illinois from 1854 to 1892
and a uafaran Of fha civil txra l;aI
on the 18th, at his home in Riverside,
near Chicago. He was brought into
prominence during his two terms as
encouragement by several big cases
which he handled for the state.
Mrs. Carrie b. Cabus fell in an
epileptic fit at her home, in New
York city, on the 18th, and a pet foS
terrier, which became excited or was
angered by what it could not under.
stand, seized her by the throat, open,
ing the jugular vein. She was dead
when a doctor arrived.
The Pullman sl~eeping-cars Tabits
and Elmer, on a Plant system traiI
from Tampa to Jacksonville, Fla.
were completely burned, on the 18th
at Buffalo Bluff, seven miles from
Palatka. The sieepers were fllec
with sleeping tourists, who lost al
their personal belongings.
Previous to celebrating n pontifca
mass in st. Patrick's cathedral, New
York, in honor of the patron saint, oil
the 18th, Archbishop Corrigan formal
ly blessed the handsome new statu
of st. Patrick. recently presented t.
the cathedral by John d. Mannin.
During the progress of a fire il
Pittsburgh, Pa, on the 18th, at tn
corner of Duquesne Way and Fol
street, one man lost his life an
three others were badly hurt. TIL
property loss will be fully $25O,OOO
well insured.
The first move for the erection O
a statue of Andrew Carnegie, in pal
tial recognition of his generosity j
offering to give New York city S.
200. 0 for libraries. will he made (