The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1901-11-16
TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.


Ohio railway at Third and Rose
many freight cars and contents, were
burned on the 10th. Loss, over $780,
600.
At Enid, Okla, Joseph Carter, aged
90, killed L. d. Campbell, aged A, with
a fist blow over the heart. Both
were farmers. Campbell had threat
ened Carter with a knife, finally chal.
longing him to a fist fight. Carter
felled Campbell with a blowand death
resulted almost Immediately.
A Missouri Pacific train crashed in
to a freight car at the Missouri, Kan
sas & Texas crossing near Paola, Kas.,
on the 9th, killing Engineer Bowers,
of st. Louis, and seriously injuring
the fireman.
Baron De Calico, the Austro-Hun-
garian ambassador, has secured from
the porte a satisfactory settlement
of several questions that were pend
ing between Turkey and Austria
Hungary.
Two steamfitters were killed and
two others seriously injured by the
blowing out of a valve in the water
pumping apparatus at the Schwarz-
child q Sulzberger packing plant in
Armourdale, Kas., on the 10th.
The expenses of the local govern
ment of New York city last year were
more than seven times as great as the
expenses of Chicago and more than
six and one-half times those of the
city of Philadelphia. They were
nearly twenty times greater than the
expenses of St. Louis and five and
one-half times as much as those of
the city of Boston.
The Anheuser-Busch opera house at
Belleville, H., was totally destroyed
by fire early on the morning of the
10th. The origin is unknown, but it
is supposed to have caught in the
dressing rooms. The loss is estimated
at 100000.
A unique marriage took place, the
other day at Flora, ILL.,, when David
and Bertha Reynolds were made man
and wife. The bride was the recently
I NOulS WIG VI lht SIoOlii .
father, who is so years of age.
While the British first-class battle
ship Royal Sovereign was practicing
with her guns near Astkos, in Greek
waters, on the 10Th, one of the big
weapons burst, killing an officer and
six men belonging to the marine artil-
lery, and seriously injuring her cap
tain and 10 sailors .
According to the London Daily
News, Maj-Gen. Ian Hamilton, who
sailed for South Africa to act as Lord
Kitchener's chief of staff, takes a
plan prepared in London for a more
vigorous campaign, with a view of
ending the war before the coronation
festivities begin.
A new dynamite gun of destructive
powers, exceeding those of any
weapon yet designed, has just been
secretly submitted to a successful test
by a special board of officers of the
bureau of ordnance of the United
States army at Fishers island, n. Y.
The buildings for Charleston Is. c.
exposition are ready and the exhibits
are being rapidly got in place. The
citizens are making preparations to
receive their guests, and nearly every
private house will, for the time, be
come a boarding house.
William Ogden, of Mclean county,
H., has just concluded a deal for a
large tract of land in Kansas. 1t is
nearly 100000 acres. and is located in
the short grasscountry. The price paid
was $3.50 per acre. Ogden will con
vert it into a wheat ranch.
Thousands of people from all parts
of Minnesota, and, in fact, the entire
northwest, assembled at Tower
Mimi, on the 10th, to participate il
the unwilling of the first monument
erected to the memory OF William
Mckinley.
Dennis Mulvihill, the "stoker'' may
or of Bridgeport, Conn, assumed of
fee, on the 18th, at noon. He wal
called upon by 500 persons within TIVE
hours, and about a bushel of mai
bearing congratulations ami goot
wishes was delivered to him. Mayo,
Mulvihill was for 80 years fireman il
a manufacturing concern here Dur
ing the campaign many contribution
toward .defraying the expenses of hi
canvass were sent to him, but he re
turned the donations in every in
stance.
1t is announced that nearly 500 ma
chinists employed by the Fulton irol
works in San Francisco have returne,
to work after having been on strik
for several months in an effort to oh
tain ten hours pay for nine hours
work. 1t is understood that they re
turn to their benches on a schedul
of nine hours pay for nine hours
work.
Senator Warren, of Wyoming, too
luncheon with the president, on tn
18th, and had a general talk with hin
regarding the irrigation Of arid land
in the west.