The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1901-01-19

South Africa.
Oscar Gardner knocked out |
Tommy Hogan in the sixth round
before a club at Memphis.
A bill is pending in the Missouri
legislature to abolish the railroad
commission of that state.
Hon. Thos. NJ. Patterson succeeds
Hon. +. o. Wolcott as United
States senator from Colorado.
Ambassador Choate has made a
mild suggestion to China for the
withdrawal Of troops from China.
Friends of the Nicaraguan canal
bill will endeavor to secure its pas
sage before the present congress ad-
journs.
Geo. Duerstein shot and serious
| ly wounded his sweetheart, Amelia
Bergman, and her sister at Galena,
ILL., Jealousy was the cause.
John Redmond, leader of the
Irish parliamentary party, in a
speech on the Boar war, said 81
hope to God that the government
will be overwhelmed by military
and financial disaster at Cape
Town"
The senate committe on judiciary
authorized favorable report upon
Senator Hoar's bill for the punish
ment of train robbery. The bill pro
vides a penalty of twenty years i'm
prisonment or a fine of $4,000, OF
both, for the offense.
The army canteen is to b
abolished, as the senate, by yer.
decisive vote, concurred in the hous
provision relative to the canteen
Only fifteen votes could be mustered
in the senate in favor of the canteel
to thirty-four against it.
-, The American Telephone Com
! pany has purchased patents cover
ing the art of ocean telephony, an
to be sent over any length of Ian
> lines. The inventors name is Pr
, pin, of New York, and the pric
paid is given out at 100000.
Alaska advices state that the 81
{ ka Indians, including the Eagl
" Crow and Frog clans, who have qua
' relied over the use of totems an
other emblems of their respectiN
> clans, have decided, after long col
ference, to put aside their differenc
;" and make the American flag the
tribal emblem.
n j. f. Wood, an absconding e
press messenger. suicided at Orang
>. Tex, Just as the authorities we
. about to arrest him for his Grim
,s Wood disappeared suddenly wi
. about $500 of the company's mo
ey, and at different places spe
large sums in drinking and gal
a. bling. When apprehended he ra
u and before the officers could rea
~ him he placed a pistol to his brea
ic . and fired twice.
Q Secretary Long has received {
,o Bile dispatch from Admiral Rene
th announcing that the board of o
49, GERS convened to select the mi
81 suitable site in the Philippines
- permanent naval station, has fix
ro upon Olangapo, on Subig Bay.
20 result of this recommendati'
,st Mr.. Long has sent to congress
o recommendation that 81, 100000
ho appropriated for beginning work
M the proposed new naval station.
his Secretary Long has under c.
he sideration the appointment of
to board of naval officers for the p
the pose of suitably rewarding the {
ar GERS and men of the navy and I
re- rine corps who participated with
at- tinction in the recent campaign
,ok China. The board is not limi
urt as to what form the rewards '
AXE take, whether in the shape of
ur- vet medal or other method of rec
no. milton.
Dc The United States supreme &C
liss has announced its decision in
nth case of c. F. W. Neeley, char
i'm, with embezzlement of public fu
,oal of Cuba, while acting as finan
I'M agent of the department of post
and that island, holding that Neele,,
lin subject to extradition. Justice /
sew Ian handed down the courts opin
ling which was unanimous, and imm
rely ately after the opinion was conclu
hat an order was issued requiring
ba ltbo mandate coSa ha issl1ed at q