The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1901-02-02
NEWS OF THE WORLD.

The flrSt numDer Ol COl. bryan
weekly paper was issued on the 23d.
Smelter owners throughout the
country propose to organize a trust.
It is said Col. W. J. Bryan will
shortly leave for tour of Europe.
Chas. F. Nicely, the Cuban pos
tal embezzler, has been taken back
TO Cuba to stand trial.
Laborers constructing sewer in
St Louis struck vein of coal even
feet wide and five feet deep.
+. C. Sutton, merchant of st.
Joseph. Mo-, was mortally wound
I'd by two robbers, who attempted to
hold him up.
The first message of coincidence
from a foreign nation on the death
4 of Queen Victoria was from Presi-
dent Mckinley.
Between two and three million
dollars worth of business property
in Montreal, Canada. was Destroy
ed by fire on the Gath.
Rev. W. W. Wade, popular min
lister, of Albany, Ind, was arrested
by a secret service officer on the
charge of counterfeiting.
As a result of a dispute between
Russia and England over the pos
session of certain territory in Chi
ma. the latter has ordered two first
class battleships to Chinese waters.
Mrs. Carrie Nation is making life
miserable for saloon keepers of
Kansas. After being released at
Wichita for her second offense OF
smashing saloon furniture, she took
train for Enterprise, accompanied
by several adherents. While en-
route to a saloon at the latter place
with the avowed intention of wreck
ing it, the crusaders were met by the
wives of several dispensers of liq-
uor. and general fight ensued. A
woman heavily yelled was armed
with a horsewhip, with which she
administered to Mrs. Nation Sc
we're beating. All the parties were
arrested. Mrs. Nation declares she
will not desist in her efforts unit
every saloon is driven from Kan
sas, unless some one takes her life
An effort has been made to have thu
courts declare her of unsound mint
without success.
The financial effects of Queen Vic
toria's death will be widespread
The most direct penalty falls ol
the insurance companies, nearl,
all of which suffer. They have
however, no real reason to com
plain, owing to the queens ad
aggregate, enormous. The most di
rect penalty falls on the insuranc
companies, nearly all of which suffer
They have, however no real reason t
complain, owing to the queens ad
vanced age, they received much NOR
IN premiums during the past hal
century than they must now disburs
as principal. The queens life wa
never insured in American fashion
for the benefit of her children.
was, however, insured by hundred
probably thousands, of persons in n
way connected with her, but who's
businesses would suffer by her dealt
1t is possible to insure almost an
Imaginable contingency in Englan
II sufficient premium is paid. I'll
current rate on the queens life fe
months ago was IL per cent for OF
year. Most of the theatrical and 9th,
amusement managers and the pr
h prletors of fashionable shops we
accustomed to insure the queens Ii
at the outset of the season, in ord
that they might rccoup the heavy 10
her death would entail
The Philippine commission h
passed an act declaring that persol
IN arms against the United Stat
authorities or aiding or abetting Il
lnsurrectionists after March ne
Will be ineligible to hold Office.
The G, A. r. post of Ashville, II
passed resolutions opposing an a
preparation by congress for t
worlds fair at st. Louis on accou
pl the passage by the Missouri leg
iature of resolution of sympathy
the Filipinos.
/ AT Louisa, KY, David Wellm
snot and fatally wounded Richa
mnson and Miss Letitia Hamptc
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