The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1901-10-26
TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

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Thomas Upton on his return from the
United States. Among the members
Of the committee are, Lord Mayor
Frank Green, Lord Charles Beresford,
Lord Llangattock, Sir John Monck-
ton, Sir james Thompson and. T. p.
O'Connor.
1t is reported in government circles
in Munich that Count Won Buelow, at
the wish of Bavaria and Wurtemburg,
has decided to drop the minimal du-
ties from the new tariff bill.
The British war Office has ordered
the immediate payment to the yeo-
manry of arrears of pay, thus remov-
ing a serious grievance.
The statement of the treasury bal
ances in the general fund, exclusive
of the $780, O0, 900 gold reserve in the
division of redemption, issued on the
| 18th, showed: Available cash bal
ances, s16s, 714,o74; gold, s1Oo,474,oss.
In an explosion at the machine
shops of Pattin Brothers & Co., at
! Marietta, O., on the Goth, D. p. Pattin,
one of the principal owners, was
killed, and the building was complete
ly destroyed. Mr.. Pattin had lighted
a match to find a leak of gas and the
explosion followed.
Announcement is made of the ap-
pointment of Prof. j. W. Henninger,
of Jacksonville, to be superintendent
of the Western Illinois Normal, to be
erected at Macomb. The appoint
-zsu. 4. ofFaat;ra I,,lxv 4 1A0O
Augusta de Forest, the well-known
actress who played leading roles with
Alexander Salvini, John Mccullough
and Edwin Booth, died, OIL the goth,
at her home in New York.
Henry j. Lenderink, secretary of
the United States legation in Santiago
de Chile, has resigned the position,
and will soon leave for home.
The current issue of Simplissimus,
the comic paper. was confiscated, on
the 10Th, at Breslau, for an offensive
cartoon directed against Emperor
William.
Secretary of State Hay, in a letter
Collins, at Albany, n. Y, declined the
invitation to designate an official rep
resentative of the government to be
present at the electrocution of Cool
gosz, the murderer of President Nc.
Kinley.
Arrangements for the visit of Pres
dent Roosevelt to Pennington, Conn.
included the dedication of a tree to
be planted on the village green by the
t~ownspeople and named the Mckinley
oak.
Yale university began, on the Goth
the celebration of the twentieth an
niversary of the founding, at New
Haven, Conn, of Yale college. Ths
bicentennial of the great institution
of learning was ushered in with cere
monies essentially religious.
The doctors of Vienna are puzzled
over the case of a young man, 2;
years old, who has just died after 81,
months of painful illness, which
proved to have been caused by swal
lowing bluebottles' eggs which
Matched in his intestines and com
pletely riddled them.
The shortage in cotton at Liverpool
is becoming serious. There are onl,
a few cargoes OIL the way. 1t is al
( most inevitable thai a part of tn,
5 machinery will be stopped, and tina
there will be a repetition of the fam
t inc of a year ago.
Fire, on the goth, destroyed tn
leather goods factory of Heating
, Smith e. Shoemaker, in Chicago, caus
ing a loss of 100000. While clingin,
10 the top rung of a high ladder an,
fighting the blaze five fremen wer
thrown to the ground and severed,
injured.
e The American hog has a Europea,
o rival. Denmark has come into tn
t field as a producer and exporter O
I hogs and hog products, with a growt
e at least interesting, if not suggestiv
S TO American producers of a con
modify whose export value gre
from Ss4,90s ,69s in 1891 to $119,96
/ SOB in 1901.
Commander-in-Chief Torrance c
the Grand Army of the Republic ha
d named Gen. Henry NJ. Duffield, of DE-
h troit, Mich, as judge advocate gener;
and Maj. A. Noel Brakeman, of Mour
d Vernon, n. Y, as chief of staff.
n To crown n omance begun in &c,
many more than half a century ag'
Meyer Selig of No. 639 East Sixt
street, New York, who is so years Oh
married, on the goth, Mrs. RIOS
n Reichman, of Newark, who is 7s yea
old and a grandmother.
l. The state department has been il
II formed by United States Consul Cal,
D. well, at San Jose, that new duties {
10 boots and shoes imported into Co.'S
ID RIGA have been imposed, which al
r much in excess of any heretofore
ID force and are practically prohibitive
The American line steamer s
Louis, which sails from Southampto
q for New York, on the Goth, will ha'
m among her passengers Mr.. and MI
m Andrew Carnegie and Lord Paunc
"a fote, the British ambassador to Il
"a United States, and Lady Pauncefote
Two of the leading banks of Be
"a ton, the Shoe and Leather nation
o,J +La National papL of Radannfio