The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1901-08-17
A. r. Ballantine, inventor Of the

lce-making machine, is dead.
francesca Crispi, the Italian
statesman, died on the 10th.
The steel trust is negotiating for
the purchase of all the principal iron
mills in the south.
Stock of the steel trust fell sew
sral points on account of President
Shaffer's strike order.
Senator Cullom expresses the
opinion that the next congress will
partially revise the tariff.
The entire business portion of
Rantoul, ILL.,, consisting Of five
blocks, was wiped out by fire on the
10th.
A company with 100000, 900
capital is securing options on coal
mining properties throughout the
country.
Lord Kitchener has issued an Or
der that all Beers who fail to sur
render by September Is will be ban
ished from South Africa.
Walter Dimmick, former chief
clerk of the San Francisco mint, has
been arrested, charged with the theft
of $4,000 in gold bullion.
The husband of Mrs. Carrie Ma
ton, of saloon smashing fame, has
brought suit for divorce, alleging
neglect of family duties and aban-
donment.
The Parkhurst Society of New
York city claim to have procured
positive evidence that the police of
the big metropolis are in league with
owners Of gambling houses, and that
when a raid is forced by citizens, a
secret warning is given the dive
keeper.
Joe Washington, colored, met the
horrible fate of death by burning
at the stake eighteen miles from
Savannah, Ca, for the usual crime.
The negro met his fate without a
word of appeal for mercy. The
husband of the victim applied the
match to the timbers piled about the
doomed man.
Jack Winters, a former employee,
has confessed that he robbed the Sell
by smelling works near San Fran
cisco of $2S0,000 worth of gold bull
lion. He told where the gold was,
and it has all been recovered. Win
tiers did the job alone, and it is said
the superintendent of the works
promised him immunity if he would
assist in recovering the bullion.
Bradstreet's commercial report
says: Despite some irregularity,
due to the recurrence of corn dam
age reports from the eastern surplus
producing states and the formal
launching of the much-heralded gen.
eral steel workers strike, the aggre-
gate business the country over seems
to be of a good and, in most sections,
unprecedented volume for this sea-
son of the year.
The steel workers at Chicago,
Joliet and several other points re-
fused to obey the strike order of
President Shaffer. Officials of the
Amalgamated Association claim
they will have the backing of eighty
four national organizations, with a
membership of two million men, and
hat if needed the sun of $4,000
per day can be raised to sustain the
strikers.
A cablegram received from Mr..
Rockhill reports that the delay in
signing the final protocol of agree
ment between the powers and China
is due to objections raised by Great
Britain against the international
commission for the revision of the
tariff. The nature of the British
objections is not stated. 1t also APP
pears that the British government
asks the reconsideration of some
clauses as to which no agreement
has yet been reached, owing to the
objections of some of the powers.
The census bureau has completed
the compilation of statistics as to
sex, general nativity, and color in
Mississippi. The total population
of Mississippi is 1,551,27O, of which
781,451 are males and 769,819 are
females. The total white popula-
ton is 642,900, of which $685. 75 are
native white. The total persons of
negro descent are 905 $50; Chinese,
1917; Indians, who are taxed, 2,2O3.
OF the negro population, 452, 645