The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1901-10-12
TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

iboSNbSNi'f 80 ta& oht
Purser Bree was custodian of over
five hundred thousand dollars worth
of gold dust belonging to passengers
on board.
A gang of highway robbers, on the
night of the 5th, successfully held up
and robbed the occupants of three
carriages, including several prominent
business men from Madison, S. d.,
while presumably en- route to Lake
Herman, three miles west of Madison.
A pitched battle was waged, but the
tourists were relieved of their valua-
bles, about five hundred dollars in
cash and all their jewelry.
Four Panhandle trainmen met
death near Onward, Ind, on the 9th,
in n rear-end collision of freight
trains. The bodies of three were taken
out badly mutilated, and the fourth
was almost entirely consumed before
the wrecking crew could subdue the
flames of the burning wreck sufficient
" to permit work in that portion of
the debris,
The s~emi-annual conference of Nor
mon missionaries in London came 10
a close. on the 9th. with three services
in the Finsbury town hall, which vas
crowded at each.
A dispatch from Sian Flu, on the
9th, announced that the imperial
Chinese court had started for Kai
Feng Flu.
The Lezeart Goa mine, about IL
miles from Evanston, Wyo., is on fire
in the lower workings. The mine is
down about five hundred feet, and the
fire has been raging for several
days. A new shaft has been opened
and operations resumed.
Fire, on the 9th, in the Pittsburg
clay pot works in Allegheny, Pa, dam
aged the plant to the extent of
$2sO,00O, injured six men and enforced
an idleness of several months upon 4
force of 165 workmen.
Edward H. Green, husband of Hetty
Green, is lying dangerously i'll at Bel
lows Falls, VT, and his physicians say
he can not possibly Mrs.
Green, with her son and daughter,
are with him.
James Talent, aged ST years, has
just married a second time, at Knox
vile, Tenn. He has "A grand and 10
! great-grandchildren living and 81
grand and great-grandchildren dead.
For 90 years the French academy
is supposed to have been at work on
a revision of the dictionary. The unit
III orror+e ,f An immortal Inrinor 4 h n Z
time has resulted in the dictionary
being completed to letter C. At that
rate it will take two centuries to com
plete the work.
President Roosevelt has discarded
the stationery headed Executive
Mansion and has had a fresh lot
prepared headed white House." He
says there are As executive mansions
while there is but one White House.
Glavinovitch, an anarchist who re
Gently arrived in Rome from Dalma
tia, has been arrested. He had beer
heard to threaten the lives of the
pope and of Cardinal Rampollo, pom
tifcal secretary of state. Boschieri
another anarchist, has been arrested
in Milan.
A report comes from Washington
that n new treaty has been negotiat
ed with Great Britain regarding tho
isthmian canal question which vii
meet the principal objections to thu
4 Hay-Pauncefote treaty.
The rural free delivery division o.
the post Office department is turning
it's attention to the establishment o
the system in entire counties in dense
ly-populated portions of the various
| states, especially where good roads arr
maintained.
Five thousand persons saw Capt
William Andrews, and his bride of
, few weeks, start from Atlantic City
= N. j., on the 9th, on their trip acros
the ocean. They left in a 14-foo
boat, sloop-rigged, called the OAR
: Secret"
; The six-story building at the foo
of Michigan venue Chicago, used b.
: the Barry Bros. transportation CO
: as a warehouse, was destroyed by fir
l on the 9th. Loss on building an
: contents, $1,000 O0.
b. William A. Heidecker, representa-
= Murray A. Werner, of Pittsburg, Pa
:. has presented to the municipal cour
! Gil of St. Petersburg a memorial o
fsring to take over the entire SUI
face traction system of that city, an
n to form a company, under Russia
+ law, with a capital of 100000
q roubles to operate the same. Th
+ lines will be largely extended an
h electrified. The prospects OF a favol
!, able answer are excellent.
g The county courthouse at Alexal
$ dria, S. d., was burned, on the 9th, t.
e gether with nearly all the county re-
r ords. The loss on the building wa
e about thirty thousand dollars. Th
= lost records can not be replaced, ]
many instances, and tho damage wi
be irreparable.