The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1901-11-02
CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

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timated at 500, 900, fully covered by
insurance.
David White, a chaplain in the
United States army, from 1866 until
1882, when he was retired, died at
Lawrence, Kas., on the 25th, aged SO
years.
The civil service commission, on the
25th, notified the postmaster general
that it had modified its regulations in
accordance with his request to waive
certain physical requirements of fc-
male applicants for positions as post
office clerks, including that making
them hop on one foot for a distance
of ~ feet.
The navy department received Il
cablegram from Rear Admiral Re-
mey, on the 25th, announcing his ar
rival at Nladivostock aboard his flag.
ship, the Brooklyn.
Since the establishment of the new
system of customs collections at the
dock at the port of New York, on
March 1, 1901, there has been collect
ed a total of $655,04s in duties on the
baggage of 99,6s6 passengers. against
a total of St52,454, collected at the
docks from 95,125 passengers during
the same period last year.
Tobin Hanson, a Dane, IS years of
age, surrendered to a Montreal po-
liceman, on the 9th, saying: ~
killed a boy for money, and only got
so cents. That is not enough, so I
came to give myself up"
Several Beers caught wearing khaki
uniforms, have been court-martialed
and shot as spies.
The town of Bobruisk, in the gov
eminent of Minsk. has been destroyed
by fire." says a dispatch from St. Pc.
tersburg, or the eth, ''and several
lives have been lost"
"A trustworthy report is in circula-
ton here" says a dispatch from
Sofia. dated the 27th, that Miss
to the frontier"
\ Uniontown pa dispatch of the
27th said; The western slope of the
Allegheny mountains, through Fay
cite county, IRE ablaze from the
Iough river through into West Nir
ginia, and mountaineers are fleeing
from their doomed homes with their
families. Careless hunters started tie
fires"
y big forest fire was raging on the
mountain range in the vicinity of Gar.
field mountain, directly south Of
Pixies Peak, Col, on he 9th. The
fire started fiCm an unknown cause
and, driven by a high wind, spread
over a big arer.
Alfred y. Carpenter, who has a
brother living at Fulton, Ill. was
found dead in a cabin boat at Quincy.
H., on the 9Th. He died of a pistol
shot. He is supposed to have been
dead five or six days.
Although no formal announcements
is yet ready, 1t has been decided that
the launch of The battleship Missouri
shall take pllcc at Newport New,
Va, in January. The work on tbs
great fighter is progressing more
rapidly than during the first stages of
construction.
The jury at Georgetown, Ky, in the
case of former Secretary of State
Caleb Powers, charged with com
plicity i the assassination of William
Goebel, returned a verdict of guilty
or the evening of the Goth An an
peal will be taken, one of the grounds
of which will he that the Jury was
packed to convict.
The campaign in Maryland has as.
sumed a dirty phase. A Autograph
has been put out covering the Po0ker
I. Washington incident at the White
House, which not only caricatures
President Roosevelt, but descends to
the inclusion of Mrs. Roosevelt in al.
offensive manner in the picture.
Reynolds Weekly Newspaper, pub
lished in London, asserted in it's issue
of the 9th, that King Edward is suf-
ferlng from cancer of the throat. and
that since his ma iesty's accession
three operations have beer performed
for the removal of papilloma on the
left vocal cord.
The court OF common pleas, in
Florence county, S. c., has decided
that a marriage contracted in South
Carolina between a white man and a
negro woman, in 1867, was invalid,
and that the children born of such
marriage do not inherit from an es-
tate left to the lawful grandchildren
of the testatrix.
The penal authorities of the state
of New York determined that the as
sassin of President Mckinley should
have no post mortem notoriety so
far a~stheycould p%reventit, and to that
end made arrangements to destroy
everything possessed by the prisoner
Immediately after his execution.
Leon F. Czolgcsz, who shot and ia
tally wounded William Mckinley,
president of the United States, dur
ing a reception at the Pan-American
exposition, in Buffalo. n. Y, Septem-
Der 6, was put TO death, by electrocu-
ton in the state prison at Auburn, y.
Y, at 7 a. m, on the goth, in the pres.
ence of the warden, prison officials
and the persons who were specially
invited TO witness the final scene y.
the terrible tragedy.
A serious conflict took Mace. on the