The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1901-07-27

lease Manchuria.
A combination of bottle makers
has been formed, with a capital Of
s3O,OOO,O00.
Charles Botha, a son of General
Botha, was killed in a battle with the
British in the Orange River colony
on the 18th.
Jesse Phillips, who shot and killed
Lucius Reed, a plantation manager
at Cleveland, Miss, was captured by
a mob and lynched.
The French wheat crop is now be-
ing rapidly harvested and returns
from the departments indicate that
the entire crop in France exclusive
of Algeria, can not exceed 26,134,-
500 bushels, a result which causes
general disappointment.
Disorder and lawlessness have
greatly increased in Pekin since the
policing of the city was restored to
the Chinese authorities There are
nightly burglaries by large bands of
d~epredators, while Cinnamon in the
employ of the Europeans are fire.
quently beaten and robbed.
Charles Rob, a young lad living
near Dexter, Mo-, accidentally shot
and killed his mother. He was out
hunting and trailed a flock of tur-
keys to a thicket. Discovering a
motion of the bushes, he fired, the
load striking his mother in the face.
She was gathering berries.
A call has been issued for a con-
ference in Columbus, O., July 81,
'of those DEMOCRATS who oppose the
platform adopted at the Ohio Demo-
cratic state convention because it
does not mention Bryan, free silver
or the Kansas City platform"
A bulletin issued by the census
office shows that there has been a
decrease of the Chinese population
of the United States since 1890 of
the number now here being
$4,000. The japanese increased
the past ten years from 2.O39
to $4,000.
The United States civil commits
sion has announced that after three
months trial of a provincial form
Of government in the islands of Cebu
and Bohol and the province of Batan-
gas, Luzon, control of these districts.
owing to their incomplete pacifca-
ton, has been returned to the mill
tary authorities, it having been
that the communities are
backward and u~ndeserving of civil
administration. The provincial and
civil officers of these designated dis
will continue under the
authority of General Chaffee, instead
Of that of Civil Governor Taft, as
heretofore. General Chaffee has the
power arbitrarily to remove from
office any Oh all provincial or civil
officials and to abrogate any section
Of the laws promulgated in these
three provinces.
Maj. Thos. L. Casey, in reporting
to the chief of engineers upon rivers
n Louisiana, Arkansas and Missis-
'lppi, makes the following estimate
further Improvements: Those
lbove $4,000 are as follows: Red
river, Louisiana, Arkansas and In.
liam Territory, $6S5,OOO. Ouachita
md Black rivers, Arkansas and
Louisiana, $4,000. Boeuf river.
Louisiana, $25,5OO. Yazoo river.
Mississippi, 100000. Lieut.. Col.
ii. NJ. Adams has made a report TO
he chief of engineers upon the i'm
'rovement of the south pass of the
Mississippi river, which was under
he Eads contract until January %.
1901, when the contract terminated.
The required depth of &c feet and a
width Of 200 feet was maintained
.,3o3 days, or twenty years from
'uly 8, 1879, to the date of expira-
ION OF the contract. There were de-
.iciencies in depth or width 5?2 days
Turing the period. Col. Adams
makes no recommendations as to the
uture of the south pass. Lieut.. E.
d. Adams, in his report to the chief
t engineers, makes the following es-