The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1901-10-19
CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

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the builder of a considerable part o.
the burlington railway lines west o.
the Missouri river.
From inside sources in Vienna it il
learned that the new Austrian tariff
bill, which is now complete, quite
equals the German in high protective
duties.
y report from Hebron, South Afri.
ca, says: Thirteen of Lord Kitchen
er's scouts were captured in a Boer
ambush"
The statement of the treasury bal
ances in the general fund, exclusive
of the $500 900 gold reserve in the
division of redemption, issued on the
18th, showed: Available cash balance,
S167, 550,037 gold, s101, ,20s.
Emperor William, in consequence of
crop failure, has RENTED more than
half the rents payable by peasants on
crown lands near Colmar, Prussia.
Prof. Thomas Shaw, of Minnesota.
was, on the 18th, elected to the chair
of animal husbandry in the agricul-
tural college at Brookings, S. d. Prof.
Show enjoys a national reputation
and is a leader of his profession in
this country and Canada.
On the 18th RIG. Dun G. Co., of New
York, reported: Failures for the
week numbered 231 in the United
States, against 232 last year, and "a
in Canada, against 80 last year."
Prof. Waldeyer left Berlin, on The
18th, to attend the Yale bi-centen.
nary, as a representative of the Uni
versity of Berlin and the Berlin Acad.
envy of Arts.
On the White Star liner Celtic,
which arrived at New York, on the
18th, was a party of English railroad
men who come over to spend a month
studying American railroad methods
and inspecting systems. They are
George 5. Glib, general manager of
the Northwestern railroad; Norman
d. Macdonald, T. NJ. Newell and Will
son Worsdell, directors of the line.
Up to the 14th there had been no
fresh developments in the ease of Miss
Ellen NJ. Stone, the abducted Ameri-
can missionary. Spencer Eddy, secre-
tary of the United States legation in
Constantinople, on the 18th, received
notification from Washington, that
the funds for ransom had been for
Warded.
burglars made an unsuccessful at
tempt to rob the Monroeville (O.) ma
t1onal bank on the night of the 18th.
The inner safe was blown, but the
noise aroused the Inhabitants, and
the burglars were forced to flee with
cut having secured any booty.
Capt. Pitcher has practically
stamped Il instruction in the ISL
and of Mindoro.
The Chinese plenipotentiaries at
Pekin, on the 18th, performed their
last official act and forwarded to the
Spanish minister, who is the doyen
Of the diplomatic corps, a bond for
the indemnity of $50, 900, 900 taels.
Mrs. E. ID. Gillespie, the great grand
daughter of Benjamin Franklin and
n of Philadelphia's most prominent
women, died at her home in that city,
on the 18th, aged so years.
The farmers of central New JERSEY
V made more out of potatoes This
year than ever before known IL the
history of the state. From Burling-
ton county north there has been, as
Col. Sellers would say, millions in it."
Lansing Warren, editor and publish |
er of the Milwaukee Sentinel, died. on
the 12th, from an attack of typhoid
fever affnr IN f11naer ~ Lz.. ~
weeks. Mr.. Warren had been actively
engaged in newspaper work for more
than twenty years.
Chief Surgeon Kimball, of thu de-
partment of the Missouri, saws that
youths under 20 years of age are not
able to bear up under the hardships
and privations of an active campaign,
and serve only to cucumber the hos
and to diminish the efficiency
of the army"
Rev. benjamin Niebel died at Syca-
more, ILL.,, IN the 18th. aged SO. He was
one of the pioneer ministers OF the |
church of the wet. Rev.
Benjamin Neibel, of the Des MONIES
Qa.) Evangelical church, is his son.
A large reservoir, just completed,
East Liverpool, o., containing TO-
OO0.0o0 gallons of water, burs,, on the
and caused great damage. No
were lost, but a score of people
had narrow escapes. The money loss
will reach probably $150,00O.
The entire business section Of Los
Gatos. Cal, vas wiped ou: b. fire on
She 18th. The area covered by the
fire is estimated at about four acres.
Property variously estimated IN value
at from S10O,O 900 to $1,000 was de-
stroyed.
Miss Frances West has been select
ed by Gov. Shaw of Iowa to christen
the new cruiser Des Moincs at the
ship yards in Quincy, Mass. in No
vember.
During the run home of tna Jeffer-
son club excursion from st. Louis to
the tomb of Thomas Jeffe-son the
train made a burst Of speed,
lust west of Charleston, W. Va, COW
ering - miles in less than II min
ltes, five miles of which were made
at the rate of i05 miles an hour.