The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1901-10-05
CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

safe at Armada, Mich, recently, and
who was wounded in the running
fight that ensued between tie citi-
zens and the thieves, died Of his
wounds IN the Goth.
Rev. DR.. William c. Gray, the veneer
able editor of The Interior, a publ
cation of the Presbyterian church.
died, On the Goth, at his home in Oak
Park, Chicago. DR.. Gray, who was in
his SEVENTEEN year, underwent a sur
gical operation just before he left
Chicago for his summer vacation in
the Wisconsin woods, and returned in
a weakened condition, due not only
to the surgical operation, but to the
growing infirmities of age.
Saaverdra, the dragoman of the
Spanish legation at Tangiers, has ar
rived at Marakesh and been received
in audience by the sultan of Morocco,
who promised that all the Spanish
claims should be satisfied.
At Burlington, Ia, on the Goth, q
runaway street car crashed into a
Burlington freight train, and was
smashed TO kindlingwood. Mrs. Charles
Kupfer was killed and several other
persons were injured.
A dispatch from Constantinople, on
the goth, stated hat a bloody fight
had taken place between Mussulmans
and Christians at Beirut, Syria. No
details were given.
Hon. John b. Joy, resident member
of the board of trustees of the Cen
trail hospital for the insane, located at
jacksonville, Ill, died suddenly, on
the morning of the Goth, at his home,
eight miles northwest of Jacksonville.
A suggestion, emanating from high
source, and which is meeting with
widespread favor, is to change the
name of the Philippine islands to the
Mckinley islands.
A freight train, loaded with dyna-
mite and matches, left the track five
miles from Linares, Tex, near Iona
Alta. An explosion resulted. The en-
tire train of IA cars was tori to pieces
and the rack was ripped up for sew
eral hundred yards.
A report comes from Canton, O.,
of President Mckinley, in Westlawn
cemetery, Canton, O., attempted to
fire upon an intruder who was adj
vancing on him when another at
tackled him from behind, knocking up
his gun and then attempted to stab
him, merely cutting his clothes.
The first race between Columbia
and Shamrock II. was sailed on the
2Sth, and was one of the closest and
most exciting in the history of Amer
cas- cup contests. Columbia won by
the narrow margin of 81 seconds,
actual time, to which was added 43
seconds, time allowance for Sham
rocks SIG square feet sail area over
that of Columbia.
The biggest forest fire ever known
in the vicinity of Red Cliff, Col, was
raging, on the Goth, on Battle Noun
tain and threatening the town. The
conflagration extended for a couple
of miles along the west side of the
mountain, and near the summit was
burning iercely.
While at breakfast, on the morning
of the 2Sth, Company c., Ninth in
fantry was attacked by a large num-
Der of F%ilipinos, near Balanguigan,
Island of Samar, P. I. Forty-eight of
the ~ men were killed, the other "a
fighting their way out, II of whom
were wounded. The three officers are
missing. All the company stores and
ammunition were lost.
Lord Kitchener, commanding the
DHtiSh fnroac in South Afrioa hoe
ordered that all pianos, harmonicums
and other unwarlike impedimenta be
banished from the British camps and
more vigorous attention be given to
the work in hand.
Fire originating in the Mississippi
hotel at Clapton, Ia, on the goth,
swept two streets and destroyed five
business houses and ten residences,
comprising the principal part of the
town. The loss is estimated at $780,
900.
A portion of Gen. Botha's forces
believed to be under command of EN-.
NETT and Grobelaer, operating in the
southwest, attacked two blockhouses
on the Zulu frontier, but were re
pulsed with heavy loss.
Prince Karl Loewenstein of Ger.
many has issued a for a con.
ference against duelling, to meet il
Leipsic on the 10Th. His appeal is
signed by numerous members of the
centrist or clerical party in the
reichstag. The whole question of duel
ling will be thoroughly discussed 10y
Catholic and Protestant politicians.
A dispatch from Ladysmith, Natal
dated October l, says: 'The British
success at Fort ITALIA is now known
to have been greater than was Al
first reported. Two hundred Beers
were killed and more than three hun
5red were wounded or captured"
Tjardt Kruger, a son of the former
president of the Transvaal republic
who recently surrendered to the
British, died, on the LIST, after a shor,
illness.