The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1901-10-12

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shipping agency have entered into an
agreement whereby the stations of
the agency throughout the world are
to be equipped with wireless tel
egraphy.
The friends of Miss Ellen Stone, the
missionary held captive by bulgarian
bandits, have made an appeal for
money with which to pay the $4,000
execution on the 9th.
The annual report of Thomas
Fitchie. Inspector of immigration at
New York, has been transmitted to
the treasury department. The re-
port shows that the number of aliens
arrived during the fiscal year ended
June 30, 1901, was 453,496.
The court of appeals of Kentucky
having granted eN-Secretary of State
Caleb Powers and James Howard new
trials. the ease of the former was
called at Georgetown on the Sth. Pow
ers was convicted over a year ago as
accessory to the murder of William
Goebel in January, 1900, and sentenced
TO life imprisonment.
A report. issued on the Sd, by the
United States geological survey, shows
that the total value of minerals of
all kinds produced in this country in
1900 was S1.070. los. $50. The total value
of the metallic products was $552,-
41s,627; the non-metallic S516,690 ,262,
and estimated value of mineral prod
ucts unspecitied, 81 900, 900.
Steamer advices, received on the
9th, say that the coast of kazuza,
northern Japan, had been visited by
heavy gales, wrecking 400 fishing
boats. Twelve boats with total crews
of "A were missing. Heavy rains
caused an overflow of the rivers of
Hokkaido, washing away 600 houses
and submerging many villages.
At Lacrosse, Kas., +. J.. Smiley, of
Topeka, secretary of the Kansas
Grain Dealers association, was, on the
4th, fined $500 and sentenced to three
months in Jail for violation of the
state grain laws. lie was charged with
entering into combination with
grain dealers in Rush county TO pool
and fix prices and prevent competition
among grain buyers.
The American Tin Plate Co. has
adopted a policy of cancellation toward
its employees who were recently en-
gagged in the steel strike. While the
terms of the settlement of the strike
do not permit the recognition of the
Amalgamated association, not the
slightest discrimination, it is officially
stated, will be allowed against the
old men when they return to work.
In the fastest and most superb con-
test ever sailed by single stickers for
the Americas cup, the Columbia van
quished in a piping breeze, over a tri-
angular course, on the Sd, the
challenger, Shamrock II. The wind at
times had a force of about eighteen
knots. Shamrock was beaten over the
30-mile course by . minutes and 80
seconds, actual time, and 3 miutes, IS
seconds, corrected time.
Twelve hundred men and boys went
on strike at Natalie (Pa.) colliery, on
the 3D., TO force the Shamokin Coal
Co. to evict James Bateman, an ex-
foreman, from a company house al
Natalie. Rateman gained the enmity
of a number of miners several months
ago, and they headed a strike for his
discharge. They succeeded in having
Bateman dismissed, and they now de-
mand that he be drifted from the vii
lage.
The London Daily Express, on tho
4th, cabled Commodore Morgan anC
Sir Thomas Upton, suggesting that
they arrange a race with the Colum
bias crew on board the Shamrock
and the crew Of the challenger OIL
board the defender, with a view of as
pertaining definitely just how much o
the credit for victory belonged to tn,
skipper and crew and how much t.
the designer and builder of the Co
lumbia.
The Columbia won the third an,
decisive race from Shamrock IL,
off Sandy Hook, on the 4th, but s.
close was the call that but for tn
time allowance of 43 seconds sh
would have been compelled to do
her colors to the plucky Englishmar
The Shamrock II. made the a C. a FEY
seconds faster than the Columbia, bu
owing to her 500 and odd feet of eXtr
canvas was handicapped by the tim
allowance which saved the race an
the cup to America.
A dispatch from Tacoma, Wash, o
the 9Th, said: The steamship GleI
pyle brings news of human flesh bein
freely sold in the famine district @
Shan 81, China. 1t brings $50 cas-