The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1901-08-10

Knoxville, Tenn, has been in tn
throes of a bitter street car strike TO
six days.
The drought has caused a los
from damage to Indiana's corn Gro
of at least $40,000,000.
A cousin of President Steyn o
Cape Colony was killed in BATH
with the British last week.
Gold has been discovered in Pu
laski county, Missouri, but the or
yield is only about 81 per ton.
An epidemic of influenza is ragins
among horses at Chicago. 1t is sale
80 per cent of the animals of tina
city are affected.
More than 700 children unde,
the age permitted by law for theil
employment, were taken from st
Louis factories last week by the
officers.
1t is reported boxers threaten
trouble when all the foreign troops
depart from China. The Chinese
regulars, it is feared, will not be
able to cope with the boxers.
The brokerage firm of George
Phillips of Chicago has suspended.
Phillips is the man who engineered
the recent corner on corn in which
he made wei a million dollars.
George and Helen Gould, as e.
c%eivers, have been granted an order
by the court to pay the debts of their
brother-in-law, Count Castellane,
out of the estate of their sister, the
counts wife.
Governor Longino, of Mississipp;.
has furnished the press with a state
ment of the lynching of three ne
groes in Carroll county, in which he
condemns the officers in the strongest
terms.
In all 213 men who served as VOL
unteer officers during the war with
Spain and the operations in the Phil
lppines have passed the examinations
and been given COMMISSIONS in the
regular army. In addition to these
200 enlisted men, who took the COM
petltive examinations under the act
of 1892, have also passed and been
assigned to duty. The reorganiza-
ton of the army created between 700
and 500 vacancies of commissioned
officers, and the indications are that
all the assignments will be made by
Christmas.
The United States geological sur
vey has issued a report on iron and
steel at the close of the nineteenth
century, prepared by James NJ.
Swank, general manager of the
American Iron and Steel Associa-
ton. 1t shows that this country to-
day leads all other countries in the
production Of these articles. It puts
the total worlds production of pig
iron in 1900 at about forty million
long tons, of which the United States
made 3,7S9,242 tons, or fully "a
per cent. The total worlds produc-
ton of steel for 1900was about twen-
Charles Davis, a white man.
charged with criminal assault, was
taken from the court house at Smith
Tenn, by a mob of twenty-five
and lynched. The victim was on
trial for the offence, and when he in
-roduced witnesses to attack his VIC
Inns character her relatives and
friends made a rush for him. Tho
sheriff and several deputies were
overpowered in the court
DOM, after receiving serious wounds,
md the crowd took charge Of the
prisoner.
Bradstreet's report of commercial
for the week ending Au-
gust 4, says: "Copious rains
throughout the western half of the
country have had the expected effect
inducing a more cheerful tone,
and the feeling is decidedly more
hopeful than it was a week or two
lgo. Rains principally insured a
-arge spring wheat crop. Brad
streets adyices point to the early
'orn crop as practically a failure in
he leading surplus-producing states
vest of the Mississippi, but late corn
undoubtedly has been saved, and as
line elapses estimates of production
Ire being raised. From the rest of
he country trade advices are in the
quite cheerful, and, despite the
intense heat and drought of July, an
Extraordinarily large business APP
BEARS to have been done, which is re-
iected in the bank c~learances for
hat month. Cotton crop condi-
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