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

ANNOAutlOhs
A firm in Cincinnati is said to
have secured a corne on the supply
of Irish potatoes.
1t is reported hat President Kru-
ger has arranged to visit their coun-
try In September.
LORD Kitchener estimates the num-
Der of Beers now in the field against
the British at 5000.
A temporary stop to ocean ship
ping was caused in San Francisco
by a strike of dock laborers.
Charles Bentley, colored, was
hanged by a mob neal Leeds, Ala.
for the murder Of a white man. He
confessed.
Ex-Speaker Tom Reed is being
mentioned as the republican candi-
date for mayor of New York At tho
coming election.
ty-six million eight hundred and
se%venty-fve thousand tons, of Uhich
the United States made 10,1Ss,322
tons, or nearly So per cent.
Governor Van, of Shang Tung
province, has issued a sensational
proclamation declaring that foreign
missionaries have no right to inter
fere in any way by their teachings
against Chinest religions and Gus.
toms.
The steel trust announces that ii
is prepared to spend as much money
as necessary to destroy the Amalga-
mated Association, whose members
are now on strike. 1t looks as
though this will be the most bitter
fight that ever took place between
capital and organized labor.
A northbound Rock Island pas
senger train, crowded with depart.
ing homeseekers, was wrecked near
Kuemlin. Ok. c. L. McLain, Of
Enid, Ok, was killed outright and
about twenty others more or less in
jured.
A Baltimore and Ohio passenger
train was held up near Chicago by
five masked men. The robber mis-.
took the baggage car for the express
car and blew it to pieces with dvna-
mite. Seeing their mistake they dis
appeared, the only thing of value Sc
cured being the engineer' watch.
In the course ofsan Interview with
Mr.. Kruger, published in the Paris
Figaro, the ex-president of the
Transvaal said; I'VE have already
once proposed peace directly to Great
Britain, and We will not renew the
proposition. All We are willing to
give for peace is money, if Great
Britain asks it. No price is too delr ,
to obtain independence and the right
to live as a free nation" {
Exports Of manufactures from the !
United States show an apparent de- {
crease Of $23,342,563 in the fiscal t
year 1901, compared with 1900, &
the detailed figures having just been
completed by the treasury bureau of I
statistics. These figures do not in
clude exports to the Hawaiian t
Islands and Porto Rico, which arc 5
now customs districts of the United
States. c
Reports to r. G. Dun & Co. show I
commercial failures in the United c
States during July to have been 69,, a
with an aggregate Indebtedness of {
S1,035,933. Compared with the I
month last year there appears /
most gratifying improvement. as t
failures were then 1913 in number
and S9,11l,175 in amount. The 7
decrease occurred principally in the V
manufacturing class, where last G
months in~solvencies numbered 155 I
III q~o,<tO,l 20, against loj last year, !
~S5,117,682. v
The government has commenced C
to recover a part Of the So, 25O,- v
900 alleged to have been embezzled t.
by Oberlin NJ. Carter, late captain I
IF the corps of engineers. now c
serving a sentence at Leayenworth. "
The embezzlements are alleged to
have been made by Carter while SUI. 7
pervlslng government work in the f
at Savannah, Ga. The suits v
lied seek to recover by the sale of {
property in New York, al t
-eged to have been purchased with
government funds. @
The third annual reunion of t
Rough Riders was held Z
Colorado Springs last week. Co. O
onel Roosevelt was in attendance. t
IN the future this regiment will hold S
reunion only every four years. "
The monthly statement of III i: