The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1901-04-13
NEWS OF THE WORLD.


States S during the summer.
The Buckeye Match Company, an
;rdenendent concern to oppose the
, ,nstch trust, has been organized,
with with headquarters at Akron, 0.
Ex-senator Thurston, of Nebras-
+. will probably be chosen chair
nr' nan Of the st. Louis worlds fair
,S commission and Hon. Joseph Flory,
Of Missouri, secretary.
The reason assigned for the ad-
vance in price of whisky is that a
shortage exists in Kentucky. Nc
wonder at the advance, for Ken
tuckv must be supplied.
Several officers in the commissary
denartment at Manila have been ar
rested, charged with having disposed
Of supplies intended for the army
and appropriating the proceeds.
Factories controlled by the win
dow.plass trust will shut down for
a short period, it being agreed that
there is AM over-supply of window
class on the market, and that un-
less the output is curtailed prices
will be forced down.
Hon. Chas. H. Allen, governor OF
Porto Rico, now in the United
States. will serve another term as
governor of the island. 1t is under
stood Gov. Allen desired to retire,
but was prevailed upon by the presi-
dent not to do SO at this time.
Judge Samuel Peters, of Kansas,
will be appointed to succeed Hon.
CLAY Evans as commissioner of PEN
sions. Judge Peters is native of
Ohio, served in the war, and was
also in congress with the president
Col. Evans, it is believed, will be
given foreign post.
Federal Judge Clayton, of the
Central district, Indian Territory
has made an order compelling the
Dawes commission to enroll all
claimants to citizenship in the In,
dian Territory, whose claims have
been tried in federal court and
their claims established in sucl
court.
The government has just publish
ed a pamphlet of letters gathered b.
the Taft commission, which tend u
show that return of the Friar
to the Philippine provinces would b.
the cause of an uprising that nigh
cause rebellion. Shortly after tn
United States assumed authorit
over the islands these fathers, o
priests, were deported, it havin
been shown that they were the caus
Of much trouble.
Rolla Wells, the democratic nomi
nee for mayor of st. Louis, defeate
Geo, W. Parker, republican, by
plurality of 5000. The contest wa
of more than local significance, q
W. j. Bryan, in his paper, fougf
Wells because he was gold demo
crat and voted the republican Ms
tional ticket at the last election
Carter Harrison was elected mayo
Of Chicago for the third time by
plurality of 28,257, and the dem'
cratic candidate for mayor of Kal
sas City got in by plurality of sc
votes The republicans of S
Louis will likely contest Wells ele
ton on the ground that many i'll
gal votes were cast for him. Seve
al well-known citizens allege tn
when they went to the polls to vot
they found that repeaters had q
ready voted their names. The der
ocratic leaders meet this char,
with a counter one that fraudule
votes were also cast fer the repub
can nominees. Many arrests ha
been made, and a special grand ju
Will be empaneled to make an i
veshgation.
IN the recent municipal electi
at Denver the full republican tick
was elected.
Since the first of the We
zen cases of bubonic plague, all fat
nave been reported at San Francis
Fire was discovered in the sa
room of the United States gunbo
,etrel at Cavite. Commander Je'
A. ROPER, in an effort to rescue
'eaman who had been overcome
'ue neat, was himself rendered l
OOnsclous and perished.
IL Is estimated 100000 peo'