The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1901-08-17
NEWS OF THE WORLD.

A financial crisis is said to be i'm
pending in Germany.
Empress Frederick, mother of
Emperor Will am, of Germany,
died on the 5th.
Many persons who drew land in
Oklahoma for speculation, have be-
come discouraged and forfeited their
claims.
Steps are to be taken to upset the
recent land lottery in Oklahoma, on
the ground hat the scheme was
illegal.
Since free trade went into effect
in Porto Rico, coffee has been i'm
ported into that country from Brazil
and sold at less than the homegrown
product.
Nathan Caruthers, colored, was
legally executed at Memphis on the
9th for the murder of Officer Mod
hem. The crime was committed in
June, 1900.
The farmers of the south will be
among the greatest sufferers from
the strike Of steel workers, as cotton
ties will greatly increase in price if
the trouble is not speedily settled.
Ex-United States Senator Chand-
Ter has prepared charges against Ad-
miral Bob Evans for conduct I'M
becoming an officer of the navy, al
leging that the admiral, in his clog
book criticised his official action
while secretary Of the navy.
One of the biggest and most dar-
ing robberies on record is reported
from San Francisco. The Selby
Smelling Company is the victim,
and the loss is placed at $2S0,000.
The thieves tunneled under the outer
wall of the building to the vault and
carried away 10000 unces of gold,
worth $50 an ounce.
Gen. Richard Page, who in 1861
resigned his commission in the
United States navy and joined the
Confederacy, died at his home in
Norfolk. Va, last week, aged 81
years. He commanded the outer de,
fenses of Mobile bay at Fort Morga,
and with 400 men held Farragut,
fleet at bay for two weeks.
War is being waged between work
men of very nearly every class and
employers at San Francisco, the
question being the recognition of the
various unions. The trouble started
by the strike of dock laborers, and
soon extended to other callings. For
owe a week business was practically
suspended, and eve city employees
quit work out of sympathy for the
dock laborers.
Hon. W. c. Price, United States
treasurer under President Buchanan,
died at his home in Chicago last
week. When Buchanan ordered Ma.
jor Anderson to transfer his force
to Fort Sumpter Judge Price be-
lieved the south was being betrayed
and resigned his Office in anger. He
was with General Price at the battle
of Pea Ridge and captured by the
Federals and confined in prison at
Alton, ILL.,, till September, 1862,
when he was exchanged.
United States Pension Agent
Jonathan Merriam, of Chicago, has
rendered a pension ruling which, so
far as known, passes upon a question
never before raised under the pen
sion laws. 1t is to the effect that
marriage does not invalidate or af-
feet a pension drawn by a minor
daughter of a soldier. In other
words a minor child of a soldier who
marries may continue to draw a pen
sion until it reaches its majority.
John Wesley Pennington, a negro,
was burned at the stake near Enter
prise, Ala, before a crowd of 500
enraged and determined citizens of
Coffee county. The assemblage was
composed of both whites and blacks,
and though the suffering wretch
pleaded for mercy and frantically
endeavored to break the chains that
tightly bound him, not a trace of
sympathy was shown on the faces
that peered at him through the
flames. Pennington had committed
a brutal assault upon Mrs. J. G. Da-
Wis, and confessed his guilt.
The United States gunboat Ma
chan has been ordered to proceed to
Colon, near the eastern terminus of
the Panama Railroad, to protect
American citizens and their prop
erty.