The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1901-02-09
NEWS OF THE WORLD.

Steve Brodie, the famous bridge |
jumper, died at San Antonio on the
1st of consumption.
Reports to Dun's agency show
failures in January 1,242 in number
and $11,220,s11 in liabilities.
A fourth pair of twin boys were
born to Mr.. and Mrs. McKinnis,
near Mount Vernon, ILL.,, last week.
A strike of Ohio coal miners is
threatened, the operatives and min
ers being unable to agree on scale
of wages.
The local cashier at Kansas City
of the Standard Oil Company was
held up in his Office at the point of
revolver by a masked man, who
secured 800 in cash.
Contractor Gibson, of Indiana, in
dicted by the grand jury at Jackson,
Miss, for attempting to bribe Gov.
Longino in the matter of letting the
contract for new state house, enter
ed a plea of guilty, and was fined
$1,000.
Ten thousand Filipinos of the dis.
trict of Binondo, in Manila, voted to
completely reparate the Catholic
church on the island from the Vati-
can. The trouble does not lie W.
the church, but with the friars, who
are the cause of constant agitation
The Taft commission expresses au
opinion that the state must be COM
pletely separated from the church.
The comparative statement of the
receipts and expenditures OF the gov
ernment, issued on the list, show
that the total receipts from al
ources during January, 1901, wer
$47,520,2S6, a decrease, as com
pared with the corresponding mont
last year, of about $492, 900. Th
expenditures for the mont
amount to $40, 1927 which leave
the surplus for the month $7,410
:; 579.
n Lee Wilkerson, middle-age
: widower, of Princeton, KY, can
a near marry ing his own daughtC
: last week. Two months ago he b.
!, gan paying attention to Miss Fal
. ME Lloyd, a hat trimmer, and will
d in a short time secured her consel
g to marry him. Incidentally she Il
= formed her suitor that her re
= name was not Lloyd, but that 81
e had been raised by family of tn
name in southwestern Missouri, 81
. having been taken from an orphan
n home when a baby. 1t dawned upC
6, Wilkerson that she might be b
,t long-lost child, and investigate
IN proved this to be true. The we
<, <, ding was Immediately declared o
4. Chas. Price, consul general of t
90 Orange Free State at New 4ol
Id states that "the Boer forces in t
0. South African Republic and t
y. Orange Free State, including t
is invaders of Cape Colony. numt
An over $4,000. Gen. De Wet in o
week captured $925,000 in gold a
tn 100, 900 Khaki uniforms. He |
he also captured over 100000 hor
he and 5000 prisoners. He and
ne u. forces alone have inflicted on
~ tv British losses of over S25,000,0
la In the beginning of the war
lst Beers were armed with Mauser
t." flies, using plain bullets, but many
'e' them now have Lee-Metford riff
' 'n' using a dum-dum bullet, all
which have been captured from
,u British. The war has cost CIR
g. Britain $SOO,OO0,O0O in gold
,as sum twice greater than the ent
S a value of the republics if sold to
'ol- highest bidder, and over 100000
~, Ilv her troops have been rendered h
in. du combat. The war is cost
md Great Britain ct the present II
70 a over sl,oOo,OOo per day."
o" Memorial services were held
Washington in honor of the d
lrS' isa queen of England on the day of
mi. funeral, which was attended
of President Mckinley and his Ct
Irk- net.
I'M ln,- Chippewa Falls, Wis, has
M ;ur duced the Youngest suicide ON rec
,om Cad Smith, aged 6 years, after
pressing determination to take
tad life, got hold of carbolic acid
,ich swallowed a large quantity of
an poison.
day More members of the G. A
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