The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1901-11-09
The Pan-American Exposition

closed on the I'd, inst.
WI Tung Fang, Chinese minister
at Washington, is to be recalled.
The Spanish chamber of deputies
has passed a bill against the free
coinage of silver.
One-half the buildings in the town
of Boonville, Miss, were destroyed
by fire on the Sd inst.
As the result of the administra-
ton of diphtheria anti-toxine, elev-
en- children died in st. Louis from
lockjaw.
The Ohio campaign was fought
out on old line party principles,
there being less than $4,000 cater
ing votes for the minor parties.
One the 4th, inst, nothing def
mite had been made public as to the
fate of Miss Stone, the American
missionary kidnapped by Bulgarian
brigands.
Admiral Schley will be presented
with a testimonial at Memphis by
the Southern people in the shape of
} a silver service of magnificent design
and of great value.
B. A.. johnson, founder Of the
order of Hoo Hoos, of the black cat
emblem, mysteriously disappeared
: last week from st. Louis, and his
, friends fear he met with foul play.
t The Memphis city authorities are
arresting and putting to work all
} idle characters in hal community
!, Just at this time of year there i:
e no excuse whatever for the large
number of idle people to be found
/ in the towns and cities of the south
t lord Pauncefote, British ambas
y sador to the United tSates, arrived
S at Washington Monday, and sub
a draft of the Isthmian Canal treat,
y to the secretary of state. Thu
= treaty comedies to the United State
e the right to construct and to oper
+ ate the canal, but asks concession
in the form of trade reciprocity wit
.e the British West Indies.
is Richard Harding Davis and othe
newspaper correspondents, who wer
t, with the army in Cuba during tn
y fighting with Sapniards, thereate
t. to sue Gen. Alger for utterances i
G. his book which declare the newspape
i men of a cowardly set, who writ
lie their reports of battles at a safe di:
lance. In several cases command
ing officers made special mention c
the bravery of correspondents.
n At 7:12 80 on the morning {
I'd October 20, Leon Czolgosz, the mu.
i'd derer of President Mckinley, VIZ
n put to death in the electric chair
III Auburn IN. W state prison. III
III prisoner made a brief speech j
the chair. He said he was not sorl
for what he had done. He declare
that he alone planned the assassin
bo ton. The day before his eXecutio
Czolgosz's brother visited him, al
&, urged him to accept the offices of
minister, which he refused to d
declaring he wanted no religion
his. He walked to the execute
chair with head erect, but was We
pale and twice seemed about
.uS collapse. The execution was W
ile messed by the jury that convict
and nine others. The body W
,ar buried in the prison cemetery, &C
"" cred with quick lime, which will &C
III sumo the remains in a short tin
Il The physicians who held the auto
M sy report that the mans brain "
normal or slightly above normal, a
'o that in their opinion his mental &C
dition except as it might have be
i'll perverted, was not responsible
IT'S the crime.
I'M In a speech before a number
ow- representative Filipinos, Hon. Ii
'er' f. Wright, one of the Philip
commissioners, said: "There ar
Ton number of people living in
an Philippines, who so long as tn
W. is no punishment for trea!
w; will take advantage of the f
ana to clog the wheels of the
ass, sular government. 1t must
ana be overlooked that turbulent 81
n its exist in the pacifed pr
us inces. The masses of the people
'er' susceptible to infiammatory ut
ances and liable to be influenced