The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1901-08-31
The third death from yellow fever

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tim was Miss Clara Mas, of New
Jersey. Of the six persons bitten
bv mosquitoes recently in the course
of the yellow fever commissions ex-
periments, three have died, and the
doctors say the other three are suffer
ing from light attacks of the disease.
Miss Mas was a nurse at Las AMI
mas and wished to become immune.
A special from New York says:
esThe retirement of Charles M.
HAYES from the presidency of the
Southern Pacific railway will be fol-
lowed by numerous other official
changes in that road. Some of the
high-salaried agents are to be dis
pensed with, it is said, and Southern
and Union Pacific officers are to be
consolidated wherever practicable.
A yearly saving of several hundreds
of thousands of dollars, it is esti-
mated, can be made by such CONSOLE
dation."
The first train over the Memphis
Frisco connecting track from Miami
TO Alton was run August 10. The
track is almost completely ballasted
now and will be. ready for through
trains from Kansas City to Texas
and Oklahoma in a few days.
Miami was the terminus in the In
dian territory of the Kansas City,
Fort Scott and Memphis. The con-
nection at Alton with the st. Louis
and San Francisco road is the result
of the consolidation of the two
properties.
While at target practice On Fort
Riley reservation, half a mile north
of junction City, Kan, a seven-inch
1O7-pound shell exploded as it was
being placed in the breech of the
third section gun of siege battery c,
Seventh artillery, commanded by
Captain Vandusen. Henry c. Wat
son was killed and seven other men
werv wounded, four of them Sc
riously.
A mob of armed white citizens
numbering 5000 succeeded in driv-
ing all the colored people out of
Pierce City, Mo-, with the exception
of a few known to be respectable.
One negro named Will Cooley was
lynched for numbering Miss Gazelle
Wild, and another negro was burnt
in his own cabin. All the colored
people of the place, with the excep-
ton of those noted above, fled
for safety. The citizens of Pierce
City say the colored element of that
place have committed many crimes
and their conduct otherwise has
brought reproach Oh the city for ten
years or more.
Five fremen and two other men
were killed by IN explosion of a big
benzine tank at the Atlantic Re.
finig Company's oil works at Point
Breeze in the southeastern part Of
Philadelphia, on the goth. Wher
the explosion occurred the fremer
and employees of the Atlantic Rein,
ing Company, in all about fifty men
were at work in the pumping hous'
drawing off oil from the burning
tanks. The flames shot high in thu
air and the pumping was almos
completely demolished. Eathwork
were thrown up to keep tn,
Schuylkill river from becomin,
flooded with blazing oil.
The census bureau reports a de
crease in the death rate in the regis
t%ration area of 1.8 per 1000 popu
lation. The average age at dealt
in 1890 was 81 lin 1900 it was 35.2
in 1890 the death rate in PSI regis
%tration cities of 5000 or more pee
pie was 81 per 1000. In 1900 tn
rate was 1876 per 1000; in 81
cities of 5000 population and up
ward, a reduction of "a per 1000
st. Joseph, No., with a death rate Q
81 per 1000, shows the lowest moi
tally, and Shreveport, La, wit
45.5, the highest. In the registra
ton department the fifteen prime.
, pal causes of death with the rat
100000, were as follows: Pnel
| monia, 1919; consumption, 1905
heart disease, 1910; diarrhoea di.
| eases, S5.1; kidney diseases, S3.7
= apoplexy, 66.6; cancer, 60; old ag
= "a; bronchitis, 4S.3; cholera infaI
: tum, 47.s; debility, 54.5; inflamm'
. ton of brain and meningitis, Ak
diphtheria, 34.4, typhoid, 1873: an