The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1902-02-22

Asuncion Esquivela obtained a ma
jority of the votes of the electorate
in the election for the presidency of
Costa Rica held in San Jose on the
18th. The election passed off quietly.
1t is reported in Shanghai, from a
Chinese source. that the United States
objects not to the Manchuria conven-
ton, but to the proposed agreement
between China and the Russo-Chinese
bank.
A dispatch from St. Petersburg, on
the 10th, said: Count Tolstoi's tenn
perature is at 100, while his pulse is
81. He is very weak, but is bearing
up well. 1t is still hoped that he may
recover"
The American colony in Berlin
turned out, on the night of the 18th,
in large numbers, to attend a min
strel show given by 40 American mu-
steal students for the benefit of the
girls club.
Unprecedented floods have &C.
Cured in the southwestern portion
of Cape Colony, resulting in great
destruction of houses, bridges and
railroad property. Twenty-Five per-
sons, also, were drowned.
While Prince Henry of Prussia is
in the United States he will be
guarded by municipal police, by
American secret service agents and
by detectives detailed by the special
order of Emperor William.
The navy department received a
cablegram from Rear-Admiral Rodg-
ers, at Cavite, on the 18th announcing
that Sergeant B. McSwiney, of the
marine corps, was killed in action at
Balangiga, Samar, on the Sd inst.
Washington Gill, for many years
engineer of Richmond. Va, and later
superintendent of construction of the
bridge across the Missouri river at
St. Charles, Mo-, died at his home
In Kansas City, Mo-, aged SO years.
With only one negative vote the
Minnesota senate, on the nth,
passed the bill appropriating $4,000
to pay the expenses of the legal ION
test against the so-called merger of
the Northern Pacific and Great North
ern railways.
Commander Booth-Tucker of the
Salvation army took the oath of al
legiance as a citizen of the United
States in New York city on the 18th,
He said that he was already half
American, as his ancestors were Nir-
ginians, and he had long since adopt
ed this as his country.
King Edward and Queen Alexandra,
Prince and Princess Charles of Den
mark and Princess Victoria occupied
a box, on the night of the 14th, at
the performance of ARIZONA" at the
Adelphi theater, London. King Ed
ward expressed himself as greatly
pleased with the performance.
The Berlin foreign office, on the
18th, pronounced incorrect the state
ment cabled thence that Germany is
on the point of presenting an ulti
matum to Venezuela. On the con
trary, the outlook is improving, ant
\ friendly settlement of the ques
lions in dispute is most probable.
George Borchgrevink, the antarcti
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steamer Etruria, on the 10th. In al
Interview he told how, in 1899, he an
a party of scientists had reached 7
degrees, so minutes, south latitude
about so miles form the south pole
and the most extreme southern poin
that any man has ever reached.
Judgment by default for $4,000
against Prince Euiwha, the secon'
son of the king of Corea, was entere'
by Chief Justice Bingham, in tn
circuit court for the District of Go
lumbia, OF the 14th. The plaintiff
are Wolff Bros. G. Co., of New Yorl
city and Philadelphia, who sued on
promissory note made by the prince
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Gov. Stanley of Kansas received
letter from the mayor of Paterson
N. j., on the nth, returning $685.
which the Kansas Indian Relief CON
mission had sent to the Paterso,
fire sufferers. The letter thanke'
Gov. Stanley and the commission, 5u
stated that Paterson was able t.
take care Of it's destitute without out
side assistance.
The Industrial council of Vienni
resolved, after a long debate, On tn
18th, to postpone Il decision on til
reports of the various committee
appointed to consider the best mean
of meeting American competition un
ill European commercial politics
crystali2e sufficiently to indicate th'
most effective method foI meeting
that competition.