The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1902-09-06

The United States steel corpora
ton owns property valued at ST.
400, 100000, which earns annually
$4,000 900.
H. G.. Prick, Of the steel trust,
is a candidate for the United States
senate from Pennsylvania in oppo-
sition to Senator Quay.
Attorney General Knox has gone
to France to take up the investiga-
ton of the Panama canal title held
by the French company.
An electrical company at Lynn,
Mass, is building a train, which is
soon to be used in Illinois, and
make 80 to 100 miles an hour.
Two persons were killed, three
fatally injured and more than a
score Of others hurt in a wreck on
the Chicago and Northwestern near
Waseca, MINI. The train was struck
by a tornado and hurled down an
e~ighteen-foot embankment.
Postmaster General Smith, in
answer to an inquiry as to the course
to be pursued by a federal office
holder in political affairs, says:
"There is no reason why you should
not be a delegate to the conventions
of your party, but you should not
serve as chairman Of any state or
county convention or committee,
and should not take an unduly act
i've part in either local or state poll
tics"
Plans for the new Philippine
coinage have been decided upon, and
the coins will be issued just as soon
as the designs have been formally
approved by Gov. Taft and Secre-
tary Root. 1t has been determined
that new coins, Of a distinctly Phil
ippine type, shall be poured into
Manila from the United States at
the rate of $250,000 a month, the
stream to be kept up until it has
driven out a large part of the Mexi-
can money, which now monopo-
Lies the field.
A clash between striking miners
and troops occurred August 80 at
a c%olliery near Tamaqua, Pa. Sew
eral parties on both sides we're in
| iured and a score of strikers arrest
ed. All efforts to resume operation
in the anthracite territory have fail
ed from the fact that men cannot be
induced to take the place of strik-
ers, There is being less than 5000
tons of coal mined daily in the
strike district, where the daily aver
age when the mines are in full OPP
Grafton is 2S,9SS tons daily.
Judge Henry c. Caldwell, the
only surviving appointee of Presi-
dent Lincoln on the federal judi
ciary, has reached the age of 70
years. At this age Judge Caldwell
is entitled to retire on full pay, but
as he is still hale in body and Wig
orous in mind he has no idea of re-
signing. Judge Caldwell's home is
in Little Rock, but for several
years he has been spending the sum-
mer at Wagon Wheel Gap, in Col
orado, near which place he has re-
Gently entered 100 acres of land as
a homestead, and built a home upon
it. Here he has been living the
rugged life of the mountains, tc
which he ascribes the perfect health
he possesses at an age when the or.
binary man is broken in body and
mind. His nature is as rugged an6
as stalwart as the mountains among
which he lives, and he is capable Of
as much labor as the hardest noun
taineer.
The epidemic of cholera is reach.
ing alarming proportions on the
other side of the Pacific, the out.
break extending further and hav.
ing more victims than ever before
reported. 1t extends from the is
land of Java to Japan, and almos.
every city OIL the coast and many il
the interior are affected. The dis
ease, too, is being contracted by Eu
ropeans as well as natives. II
Hong Kong, from the first Of tn,
outbreak to August 16, there haC
been 525 cases, six of the patients
being Europeans, and 511 deaths o
whom four we're Europeans. II
Tien Tsin the last report placed TIN
pup,hor Of oaoae for 4bo ,.ao, n