The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1902-08-09


Joe Goddard, the pugilist, was
shot and fatally wounded by a negro
constable at Camden, n. j., during
a political riot.
Senator Platt, of New York, says
Roosevelt will receive the solid sup
port in the republican national CON
vention of the delegation from his
state.
Dave Witt, a night Waterman for
a Des Moines wholesale house, went
to sleep on duty, when fire broke out
in the building and he was burned
to death.
Charged with paying rewards for
assaults on non-union workmen, the
scale varying according to the de-
gree of injury inflicted, eleven union
brass moulders were indicted by the
grand jury at Chicago. This is said
to be the first action of the kind ever
taken against laboring men in the
west.
Tracy, the outlaw who escaped
from the Oregon penitentiary sew
eral weeks ago, is still at large.
Tracey declares that he wants to
t hold up a bank or rob an express
car. He says that he has promised
to give the sum of $4,000 within one
year to the parties who helped him
: escape from the Oregon peniten-
l tiary. He is making his way to
: the "hole in the wall' country in
t Wyoming. When there, he declares
: he will be a thief among thieves and
e thinks he Will be safe.
I Two of the robbers who held
up a Mexican Central train and Sc
d cured $4,000 from the Wells-Fargo
/ express car have been captured at
S Gomez Palacio and nearly $4,000
has been recovered. The first rob
rs Der to be caught has been fully iden'
1t tilted as "Bill7 Taylor, who held VI
IL a Santa Fe Pacific train in Texas
and killed two men. He was sen
lie fenced to death for that crime, blu
escaped to Mexico. Fifteen thous
l. and dollars of the booty secured II
the recent robbery was recovered
from Taylor.
About 10000 bound volumes o
the census report for 1900 have bee
Nc issued and mailed to those entitle
~ 10 them. and 10000 more are to b
printed and mailed before the wor
~ is finished. Two volumes are devot
10 ed to the report on population an
two each to agriculture and vlti
statistics. Four are for manuta'
IA lures. The latter will require a
edition of fully 5000 to meet the d.
mand, and calls have been made IL
more of the others than have bee
81. printed. When the work OF publ
cation is completed there will
made an abstract of the entire VOL
of the census bureau and a statistic
atlas.
ken An earthquake shock, which W
us general over portions of Californi
mes Nebraska. western Iowa and Sou
Dakota, occurred July 20. L
ory seismic disturbances were felt at
)ers large number of towns III the thu
who states and lasted from ten to fife
oat seconds. At Lampo, Cal, a viole
for shock was felt, which lasted flu
ant thirty seconds and was SO severe II
ain dishes, clocks, house plants a
rom other articles were thrown FRI
| is shelves. The people were strick
ton with terror and ran from tn
two houses, some fearing to return,
C of other lighter shocks continued
cor several hours afterward.
cago What is regarded by ordna.
IN experts of the army and navy as
this most important advance in mod
y to war devices since the perfection
leeze the Krupp face-hardening proc
eX- for armor, has been achieved by
has ordnance department Of the ar.
le to 1t is no other than IA new time !
e the used in combination with a poy
is to full secret explosive, the formula
cups which is known only to the ordna
down department. The Importance Of
lntry fuse lies in the fact that it does
l the detonate the p%rojectile until the
this etration limit of the p%rojectil
h IN reached. Its great value to
TT,;+oJ Gtotae mill bo no1arc