The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1902-01-25
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

Extensive prairie fires are reported
on the other side of the information
al boundary, extending for a distance
of ten miles and twenty miles west OF
Sweet Grass hills, Mont. Practically
all the range between Milk river and
Leeth bridge has been swept 10y the
flames. Many hundred ons of hay
has already been destroyed. The fire
extended to the valuable sheep ranch
es in the Sweet Grass hills, and own
ers of iocks in that vicinity are con.
fronted by the serious necessity of
securing new winter ranges.
Capt. Alexander A. Rice, one of the
best-known attorneys in Indiana, died
suddenly at Lafayette, Ind, on the
10th, of neuralgia of the heart. He
| served with distinction in the civil
war.
Alexandra Pidal Y Mon, Spanish
ambassador to the Vatican, has re-
signed.
The $ of the Scottish Rite
are making the most elaborate ar
ldIStllitlltS ~ - IN ~
ebration, February IS to "a, of the
| fftieth anniversary or the golden jul
bilee of the order, to be held in that
city.
The explosion of the boiler of a
| spinning mill near Manresa, Spain,
on the 18th, destroyed half the vii
lage of Puente de Villumara, and
caused the death of 60 persons, and
injury to 100 others.
The motormen and conductors in
the employ of the Terre Haute (Ind.)
Electric Co., numbering Sc men, re-
fused to take out their ears on the
10Th, the company having been de-
clared unfair by the Central Labor
union. Considerable disorder result
ed.
Memorial services, commemorative
of the birthday anniversary of Gen.
Robert +. Lee, were held throughout
the southern states on the 10Th.
A report has been received at Ma
Mia that a dug-out canoe in which
II men of Company | of the Second
infantry were travelling, is missing
and is probably lost. 1t is believed
the men either persisted or we're cap
tured.
Four buildings, each four stories
high. located in the heart of the
wholesale district of Detroit. Mich,
COLLAPSED, ON the night of the 10Th,
without any APPARENT cause and all
that now remains f. a smouldering
heap II rrips.
IN 8 fight near Walkers store, six
miles from Taylorsville, KY, on the
evening of the 10Th, Thomas Jewell
shot and killed Nathan Bruner ant
his son. John. and slightly wounded
David Bruner. another son
A general strike was ordered, or
the 18th, at a joint meeting of the
Appleton, Kaukauna and Neenaf
CWis.) lodges of the United Brother
hood of Papermakers, which will r.
suit. in less than three weeks, il
closing the rs mills in the state o
Wisconsin.
Leonard Roeder, of Quincy, III.
. celebrated his one hundred and sec
ond birthday on the 21st. He is on,
of the few left who witnessed til,
Slmous battle of Waterloo, carryin,
Il message from Gen. Butcher TO tn
duke of Wellington.
Murphysboro, ILL.,, now has a bras
band composed of 20 m Their
is not a man in the organization
n There are in the United States onl
:. three other brass bands compose
4 wholly of women, n in Boston, on
in Chicago and the other in San JOS,
Cal.
Sergt. Kichline, with eight mel
e has surprised and captured a famou
e woman leader of Filipino insurgents
e who has the rank of general. an
who, for two years, has been fichtin
O The Americans as she forTncrl
< fought the Spaniards. She boast
d hat she commanded 300 men wit
e rifles in Laguna dc Pay.
Official announcement was mad
in London, on the Goth, of the anna
$ gamation of the firm of Vickers Sol
1 & Maxim, the gun manufacturer
3 with William Beardmore & Co., maj
y ufacturers of armor plate and shi
" building materials, of Glasgow. I'll
y joint capital is e6,3O0,OOO The Beart
s. more company owns a big ship var,
e and recently acquired ground for al
'o Other, on vhich the ~amalgamate
l. companies intend to install the fine.
plant in the world.