The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1902-02-08

hciht ob btduNOlT, 10 De uStu as
home for INDECENT confederate sol
diers, for $4,000.
At a meeting of the executive com
mittee of the Southern Educationa
association, held in Chattanooga
Tenn. on the I'd, it was decided tc
hold the next annual meeting of the
association in Chattanooga. The
date fixed upon for the meeting is
July l to 4.
At Toledo. o., on the Goth. Mrs
Horace c. Allen, wife of the United
States minister to Corea, slipped and
fell on the ice, breaking one of the
bones in her leg. Mr.. Allen and she
were to have started, on the 3Oth, on
their return to Corea via London, st.
Petersburg and the Siberian railway.
The man to whom Abraham Lincoln
presented a jackknife because his
face was hoInlier than his own, died
at East Liverpool, o.. on the 31st. He
was Rev. William Hastings, of To-
ronto, o. Rev. William Hastings was
a powerful and distinguished preach
er, but he was not a handsome man.
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The house committee on territories
gave a hearing. on the 31st, to a del
egation from Arizona, including Gov.
Murphy. Chief Justice Street, j. G..
Ainsworth and Delegate Smith, in fa-
Vor OF Its admission as a state. The
readiness of the territory to assume
all the obligations of statehood was
set forth.
The york of transplanting the
trees at Forest park. St. Louis. in or
der to save those that interfere with
the construction of the Worlds fair
buildings, is being systematically I'M
dertaken by n corps of experts. They
will be so disposed as to further
~beautify the Worlds fair site and the
great preserve.
The report that C~ommandant Krit.
ginger, who was captured by Gen.
French, December II, had been con-
demned to death, was not confirmed
In London up to the 30th. 1t was an
nounced from South Africa. January
20. that Kritzinger's trial would be-
gin soon, but nothing had since been
heard of his case.
A. j. Patterson. convicted of EN-.
bezzkng $4,000 in city funds from the
City of Clyde. Has, of which he was
treasurer, a sentenced. on the 31st.
to three years in the penitentiarv.
Patterson Misunderstanding the money.
but alleged hat as it was collected
from joints he could not be held ac-
countable for it.
Senator Lodge, on the 3Oth. intro
duced a bill authorizing the inspec-
ton of trains coming into the United
States from Canada and Mexico with
the view of determining whether
there are on board aliens who are
residents Of those countries. The
object of the measure is to prevent
illegal immigration.
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The Treasury club, an organization
of officials of the United States treas
ury department, gave a farewell din
ner, on the 31st, at the Shoreham no.
to Hon. Lyman j.. Gage. the re-
firing secretary. Covers were laid
for IS, the guests including Hon.
Leslie NJ. Shaw, who succeeds Mr..
and other notables.
Rudyard Kipling, writing from
Cape Town, south Africa, in a letter
to a friend in England, again pro-
emphatically against any am
iesty being granted the rebels.
which, he fears from the attitude of
he home people, may be done. Mr..
declares it is a question of
ife or death for the colony.
The president has approved the rec
'mmendation of the secretary of wal
hat the sentence of dismissal i'm
by court-martial in the case
II First Lieut.. Preston Brown, Jr.,
second infantry, be committed to the
oss of SO numbers and forfeiture of !
is pay for nine months. Lieut.. {
'rown was charged with having killed
Filipino who refused to rescue a t
ROWING soldier. |
Manila is intensely interested as to \
hat action congress will take con- \
the Philippine islands. Or d
local politics have been |,
'rgotten and two parties have been 4
'rmed, the optimists and the pes
mists. Some think that life and n
are Unsafe outside of the $,
of the islands, while others ri
such ideas and consider life n
I'd property to be assured. IL