The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1902-08-30

Worlds fair headquarters are 10 be
opened in New York city for handling
the eastern business of the eXpusi-
ton.
Civil Gov. Taft reached Manila on
the 22d. and his arrival was made the
occasion of an enthusiastic popular
demonstration.
Gen. Franz Sigel, the distinguished
soldier of the civil war, died at his
home in New York city, on the 21st,
aged nearly seventy-eight years.
Mayor Marshall, of keithsburg. ILL.,.
who was nominated for congress by
the democrats of the Fourteenth dis
trict, has withdrawn from the race.
August earle, deputy probate clerk
in Judge Henderson's court, st. LOUIS
committed suicide, early on the morn
ing of the 21st, by drinking earbollc
acid.
Experiments in wireless telephon-
ing were conducted successfully, on
the cath. between S~assnitz II kol-
berg. in Germany, a distance OF Ioo
miles.
4 hard coal famine threatens Chi
cago. there not being more than 90
600 tons on hand. when usually at this
time of the year there are 100000 tons
in stock.
John 5. Nandiver, editor Of the st.
Peter (Minn.) journal, and a brother
of Congressman Nandiver, of Missou-
ri, died at st. Peter, on the 2lst, of
heart failure.
4 new schedule of wages will go
into effect on the Big Four railroad
on September l which will increase
the pay rolls of the company about
S1G0.O 900 a year.
The comptroller of the currency, at
Washington. has declared n dividend
of ten per cent. in favor of the cred
itors of the insolvent Lemars nation
al bank, of Lemars, la.
William ]. Bryan has announced
that he will make few speeches this
fall outside of Nebraska, but will
devote the month of October to a
campaign of that state.
Henry Owens, on trial at Versailles,
Mo. for the murder of j. NJ. Law
renee. last January, was found guilty,
on the Goth, and sentenced to ten
years in the penitentiary.
Archduchess Marguerite Sophia. Of
Austria. wife of Albert, duke Of
Wurtemburg, died, on the oath, at
Gmunden. Austria, as the result Of an
operation for appendicitis.
The annual reunion of the survivors
of Quantrell's guerillas was held at
Independence. Mo, on the 22d. Most
of those present took part in the rand
or Lawrence, Kas., 80 years ago.
II. St. John Dix, who was convicted
of ~wrecking the Scandinavian-Ameri-
can bank, of Whatcom, Wash, was
sentenced, on the 25th, to ten years
imprisonment in the penitentiary.
Senator Hanna said at Buffalo. n.
Y, on the cath, that he had done all
in his power to end the coal strike,
and could do no more. He predicts
that the strike will be a prolonged
one.
Ofhcial cholera statistics in the
Philippines show a total, up to Au-
gust "a, of 1864 cases and 1900
deaths. The actual number Of cases
and deaths is greatly in excess of
The official reports.
One of the buildings of the Butte
reduction works, at Butte. Mono.
owned by Senator Clarke, was totally
destroyed by fire, on the 22d, and
about "A THOUSAND men will be tenn
porarily thrown out of work.
The coroner's jury at Chicago, on
The 21st, brought in a verdict recon-
mending that William Bartholin be
arrested and held for the murder of
his mother, and that Thompson and
Counselman be held as accessories to
the crime.
\ man named \. G. Mitchell. re-
ported to be a millionaire from Mich
igan, committed suicide, August 10,
by jumping overheard from the
steamer Coptic, on the way to Homo
lulu, when three days out from San
Francisco.
The Central Federation union. of
New York, representing 100000 work
ing men, held a meeting, on the 9th,
at which it was decided to ask Presi-
dent Roosevelt to call a special ses-
sion of congress to taxi action to end
the coal strike.
President Roosevelt was oiven an