The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1902-07-05
NEWS OF THE WORLD.

Hon. r. f. Patterson is the
Democratic nominee for governor of
Pennsylvania.
Missouri republicans in state con-
vention, Endorsed Roosevelt for
president in 1904.
Illinois mine workers have do
mated $4,000 in cash to the strik-
ing miners of West Virginia.
The physicians report King Ed
ward, whose coronation was post
poned on account of his illness, on
the road to recovery.
The long drouth in Texas was
quite generally relieved June ~,
when heavy rains fel over the
try from Dallas to the gulf.
J. II. Kent is under indictment
at Fort Worth charged with cutting
the throat of a brother lodge mem
Der at a meeting of a Woodman of
the World camp.
The leading independent furnace
operators of Mahoning valley con-
template the erection of an enorm-
GUS 50. 900 900 Bessemer steel plant
in opposition to the steel trust.
The largest voluntary increase
ever known in the wages Of 100000
men has been decided upon by the
United States Steel Corporation.
They will receive an advance of 10
per cent, which will increase the an
nual pay roll of the corporation by
$4,000, 900. The advance applies
to union as well as non-union men.
The north central portion of
Indiana was visited by a disastrous
storm June %. The storm-swept
section covers several hundred
square miles. from Hancock county,
northwest, through the northern
portion of Marion county, Hamil-
ton and Boone counties, and doing
much damage in Tippecanoe and
adjacent counties. Madison county
also felt its fury. Thousands of
buildings were RACED, and tens of
thousands Of trees were uprooted.
Crops were utterly ruined, causing
a loss estimated at nearly 50, 000,-
600, and fifty persons were more or
less injured.
A statement prepared by Senator
Allison, chairman of the committee
on appropriations, shows the total
appropriations by congress at the
session just closed, as follows:
Agriculture, $5,2OS, $50; army, $91,-
$50, 1876; diplomatic and consular
S1,957,925; District of Columbia,
IS. 641,526; Notifications, $7,92S,-
955; Indian, $91,439. 9O2; legisla-
tive, $685. S1 military academy,
81. 627,324; navy, $7S,67S.963;
pension. S139, 1912, 23O; postofices,
$13s,4l6.59S: river and harbor,
S26. 726.442 Exclusive of contracts
authorized ; sundry civil, $50, 125,-
359; deficiency, $2S. O39,911; mis-
cellaneous, 81, 900 900; isthmain
canal, $5O,13O,OOO; permanent an
nual appropriations, $123,921,22O;
grand total, $500, 1887. The
total last year was 3O,3SS,57
Tobacco manufacturers and deal
will be considerably affected by
a provision which has been passed
by congress without attracting much
attention, as a part of the bill re-
to the tax and rebate on to-
bacco. The provision is that no
package of manufactured tobacco.
snuff, cigars or cigarettes shall have
attached any representation or
promise of a ticket or chance in n
lottery or an immoral picture. The
provision will end a system of adj
vertising upon which tobacco manu-
%facturers have expended thousands
of dollars. 1t is believed by internal
revenue officials hat the provision
will prohibit the prizes that are
offered by nearly all manufacturers
of plug tobacco and cigarettes,
awarded by presentation of a speci-
fled number Of tags or box wrappers.
The question will probably be
brought to a ruling of the treasury
department on a test case.
Fortress Monroe, overlooking
historic Hampton Roads, is to be
made the greatest "show port" in
the world. The government pro-
poses to spend $4,000, 900 to carry
out the project.