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


congress.
Morgan's latest scheme 10 to effect
a combine Of all the coal mines in
the country.
Crops throughout the west were
badly damaged June 20 by record
breaking rains.
Seven jury bribers were convicted
in Chicago and given long terms in
the pcnitentiary.
Gov. Bliss, of Michigan, has been
renominated for a second term by
the republicans.
The new ship combine has placed
an order for seven fast freight
steamers, to cost $4,000, 600.
Wiley Campbell, a mulatto, was
iynched at Cocao, Ala, for an as
sault on a young white woman.
The expenditures of the govern
ment in taking the twelfth ceAJus
approximate $12, 000, 900 to date.
A cyclone swept over a settlement
near Walls, Tex, killing several
persons and injuring several others.
The battleship Brooklyn sailed for
England on the I'd inst. with the re-
mains Of the late Ambassador Paun-
cefote.
New South Wales and Queens
land are suffering from an unprece-
dented drouth, and all crops will be
a failure.
H.. H. Myers, adjutant general of
the state guard, has resigned at the
request of adjutant general Charles
jacobson.
The republican contestant for the
seat of Congressman Butler, from
the eighth Missouri district, has
been seated.
The next Texas legislature will
be asked to submit a constitutional
amendment on the prohibition of
the liquor traffic.
The first loss of life from law
lessness since the beginning of the
coal strike in Pennsylvania about
two months ago occurred on the LIST
inst. near Wilkesbarre, when a
striker named Giuseppe, who was
e%ndeavoring to enter a stockade, was
shot dead.
Tests of wireless telegraphy
systems in use in the United States
and Europe will shortly be begun
under direction of a board of naval
officers. These tests will occur be-
tween stations erected at the navy
yard, Washington, and the Naval
Academy at Annapolis.
The government is preparing to
prosecute holders of excess land in
the Chickasaw nation in accordance
with a provision in the Indian APP
preparation bill. This provision, it
is said, is now a law, but it is
generally understood that the new
act is operative from July l..
Hundreds of landholders are about
to yacate every acre in excess of 800
acres in order to escape a fine of
800 for each day they hold possess
sion.
The special congressional COM
mittee, appointed to investigate the
charges of bribery in connection with
the purchase of the Danish West
Indies, has reported that there is not
the slightest semblance of evidence
that any member of congress, either
directly or indirectly, was offered or
paid any bride, or was paid any
valuable consideration of any kind
or character, to vote for or assist in
procuring the proposed adoption or
ratification of the treaty of sale of
the Danish West Indian islands to
the United States.
The act of congress approved
April II, 1902, repeating wal
revenue taxation took effect July 1.
1t abolishes all special and stamp
taxes imposed by the law now in
force, with the exception of the tax
of ten cents a pound on tea, which
will continue until January /, 1903,
and the provision in the present law
relative to mixed -four. The present
taxes on fermented liquors, snuff
and tobacco, and cigarettes have
been reduced and the taxes imposed
on the manufacture and sale of oleo-
margarine and process butter by the
act approved May 8, 1902, will be
enforced.