The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1902-09-06

miners is threatened.
Six oil wells have been brought
in at Chenute, Kansas.
The principal broom manufactur-
ers of the country have formed a
trust with a capital of $5,0O0,000.
Anton Ambrose, a wealthy New
Yorker. has contributed $4,000 to
the striking coal miners of Pennsyl-
vania.
Pope Leo has consented to the
American terms, settled by Gov.
Taft, for the purchase of the eccle-
siastical lands in the Philippines
on condition that the money be not
paid to the friars, but expended by
the apostolic delegate for the pur-
pose of creating new bishoprics and
supplying other church require
ments in the archipelago.
The receipts Of the treasury de-
partment for the month of August
exceeded the expenditures by 3d.
955,S12, an unexpectedly large sur
plus. The total receipts were $4S,-
GOSSIP and the expenditures $42,-
100000. For the same month OF
last year the total receipts were $45,-
394,125 and the expenditures $780,
351,497, a surplus of a little over
$6,000,00O.
The war between the cattle men
and farmers in west Oklahoma con-
tinues increasingly. Information
comes direct from Roger Mills, Day
and Dewey counties, Of the destruc-
ton of crops, burning of cribs and
grain and killing of stock; ambush
ing and shooting of farmers and
cattlemen, shooting into each 9th
er's houses, defying the United
States marshals and ignoring the
laws in every way. Reports state
that county officials, who have been
elected by one faction or the other,
refuse to act.
The price of meat in Germany
continues to rise, and the town coun-
ellis and other bodies and the news
papers in every part Of the empire
are discussing what is called the
"meat famine" A good steak costs
A cents a pound in Berlin. Mar
kets generally are reported statis-
tically 26 per cent higher now than
in 1900, although in Rotterdam,
Paris, Vienna and Buda Pest they
are only 10 to 16 per cent higher.
%Germany's more rapid advance is
attributed to the scarcity Of home
animals, the exclusion Of foreign
livestock and the prohibition of can
ned meats, thus suspending large
American imports.
Henry H.. Marmaduke, of Missou-
ri, graduate of the United States
naval academy, veteran of the civil
war, ex-officer of the Confederate
navy, and survivor of the memoir
able battle between the Monitor and
the Merrimac, has become a soldier
of fortune. Capt. Marmaduke left
Washington several days ago, after
resigning his position in the war
department, and accepting a COM
mission as captain in the navy of the
Colombian government. He is now
en- route to the country in which
he has decided to cast his lot. Mar
maduke is the brother of ex-Gov.
Marmaduke of Missouri, of a family
wealthy before the war and ruined
by that conflict. Shortly after his
graduation from the naval academy,
the civil war began and Capt. Mar
maduke resigned his commission in
the United States navy and took
service under the stars and bars.
He participated in many engage
ments and was an officer on the
ironclad Merrimac during her bat
lie with the Monitor, and later
served on the ram Alabama during
her battle with the Hartford and
other vessels of Commodore Farra.
quits Mississippi squadron. He was
! a watch officer on the Alabama wher
the ram was sunk by a torpedo fired
by Lieut.. Gushing. After the close
OF the war Capt. Marmaduke en-.
gagged in private business, but was
unsuccessful. During the two ad.