The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1902-05-10


fore the senate committee on foreign
relations in support of the bill grant
ing an annuity of $1,000 to Miss
Clara Barton, president of the Red
Cross, for distinguished services rem
dered.
Nearly three and a half millions of
dollars were distributed, on the 9Th,
by the secretary of the treasury.
among national banks in various
parts of the country. Sixty-two
banks are recognized as government
repositories in widely different sec
tiOns.
George w. Walsen, proprietor Of a
semi-weekly newspaper at Salmon
City, Idaho. was arrested in Salt Lake
City. Utah, on the 4th. on a charge
of having appropriated $4,000 of the
funds of the Lempi county treasury
at Salmon City. Walsen denies the
charge.
The monthly coinage statement is
sued by the director Of the mint, on
the 1st, showed that during April.
1902, the coinage executed at the
mints of the United States amounted
to $1,131, SOS, as follows: Gold. $3.50
AS; silver, S3,38S.27J, and minor
coins, $263, 300.
r. G. Dun & Co., of New York, re-
ported on the I'd: Failures in the
United States this week were 225.
against 212 last week, 361 the Dreced-
ing week, and 226 the corresponding
week last year; and in Canada II,
against is last week, "a the preceding
week, and "a last year"
The monthly circulation statement
issued by the comptroller of the cur
rencY, on the LIST, showed that at the
close of business April 30. 1902. the
total circulation of national bank
notes was 356,9s7 800, an increase for
the year Of $6,223, JAP. and a decrease
for the month of $~4s9,oos.
The club women's convention at
Los Angeles, Cal, on the 5th. over
whelmingly accepted what is known
as the New York compromise on the
color question, which is considered
largely a victory for the south in
that it does not explicitly provide for
the admission of colored clubs.
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Congressman Peter J. Otey. of the
Sixth Virginia district, died in Lynch
burg, Va. his home, on the 4th. Mr..
Otey had been named as a member of
the committee to accompany the re-
mains of the late Congressman Cum
mings to New York, but he notified
the speaker that he was too i'll 10
attend.
At Rochester, n. Y, on the ed,
Judge Sutherland, of the county
court, on application of the Roches-
ter Baseball association eastern
league) granted a temporary iniunc-
ton restraining Joe Bean from play /
ing on the New York baseball team.
Bean Joined the New Yorks after
signing a contract with the local
club.
Under date of May s, Gen. Davis.
the commander of the American
forces in the Island of Mindanao ca
bled Gen. Chaffee that ia Moros who
survived the attackand capture of the
Moro fort by American soldiers in
Mindanao, on the Sd, had surren-
dered, and that the sultan of Bavan.
RIA jah Muda, Sultan Panda Patio. and
a number of other leaders were
killed in the engagement.
The remains of the late Amos J.
Cummings, representative in com
gress from New York, who died in
Baltimore, Md, on the I'd, we're con-
veyed to Washington on the Sd. A
special congressional committee went
TO Baltimore from the capital at an
early hour and accompanied the body
from the undertaking establishment
where it had been prepared for burial
to the Pennsylvania railroad station.
Mr.. Corea, the Nicaraguan minister,
at the state department, on
the LIST, and informed Secretary Hay
that the reply of his government to
secretary's proposal regarding
the Nicaraguan canal had peer re-
and that he was now empow-
cred to make a definite presentation
Of the terms under which his govern
will giant the lights necessary
TO the construction OF a Nicaragua
canal.