The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1902-01-04
CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

Acting Oh an order received fron
the secretary of the interior. govern
ment officials have stopped all build
ing and Improvement operations a
McAlester, L. T., until a schedule o
values of all property has been pre-
pared by the town site committee
to be false and the secretary of thu
interior then took a hand.
1t has been decided in Rome t,
send a pontifcal mission to the core
nation of King Edward. This mission
will be organized IN lines similar tt
the one which attended the Victorian
jubilee.
Andrew Carnegie has offered to give
Kalispell, Mont, $4,000 for a library
provided the city furnishes a site anC
81. 900 yearly for maintenance. Thu
city already eNpends that amour
each year for library support.
\ certificate of incorporation wa
filed at Dover, Del, on the Goth, fol
the Bell of Thunder Mining Co., t.
acquire mines and mining rights. Cap
ital. 81, 100000, Incorporators: Ro
~dolphas w. Pardeman, Nampa, Idaho
Clinton ID. Greenlee, P~ittsburg, Pa
Charles w. Culver, Reno. Pa.
A. ]. Ayers, a young messenger OF
the Union bank of Brooklyn, who dis
appeared recently with $4,000 of tbs
banks money. was arrested in Mon
treal on the Goth.
The River Arno has overflowed it
banks and the waters have caused
considerable damage at Florence and
at Pisa, Italy.
Bond purchases by the treasury
department, on the Goth, amounted
to S53, 400.
Levi Saunders, convict 2471 at the
federal prison. Leavenworth, Kas.
escaped on the Goth. He was a team
ster, and about three o'clock put his
team in the corral at the prison and
walked away. Saunders was sent up
from Arkansas for a violation of the
postal laws. He had four months left
to serve.
Six hundred employees of the Pitts
burg. Bessemer e Lake Erie railroad
were notified. on the 27th. of an in
crease of 10 per cent. in wages, com
mencing January /. The raise applies
to conductors, brakemen. switchmen,
engineers and firemen, and was vol
untary on the part of the company.
Oklahoma farmers say that recent
high dry winds have done a greater
damage to the wheat crop than all
the cold waves combined. Wheat on
the uplands has suffered greatly.
The Brazilian senate has approved
an agreement to define the boundary
between British Guinea and Brazil.
On the 27th r. G.. Dun G. Co., of
New York, reported: Failures for
the week numbered $50 in the United
States, against 237 last year, and 20
in Canada, against IS last year"
1t can be said upon reliable infor-
nation that the president of the Pc
ruyian senate, Manuel Candamo, will
be "A candidate for the presidency in
the next election.
DR.. j. l.. NJ. Curry, of Washington,
who was United States minister at
ldb lit ming -NllpiSO Wis DOID,
has been designated by the president
to attend the ceremonies incident to
the coming of age of the young king,
May II next, in response to the in
vitation of the Spanish government.
j. S. Connor. n of the Oldest bust.
ness men of Davenport, Ia. dropped
dead, on the morning of the Goth,
while attending services at the First
Presbyterian church. He was one of
the most prominent Scottish Rite Ma
som Of Iowa.
The entire stock of money in all
nations on January /, 1900, was SILL.
620,200, 900. The stock on January l.
1901, was S11 ISL 100000, of which 81.
906, 100000 was in gold, SSH. 100, 00C
in silver, and S3,033, 400, 900 in papel
in excess of that covered by coin re.
| serves.
The latest hitch in the negotiations
for the transfer of the Danish West
Indies is attributed to the activity Of
spectators at Copenhagen, who in.
sist upon participating i'll the profit,
which are to proceed from the trans
action.
By consent CT President Roosevelt
the statement comes from Washing
ton that the alleged interview il
which the president was said to have
publicly rebuked Lieut.-Gen. Miles
was grossly exaggerated. The presi
dent and Gen. Miles parted in I
friendly manner.
Five insurgent officers and 175 men
with six cannon, 81 rifles and II shot
guns, surrendered. on the 2sth. to tn,
American authorities on the Islanc
Of Cebu. 1t is now believed that thi.
island is pacifed.
Both Gen. Chafree and acting Cox
Wright, deny the stories of frictio,
between the military and civil au
thorities in the Philippines, Both de
clare that the relations of the tw,
branches are thoroughly harmoni
Gus.
-Four persons were killed and 20 in
jured, several of them possibly fatal
lY, in the wreck, by collision, of tn
Omaha Flyer, on the Chicago ,