The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1902-01-11
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

Plans for a 100000 lecture hall fol
Harvard university were filed will
the Boston superintendent of build
ings on the Sd. Its auditorium will
accommodate 700 students.
The Pennsylvania Gas Co.'S plant al
Ludlow, Pa, was wrecked, on the
night of the 5th, by an explosion. II
is reported that one man is missing
and that another was fatally injured
Prof. Rudolph Virchow, the aged
and eminent p~athologist, slipped
while alighting from a street car il
Berlin, on the 9Th, and seriously in
jured his thigh.
Very stormy weather, with the tenn
perature so degrees below, is report
ed from Dawson. Two persons have
died as the result of the severe
weather.
The Beers ambushed a force of
the Scots Grays, on the 4th, neal
Bronkhorstspruit (about forty miles
east of Pretoria on the railroad).
The British casualties we're six men
killed and ten wounded.
In the future, no more society
men-not even those possessing mil
lions of dollars-can obtain a com
mission in the Twelfth regiment Of
the national guard of New York
without enlisting first as ~privates AMI
s%houldering rifles like any other or
binary enlisted
Reports received at Topeka from
the Kansas wheat belt say that the
new crop is suffering greatly for
rain. There has been very little rain
in the state since the last crop was
harvested and as a result, the big
wheat fields are very dry.
Because of the many crimes thai
have been committed in Denver
within the past year or - ,
l,+or - TO residents, the
s.4.,u urganized a committee Of
~, for the purpose of protecting
the people against criminals.
Mrs. Chauncey NJ. Depew, on arriv-
ing in New York, will hear that she
is one of a score or more of heirs to
an estate valued at $50, 900 900, left
by Casper Cronkhite in Holland.
The man who spread the charges
against Prince Henry of the Neither
lands, husband of Queen Wilhelmina
which caused a worldwide scandal
has been discovered and arrested. II,
is a Dutchman, and had been guilty
previously of a similar offense.
Official statistics show that of 302,
s4s emigrants who left the British
isles, in 1901, for places outside o
Europe, 194,SsS came to the United
States and 1903 went to British
North America.
Reports made to the Marine hos
pital service show that the healtl
conditions in the Cuban capital ar
the best it has been in $50 years
Yellow fever has been practicall'
eliminated by the persistent war OIL
! mosquitoes.
The American Missionary ~associa
ton has issued an appeal to the con
g%regations and churches of the coun
! try to observe Sunday, February d!
i as a memorial of Abraham Lincoln
whose birthday anniversary is Eel
ruary ~.
Morgan Bates, author and wei
known newspaper man, died at Tri
verse City, Mich, on the 5th, of pu
monary paralysis, aged 81. He wa
: the author of many high-class lite
= airy productions, and numbere
: among his associates many of tn
: leading writers of the country.
= Another Schley resolution was il
" PRODUCED in the house, on the 9Th, /
Representative Schirm, Of Marylan
: 1t provides ar appropriation of 81.
900 for bronze tablets commemor;
4 ting six great naval victories, begil
n ming with that of John Paul Jon'
in 1897, and closing with the battle
N Santiago Bay, Commodore Winfie'
Scott Schley, commanding" in 1898.
e The creation of another assistal
IT postmaster general, to have char
of the free city and rural delivel
n, service, is contemplated in a b
shortly to be introduced in the hou
by Representative Watson, of
- diana. The new officer, if the b
should pass, will be the fifth assista
ne postmaster general.
Of King Edward, on the 9th, conferr
hit the order of Knight, Grand Cross
he the Bath, upon Marquis Ito, the ia
IN aIese statesman.
IN At the Inauguration of the ne
It, city government of Everett, Mas
We on the 9th, Robert H. jenkins f.
o. dead while making a speech accel
y. ing the office Of president of t
70 board of aldermen, to which he h
been elected.