The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1902-07-12
NEWS OF THE WORLD.

Gov. Van SAINT, Of Minnesota, has
been renominated for Q second term
by the republicans.
President Roosevelt has issued a
proclamation, formally postponing
the st. Louis fair until 1904.
The Georgia democratic conven-
tion failed to mention in its plat
form the national platform of 1900,
and no reference was made to
Bryan.
j. H. Kent is under indictment
at Fort Worth charged with cutting
the throat of a brother lodge men,
Der at a meeting of a Woodman of
the World camp.
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. nea Wilkesbarre, when a
striker named Giuseppe, who was
e~ndeavoring to enter a stockade, was
shot dead.
Robert CALI, a St. Louis shoe
maker, went into the basement of
his home to investigate a gas leak
and lighted a match. An explosion
Immediately followed which wrecked
the building, burying Calls wife
and child in the runs. CALI him
self was badly injured.
Reports to R. G.. Dun & Co.
show commercial failures for the
half year GIGS in number, with
$60,374,056 liabilities, against
$3.50 insolvencies in the correspond
ing months of 1901, involving $685.
S04,690. Of this years aggregate,
1,41S were in manufacturing for
1924, 4 5,622, and 337 in other COM
mercial lines for $6,289,214; as
compared with 1865 in manufactur-
ing last year for $21,691,O 4S, H.
1S9 in trading for $24,S64,207, and
805 miscellaneous with liabilities Of
$9,249,435. Defaults of banks and
other fiduciary institutions num-
bered 81, with an Indebtedness of
SIG, 797,763, against As in the cor
responding six months of 1901, in
volving $15,S39,3S9.
A statement prepared by Senator
Allison, chairman of the committee
on appropriations, shows the total
appropriations by congress at the
session just closed, as follows:
Agriculture, $5,2OS, $50; army, $751;
530,136; diplomatic and consular
$1,957,925; District of Columbia,
$S,647 ,526; Notifications, $685.
s55; Indian, s91 ,439 ,9o2; legisla-
tive, $685. S1; military academy,
$2,627,324; navy, $7S,67S,963;
pension, $139 $50; postofices,
$13S,416,5 98; river and harbor,
$26,726,442 Exclusive of contracts
authorized) sundry civil, $60, 1875
$50; deficiency, 2s,O39;911; mis-
cellaneous, So, 900 900; isthmain
canal, $5O,13O,O0O; permanent an
nual appropriations, $123, 1921, 220;
grand total, $500, 193,S37. The
total last year was $3.50, 3ss,575.
Tobacco manufacturers and deal
ers will be considerably affected by
q provision which has been passed
by congress without attracting much
attention, as a part of the bill re-
rating to the tax and rebate on to-
bacco. The provision is that no
package of manufactured tobacco,
snuff, cigars or cigarettes shall have
attached any representation or
promise of a ticket or chance in any
lottery OF an immoral picture. The
provision will end a system of ad-
vertising upon which tobacco manu-
facturers have expended thousands
Of dollars. 1t is believed by internal
revenue officials that the provision
will prohibit the prizes that are
offered by nearly all manufacturers
of plug tobacco and cigarettes,
awarded by presentation of a speci-
fed number of tags o. box wrappers.
The question will probably be
brought to a ruling of the treasury
department on a test case.
On the 4th snow fell for two
hours over the mountainous region
of WYOMING