The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1902-02-01
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

The jury in the cas of Mrs. Addie
L. Richardson. tried at P~lattsburg,
10, for the killing of her husband,
Frank w. Richardson, at Savannah,
returned Il verdict of not guilty, on
the evening of the 18th. after de-
liberating IS minutes. The verdict
was received with a mighty cheer by
the spectators who crowded the court
room.
Yua Hal Kai has been given prac'
teal control of the army and navy of
China. and proposes engaging Japan
csc instructors for the army and Bit
ish instructors for the navy.
The St. Louis American league
franchise was sold. on the Goth. by
Matt and Henry Kililen, of Milwau-
kee, to II. L. Hedges. who represented
Il number of st. Louis capitalists. The
price paid was not made public.
The cost of the war in South Hfri-
ca. in men and money, is staggering
the British. The total depletion of
the army, from all causes, up to last
reports. has been 93j officers and %
354 enlisted men and the money cost
$4,000, 900.
A fire alarm in one of the theaters
at Marion. Ind, on the night of the
25th, which was packed to suffoca-
ton, caused a panic. The audience
was composed entirely of men. An
awful fight and stampede resulted
and many We're injured.
Gen. Harrison c. Hobart, sole sur
vivor Of the q daring men who
planned the famous tunnel escape
from Libby prison, Richmond, Va.
died at the hospital of the Milwau-
kee soldiers home on the night of
the 2jth.
1t has been virtually decided, by
the president, to place Admiral Dew,
ey at the head of the special com
mission of three members which will
be sent TO Europe to arouse a more
active interest in the St. Louis
Worlds fair than is now being mani
Tested by many of the old world ma
tions.
Prince Henry of Prussia has ac,
cepted an invitation to meet, on his
visit to New York, 100 of the great
business men of this country. I'll,
invitation was sent to him through
the German ambassador at Washing
ton.
\ report from Lord Kitchener t,
the British war office. on the aGth
told of the capture of Gen. Nilioen
Gen. Botha's most able lieutenant
Gen. DeWet continues to dodge tn,
British columns within his circum
scribed area.
Col. Miner OF the Sixth infantry re
ports the conditions on the island o
Negroes to. be unsatisfactory, an,
that 400 bolomen and 40 men armer
with rifles, under the command o
the fanatical bandit leader. Papa Isle
are terrorizing the people.
Between ten o'clock on the morr
of the Goth. and five o'clock in tn
evening, all the residents of Eas
Boston, comprising the Fourth an
Fifth wards of Boston, barred thei
left arms for inspection or for vac
cination by physicians.
Grover +. Locke. aged 10, son of
Locke, a stockman and broker q
Huntington, Ore, was frozen to deaf
in the recent blizzard, while on hi
way to his fathers ranch, 10 mile
distant.
Isaac Murphy, a smallpox suspec
who eluded the officers of Kokorn,
Marion and Anderson, Ind, and VIII
was captured at Greentown, and wa
taken in custody by an immune. wa
threatened by "A mob on the Goth.
The ways and mean committee, O
the 27th, temporarily laid aside til
subject of Cuban reciprocity and Ell
tered upon the question of reducin
the war revenue taxes. During I'll
morning the tea interests were hea1
on the proposition to take off the ia
of ten cents a pound on tea, impose
by the Spanish war revenue act. TT
afternoo9| was set aside for the be.
~interestsj