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

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body had adjourned for the day.
The episode was the result of .
heated controversy which the two
senators had, when Senator Beve-
rige had said that Senator Bailey
had made an "unwarranted attack"
on Solicitor Penfeld of the state de-
partment.
Acting Secretary of War Sanger
sent a communication to the
house in answer to a resolution d.
recting the secretary of war to furn-
ish information as to what amounts
have been paid out of the
Cuban people to F. s. Truber or any
other person, corporation or ~associa-
ton for advocating reciprocity with
the United States. The answer of
the war department consists of GER
titled copies of vouchers covering the
payments referred to it in the resilu-
ton, amounting to SIS, 1926.
A Rock Island passenger train
was held up on the night of the Sd,
near Dupont, Ill. Express Messen-
ger Kane was shot through the groin
by n of the robbers. The local
safe was forced open, but the amount
of the booty secured is not known.
One party has been arrested, but
declares that he was forced at the
point of a pistol to climb on the
engine and demand that the train
be stopped.
The president has issued an order
prohibiting the exercise of outside
influence in securing promotions in
the classified civil service. The
order is an amendment to rule II
of the civil service code, and is as
follows: "No recommendation for
the promotion of any employee in the
classified service shall be considered
by any officer concerned in making
promotions, except those made by the
officer or officers under whose super
vision or control such employee is
serving; and such recommendation
by any other person, with the knowl-
edge and consent of the employe,
shall be sufficient cause for de-
barring him from the promotion
proposed, and a repetition of the Of
tense shall be sufficient cause for re-
moving him from the service"
The annual report of Chief
Wilkie, of the secret service division,
submitted last week to Secretary
Shaw, shows that during the year
there were 573 persons charged with
various offenses against the federal
statutes, New York leading with
e~ighty-fve prosecutions. Of the Of
tenders, AS persons were of Ameri-
can birth, the next largest number of
offenders being Italians. Sixty
three per cent of those arrested were
convicted. The report shows the fact
that during the fiscal year but one
dangerous spurious note was put in
circulation, a S. silver certificate,
while there was but one other even
passable counterfeit-a 81 silver
certificate, whose makers, with their
complete plant, were captured in
Chicago the same day they attempted
to put n of their notes in circu-
lation.
The monthly report of the sta
t%istican of the department of agri-
culture shows the average condi-
ton Of cotton on June 20 to have
been S4.7, as compared with 95.1 on
May 26, 1902; 81 on June 25,
1901; 75.S on July l., 1901, and a
ten-year average of $50. With the
exception of North Carolina, where
there seems to have been a slight
improvement, and Virginia, where
there is no appreciable change in
every cotton-producing state shows
a decline during the month, the de-
cline being greatest in Texas, where
it amounts to % points, and in
Louisiana, Indian Territory, Mis-
sissippi and Alabama, where it is
II, 10, 9 and 8 points, respectively.
The condition is, however, still in
excess of the ten-year average in
the following states, by the number
of points stated in each case: Vir-
oinia 2: North Carolina. &. South