The Grenada sentinel., 1903-10-03
News Of the World

tAe 11aWdl1dn DOnO issue Oh Ql,SSS,-
900. |
Hon. Seth Low has been renomi-
mated as a fusion candidate for
mayor Of New York.
Joseph Wolf, fireman, and John |
Armour and Chas. Los, laborers,
were killed in a collision of street |
car and freight train at Marion,
Ind.
The captain of wrecking schoon-
er reports the finding of treas
ure ship off Miami. The ship is said
to be loaded with silver and went
down in 1885
The Mexican congress has ap-
proved the action of President Diaz
in issuing government bonds for the
purchase of the National and Inter-
Oceanic railways.
Four hundred messenger boys
employed by the Illinois Telegraph
Company in Chicago left their po-
sitions because the company en-
ployed a few negroes as messengers.
Frederick S. Gibbs, member Of
the republican national committee
from New York state, is dead. He
was a prominent politician and had
been member of the national COM
mittee since 1896.
The district judge of Teller
county, COL, in which is located
the Cripple Creek mines, has order
ed the militia, which has been on
duty for several weeks, to turn all
prisoners over to the civil authori-
ties. The courts order declares
the civil authorities able to preserve
the peace, and that the civil courts
alone have the authority to punish
offenders. Since the strike several
months ago many people have been
held under arrest by the militia,
whose commander refused to turn
them over to the civil authorities
for trial. The courts ruling is
claimed as a victory for the strikers
A movement is on foot for d
convention of superintendents OF
education of the southern states tc
consider action relative to the dis
position of the Peabody educational
fund George Peabody, on Febru-
ary z, 1867, gave 100000 to the
cause of southern education, and
supplemented the gift with like
amount on June 20, 1869. Th'
fund has grown by careful manage
ment to over $3,oo0,ooO. Mr.. Pea
body said: *<My desire, when thu
trust is closed and final distribution
is made, is that all the southern
states shall share in the distribution
according to their needs.'' Th'
southern state superintendent will
stoutly oppose concentrating tn
fund in one large teachers college
It is the general opinion at Wash
ington that the American claims
against Turkey on account of tn
attempted assassination of our vic
consul at Beirut are not receiving
the prompt attention they deserve
Communications have reached tn
state department urging this gov
ernment to say or do something
that will put stop to the atrocitie
in Turkey. It is said that this pres
sure does not emanate from tn
missionaries. Officials at the stat
department are reticent about tn
probability of the United States Civ
ing expression to the feeling witt
which the alleged atrocities in Tur
key are viewed by the people of tn
United States, but they say report
show that the deeds daily perpetrat
ed in sections of that country ar
of such character as to shock civil
zation, and necessarily are Of dee
concern to the United States.
After a trial lasting eight days
the jury at Cynthiana, KY, in tn
case of Curtis Jett, charged wit
the murder of Town Marshal Cock
rill at Jackson, in 1902, rendered
verdict of guilty and fixed the pur
ishment at death. This has bee
the second trial of Curtis Jett o
the charge of murder. In his firs
trial for the murder of J. B. MAJ
cum at Jackson, KY, Jett an
Thomas White were sentenced 1
life imprisonment. <~
On the night Of September q