The Grenada sentinel., 1903-10-03

LA "CAASO dAO ak IdACOO, ACA'
Christian PEPPER, the well known
st. Louis tobacco dealer and manu-
facturer, is dead.
President Roosevelt and family
have returned from their summer
home to the white house.
1t is reported that France is Sc
cretly organizing an expedition for
the conquest of Morocco.
The Philippine. government has
decided that United States supplies
received in the. Philippines shall be
subject to regular duties.
At Gallatin, Tenn, runaway
horse attached to a delivery wagon
smashed the vehicles and fatally in
jured three persons, two children
and a woman.
Senator Morgan declares the ac-
tion of the Colombian senate in
refusing to ratify the canal treaty
means that the Nicaraguan route
will be chosen.
Austin Chamberlain, son of Joe
Chamberlain, has been appointed
chancellor of the exchequer in the
British cabinet. He was formerly
postmaster general.
| Since last January ninety-eight
new cotton oil industries have been
organized in the south, with plants
to cost in the neighborhood of $3,'
100000. AT present there are
nearly 700 oil mills in the south
with an annual output of 1925, 900,
900.
Government troops in the Phil
ippines continue to have light skir
mishes with small bands of insur
gents without the boundaries O.
thickly settled sections. In a skir
mish in the province of Batanga
few weeks ago a priest with a small
band attacked a small town. Th
priest was killed and his follower
put to flight.
The sovereign grand lodge o
Odd Fellows met at Baltimore o.
, the 2lst. The report of the gram
commander in chief gives the tota
membership of the order as 1929,
956, including subordinate lodg
, members and sisters only of tn
! Rebekah lodge. Revenue, relief an
. invested funds are indicated as fol
o lows: Revenues or receipts i
1902: Subordinate lodges, $40
214,00O; encampments, $712,5
o Rebekah lodges, $626,743;;> total rev
y enue, $11,553, ,905; an increase c
\ $771, ,343 over the preceding year.
y The annual report of the opera
q tions of the dead letter Office for th
! year ended June 80, 1908, has bee
q prepared and will be embodied i
the forthcoming report of Firs
l. Assistant Postmaster Geners
$ Wynne. The report states that
e is made to appear that there hs
e been a large and steady increase i
Q its annual receipts, which is due,
> is stated, to the great and consta1
. increase in the volume of matte
= passing through the mails. III
o total receipts for the year WEI
: something over 10,000,000 piece
= the largest in the history of the O
e fee, exceeding those of the precedin
e year by some $4,000 pieces. {
e the aggregate number S,895,2(
= pieces were opened. The none
h found in opened letters amounted
= $48,634 but this sum include
e money generally coin) found loo
g in the mails or in postoffices ar
t. Fconsigned to the dead letter ofic
e Commercial paper found, such
j. drafts, checks, money orders, et'
D represented a face value of 81 1,49a
563.
8. Walter Iselhardt, aged z year
,e met horrible death at the home
h his parents near Belleville, I
< With other children he was pla
ing on a porch when he leaped O.
D. landing in a boiling kettle Of app
n butter.
N John Alexander Dowie, the 1
st natic and high priest Of Zion,
r colony founded in Illinois, b
ID gained more notoriety BY advocs
to ing the marriage of whites to \
groes. ~
2, A dispatch from Sofia says tn
l.AAl. .e o.~ko~.lo- "a =