The Grenada sentinel., 1903-10-17
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been ordered.
Mrs. Dwight L. Moody, widow OF
the famous evangelist, died at Ter
home in East Mortified, Mass, on
the 10th inst.
Three members of the st. Louis
police force were found guilty by a
jury of shooting craps while on
duty and fined 500 each.
On the 9th inst. the heaviest rain
fall in the the history of New York
City flooded the streets and de-
stroyed thousands of dollars in
property.
Over 1900. non-union miners are
now employed in the Cripple Creek
district, and the strike which was
declared about three months ago has
been a failure.
Thomas F. Ward, vice president
of bank at Sioux City, Ia., plead
ed guilty of embezzling $4,000,
and escaped with Jail sentence of
thirty days.
The last quarterly dividend de-
clared by the United States steel
trust was only l 81 per cent, just
half of that declared quarterly
heretofore.
George Formon and G. J. john
son, federal officials stationed on the
island of Mindanao, P. l., whose
accounts are under investigation,
took $4,000 of the government
funds, seized a steamer and started
for Barneo. A steamer has been
sent to intercept the daring hgi-
tives.
The trustees of the estate of Mrs.
Maybrick, the American woman
now in British prison serving
life sentence for the murder of her
husband, are staid to have failed to
account for about $4,000 of the
funds. The original estate, COM
posed of lands located in Virginia,
West Virginia, Illinois and Ken
tucky, is valued at several millions.
Mrs. Maybrick will be granted
pardon next year and will at once
return to this country to claim her
property. This has been one of the
most noted cases in the criminal his
tory of the world. Her husband,
an Englishman, died from arsenic
poisoning and after a sensational
trial his young American wife was
convicted and given a life sentence.
Her friends have been untiring in
their efforts to prove her innocence
and secure her release, and have
been rewarded with the promise that
she shall go free next July.
An increase in the death rate of
| the army from 1894 per 1000 in
1901 to 15.49 per 1000 in 1902 is
| shown in the annual report Of Sur
geon General R. NJ. O'1'eilly for the
fiscal year ending June 80. This
increase is attributed to cholera,
which caused 3.54 deaths per 1000.
A slight improvement appears in
the admission rate for disease and
injury, which declined from 17915 so
per 1000 in 1901 to 1715.51 per
1000 in 1902. Gen. O'Reilly,
speaking of the abolishment of the
army canteen, says: "It is impos-
sible not to attribute a large part
Of the steadily increasing venereal
disease Of the army to the loss of
the canteen, where the soldier, if
he so desired, could get his beer
| throughout the month, but was not
| subjected to the temptations to in
temperance and vice now attendant
upon the expenditure Of full
months pay at the low. resorts in
Testing the outskirts of our military
reservations"
A gang of blackmailers recently
notified officials of the Northern
| Pacific that unless certain sum of
money was left for them at a desig-
mated spot on given date, that
their property would be destroyed
by dynamite. Notwithstanding
hundreds of detectives have been
at work on the case, the bandits
have attempted to carry out their
threat ; and several trains and
bridges over that road have been
wrecked with dynamite. ~. -
A joke perpetrated by performers
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