The Grenada sentinel., 1903-11-14

J. ~. BUCHANAN. Editor and Prsprietsf.
GRENADA. :: !: MISSISSIPPI
On the 9Th. the United States recog-
aized the new republic Of Panama - !!
q de facto government.
John Alexander Dowie called 1T the |
executive ofiice in the White House. on |
the 9Th, and was received by President |
l>oosevelt.
1t was offioially admitted, on the sth.
that German cruisers had been ordered
to San Domingo, In compliance with
the request of the German consul there.
Lord Rowton, the famous philanthro-
pist and founder OF the Rowton Houses
OF London. which provide respectable
lodgings for the poor, died ON the 9Th
Col. G. NJ. Watson, c. B., c. H. G.,
commissioner for Great Britain at the
ST. Louis Worlds fair, sailed from Bos-
ton for Liverpool, on the 7th, on the
lvernia,
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sued orders to the gunboats Newport
and Savannah to coal and proceed at
full speed to San Domingo. The action
followed advices of the serious condl-
tion Of affairs there.
Gov Yates of Illinois, ON the 7th,
honored a requisition from the gov
ernor OF Kansas for the extraditlon OF
Bert March, under arrest in Chicago
and wanted in Atchison, Kas., on q
cnarge OF grand larceny.
President Roosevelt, on the 9th, re-
ceived the members of the executive
board of the Women's Foreign Society
of the Methodist Episcopal church,
which had Just concluded it's annual
convention in Baltimore, Nd.
The president, on the 9th, pardoned
J. r. Milby; convicted in Kentucky OF
using the mails to defraud, and SEN
fenced on October %, 1901, to imprison-
ment for Is months in the United
States penitentiary at Atlanta, Ga.
Minister Powell cabled the state de-
partment at Washington, D. c., on the
9th, that the insurgent army was
marching on the city of San Domingo.
He asked that an American man-of-
war be sent there. The Baltimore was
sent.
Frank w. Tracey, president OF the
First national bank of Springfield, ILL.,,
and a member of the committee on uni
form laws of the Bankers association,
died at his home in that city, on the
8th, of complication of diseases, aged
69 years.
F.. P. Broughton, formerly general
superintendent of the Chicago & East
ern Illinois railroad, fell dead in the
cafe of the Alta Vista hotel, in Colo
RADIO Springs, Col, on the 7th. Heart
disease was the cause of death. He was
60 years of age.
AS showing the depth of the resent
ment over the success of the United
States in the Alaskan boundary mat
ter, during the performance of min
strel troupe at Vancouver, B. c., on the
9Th, the music of the American anthem
was vigorously Kissed.
with establishments in Havana, New
York, st. Louis and Chicago. went into
voluntary bankruptcy, on the 9th. The
Chicago Title & Trust Co. was appoint
ed receiver. The liabilities were placed
at 81, SOC, 900, with assets exceeding that
figure by $1.ooo,ooo.
President Roosevelt was asked, on
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Marine band to accept engagements
to play for pay. The request was made
by President Miller, of the National
Federation OF musicians. The president
indicated his willingness to consider
the question if presented to him in
writing.
Rev. Ezekiel Light, aged 20 years,
who for nine years was German Prot
testant chaplain at the Soldiers home,
at Dayton, O., and who was prominent
before the beginning of hostilities in
the civil war as the preacher who left
his pulpit to assist the slaves to es-
cape to the north, died at Dayton, O.,
on the 9th.
The funeral of Mrs. Elizabeth c. Hen
bricks, widow of the late Vice-Presi-
dent Hendricks, was held in Indian
apolis, Ind, on the 5th. Mrs. Hen
bricks left an estate of several hun
dred thousand dollars. Among the
beautiful -:oral offerings was a large
bunch of American Beauty roses from
ex-President Cleveland
On the 7th, President Roosevelt en-.
fertained at luncheon John S1eicher