The Grenada sentinel., 1903-09-26

A AAOAdS A1aptOu, t4Ac AOtCu
English yachtsman,' is suffering
from appendicitis at Chicago.
Great Britain and Japan have
fled q protest against any delay Of
Russia evacuating Manchuria.
The Mckinley statue at Toledo,
O., was unveiled on the 14th, the
second anniversary of his death.
The Standard Oil magnates have
added $19, 9,600,O to their wealth,
which sum was distributed q few
days ago as a quarterly dividend.
As a whole the indications are
that farmers in the lower cotton
belt will raise all the cotton they
can gather owing to the scarcity of
labor.
A corps Of the Salvation Army
has invaded Breathitt county, Ken
lucky, with the avowed purpose of
converting some of the assassins of
that section.
The newspapers are determined
that Miss Ruth Bryan shall wed at
an early day. She is now reported
engaged to w. H. Leavitt, an artist
of Rhode Island.
Curtis Jett, sentenced to life i'm
prisonment for the murder of Law
yer Marcrum, is now on trial at
Cynthiana, KY, for the murder of
Marshal Cockrill of Jackson.
Chas. J. Boncparte has been Sc
lected by Secretary Hitchcock to
make a thorough investigation of
affairs in the Indian Territory.
Grave charges have been made
against federal officials of the Ter
ritory, and it will take considerable
time to make a thorough investiga-
ton.
The northwest is experiencing
one of the earliest autumns for
many years. In northern Minneso-
ia snow fell on the 14th and the
damage to crops will run into the
millions. In Manitoba the storm
was so severe many heads of cattle
perished. At Minot, n. D., two
feet of snow fell, and trains in that
section were greatly delayed.
The president has granted full
and unconditional pardons to Geo.
D. and Barnacas F. Crosby, con-
victed at Montgomery, Ala, Of vio-
lation of the peonage law. These
men were indicted for holding Pike
Swanson in condition of peonage,
pleading guilty on June 80, 1908,
and on the same day were sentenced
to Imprisonment for year and a
day in the United States peniten-
tiary at Atlanta.
A conflict of opinion between the
postmaster general and the civil
service commission has arisen as q
result of recent construction by
Mr. Greene, civil service commits
sioner, of the presidents civil ser
vice order of last March, by which
it is claimed that the 10000 or more
fourth-class postmasters are brought
within the classified service. Post
master General Payne contends
that postmasters of the above class
do not come under the civil servic<
law, and that they can be removed
Or appointed at pleasure.
The secretary of the treasury ha:
determined upon the immediate
distribution of an additional $4,.
100000 Of the $40,0o0,000 he se1
aside for making special govern
ment deposits. The secretary ha'
already prepared lists of banks t.
which these deposits will go. Th'
amounts to be given each will rang,
from $4,000 to 100000, with .
majority at the minimum figure
The average of the deposits i,
each will be 100000, and there viii
be about fifty of these institutions
The secretary has tried in prepar
ing the list to select those bank
which lie in the centers or the i'm
mediate vicinity of the great agri
cultural sections. The bulk of tn
funds designated for deposi
will go to the agricultural region
Of the Mississippi basin. Sine
September l government bonds t
the amount of $2,592, 500 to secur
deposits made at national bank
have been put up at the treasury