The Grenada sentinel., 1903-09-19

at LluaTes, McA., "clet 1epoIteu AasI
week, with fifty-two deaths.
It is said that the car and King
Victor Emmanuel contemplate a
union Of Servia and Montenegro.
A Washington dispatch says Pres
ident Roosevelt will not convene
congress in extra session in October.
Father M. J. Ward, a Catholic
priest of Wisconsin, caused some
thing Of sensation by declaring
that he will not give absolution to
any member of the Typographical
Union, stating as his reason that
the oath taken by members of the
organization is in violation of the
Catholic faith.
The navy department is expert
encing considerable difficulty in Sc
curing volunteers for the battleship
Maine. 1t is said that more than
200 of the sailors on the ship when
she met with an accident several
months ago have deserted rather
than go back to her. The ship is
declared to be a hoodoo by the su-
perstitious tars.
Customs Inspector Thomas P.
Coates and Lieutenant Osborne, a
constabulary supply officer, both
stationed at San Ferdino, P. T.,
who were arrested recently on the
charge Of misappropriating govern
ment funds, have been tried and
convicted of the crime. Lieut.. Os-
borne has been sentenced to ten
years and Inspector Coates to eight
years. imprisonment.
The bureau of insular affairs of
the war department has prepared
for publication a comparative state
ment, showing the customs revenues
in the Philippine archipelago fol
the first five months of 1908, as
compared with the same period OF
1899, 1900, 1901 and 1902. Tho
statement shows that for the five
months ending May 81, 1908, tho
customs revenues were $3,759,833
SO; for the same period in 1902
SO ,539, ,866.74; in 1901, So, 500, ,976..
62; in 1900, $2,571 ,G35.29; and i1
1899. $1.7O7.297.25.
Senator Hoar, the venerable
statesman of Massachusetts,, in re
cent address before the Essex Clul
of Salem, referred to the race prob
lem in the following languages: &c:
know, my friends, that there ar
special difficulties in this problem
as it affects our. colored fellow-citi
zens. / know how deeply moved ar
the feelings of our southern breth
rem. / would not utter toward then
a word of reproach. know ho1
near to their homes and how clos
to their social and political lif
comes this cloud and shadow. I Sc
that one enthusiastic southern ma
has renewed the proposal that W
send the ten million negroes out 0
the country. This is totally i'm
practicable. Let US not delude ou1
selves. We have this question t
meet squarely at home. The negr
, will stay. The European and AS
attic will come: You cannot tur
{ them out and you cannot keep the1
OUT
< Anthracite coal to the amount c
2 5,160,400 tons was produced durin
} August, which is about the same {
e the previous month. For the eigl
e months of the calendar year tt
;. shipments have been 42,431,84
t tons, an increase over the same p'
: riod last year Of 13,046,000 ton
This increase far exceeds any her
e tofore made in the anthracite CO.
4 trade. Coal men deny an overpr'
e duction and report an increased d
}. mand.
: Bill West, Lee Smith and jam
n Paris, who robbed the Wells, Far{
It & Co. express in the state Of Dura1
! go, Mex, in July, 1902, have ju
a been sentenced to fifteen years eat
d in prison. They secured over $50
n 900 in money, most Of which VI
n recovered.
Ex-Gov. Fifer of Illinois m,
e enter the race for governor upt
:, the expiration Of his term as mer
e Der of the Interstate CONNER
Icommission next month.
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