The Grenada sentinel., 1903-01-03
News Of the World

The archbishop of Canterbury
died December %.
President Roosevelt will leave
Washington about the middle OF
March on a tour of the west.
The powers have agreed to sub
NIT the Venezuelan question to the
Hague tribunal for arbitration.
President Castro has agreed to
submit the Venezuelan situation to
the Hague tribunal for arbitration.
Countess Castellane, formerly
Anna Gould, arrived in New York
December 21 to spend the holidays
with relatives.
The war department has issued
an order to the effect that in the
future persons under the age of 21
years will not be enlisted, and ex-
treme caution must be exercised in
the cases of young men applying for
enlistment who claim to be 21 years
of age or a few months over that
age. The unsupported statements
of such applicants must not be ac-
cepted, but to be eligible for enlist
ment they past furnish competent
proof to remove any doubt regard
ing age.
Fire at Knoxville, Tenn, which
destroyed half million dollars
worth of property, started in the
building occupied by the Knoxville
Pants Company. The buildings ad-
joining it on Commerce avenue, oc-
cupied by Broyles, McClollen &
Lackey, agricultural implement
dealers; the L. Davis Commission
Company, the establishment of the
George Brown Hardware Company
on Gay street; the Shanklin Grain
Company and the R. V. Cate & Co.
building on the same street, were
completely gutted.
Recently published estimates of
the production of pig iron in the
United States during the calendar
year 1902 put the total production
at 17,5OO,G00 tons. This is an in
crease of nearly 100000 tons over
last year, and is more than double
the production Of 1896, three times
that of 1886, four times that of
1881, six times that of 1879, eight
times that Of 1925, ten times that of
1872, and twenty times that of
1865. The steel production of the
year is estimated at 100000 tons,
which is practically so per cent
more than that of 1900, nearly three
times as much as that of 1896, ten
times as much as that of 1884. and
twenty times the production of
1878.
The annual report of Porto Rico's
commissioner of education shows
that an American free public school
now exists in every municipality in
Porto Rico. The school year closed
last June, with s74 schools open.
40,993 pupils enrolled and 923
teachers employed, an increase of 19
per cent in the number of schools.
II per cent in enrolment and 20
per cent in number Of teachers over
the previous year. The high-water
mark during the year in the enroll
ment was, in the ordinary public
schools, 59,o96, to which should be
added 2,767 pupils enrolled in the
high, normal and special schools,
giving a grand total Of 61,S63, or
10 per cent of the total population
of school age, and over 6 per cent
of the total population of the island.
The report says that these figures
show that, under American civil
government, the educational ad-
vantages offered free to the masses
OF the people, as compared with the
facilities provided by the
Spanish government, have nearly
doubled.
Seven men froze to death at dif-
ferent points in Pennsylvania De-
cember 21.
1t is reported Secretary of War !
Root will shortly resign and that he
will be succeeded by Secretary of
the Treasury Shaw.
Oliver Wideman and his wife, COL
'red, were hanged by a mob near
Greenwood, S. G. They were ac-
.used Of mr1rdorin0 w K Tor