The Grenada sentinel., 1903-11-07

| Z. II. Bacon, president of the
Exchange Bank at Lockport, ILL.,,
is under arrest charged with EN-
bezzlement.
Chamberlain calims his proposed
protective policy for England is
receiving the hearty support of
workingmen. r..
| A five-story tenement building at
426 Eleventh avenue, New York
City, was destroyed by fire on the
LIST inst. and several inmates per-
ished in the flames. r.
Senator German, in a speech
closing the Maryland campaign,
throws down the gauntlet to the
! opposition and makes the race ques-
ton the paramount issue.
Fifteen persons were killed and
over fifty injured, some fatally, by
a collision between passenger
train on the Big Four railroad and
a freight engine with cut of coal
cars at indianapolis, Ind. The pas
senger train of twelveJcoaches was
carrying 954 persons, nearly all of
whom were students of Purdue Uni
versity and their friends from La
fayette, to- Indianapolis for the an
knual football - at the ! latter
place as the engineer of the pas
senger train rounded a curve 60
| ing at the rate of twenty-five miles
an hour and was Mortified to see
slowly in front of him the
train of coal cars He reversed
his engine and jumped, but the
trains were so close together the
speed Of the passenger was not
|slackened until it crashed into the
freight. The first and second
coaches were completely demolished
and about sixty people were buried
in the debris.
For the second time Sam Parks
walking delegate in New York
City of the bridgemen's union, has
been convicted of receiving bribes
from contractors to prevent him
from ordering strikes on work where
there was time limit for compile
tion. Parks has served one sem
tence, and :. while the evidence
against him was most conclusive,
the strange fact remains that *sthe
rank and file of his local union are
loyal to him. Parks is a remarka-
bic man in many; respects. Since
he became prominent as a leader in
the bridgemen's union of New York
City the wages of this class of
workmen has beens increased 10 per
cent, for which, he. is given the
credit, and this is accounted the
reason Of his strength with the
men, Notwithstanding the question:
able methods he adopted to gain his
point - = 49,.
This years cotton crop is esti-
mated to be no larger, if it equals,
that of last year, which was TO-.
$4,000 bales, according to a spe-
cial report issued by Bradstreet's
The report, which is based on spe-
cial inquiries made by Bradstreet's
correspondents throughout the
south, says: ''To the main lead
ing question as to the probable yield
this year, as compared with last,
the unanimity of the opinion point
ing to yield below that of 1902 is
notable. Two states, Alabama and
Louisiana, report a probable in
crease in production. Texas shows
much diversity of opinion, the net
result being a crop about equal to
last year, while the other states re-
port decreases, most notable in
South Carolina, Mississippi and
Tennessee, with smaller reductions
in North Carolina, Georgia, Arkan-
sas and Florida.
A number of members of the
Texas provisional regiment which
took part in the recent
maneuvers at Fort Riley disgraced
themselves at Denison while en-
route home by filling up on mean
whisky and terrorizing the town
sagatet sagouni, president of the
Armenian revolutionary society in
England, was assassinated as he was
entering the door of his residence
in London. His murderer is not
known, .~s 3. |
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