The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1904-11-26
CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

Dram Gas Co.
Fire in the Arcade department store
and the Decatur hotel at Decatur, Ill,
on the 18th, caused a total loss OF
1925. 900, nearly all covered by insur-
ance.
The pressing mills of the Hamilton
Powder Co. at Windsor Mills, Que,
we're blown up on the 18th. Joseph
Willy and George Hebert were blown
to pieces. The explosion was felt at
%Sherbrooke, IS miles away.
President w. w. Leighton of the
Lima Savings Bank & Trust Co. of
Lima, O., was, on the 18th, held to an
swer, before the grand jury, for en-
bezzlement, under bond of $4,000.
John A. Fagg, the former clerk in
the registry division of the post office
at the Union depot, in Kansas City,
Mo-, found guilty of stealing a package
containing $4,000, was, on the 18TH,
sentenced to four years at hard labor
in the Missouri ~penitentiary.
Secretary of the Treasury Shaw, on
the 18th, issued a call On depository
banks to turn in 10 and Is per cent. of
their deposits, n return to be made
in January, the other in March.
Nine OF the cot.,n manufacturing
plants at Fall River, Mass, which
started up November IA, in an attempt
to break the big strike, were shut
down again on the 18th.
Fire, on the 18th, destroyed the
building and contents of the Loretto
academy, located at Laaro, Ill.
A dispatch from Constantinople, on
the 18th, says that negotiations have
been resumed for raising the American
legation at that place to the rank of
an embassy.
The coal steamer. Philip Minch, on
it's way from Fairport to Saudusky, O.,
was burned to the waters edge about
eight miles east of M~arblehead, o., on
the 10Th. The crew of II men was
forced to abandon the burning boat
while several miles out in the lake.
Smothered before they could reach
the rear fire escape in a burning tene-
ment building at 1856 TrOutmon street,
in the Williamsburg district of Brook
Ign, n. Y, on the goth, II persons met
their death.
The Prince line steamship Sicilian
Prince, from Genoa and Naples, went
| aground, on the goth, on the Long ISL
and shore, off the New York coast.
Masked bandits robbed a circus pay
wagon at Tarboro, N. c., on the 18th,
escaping with $4,000 in booty.
President Roosevelt, on the 10Th, Of
fered Senator Cockrell, of Missouri,
the Isthmian canal commissiOnership,
made vacant by the resignation of Col.
Hecker, of Michigan, and also told
him that if he feels hat his health
will not permit him to take this place,
he desires to offer him a position on
the interstate commerce commission.
A crisis is thought to be approach
ing in Russian affairs. At a meeting
of the zemstovs in st. Petersburg, on
the 10th, an elaborate memorial to the
ear was adopted, demanding repre-
| sentation in the government. A zemst-
vos' banquet has been arranged for
December 4.
A st. Petersburg dispatch of the
| goth says there is every indication that
Field Marshal Oyama is gradually de-
veloping a big movement with the OBJ
ject of occupying Mukden.
A report received in Toxic from of
fetal quarters states that in conse-
quence of the blowing up Of the Sung
Shu fort at Port Arthur last week, the
Japanese occupation of the outer de-
lenses became complete.
The beautiful Missouri pavilion at
the Worlds fair, the finest of the state
buildings, was destroyed by fire on the
night of the 10th, and for a time the
United States government building was
in great peril from the showers Of
burning embers and sparks carried to
it's roof by the southeast wind. A
strong force of troops was stationed
on the roof, however, and by constant
use of the hose prevented a second
conhagration. Nearly all of the On
tents of the first floor of the Missouri
building were saved.
The Japanese consul at Che Foo has
declared that henceforth Che Foo will
be considered by Japan as within the
zone of war, in consequence of the fact
that China has allowed Russia to usa
the port in violation of the rules Of
neutrality.
Former Judge Alton B. Parker, re-
Gently candidate for president on the
democratic ticket, and Mrs. Parker
will spend the winter in New York
city at the Hotel Netherlands. He has
engaged the suite formerly occupied by
he late Marcus DAILY.
The Russian consul at Che Foo has
'eceived from Port Arthur a letter de-
cribing the use by the Japanese OF a
ocular missile, which looks like a
ong sausage. The Japanese throw ii
into the trenches End it bursts, giving
off an odor so foul that if it is not
thrown out of the trenches immediate
Y the soldiers faint.
Fire which broke out at 1920 o'clock
on the night of the goth, at Asheville,
N. c., wrought damage .totaling be-
tween STE, 900 and 100000, and the
losses, it was thought, would be futher
increased before the flames we're