The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1904-09-17
CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AMI GENERAL.

kurokl, had been Killed, n another
at Tien Tsin, that Gen. Kuropatkil
had been wounded at Lao Yang. Bot
rumors lacked confirmation.
On the 18th the departure of TIL
Russian Baltic fleet for the far cas-
was officially announced.
On the 10th nine head of horses were
killed by the sheriff at Gilmore, Mo
They were afflicted with CHAMBERS.
The armed Russian transport Lena
Capt. Berlinsky, put into San Fran
cisco, on the 18th, for repairs. The
Lena is 81 days from V~ladivostok.
An order by President Roosevelt for
bids heads of departments and bureaus
in Washington to disclose their esti-
mates of expenses for the coming year
Frank Wiser, a night Waterman al
Sydney, Neb., was murdered, on the
18th, presumably by tramps.
On the 18th, $50 electrical engineers
from Europe went to Springfield, H.,
20 visit the tomb of Abraham Lincoln.
At the tomb they were met by Gov.
Yates. who delivered an appropriate
address.
Striking Chicago packing house
transfers voted to return to work on
the 18th.
Henry Peterson, a tobacco dealer Of
Chicago, was murdered, on the 18th,
by one of two men who entered his
place with the intention Of robbing
hin He refused to open his money
drawer, and one Of the men shot him.
The men then robbct the place Of
shout 500.
Fred StTube, who killed his sweet
heart at Havana, H., last summer,
waved a trial by Jury. on the 18th, and
a scuteIced tc Imprisonment for
life.
Ten cars and an engine went through
:bc Iron Mountain bridge over the
Ouechita river at A%rkadelphia, Ark,
on the 1Ith. No one was hurt.
Three b~ullighters were acquitted of
hating and fighting bulls by a jury in
tho Clayton (Nc.,> circuit court on the
lzth.
Fire, on the 18th, destroyed the bust
ness section of Dyer. Tenn, entailing a
lo23 of $4,000; insurance. $4,000.
Application for a theater license, to
conduct a music hall in the .ill-fated
~TroQuois theater, was made in Chicago,
On the 18th. and has been taken under
aGvisemtn:.
Robbers blew open the safe of the
bank of Palmyra. Neb., on the 18th,
AMI escaped Without aIousing the peo-
Lle CT the town.
President RCosevelt's formal letter
Of acceptance of the republican presi-
iential nomination was made public
IN the 18th. The letter gives the
presidents definition of the political
issues of the campaign.
Rear-Admiral Joseph B. Coghlan, U.
5. navy, is visiting relatives at ST.
Louis and vicinity and, incidentally,
putting in some time viewing the
wonders of the Worlds fair.
The car has called to arms the re-
serve troops in % circuits Of the gov
ernments of Khcrson, Bessarabia
Ekaterenotia and Tanrida, belonging
% the military district of odessa. and
also n category of reserve officers
the e. npire.
The total amount OF the obligations
If w. H. H~arroun. of st. Joseph, Mo-,
represented by forged paper,
will reach, 1t is thought, fully 81, 000,1
100.
The attendance at tie Worlds fair
or the week ended the 10th, was 874,-
making the attendance to date g.
94, $50.
Fred Strube, who murdered his
'weetheart, Alice Henninger, near
1~avara, Ill.,, in November last, was
'laced on trial at Pekin, Ill, on the
9th, and, by consent, withdrew his
lea Of not guilty and threw himself
n the mercy of the court. AS had
cen arranged, he was sentenced to i'm
'risonment fer life,
A Paris dispatch CT the 12th says
let Rear-Admiral Prince -Ouktoansky,
returned to Port Arthur In dis
'ledience to orders, after the sortie OF
~OEs0|O ANt VIII CICQ NY OOul -LAtd Ildl
sentenced to be SHOT, which SEN
elce has been executed.
Capt. Ira Keithley, former command.
Mt Of the Philippine eenstabulary at
he Worlds fair, who has been missing
ince August 20. is alleged to be an
mbezzler of government funds to the
mount of several Thousand dollars, ia
rusted to him to settle current ex-
.enses of the co~nstabulary. A fed
raj warrant for his arreat has been
;sued.
The Japanese consul at San Fran
on the 18th, lodged a formal pro-
est against allowing the Russian
r;ned transport Lena to remain in
ort longer than "a hours. The mat 7,
n was referred TO the authorities at
Washington. Rear-Admiral Goodrich ,
/ command of the Pacific station, was
lstructed to ascertain the intentions ],
thu Lena's commander. I,