The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1904-10-01
CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.


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one of the most famous in the world,
sailed. on the 21st. on the steamer Pre-
toria for New York. 1t will play for
some time at the St. Louis Worlds
fair.
The war department has asked as
sistance of the department of justice
in trying to secure the arrest OF Capt.
Ira Keithley, Philippine co~nstabulary,
who has disappeared from the Philip
pine exhibit in st. Louis, leaving a re-
ported shortage of $4,000.
Patrolman Patrick NJ. Whalen, of st.
Louis, who, with the rest of the police
force, pays no fare when he rides on
a street car, was fined $40 and eau
toned by the police board, for failing
70 obev the order of Sergt. Con Nee
han, who was on the same car, to get
I'D and give a lady the seat he was
holding down.
The national populist committee an
nounces that it will have presidential
electors for Watson and Tibbles in
every state in the Union with the pos
sible exception Of two.
Rumor from the seat of war in the
far east says that it is the intention OF
the Japanese to winter at Mukden, If
they can take the town, and then hold
on until an accumulation of Russian
| forces on their front compels them to
| retire to the Lao Tung peninsula and
| Korea. the retreat in this direction
| drawing Gen. Kuropatkin after them.
The Japanese have become SO pro-
| icient in the organization of their out
posts that the disposition of their main
| forces is an impenetrable puzzle, the
| solution of which will only be mani
fest when the armies move for action.
The Chicago wheat pit was thrown
into a whirl of excitement in the fina
hour of trading, on the 23d, by the re-
port that the French government was
about to remove the import duty on
grain.
The impression is gaining ground in
st. Petersburg that Gen. Kuropatkln
may, after all, not seriously contest
the Japanese advance and that the
long-expected battle at Mukden may
turn out to be merely a rear-guard
action on a large scale.
The death list, as a result of the
| fearful wreck on the Southern railroad
near New Market, Tenn, on the Gath.
is known to be 62, and is will probably
exceed seventy.
Mrs. L. 2. Letter arrived in New
York, on the oath, just in time to catch
a steamer for England, where her
daughter, Lady Curzon of Kedleston,
Is dangerously i'll.
The formal letter of Judge Alton B.
Parker, accepting the democratic NOM
nation for president, was delivered to
the notification committee on the 26th.
Half the business section of Menla,
Ia, was wiped out by fire on the Gath.
Six persons were badly injured in a
wreck near Lyons, n. Y, on the 25th,
and one of them, the wife of a vice
president of the Pere Marquette rail-
road, is dead from her injuries.
The eruption of Mount Vesuvius
continues to increase in force, and is
now said to be more violent that at any
time since 1872.
In a desperate attempt of four Atchi-
son (Kas.) prisoners to break jail, on
the 25th, Walter Scott, n of them,
was killed.
Louis Fleischmann, the millionaire
baker and phiianthropist, died in New
York on the 25th.
The czar has ordered the organiza-
ton of a second army for Manchuria,
the command of which will be in the
hands of Gen. Grippenberg, a Crimean
war veteran. In his rescript the car
recognizes the warlike qualities dis
played by the Japanese.
A report via London, on the morn
ing of the Goth, said that it was ru-
mored that the Russian Port Arthur
squadron had made a sorite, and that
a big sea fight was in progress.
BY the capture of Fort Kuropatkin
the Japanese have gained control OF
the water supply of Port Arthur.
A statement, published on the 25th,
that Gen. David B. Henderson, ex-
speaker of the national house Of repre-
sentatives, was breaking down, both
mentally and physically, is denounced
by Mrs. Henderson as entirely without
foundation in fact.
Nine thousand men returned to work,
On the 10th, without union regulations
of any sort, when the three Chicago
branches of the International harvester
works and the Pullman company re-
opened their shops after a shutdown OF
two weeks.
The Union iron works at San Fran
cisco, one Of the properties of the for
mer United States ~shipbuilding cor
poration, was sold at public auction
on the Goth, by order of the federal
court Of the district of New Jersey.
The remains of Rudolph Schrader
aged 10 years, a sailor on board the
United States battleship Massachusetts,
who was drowned Aus-.@ 81 in Chesa,
peake bay, were buried, on the 25th
in ST. Louis, with naval honors.
Porto Rico's 1907 public schools
opened, on the 18th, with 60, 900 pupils
enrolled. In the first school year dur
ing American ~oecunation there war,