The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1904-06-11

George M. Philips, who won renown
as engineer on the collier Merrimac,
sunk by Hobson at the mouth of jan
tiago harbor, died, on the 9Th, at his
home in Cambridge, Mass.
Families who propose to cast their
lot on the Rosebud reservation, which
will 10 be opened to settlement by
the government, are going to Bonesteel,
s. d., at the rate of so a day.
Friends of Senator Joseph Bailey.
of Texas, state that he has been Sc
lected by the democratic national COM
mittee to act as temporary chairman
of the st. Louis convention.
Patrick J. King, alleged head of the
policy ring in Chicago. has been In
dicted for violation of the lottery
laws. Indictments were voted also
against a dozen other alleged promi-
nent gamblers.
Douglas NJ. Smith, paying teller In
the National Tradesmen's bank, or
New Haven, Conn, was arrested, on
the I'd, charged with being a defaulter.
He is said to have confessed a short
age of between 500, 900 and $4,000.
Postmaster-General Payne, as acting
chairman of the republican national
committee, has appointed United States
Senator Boies Penrose as the Pennsyl-
vania member of the national commit
tee to succeed the late Senator Quay.
Frank A. Rantze was, on the Sd, APP
pointed agent at the Usage Indian
agency in Oklahoma. He is a resident
of Enid, Okla, and was captain OF a
company of rough riders during the
Spanish war. His selection was made
by the president.
Ninety-three Englishmen, who are
to make a five weeks tour of the
United States and Canada, including
visits to st. Louis, Buffalo, Niagara
Falls, Washington and other places of
interest, arrived in New York, on the
9Th, on the Celtic.
Potatoes are selling at the highest
prices on record in New York, and
housekeepers are told there is no i'm
mediate prospect that they will be
cheaper. New potatoes are selling on
the dock for $6.25 a barrel, so cents
above any previous record.
Liberty bell reached Milwaukee on
a special train over the Chicago, Mil
yankee & st. Paul railway on schedule
time, on the 5th, and was viewed dur
ing its stay of about two and one-half
hours by several thousand persons, in
Guiding a large number of school chill
dren. There was no formal programme.
A Toxic dispatch TO the Giornale
DItalia says that the Japanese have
occupied the first line of the outer for
tificatiGns of Port Arthur after a fee
BILE resistance. The same correspon-
dent adds that the Russian squadron
attempted a sortie, but was forced to
return. being threatened by the Japan
csc fleet.
Instead Of nine dead, as first report
ed, il is now known that IA men lost
their lives in the fire and explosion
at the Coming distillery at Peoria, H.,
on the 18th. Eight more bodies have
Teen removed from the ruins, four of
whom were identified. Over 1900 head
of cattle and 5000 barrels of whisky
were lost.
While trying to escape. John ".
Manning, a prisoner at the United
States barracks at Columbus, O., was
shot and instantly killed, on the I'd,
by Private SDeck. n of the sentries
at the garrison. Manning was held,
awaiting trial for desertion, having en-.
listed f%rauGulently three times and de-
serted twice.
j. E. MARCEL, whose fOrgeries of
$500, 900 wrecked the Highland bank,
at Highland, Kas, has been sentenced
to 80 years in prison, five years on
each of the seven counts and began
serving time in the penitentiary on the
9th. He was placed as an apprentice
under Emmett Dalton, the former out
law and bank robber.
Nine persons are reported to have
been killed and many injured in a col
lision Of passenger trains on the Mis-
souri, Pacific railroad near Martin City,
Is miles south of Kansas City, Mo. The
trains, which met head-on, were the
west-bOund Colorado limited No. 1,
and the ea~st-bound Hoisingon (Kas.)
accommodation No. So.
The department of agriculture al
Washington has been advised that DR..
Cook, who has discovered in Guata.
mala an ant that is a fierce enemy of
the boil weevil, has started by the
overland route for the cotton fields,
carrying colonies of ants, with which
experiments will be made in the
weevil-ravaged sections.
1t is stated at Lisbon, Portugal, that
the United States cruisers Baltimore.
Olympia and Cleveland will not come