The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1904-09-24
TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

temptation IN the way or natlOnS near
or home.
Field Marshal Oyama has received
positive instructions from Toxic to re-
sumo the offensive as Don as his
Gen. Kuropatkin before the winter be-
gins.
The Russian government has given
its answer to the United States and
Great Britain on the question of con-
traband Of war. While maintaining a
cally, to all the demands of the two
powers.
A fireman at Kansas City, Mo-, while
giving an exhibition before members
of the Interparliamentary union, on
the 18th, fell from a tower and was
killed.
The Japanese are again turning their
attention to Port Arthur, while the
army at Lao Yang recGperates and
prepares for the advance toward Muk-
den.
A number of lives were lost, much
property damaged, and several ships
we're wrecked in the storm which raw
aged the Atlantic coast on The 18th.
The entire plant of the Sawyer &
Austin Lumber Co., at Pine Bluff, Ark,
was destroyed by fire on the 18th. The
loss is estimated at over 100000.
Citizens of Warsaw, O., on the 18th,
shot and MORALLY wounded a burglar
while he was at work, preparing to
blow the safe of the local bank.
w. H. HarrOun, the st. Joseph (Mo.)
elevator man, accused of forgery, sur
rendered himself, on the 18th, to the
authorities.
All the Canadian Pacific boiler maxi
ers went on a strike On the 18th. All
the company's west lines are said to be
affected.
Naval officers at Esquimalt, B. c.,
deny that the Russian cruiser Korea
was sighted, a few days ago, near the
north end Of Vancouver island, and
have no reason for believing that the
vessel or any other Russian ship will
enter those waters.
Orders have been issued for final
trial of the protected cruiser Denver in
Hampton Roads on September 26. The
Denver is attacked TO the Caribbean
squadron. and has been cruising in the
West Indies.
Two men, believed to be members of
the cans of train bandits who held up
the Rock Island express, near Des
Moines, Ia, recently, were arrested be-
tween Brighton and Wayland, Ia, on
the 18th.
The Russian auxiliary cruiser Lena
was taken under United States escort
to Mare island naval station, on the
18th, where she will be disarmed.
Almost 500 former strikers were
hired, on the 10Th, to take their old
places at the Union stock yards in
Chicago.
Rev. Albert Reinhart, aged So, pas
tor of Holy Trinity church at Somer-
set, o., and editor of the Rosary, a
church magazine, published by the
Dominican order, was stricken with
paralysis, on the 18th, just as he had
finished mass, and was still at the al
tar.
During the mOmentary absence of
Cashier c.. H. Miller, an unknown
thief entered the Rock Island freight
office at Atlantic, Ia, on the 18th, and
made off with $1,545 from the cash
drawer.
Mr.. Ernest G. Hartwig, cashier of
the First national bank Of Buchanan
county, Mo, was probably fatally hurt
in a runaway on the 18th.
Prince Herbert Bismarck of Ger
many died, on the 18th, at Friedrichs-
ruhe. The end was painless.
During the week ended The 18th the
attendance at the Worlds fair, in ST..
Louis, aggregated 1,027,918. The total
admissions from the opening Of the
exposition to date was II ,022, sos.
Mary T. Thatcher, wife of George
Thatcher, the old-time minstrel, CON-
mitted suicide by a~sphyxiation, in a
New York hotel on the 18th. Thatcher,
who was playing in George AIDES
County Chairman" at Kansas City,
Nc, was notified and left for the east
on the first train.
The Western Supply Co, Is West
Randolph street, Chicago, one Of the
largest farm implement jObbing firms
in the middle west, was, on the 18th,
placed in the hands of a receiver by
Judge Kohlsaat, in the United States
court.
Henry Guitar, a half-breed Omaha
Indian. is under arrest at Decatur,
Neb., charged with the murder, on The
18th, Of his father, Stephen Guitar.
The killing is said to have resulted
from a quarrel ove a bottle of liquor.
The Atlantic express on the Union
Pacific railway was wrecked six miles
west of Junction City, Kas., on the
18th, and a score or more persons in
jured, six of them seriously, as a result
Of spreading of the rails.
The work of dismantling the Lena
commenced at the Mare island navy
yard. on the 18th, under the direction
Of Gunner Shuttleworth.
Sever persons were injured, one OF
them fatally, IN a street car accident
on the 10th, at st. Joseph, Mo.
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