The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1904-08-06
CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AMI GENERAL.

a general attack on Port Arthur was
in progress.
The London Times correspondent
at Toxic renews the assertion that tbs
Russian army in Manchuria is using
dum-dIm bullets.
Gov. Dockery OF Missouri, on the
goth, issued a proclamation offering
reward of 5000 each for the unidenti-
fed murderers OF William Coll, in
Lawrence county, June 25.
After a week of mental anguish,
during which he continually wept and
prayed, Frank Benedict, of Chicago,
who murdered his wife during a fit of
jealousy, committed suicide in his cell
in the county Jail, On the 31st, by hang
ing himself.
Twenty-three persons were hurt as
the result of a rear-end collision, on the
31st, between two large trolley cars on
the shore line of the Cleveland East
ern & gainesville railroad near Not
tingham, O..
The three plants Of the International
Harvester Co, at Chicago, closed
down. on the 1st, for an indefinite pc
Rod, and $4,000 wOrkmen are thrown
out of employment.
The State bank at White Pigeon,
Mich, capitalized at $251,0 00, and one
of the oldest financial institutions in
the southern part OF the state, has
closed its doors.
Fire, on the 31st, destroyed the es-
Enlistment of the Shilbest Mercantile
Co. at San Francisco. Loss, SIPS, 900.
The American Federation of Labor
has promised to support the Fail River
Mass.) strikers.
AS the result OF a cloudburst the
towns of Douglass and Silver Star,
Sodaville, New, are reported to
have been swept away. A food in
waves four or five feet deep swept
away houses and great property dam
age was wrought.
The packing house strikers, at Chi
have issued a statement in which
they give the cost of killing stock at
the yards and man. details of the
work there, showing by their figures
that the packers are able 10 pay much
wages than demanded.
Ex-GOv. Robert z. Pattison was
reported lying at the pOint of death at
his home in Overlook, a suburb Of
Philadelphia, on the LIST. He vas being
kept alive by the use Of oxygen.
A dispatch to the Morning Post from
on the 1st, said it is re-
ported that eight Russian torpedo
boat destrCyers had escaped from Port
Arthur, end it was feared that they
would prey on shipping.
Dispatches from Mukden, of the 1st,
that Gen. Kuropatkin's army is
hemmed il by tho Japanese armies Of
Generals Kuroki, Nodzu and Oku, who
are pressing him SO closely that his
is imminent. His position near
Hal Cheng is no longer tenable.
The japanese are reported to have
occupied every position surrounding
he besieged fortress of Port Arthur
the exception of Golden hill. Both
sides are said to have suffered tre-
nendOus losses in the operation neces-
10 bring about this state Of af-
airs.
The Michigan Central elevator at To-
edo, o., operated by the Paddock
Hodge company, was totally destroyed
~ fire, on the LIST, at a loss of $500, 900.
The insurance amounted to $3.50, 600.
The building contained 10000 bushels
# corn and $4,000 bushels of oats.
Four men, two Of them masked, held
p the Diamond Special of the Illinois
for st. Louis, near Matesan,
H., on the 1st, and after getting sew
raj thousand dollars from the passen-
ers, stopped the train, jumped off and
Joseph Letters coal company has OBJ
aimed a temporary injunction from
Judge Humphrey, prohibiting union
miners from entering upon the proper
y at Zeigler, Ill, or interfering in any
Tay with the employees.
The cotton mills of the Scott Manu-
acturing Co. at Lowell, Mass, were
nut down, on the 1st, for one month,
hrowing out 1,640 operatives. The sdls-
ension of work Is due to the dull
GODS market.
A score of persons were injured, two
f them fatally, in a bead-on collision,
n the LIST, between two trolley cars
the Boston G Worcester street
three miles from Westboro,
lass.
Edgar G. Bailey, the nnion hack
of Kansas City, Mo-, convicted
{ the murder of Albert Ferguson, a
trike breaker, was sentenced to be
anged September II.
The trial of Charles Kratz, Of st.
ouis, indicted for boodling, has been
ostponed until September 26.
According to advices received on the
st a general engagement had been in
between the japanese and the
.ussians In the vicinity OF Hal Cheng.
he Japanese were attacking from
iree directions with forces command
/ by Generals Kuroki, Oku and Nod.
4. The Russians apparently were in
bad plight, but lighting desperately.