The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1904-10-22
Ri TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AMI GENERAL

commander of the fortress had sum-
moned the inhabitants to surrender
firearms of all descriptions within a
| week.
The question of ammunition Is SAID
to be becoming a serious factor at FORT
| Arthur. The immense expenditure IN
volyed in repelling Japanese assauits
and driving them out of captured posi-
lions is rapidly reducing the supply,
while the close Japanese blockade Is
preventing its replenishment.
A west-bound train on the Balti-
more & Ohio railroad was partly de-
rallied at Garrett Park, Nd, on the
18th.
King George of SaXony oied at Pill
nitz on the 18th. His n was peace
full.
The state department at Washing
ton has been officially informed that
the Russian government has purchased
not less than six South American
cruisers, mostly from the Argentine
Republic.
1t developed, on the 14th, that a
pouch containing mail for the Unit
ed States cruiser Cincinnati, h e at
Nagasaki, Japan, which was aboard
the British steamer CalchaS, when
that vessel was seized by the Russian
V~ladivostok squadron, had been
opened while in the possession OF the
Russian officials, subsequently re-
sealed and sent on to its estimate
The conductor and engineer OF the
freight train which caused the wreck
at Warrensburg, Mo-, were formally
charged with m~anslaughter, on the
18th. by the prosecuting attorney OF
Johnson county.
The annual ~treaSurer's statement, l-
sued on the 14th, shows that the gov
ernment's revenues are decreasing,
while its expenses are increasing. \
deficit of SAL 7O,572 is shown for the
fiscal year. -.
Steel workers employed in the rail-
and sheet departments OF the ILLINOIS
Steel Co.'S plant at South Chicago
have been notified that when the pres
ent wage agreement expires, January
I next. it will not be renewed.
A sleeping car attached to a passen-
/ ger train plunged down a steep emf
bankment while running at full speed
lear West Fork, Ore, on the 18th, in
turing several persons.
It was reported, on the 10th, that DOB
, Jaime, son of the pIetender to the span
ish throne. was thrown from his horse
1 and IN iured at the Russian headquar-
Z, ters in Manchuria.
I Robin Terry, James MCGEE, Mon
Harding and Barry A. Gilbert, convicts
in the Michigan state penitentiary a.
, Jackson. escaped from that institution
+ on the 10th.
Miss Dora Meek, of Centralia, Ill.
. whose long sleep of six months puzzled
the medical world, died, on he 10Th
from an attack of measles.
f A passenger and freight train collld'
ed near Portland, Col, on the 18th, and
0 Is persons were injured.
S Seven buildings were destroyed by
n fire at Grand Cane, La, on the loth
g entailing a loss of about $1OO,O0o; IN
surance about $4,000.
Three schoonerS we're driven ashor'
and four men were drowned in q gal
which swept the Massachusetts, coas
on the 18th.
d A Mukden dispatch of the 10th sai'
that Sakhe was again in the n o
d the Russians. After the last eVacua
ton of the place by the Russians tn
Japanese failed in an attempt to re
occupy it, and it was held by Russial
: infantry.
J. Miss Helen Keller, the worlds mos
" famous blind aud deaf scholar, who
- the only living person honored by
i gpecial day at the Worlds fair, ar
rived in st. Louis on the morning o
g the 18th, accompanied by her teacher
% Miss Annie Sullivan. Helen kelle
~ day" was observed at the fair on tn
18th.
A Mukden dispatch of the 10th says
What fighting the Russians are no.
doing is as a matter of pride: Man
churia is forgotten. They feel the
l. they can not stop, that they must wi
n one battle"
A Toxic dispatch of the 10th says
'e There is a strong appeal for peace
N the appalling tragedy which is no.
y under enactment in Manchuria. Tn
If preliminary reports indicate ths
about 10000 men of both sides hav
been either killed or wounded, tn
larger portion of them being Russians
a. Even the Japanese, to whom the gres
IL victory is of paramount importance
a seem to be shocked by the slaughter {
% their enemies, and there are hear
n many expressions of opinion that n
W demonstration of any kind should /
held"
An incendiary fire, on the 18th. |
a big f1ve-story double-decker ten
ment house in New York city, In th
Williamsburg ghetto, caused the deaf
of five children and a woman, the fat;
:. injury of six little ones and the injuT
of six nor
In the fighting of the 18th, the Ru
SLAMS captured several Japanese ca
~ non which had been particularly tro1
- blesome.
The New York stock market score