The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1906-02-17
SHORT PARAGRAPHS OF NEWS
Prospects for peace at Algeciras arr
bright.


Prospects for peace at Algeciras arr
bright. <.
British parties show signs of splitting
up into small groups.
Missouri continues to demand reforms
in insurance companies.
States department continues alert
over the affairs in China.
Gen. Yin Tscharg says China will
hereafter stand for her rights.
Cortelyou will remain at the head OF
the Republican national committee.
Thomas w. Lawson talked with the
president at the White House in Wash
ington.
The governor of West Virginit charges
that the Pennsylvania railroad con-
trols the state.
The Hepburn rate bill is now before
the senate. 1t Is believed it will pass
without amendment.
Acknowledgement Moody denies that
Garfield gave testimony In the packers
case gained in confidence.
The Statist, leading financial weekly
of Great Britain, says only Roosevelt
can save the Moroccan situation.
Gov. Pattison of Ohio has signed the
twO-cent car fare bill. 1t will not go
into effect, however, till March 10.
Lawson continues to claim that he
has a majority Of the proxies of the
New York life and Mutual life insur-
anCe companies.
The English battleship Dreadnaught,
said to be the most powerful fighting
machine in the world, was launched at
Portsmouth, England.
New York life committee reports
Hamilton drew 81, 100, 900 from COM
pany, bulk of it on presidents o. X.
and no accounting required.
The Brazilian congress has voted
$40O, 900 for the reception and enter
tainment of the delegates to the Pam
American congress in Rio Janeiro next
spring.
A thief smashed a window of A. r.
MacMillan's jewelry store at Van
couver, B. c., and got away with a
tray containing $4,000 worth of dia-
mOnds.
Mrs. Ethel Beattie, daughter OF the
late Marshall Field. who is beneficiary
by her fathers will to the extent OF
Sc, 200, 900, a Y the amount is more
than sufficient"
Thomas Nolan, believing he had
killed Mrs. Jane Mccarthy at her homs
in Chicago, but who had only tainted
from fright, turned his pistol on him
self and shot himself dead.
The ninety-sixth anniversary Of the
birth of Abraham Lincoln was cele-
brated by banquets in many cities OF
the country, followed by timely and
appropriate speech making.
The London Statist calls upon PreS-
dent Roosevelt to step into the breach.
save the situation at Algeciras, which,
it fears, is otherwise fOredoomed to
failure.
Despite the pessimistic assertions to
the contrary. il is said that the desire
on the part of the delegates to the Mo-
roccan conference at Algeciras to ar
rive at a satisfactory conclusion re-
mains unchanged.
The imperial government at Pekin,
China, has ordered the vicerOy OF Foo
Chow to execute, Immediately, the
leader of the Changhpu mob and to
punish severely the others concerned
in the wreck of the mission stations.
Senator La Toilette has been invited
by Thomas w. Lawson to become a
member of the committee to which the
latter intends to turn over the proxies
Of the policy holders in the Mutual life
and New York life insurance compa-
MES.
Senator Fred II. Dubois. Of Idaho.
speaking at the annual banquet OF the
SangamOn club in Springfield, ILL.,. In
honor of the natal day Of Abraham
Lincoln, declared that while Lincoln.
with one stroke Of the pen wiped out
slavery, polygamy, the greatest menace
to American civilization, still exists.
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