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BUCHANAN, Editor and Preprieter. GRENADA. : MISSISSIPPL On the 6th, the United States recogmized the new republic of Panama as a de facto government. John Alexander Dowie called at the executive office in the White House, on the 9th, and was received by President Loosevelt. It was officially admitted, on the 9th, that German cruisers had been ordered to San Domingo, in compliance with the request of the German consul there. Lord Rowton, the famous philanthrothe of which pist London, and founder of provide Rowton respectable Houses lodgings for the poor, died on the 9th. Col. C. M. Watson, C. B., C. H. G., the commissioner Louis World's for fair, Great sailed Britain from at St. Boston for Liverpool, on the 7th, on the Ivernia. On the 8th the navy department issued orders to the gunboats Newport and Savannah to coal and proceed at full speed to San Domingo. The action followed advices of the serious condition of affairs there. Gov. Yates of Illinois, on the 7th, honored a requisition from the governor of Kansas for the extradition of Bert March, under arrest in Chicago and wanted in Atchison, Kas., on a cnarge of grand larceny. President Roosevelt, on the 6th, received the members of the executive Women's Foreign of board the of Methodist the Episcopal church, Society annual which had just concluded its convention in Baltimore, Md. The president, on the 9th, pardoned J. convicted in R. Milby; defraud, Kentucky and of using the mails to senOctober 22, 1901, to imprison15 months in ment tenced for on the United States penitentiary at Atlanta, Ga. Minister Powell cabled the state department at Washington, D. C., on the 6th, that the insurgent army was marching on the city of San Domingo. He asked that an American man-ofwar be sent there. The Baltimore was sent. Frank W. Tracey, president of the First national bank of Springfield, Ill., and a member of the committee on uniform laws of the Bankers' association, died at his home in that city, on the 8th, of a complication of diseases, aged 69 years. E. P. Broughton, formerly general superintendent of the Chicago & Eastern Illinois railroad, fell dead in the cafe of the Alta Vista hotel, in Colorado Springs, Col., on the 7th. Heart disease was the cause of death. He was 60 years of age. As showing the depth of the resentment over the success of the United States in the Alaskan boundary matter, during the performance of a minat Vancouver, on music of the strel 6th, the troupe American B. C., anthem the was vigorously hissed. Sutter Bros., leaf tobacco merchants, in St. Louis and on York, voluntary with establishments bankruptcy, Chicago, Havana, the went 9th. New into The Title & Trust was The were Chicago ed receiver. liabilities Co. appoint- placed that at $1,500,000, with assets exceeding figure by $1,000,000. President Roosevelt was asked, on the 5th, to forbid the United States Marine band to accept engagements to for The was President Miller, of by play pay. request the National made Federation of musicians. The president indicated his willingness to consider the question if presented to him in writing. Rev. Ezekiel Light, aged 70 years, who for nine years was German Prottestant chaplain at the Soldiers' home, at and who was Dayton, O., beginning of hostilities prominent before the in the civil war as the preacher who left his to assist espulpit died the at slaves Dayton, to O., cape to the north, on the 6th. The funeral of Mrs. Elizabeth C. Henwidow of the dent was dricks, Hendricks, held late Vice-Presi- in Indianapolis, Ind., on the 5th. Mrs. Hendricks left an estate of several hundred thousand dollars. Among the beautiful oral offerings was a large bunch of American Beauty roses from ex-President Cleveland. On the 7th, President Roosevelt entertained at luncheon John A. Sleicher,