The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1900-05-05
OTHERWISE UNNOTICED.

Arrangements for the Dewey recep-
ton at ST. Louis are about completed.
Saturday, May 5 dewey Day). has
been declared a holiday by the mayor
of St. Louis.
dropped dead at the breakfast table
at Carthage, Ill.
Mrs. Evelyn Frost Hope. daughter
of Gen. ID. X. Frost, of St. Louis, died
in southern France.
Theobald Goerber was adjudged in
sane in the county court at Waterloo.
III. He is a prominent farmer.
Mrs. Elizabeth Spots, aged rs, of
Audubon, ILL.,, dropped dead at Pana
while attending an aged sick sister.
Thomas A. Hayes, aged 10, died at
Harrisburg, Ill. lie was a soldier in
Co. +, Sixth Illinois cavalry, in the
civil war.
The flood news from Texas indicates
that the waters have reached the high
est stage likely to be registered during
the present overflow.
The Structural Iron Workers union
of st. Louis were granted their de-
mand for increased wages without pro-
test by the employers.
Maj.-Gen. Otis has issued an order
which will have the effect of stopping
evasions of the Chinese immigration
laws in the Philippines.
The verdict of the coroner's Jury ut
Granite City, ILL.,. found that Mrs. Will
lam Corrigan came to her death by
poison self-administered.
A German cruiser has been ordered
to Venezuelan waters. The purpose
announced is that the Germans in that
country require protection.
Mrs. Marian Schrader, wife of Ed
mund Schrader, of CARLYLE, ILL.,, died of
pneumonia, aged 81 years. She had
been a resident of the city for 80
years.
The Rock Island Railroad Co., has
notified the Western Passenger associ-
alton that it will take independent ac.
ton on giving special excursions this
summer.
Mrs. Margaret Frost was arrested In
New York, on 4 coroner's warrant,
charged with causing the death of her
husband. Charles Frost, by administer
ing poison to him.
A terrific explosion occurred in one
of the buildings of the Marsden eel
lulose works at Greensboro, Ky, Tues
day afternoon. Four employees were
seriously injured.
conference was held at Carnegie hall,
New York city, Tuesday night, there
being fully rs large an attendance as
ON the opening night.
The democracy of the eighteenth IL
linois congressional district, at I'd
wardsvillc, nominated Congressman
Thomas NJ. Jett, of Hillsboro, as a can
didatc to succeed himself.
A baltimore & Ohio freight train
, ran through the Okaw river bridge at
Cowden, III. Twelve cars of grain
ind merchandise fell 30 feet to the
river bed. Nobody was injured.
The North German Lloyd Steamship
20 has Just placed an order with the
Vulcan %Shipbuilding Co. OF Stettin.
for a new ocean dyer which shall
maintain an average speed of - knots.
Mrs. Caroline Shelton was granted
I divorce at Little Rock. Ark. from
Rev. Il. j. shelton, the former Chris
tian minister, or the grounds Of de-
s%ertion. Shelton is low residing in
Colorado.
James $. Law. aged %. son of
Thomas Law, postmaster at Lincoln,
Ia, in a fit OF insanity. dubbed his
mother over the head with Il gun bar
rel, injuring her so severely that she
can not live.
The United States transport Buford,
on which the remains of the wife of
Gen. Wilson will be borne north, ar
rived at Matanzas, Cuba. Tuesday
evening, when the body wa placed on
board with due ceremony.