The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1901-12-07
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

Five persons, a mother and her four
children, were burned to death at
Gwayn station, on the WopsonoCr Creek
railway. three miles north of Altoona,
Pa, on the night of the 30th. The
husband escaped with severe in iuries.
When the mother awakenedandfound
the house on fire. She aroused her
husband. who attempted to eXtin-
guish the flames and then wen to
call neighbors. When he returned his
wife and children had been burned
TO death.
Capt. II. D. Mayo, who left Chicago,
on the 30th, in his l%ife-saving device,
arrived safely at Grand Haven, Mich,
on the list. The voyage was made
without accident, although n strong
sea was encountered.
Three desperadoes gave a display Of
wild west tactics at Alliance, o., on
the LIST. They entered two houses,
held up the inmates, held up seven
persons OF the street and finally
stole a horse and buggy, with which
they made their escape.
James Tate, an engineer, was killed
by the bursting of a fly-wheel at the
plant of the Central Paper Co. in
Muskegon, Mich, ON the LIST. The
building was damaged $4,000, and $50
men will be thrown out of employ
ment for some time.
Fire, which started at $3.50 o'clock
on the night of the LIST, in the local
supply house Of the Creamery Pack
age Manufacturing Co., in Omaha,
Neb.. resulted in the serious injury of
three firemen and a loss of S75 200.
After months of ill-health, and
with no prospect Of immediate re
covery, Mrs. Lola Manion, of st.
Louis, "a years old, locked herself in
her bedroom, in Chicago, on the
night of the LIST, and sent a bullet
through her heart. She was dead
when her husband reached her side.
Gridiron casualties were up to the
standard during the season just
closed, both in respect to frequency
and grewsomeness. From figures now
at hand, it is known that seven foot
ballists were killed and more than
seventy were injured.
The jury in the Ferguson poisoning
case, at Jacksonville, ILL.,, returned
a verdict, finding the defendant
guilty, and fixing his punishment at
20 years Imprisonment. Ferguson
expected a longer term, or possibly
death.
Senator Penrose and Representa-
tive Wanger, of Pennsylvania, will in.
troduce bills for the acquisition OF
Valley Forge, and its incorporation
into a national park as a memorial
of II of the most historic places OF
revolutionary days.
The post office department has re
fected the wish of President Roose
welt in letting it be known that nj
more postmasters will be appointed
or reappointed who do not devote
their entire attention to their duties
The Constantinople correspondent
of the Vienna Neue Freie presse tele-
2raphed, on the LIST, that the bodies
of Miss Stone and Nine. Tsilka hac
been found near Dubnitza, Bulgaria.
% miles from Sofia. They are said
to have been dead a month.
Wheat shipments from Kansas, Ne
braska, Minnesota, Texas and Cali.
fornia are pouring into Mexico at
the rate of more than 200, 900 bushel,
per day, according to the statement
of a traffic official of the Southern
Pacific.
A dispatch to the London Morning
Post from Brussels says it is rumored
there that negotiations are about to
be opened between the belligerents IN
South Africa for either peace or an
armisticc.
The secretary of the interior, on
the I'd, sent TO the house of repre-
sentatives a copy of the resolution
of the Legislature of Hawaii, asking
a duty on coffee, in order to protect
the coffee industry of the islands.
1t is estimated by officials of the
house of representatives that over
three thousand bills were introduced
in that body, on the 2d-the opening
day of the session-before the hour
of noon.
Edward John Eyre, who was gov
ernor of Jamaica and it's Dependent:
cies. 1s62-18GG and who put down the
mntiny of the negroes there, died in
LONDON on the I'd. lie was born in
1915.