The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1902-04-19
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

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wild Tom" the famous Hereford
bull, winner of prizes at innumera-
BILE cattle shows, known all over the
United States and England, and for
which c. S. Cross, of Emporia, Kas.,
refused $4,000. died on the 18th.
The British admiralty court, on the
18th, awarded the owners of the
British steamer William Cliff C II, 600
for ~salvaging the Cunard line steam
err Etruria.
All except the best of the horses be-
longing to the American cavalry regi-
ments in Cuba, are being sold at auc-
ton at Havana.
Louis Levin, a well-known merchant,
was found dead in bed at st. Joseph,
Mo-. on the 18th, by his ten-year-old
son who had slept with his parent
all night, but arose in the morning and
did not discover his fathers death UNI
til about noon Physicians say that
Levin succumbed to an attack of apo
plexy some time during the night.
Rev. Thomas ]. Sheppard, for many
years president Of the Kansas state
conference of the Methodist Protest
ant church, died at his home in Kan
sas City, No., on the 18th, at the age
of 81 years.
The United States cruiser Brook
lyn arrived at Gibraltar, on the 18th,
and TOOK on coal.
George c. Charlotte, of Helena. Ark.
died on an east-bound train between
Truckee and Reno. New, on the 18th.
Charlotte vas on his way home from
Australia.
Rev. DR.. T. Dewitt Talmage died at
his residence, in Washington, on the
night of the 12th. He passed away
quietly, having been unconscious for
"a our The immediate cause of
death was Inflammation of the brain.
DR.. Talmage was 6s years of age.
In the presence of thousands of
people who assembled to pay their
last tribute of love and respect the
body of Gen. Wade Hampton was
buried in the old family lot in Trinity
churchyard, Columbia, S. c., on the
18th.
President Roosevelt, on the 18th,
signed the bill repeating the war rev.
enue taxes. The pen with which the
bill was signed was presented to Rep
resentative Bartholdt, of Missouri.
who presented the measure in con-
gress.
Mrs. Martha j.. Calhoun, aged rs.
and her daughter, Mrs. Vaughn, aged
46, were shot and killed, on the 18th,
two miles east of Mantua Station. O.
WIZ vaughn, a stepson of the young
er woman, is charged with the crime.
The ancient cathedral of Cuenca
Tower, Madrid, collapsed, after high
mass, on the 18th, while crowded
with hundreds of worshippers. A
large number were buried in the
ruins and many others injured.
A Kansas City dispatch, of the 18th,
said that the attorney general of the
United States bad tclegraphed in
structions to Maj. Warner, the federal
district attorney, to at once prepare
to dissolve the Beef trust and to in
dict the members of it.
Santos-Dumont, the airship man. |
and his friend, NJ. Anne, were the
guests of Thomas A. Edison, on the
18th, in New Jersey. They inspected
the works and Mr.. Edison's laboru-
tory, the wizard" of the air being
greatly impressed by the contrivances
and remarks of the wizard of the
wire.
In a fight between officers and des-
peradoes, near Braggs, |. T., on the
four men are reported killed and
seven wounded, among them a noted
outlaw. 1t was impossible to reach
Braggs by telephone or telegraph.
and details were lacking.
The conference report on the post
office appropriation bill was adopted
by the house, on the 18th, after some
OF the pneumatic tube pro.
vision.