The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1902-02-22
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

Seven men were killed and at least
fourteen were seriously injured, on
the 18th, by a huge boulder, weigh
ing Is tons, crashing into the ca
boose of a work train on the Choc-
tow, Oklahoma & Gulf railroad, 20
miles west of Little Rock, Ark.
Mrs. Virginia Suret. aged so, Of
New York city, was burned to death,
on the 10th. in the apartments in
which she and her husband, Victor,
lived. Her apron caught fire at the
kitchen stove. Mr.. Suret and Police
Officer Blessing. the latter a boarder
with the family, were severely burned
in trying to e~xtinguish the flames
which developed Mrs. Suret. There
is some doubt Of Mr.. Suret's recov-
cry.
-Four lives were lost in a collision
on the Iowa Central railroad one mile
north of Clifford, Ia, on the 10th, a
light engine. n~orth-bound, crashing
into a passenger train. A number of
passengers were slightly injured.
Fire at Carl Junction, Mo-, destroy
ed the Opera House block, including
three stocks of general merchandise.
Loss, $4,000. Mark Enos, a miner,
was caught by falling walls and ia
tally injured.
The factory of the Hampden Corun-
dunn Wheel Co.. at Springfield, Mass,
was almost destroyed by fire, on the
10th, causing Il loss of about $780, 900;
mostly covered by insurance.
About two-thirds of the business
portion of Woodbury.. Cannon county,
Tenn, burned, on the night of the
10th, the loss being estimated at from
$4,000 to $4,000.
The critical illness of the earl of
Kimberly was announced on the 10th.
There was 16 inches of snow in
North Carolina, on the 10th.
There were four railway collisions
in the country, on the 10th, with
eight deaths and numerous injuries.
les.
1t is reported from Baku, Trans
~caucasia, that thousands of persons
were killed by the recent earth
quake in the Shamaka district, and
that the towns and villages for IL
miles around Shamaka suffered Sc.
verely.
\. Hyatt Verrill, a graduate OF
Yale, and son Of Prof. Edison f. Yer
rill, has discovered a process OF
photographing in brilliant colors
The discoverer calls it an autochro
matte process.
Gen. j. Franklin Bell has practical
~ cleaned up the instruction il
Batangas province, Luzon, the troops
under his command having made
clean sweep of the district.
Albert o. Klein, of Chicago, a stu
dent in the University of Michigan
at Ann Arbor, committed suicide, oil
the 10th. by taking prussic acid
This was the second suicide anon,
the university students within tw,
weeks.
Edward Mcfarland, a leading res!
dent of Hawaii and proprietor of tn
Royal Hawaiian hotel, at Honolul,
died at the Auditorium hotel, Chica
, go, on the 10th, from acute pne,
monia. Mcfarland was married bu
} two weeks ago to Miss Florence Ba
lington, of San Francisco. The couI
lie were on their wedding tour.
The largest fir tree in W~ashingto
/ has been cut down near Arlington, i
Snohomish county, Wash, with tn
intention of exhibiting a 2O-foot Sc,
ton of it at the St. Louis World
fair.
King Leopold is confined to hi
apartments, Mt Brussels. with throa
trouble, and his doctors save Ell
joined strict precautions.
There have been changes in tn
ministry at Seoul, Corea, as a resul
of the Anglo-Japanese alliance. Ne,
ministers of war and finance, O
neutral politics, have been appoin,
ed.