The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1902-01-25

no postponement.
Judge William II. De Witt, a dis
tinguished member of the Montana
bar, died at Butte, on the 10th, of
acute heart trouble. He was associate
Justice of the Montana supreme
court for several years, and in 1900
was a member of the national repub-
lican committee from his state.
St. Louis is in the throes of n new
secret order. 1t is part and parcel of
the Worlds fair. St. Louis is known
as the mound City" because of the
mound builders, who, ages ago, r.
believed to have inhabited this sec
ton. The new mystic order will be
known as the Mound Builders"
The president, on the Goth, trans
mitted to congress the supplemental
report of the isthmian canal COM
mission, in which it is unanimously
recommended that the offer of the
new Panama Canal Co., to sell all its
rights, property and unfinished work
TO the United States for $4,000, 900,
be accepted.
The jury in the case of George
Klein, accused of the murder of his
mother-in-law. Mrs. Caroline Klein, in
Baltimore, Md, on the 10th, acquit-
ted the prisoner on the ground of in
sanity. Klein knocked the woman
down and kicked her to death because
she threatened to have him arrested
Tor abusive language.
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A dispatch from Constantinople
asserts that an American syndicate
has submitted an offer to the porte
to build the Bagdad railroad. The
syndicate does not ask for a mileage
guarantee, but desires that the sur
plus tithes from the districts to be
traversed by the railroad be applied
to the work Of construction.
At Cheyenne. Wyo., on the Goth,
Peter Bergerson, a member of the
Cheyenne Rifle club. broke the
worlds record for 100 consecutive
shots, of-hand, 200 yards range.
standard American target. Berger
sons average was s9H2. That of the
previous champion, Kelly. of the Wal
nut Hill club, of Massachusetts, was
Ss 9-10.
A conflict of authority between the
mayor and the city physician of
Ogden, Utah, over a supposed Ease
of smallpox has involved the mu-
unicipal authorities of the city, tht
state board Of health and the police
force Of the city. The c5y physician
sent n policemen to arrest the may
or, dut the latter declined to submit
to arrest.
Luther r. Marsh, the well-knowr
spiritualist, preached two sermons
at Christ Uniyersalist church il
Middletown, y. Y, on the 18th, OF
.Jesus, the Christi He affirmed hi,
belief in the divinity of Christ, anc
declared that modern spiritualisn
had it's birth in Christ's announce
ment of His identity to many afte:
the resurrection.
The London grand jury, on the 18th
found a true bill against DIR. Krause
the former governor of Johannes
burg, Transvaal, on the charge of in
citing Cornelius Broecksman, the ex
public prosecutor of Johannesburg
(who was executed September 3
LAST to murder John Douglas Foster
an English lawyer, who was attache
to Lord Roberts staff.
In the case of Fannie Brassfeld v.
The knights of the Maccabees, tn
supreme court of Missouri, OF tn
Goth, held that fraternal insuranc
orders must operate under the law
of Missouri. The suit involved $2,0C
life insurance, which the Maccabee
refused to pay because Brassfiel
committed suicide. The court CAV
Judgment for the full amount.
Wholesale dismissals in the censr!
bureau have begun. Several hunure
already have received 'beir Jii
charges. and 500 others and p"saibl
more will go on the LIST. At lea It 6i
will go during February, and man
others will have to receive their dii
charges to bring the present tor'
of about $500 down to the GOO or x
contemplated in the permanent Gel
suy movement.