The Grenada sentinel., 1903-11-21

Earl Roberts, commander -in-chief OF
the British army, is i'll. He had sew
oral chills, and it was reported, on the
18th, that pneumonia had set in.
James Langdon Curtis, who, in 1892.
vas the peoples party candidate for
president of the United States, died ON
the 18th, at Stratford, Conn, aged 81
years.
Representative Crumpacker. of Indi-
ana, introduced bill in congress, on
the 10th, making it a crime punishable
by death to participate in the lynching
Of an alien.
twenty-five cars were run, with the
assistance of the police. at Chicago, ON
the 18th, the second day of the strike.
without damage to the cars or injury TO
the non-union men who operated them.
F. B. Neal, assistant cashier of the
Merchants national bank, one OF the
wealthiest citizens of Jackson, MISS
and a state senator, committed SUICIDE
ON the 18th. He had been i'll for some
time
Boris Sarafoff. the Macedonian lead
er, in an interview at kustendll, Bui-
garia, on the 14th, said the lnSUrrec-
tion in the vilayet of Monast:r had cost
the lives of l 200 insurgents, and that
l3O villages had been burned.
Strawberries We're still growing in
southwest Missouri on the 14th. Mrs.
John knablack, an old German woman,
picked 80 crates of strawberries from
the second crop of small patch west
of Aurora, Mo, for which she received
q total of 1915.
Theodore s2oosevelt Signet, the twen-
tieth child born to w. H. Signet, died
On the 18th. at the family home, at Nc
Keesport, Pa, aged five months. Upon
being notified that this child had been
named after him, the president sent it
q check for $1OO.
The Gazette, the oldest newspaper
of St. Joseph, Mo. was sold, on the
14th, to company headed by E. e.
McJimsey. prominent republican pol
1tician of Maryville Mo. The purchase
price was $4,000.
Representative Ball, Of Texas, after
a service in the house of six and a
half years, retired, on the 18th, to pri-
vate life. His resignation was ac-
Cepted. 1t was understood that Mr..
Ball would become candidate for gov
ernor of Texas.
O
John Alexander D0wie returned from
New York to Zion City, near Chicago,
CT the 11th, and, in spite of a showing
OF 1876 converted Gothamites for $780,
600 expenditure DR.. Dowie emphatic
ally declared that his trip had been an
overwhelming success.
PCstmaster-General Payne. on the
18th, directed the dismissal of Anna
Dreyer, Samuel Kober, Jospeh Kreyer
ard Birdie Knott, clerks in the ST.
Louis post office, for alleged conspiracy
to secure the removal of Postmaster
Baumhoff, of that city.
II. L. kaines. alias c. H. Miller, and
TO be the cleverest railway ticket forg-
ers in the country, were arrested in
Chicago. on the 18th. Stamps, chem
icals for altering tickets and blank Or
der slips were found in their room by
the police.
The fedora! grand jury at Omaha,
Reb.. on the 18th, returned true bills
against United States Senator Charles
H. Dietrich and Postmaster Jacob Fish
er, of Hastings, Neb., charging them
with conspiracy and bribery in connec-
tion with the appointment of Fisher
to the position of postmaster.
Coroner Tutewiler rendered his ver-
dict. on the 14th, in the case of the
Big Fou: wreck, which occurred at
Indianapolis, Ind, on October 13, and
in which 1C persons were killed. The
coroner blamed the chief train dis
patcher at kankakee, who failed to
notify the indianapolis yardmaster
that the special was coming.
The will of the late William L. Elk
fns, the multimillionaire traction mag
nate and financier, was filed, in Phila-
Gelphia ON the 14th. The estate is be-
ieved to be worth $30.00O,OOO. Codicil
provided for the establishment of an
orphanage for the female orphans of
Free Masons, to be managed by the
Masonic home of Pennsylvania
Representative Gaines, of Tennessee,
introduced a resolution in congress, on
the 18th, proposing an amendment to
the constitution of the United States
rs follows: THE president of the
United States shall hold his Office dur
ing one term of six years, and no per-
son having once been president, either
by election or succession, shall be