The Grenada sentinel., 1903-04-25

have taken possession of the city.
Mime. Adelina Patti is to make a
tour of the United States next fall,
receiving $1,000 for each. of sixty
conc crts.
Dr.. James L. Gartrell, aged 68
years, was hanged at Butler, No.,
for the murder Of D. D. Donegan,
q Colorado miner.
Mrs. Minnie Cummins- of St..
Louis, shot and killed her husband
when she found him searching her
clothes for money.
Because he feared he was becom-
ing insane, Frank Westerfield of
Chicago, committed suicide in a
hotel at St. Louis.
The navy department has been
asked to station the monitor Ar
kansas at St. Louis until after the
close of the worlds fair.
President Loubet of France was
givm a great ovation on his recent
trip through the French posses
sions in northern France.
Four United States army Off
GERS were indicted at San Juan,
Porto Rico, on charges of snug
Cling liquor into Porto Rico.
John Schuettler, another former
member of the St. Louis house of
delegates, has been sentenced to four
years in the penitentiary for brib-
cry.
Lieut.. Thomas F. Howard of the
United States army and graduate
of West Point, committed suicide
at St. Louis on account of bad
health.
It has been discovered, it is said,
that the negro who was killed at
Shreveport, La, for the murder of
Mrs. Alice Matthews was innocent
of the crime.
Assistant Attorney General James
NJ. Beck, who has been prominently
connected with the recent merger
and lottery cases, has rendered his
resignation. -
John (Bud) Taylor, a former
baseball player of considerable rep
utation, was hanged at Kansas City
for the murder of his former sweet
heart, Ruth Nollard.
A document has been found
among papers captured in the
Philippines, said to be in the hand
writing of Aguinaldo, directing the
killing of Major General Otis, who
was in command of the American
forces.
The famous Lucy Hayes side.
board and other furniture which
formerly graced the white house a,
Washington and which was recently
sold at auction is to be used in fur.
nishing a bar at St. Louis during
the worlds fair.
Three bandits held up a street
car in Chicago and robbed the ten
passengers and the crew of all thei1
money and valuables. The hold-ur
took place within the city limits
but on lonely prairie, a consider.
able distance from any residence.
Reginald c. Vanderbilt, youngest
son of the late Cornelius Vanderbilt
and Miss Cathleen G. Nelson, o1
New York, were married at New.
port, r. l., with elaborate ceremo.
nies. The wedding gifts represent
ed fortune, the jewels presented
to the bride alone being valued al
$25o,0OO.
A mob at Joplin, Mo-, lynched
a negro who was suspected of thu
killing of Policeman Leslie of thai
city, burned a number of house.
in the negro quarters, and stoned
and drove every negro from thu
city. The mob also released from
Jail a white man under arrest fo1
assaulting a negro.
A commission of British work;
ingmen who visited the United
States to study labor conditions re-
ported that the British workman
had nothing to learn from the
American workman but that thu
British employers are not as far ad.
vaneed as the Americans in H9
treatment of their employees.
Nathan Morris, prominent at
torney Of Indianapolis and i 10.