The Grenada sentinel., 1903-07-18
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Oompiled from Various Sources.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

at SOutn Amfnd, Ia, Oh tH% 1VSus I"o
persons were killed.
The action brought by Edna Wall
lace Hopper, the actress, against
James Dunsmuir, of Victoria, b. G.,
to break the will of Alex Dunsmuir.
has been postponed until October I,
that witnesses now in Ireland may
testify.
Arma J. Gerstkamp, aged 20, and
Frederick Winter, aged Is, both of st.
Louis, were killed in a wreck on the
Terminal railway near Granite City, |
ILL.,, on the 10th. Ten others were |
badly injured.
Calvin Price and Jerry Graves were !
executed at Marion, ILL.,. on the 10th'
for the murder of Mrs. Nellie Reichel- |
derfer, ON March 16, when the lady
was shot down and the corpse left
for the hogs to eat while the Grim
inals plundered the house.
Brig.-Gen. Leonard Wood is to be
promoted to the grade of major gen.
eral. This action has been decided
upon by the president, and the an
nouncement will probably be made
shortly, together with that of Maj
Gen. S. B. NJ Young to be commander
of the army on the retirement. Au-
gust 8, of Lieut.-Gen. Miles.
The condition of Mrs. j. G. Blaine,
who is i'll at Augusta, Me-, was such,
on the 10th, that it was believed her
death was a matter Of but few
hours only.
A dispatch from Vienna says the
late King Alexander and Queen
Draga of Servia left debts there
amounting to 100000 francs. When
the new Servian government was
asked to pay these debts it offered 20
per cent. of the amount involved. The
creditors refused to accept any such
compromise and will sue.
Join Terrell, a farmer near Petro-
leum, Ind, killed his son-in-law, Mel
vim Wolfe, on the 12th, by firing the
charges of both barrels of shot
gun into Wolfe's head as Wolfe lay
| on an operating table to have leg
amputated. The operation was COM
PEELED by gunshot wound inflicted
by Terrell a short time before.
After deliberating for over twenty
hours the jurors in the trial of Mrs.
Minnie Cummings, charged with the
murder of her husband. Dennis Cum
mings, at st. Louis, rendered a sealed
| verdict On the 18th.
| The fast mail from St. Louis. due n
Kansas City at 10: 80 a. m. on the 18th,
crashed into an excursion train that
had broken down at Dead Mans
Curve" three miles from Lees Sum-
NIT. Mo. Three killed, 6s injured.
The flood in the Colorado river,
at Yuma, Ariz., on the 9th, stood at
six inches daily. The reports of ex-
tensive damage along the river have
been grossly exaggerated.
George Moore, a moulder' union
picket, was shot and badly wounded
from ambush at the factory of E. c.
Stearns & Co., Syracuse, n. Y, on the
12th.
Frank Snyder, aged -, and Johr
McDaniefs, aged 25, were drowned, on
the 18th, nj Deer creek, near Flora
Ill.
The prince of Wales arrived al
Portsmouth, England, on the 18th, TO!
the inspection of Rear-Admiral Cot
| tons flagship Kearsarge.
| " lllldm DdIOcId, d 10I1ACI HCd
. Centerville, ILL.,, has mysteriously dis
| appeared. He went to GRANVILLE will
load of wheat, and after drawing :
few hundred dollars left the city OF
: an Illinois Central train, since which
time nothing has been heard of him
: George Collins, alias Fred Lewis
one of the alleged Union (Mo.) banl
, robbers and murderers, was take1
from the St. Louis Jail, heavily man
acled, on the morning of the 18th, b..
, Sheriff Bruch and five deputies, an,
:. returned to Union for trial Rudolph
his pal, who broke Jail, is still miss
ing.
Nicolas Pazzullo, an Italian stril
breaker in the molding shop of tn
E. C. Sterns & Co. factory, at Syra
cuse, N. Y, admitted in police court
r on the 18th, tlat he fired the sho
: which seriously wounded Georg
: Moore, a molder and former employ
e of Sterns & Co.
q A desperate fight occurred nea
= Barbourville, KY, On the 18th, bs
tween a band of eight Clay count
negroes and deputy sheriffs of Bal
n bourville. The negroes attempted t
e rob country stores, and when til
b posse pursued them they gave resis
& ance.
t The statement of the treasury ba
Il ances, on the 18th, in the gener,
t fund, exclusive of the $50, ,0o0, 900 go]
reserve in the division of redemption
showed: Available cash balanc
= 1925, 1896; gold, $1o1, ,6oo,566. ~
t The strike of the iron <molders
y several foundries in Providence, r.
S which was inaugurated in Septemb.
d last, was officially declared off on Il
II 18th. No concessions have been mai
l. by the master moldeIs.
Chauncey Dewey, Clyde Wilson ar
w Il McRrido left tie Shayrnaa f,nla