The Grenada sentinel., 1903-11-14
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

On motion OF Mr.. Payne, the mouse au-
journed ut $3.50
PERSONAL AND GENERAL
Elroy S. Platt, the St. Louis con-
tractor, who, on the 4th, shot himself
at Pittsburg, with suicidal intent, died,
on the 9Th, at the Homeopathic hos
pital from the effects of the wound.
John Morgan and Harry H. Hazard
were placed in the St. Louis Jail, ON
the 9Th, by Deputy United States Mar
shall Wild, on a charge of burglarizing
the Caldwell (Mo) post office.
Magistrate Elijah Upton, on the 9Th,
shot and killed Tom Stewart, well-to-
do farmer, at Richardsville, KY. The
shooting was the result of the issuing
of warrant by Squire Upton for Stew
arts arrest upon the application OF the
latter's son, following a quarrel over
politics.
Thomas F. Ward, former vice-presi-
dent of the Lemar Ua.) national
bank. who pleaded guilty a month ago
to the embezzlement of $4,000 of the
banks funds, was set free, on the 9th,
after serving so days in Jail.
BY the explosion of the boiler op-
Grating a huski1 6 machine on the Ohio
State university farm, near Columbus
O., on the 9Th, Engineer Charles w.
Pepper was blown a hundred feet and
met instant death.
Examination, on the 9Th, of the books
of the Bank of the Chickasaw nation,
at Tishomingo, l. T., which failed
showed liabilities of 500, 900, of which
nearly $4,000 was due to depositors.
All efforts to locate Kirby Purdom, the
missing president of the bank, have
failed.
assistant posmaster-general, was, on
the 7th, appointed temporary chief of
the classification division of the post
office department., succeeding William
II. Landvoight, whose resignation was
recently asked by the postmaster-gen-
eral.
Capt" George Wellington Streeter,
of district of Lake Michigan fame, who
! is under penitentiary sentence for
manslaughter, was. on the 7th, at Chi
cago, granted a petition for appeal to
| the United States supreme court.
At the caucus of the republican men,
bers of the house of representatives,
on the 7th, James G. Cannon. of 1lli-
nois, was unanimously chosen as
the candidate of the majority for
speaker of the house.
Sir James Richie was sworn in as
lord-mayor of London, on the 7th, with
the usual quaint ceremonies, succeed
ing Sir Marcus Samuel.
The GRANVILLE Ull.) city council, on
the 7th, ordered a special election, to
be held on December 4, to select po-
lice magistrate to fill the unexpired
term of T. P. Butler, who resigned a
few months ago.
Frank Hickox, a veteran of the Mex
lean war, died, on the 8th, at his home
| in Farina, ILL.,, aged 80. He was pres
ent at the capture of Gen. Santa Ana.
He was a personal friend of President
Lincoln.
The name Of Col. Clarence Edwards,
| chief of the bureau of insular affairs,
was taken under consideration, on the
9Th, for promotion to the rank of
brigadier-general, to fill vacancy
which will be created by the retirement
| OF Gen. Young, in January.
| A suit for $4,000, instituted by John
Wightman versus the G. & A. railroad
for damages for the death of his broth
er, S. A. Wightman, killed last May in
| Upper Alton, ILL.,, came up for trial
in the circuit court at Edwardsville
ILL.,, on the 9th.
On the 9th, the New York state com.
mission for the Louisiana Purchase ex'
| position at st. Louis fixed upon Oc-
tober 4, 1904, as New York state day
at the exposition. 80.
A daughter was born to Mr.. and Mrs
John D. Rockefeller, Jr., in New York
city, on the 9th. Mrs. Rockefeller is the
daughter Of United States Senator
Aldrich. of Rhole Island. It was thei1
nrst child. s.~ -. ~. ..asssz s<4
= Eight men were injured, three per
haps fatally, In gas explosion, on thu
9th, in q mine near Foster, Mo. Ar
| thur Duke. ThonAs Cobb and a younl
man named McMahsn wore fatally in
jured. ~s..4- ;" ~s<@ssss ii -
4 Dispatches, on the 9Th, from Coo
!, mining camps In Utah indicate :tha
4 the miners generaly have ignored Pres
4 idept Mitehslls ss1xtke order, being sat
]. isfled with the present scale.
i Emery Arbough shot and killed Po
liceman Evans at Hawks Nest, Ala.
on the 9th. Evans shot at Arbougl
before the latter fired. placing four bul
lets In Evans abdomen.