The Grenada sentinel., 1903-01-03

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Mrs: U. 8. Grant left an estate
valued at $243,00O, to be equally
divided between her four children.
! The various courts at Cleveland,
Ohio, were forced to adjourn for
several days on account of the scare.
ity of fuel.
| Thousands of cattle are reported
to be starving to death on the range
in northwestern Colorado on &C.
count of the cold weather.
z. X. Greening, postmaster at
CORTLAND, ILL.,, shot and killed him.
self when asked by a post office in
spector for 81 400 that should have
been in the post-office funds.
A dispatch from New Marghe-
tan, Russian Turkestan, reports
that the earthquake at Andijan kill
ed $500 people in and near that
city and destroyed $1,000 houses.
Governor-elect Bailey of Kansas
is in peck of trouble, due to a
fake perpetrated by a newspaper
friend. This friend published an
item stating that the newly elected
chief executive was desirous of be-
coming benedict, and for several
weeks he has been receiving daily
cart loads of proposals from many
section of the country. He has been
compelled to employ an assistant
secretary to answer these letters,
and has also given out a statement
to the press, praying that no more
such missivcs be sent him.
During binding snow storm a
freight and passenger train on the
Grand Trunk railroad collided near
Wanstcad, small station not far
from London, Ont. Twenty-eight
passengers were killed outright, and
about thirty injured. The respon-
slbility for the accident has not been
definitely fixed, but it is believed
to have been due to a telegraph op-
orator, who gave an order to the
freight to pass No. 5, the Pacific
express, at Wanstead, and failed to
duplicate the order and give a copy
OF 1t to the conductor and engineer
OF the express. Instead of this the
conductor of the express had
clearance order, telling him to run
right through. The freight train
stopped at Wanstead to sidetrack
and was telescoped by the express.
The binding snowstorm which was
raging rendered objects invisible at
the distance of few feet.
The question of the effect of mur-
der upon a life insurance policy,
when issued upon the life of the
murderer, has been passed upon BY
the United States supreme court in
an opinion delivered by Justice
Brewer. The case in which the op;n-
ion was delivered was that of S. NJ.
Burt VS.. The Union Central Life
Insurance Company. W. F. Burt,
Of Travis county, Texas, was the
name of the man insured. His pol
ICY was made payable to his wife,
Anna NJ. Burt, and in case of her
death to his executors. During the
first year Burt's wife died, and he
afterward was charged with her
murder and found guilty and exc
cuted. Afterward the heirs of the
estate made an effort to collect the
policy, but the insurance company
resisted payment. The lower courts,
including the court of appeals for
the Fifth circuit, sustained the pro-
test of the company, and the su-
preme court affirmed the decis-
ion of the court of appeals,
holding the policy invalid on the
ground that to sanction payment
under the circumstances would be
contrary to public policy.
Mathew Keith, an Indian Terri
tory farmer, was drowned near Vi
nita while saving his wife. In
crossing stream his wagon was
upset and both were carried down
stream. Keith succeeded in saving
his wife but went under himself.
Near Liberty, Mo-, Joe Foley shot
and killed Mrs. J. B. Wilson and
with the same weanon eho+o,,r
blew his head off. Foley, who was
intoxicated, was employed as farm
hand by the dead woman's husband.
Westy Watson was shot and kill