The Grenada sentinel., 1903-01-10

Grief over the loss of daughter,
who died on Christmas day. caused
the death of Mrs. Margaret +. Robin
son, aged so years, at Paducah, ky.,
On the 3Oth.
Rev. J. B. McMichael, for 20 years
president of Monmouth college, Mon
mouth, ILL.,, fell dead in his pulpit in 4
Presbyterian church near Aenia, o.,
on December 81.
Cold water forced down his throat
had the effect of awakening John
Fulcher, a negro prisoner. at Kansas
City, Mo-. on the 4th, who had been
asleep for $50 hours.
The remains of Mrs Mary F.. Dock
cry, wife of MssOuri's governor, were
buried in the cemetery at Chillicothe.
Mo-, on the 2d, close beside those Of
seven of her children.
Forty Americans. among them Mrs.
L. Z. Letter, OF Chicago, mother of
Lady Curzon. attended a brilliant
function following the durbar, at
Delhi, India. on the 4th.
In political discu ssion in a drink
ing cafe in Santiago, Cuba, on the 1st
Senor Corona. editor of Cubana Libre,
shot and instantly killed Senor Insula,
editor of the Republica.
a posse of citizens at Boeuf River,
La. on the 5th, ordered a colored
mail carrier named jackson not to re-
turn with the mail on his route,
threatening him with death in case he
did.
Col. Henry c. Forbes, librarian of
the Illinois state laboratory of nat
ural history, died at his home in Ur-
hama, on the 5th. He commanded the
Seventh Illinois cavalry in the civil
war.
The Paclnc cable was completed to
Honolulu on the 1st, and Gov. Dole
sent a me sage to President Roosevelt
announcing the opening and extend
ing greetings from the people of Ha-
Waii.
''Topsy." an elephant who had
killed three men and had recently be-
come nnmanageable. was electro
cuted at Coney Island. New York. on
the 4th, 5000 volts killing her in ten
seconds
The governors and eN-governOrs of
many western states will be present
at the grand ball to be given during
the convention Of the National Live
Stock association, at Kansas City,
Mo-, January II.
The United States supreme court,
on the 5th, affirmed the validity of an
ordinance Of the borough of New
Hope, Pa, requiring telegraph com
panies to pay license fee for poles
and wires in the town.
A st. Louis watchman, on the nj ght
of the 4th, discovered a burglar in
side restaurant stealing pennies out
of the Fresh Air Mission cont tribution
box. and after a sharp struggle land
ed him in the lookup.
Secretary Iddings, of the United
States embassy at Rome, was thrown
from his carriage, on the 1st, by a
collision with a street car, and re-
ceived in uries from which he will be
several weeks in recovering.
c. w. Wood, a railroad engineer,
had his foot pinioned under wreck
ct st. Paul, Minn., on the 4th, and was
being scalded by steam. when he took
a knife from his pocket and ampu-
tated his foot below the ankle.
Clara Ware, a deaf-mute, who was
never known to have uttered word
from her birth, died in Madison coun-
ty, Mississippi, on the I'd, and a few
hours before her death called on
members of the family to come to
her.
Senator G. G. Vest, of Missouri, in
published signed statement, in.
sists that he is not candidate for re.
election by the Missouri legislature
and that any mention of his name is
without his consent and over his pro.
test.
During the naval maneuvers in Phil
ippine waters, on the I'd, Ensign Bah
cock and part of his boats crew were
upset from their boat, but swan f
mile through shark-infested waters
and successfully accomplished theil
object of placing countermine buoys
near Subig bay.
Capt. Marmaduke and the American
officers and crew of the Colombian
gunboat Bogota resigned at Panama
on the 5th, and their services being
no longer needed, the resignation
were accepted. They will receive fpu1
months pay and transportation t.
the United States.