The Grenada sentinel., 1903-04-04

sion in mine at Athens, Ill.
A lone highwayman help up a
stage coach near Ukiah, CAL, and
killed the express messenger. |
v. E. Reichenberg, 9 wealthy
young man from San Francisco,
committed suicide in q st. Louis
hotel.
The British house of commons
has appropriated $150,000 for an
exhibited at the Louisiana Purchase
Exposition.
Several men were seriously in
jured in a battle between union
and non-union structural iron work
ers at Cleveland, O.
In an attempted strect-car hold
up at Los Angeles, Cal, one passen-
ger was killed and three wounded
and one of the highwaymen was
wounded.
It has been announced that the
English government contemplates
introducing bill into parliament
providing a modified form of home
rule for Ireland.
A special grand jury was called
at Jefferson City, Mo-, to investigate
alleged boodling methods employed
in the Missouri legislature during
the session just closed.
Sadie Henry, 15-year-old girl,
attempted to commit suicide in a
school room at New Madrid, Mo-,
because she had received low grade
in one of her studies.
A plot to dynamite the county
Jail at St. Joseph, Mo-, to release
Charles May, sentenced to hang for
double murder, was discovered and
one of the conspirators arrested.
A St. Louis man submitted to
having his pocket picked on a
crowded street car because he was
afraid Of dropping bottle of nitro
glycerine which he was carrying.
Alderman Jonathan Ruxton, of
Chicago, has introduced an ordi-
nance into the city council, impos-
ing a fine of 800 upon any land
lord who rejects a tenant on ac-
count of children in the family.
Arioch Wentworth, the Boston
real estate millionaire, who died re-
Gently, left his fortune, estimated
at $7,OOO,OOO to be used in found
ing an industrial school to bear his
name.
The English home secretary has
announced that Mrs. Florence May
brick, the American woman who
was sentenced to life imprisonment
at Liverpool in 1889 for the mur
der of her husband, will be released
in July, 1904.
After a search lasting several
years, Moses F. Chase, a young
man who formerly resided at La
favette, Ind, was found in de
mented condition in a hospital a
Paris. The young man is said t.
be the owner of property valued a
$1,OO0,00O, his right to which il
contested by certain persons in In
dianapolis, Cincinnati and othe'
places. y
A confession of George Bissert
an ex-policeman in New York, ha
disclosed regular system of black
mail levied by the police upon tn
dives in that city, by which mil
lions of dollars was collected by tn
police during the Devery regime
Bissert confessed that he alone col
1ected $1SO,000 in three years. Thi
amount, he says, was turned over t
a captain of police and he receive'
s per cent of all collections whic]
he made.
The inquest into the death Q
Edwin L. Burdick, who was mu1
dered az Buffalo several weeks agt
came to an end without furnishin
any clew for the officers to wor
upon. The Burdick inquest VIZ
followed by an investigation of tn
death of Arthur Pennell, who. wa
correspondent in a divorce su
brought by Burdick, and was SUI
pected Of the murder of the latte
but who, together with his wifi
was killed in an automobile accide1
at Buffalo a short time after tt
Burdick murder.
Two hundred Irishmen broke u