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The Grenada sentinel., 1903-04-18
CURRENT COMMENT:

Having massacred 1900 persons
ee one fell blow, the correspondents
IN the Balkans mag pause and ask,
what do you think of that? Make
1t Ill 900 next time.
The Grenada sentinel., 1903-04-18
News Of the World


one bolt by lightning at Marion,
Ind.
An unsuccessful attempt was
made to lynch two men at Holly
Springs, Miss.
A post-election riot at Chicago re-
suited in the serious injury of four
Italians and police lieutenant.
Ovore thirty-eight thousand i'm
migrants arrived at New York dur
ing the first ten days of April.
It is said that the United States
steel corporation will invest $1O,-
OOO, 900 in iron ore land in Mexico.
The new cup defender, Reliance,
which will meet Sir Thomas Lip
tons Shamrock III, was launched
at Bristol, r. I.
A lone highwayman held up and
robbed a stage coach in which five
women and two men were riding,
near Nevada City.
n. H. Rogers, the Standard Oil
magnate, was stricken with appendi-
cities while cruising on his yacht
near Charleston, S. G.
A hundred Moros were killed and
three Americans wounded in an
engagement on the island of Men,
dance in the Philippines.
President Roosevelt has offered a
place on the civil service commits
sion to W. w. Heffelfnger, the IA
nous Yale football player.
A New York syndicate has
brought suit in the federal court to
recover 100000 acres of land in
the two Virginias, valued at $751;
100000.
Paschal Latour, a farm hand,
murdered the wife of his employer,
Long Island, and then committed
Salto State, near Huntington,
suicide.
II. W. Joiner, formerly one of
the largest merchants in Memphis
Tenn, was arrested for violating
the sanitary laws by eating from a
garbage box.
! A battery of artillery called out
to disperse a mob of strikers in Rus
sia fired into the crowd, killing
thirty men and wounding over a
hundred others.
Crown Princess Louise of Sax
ony, who eloped with Andre Giron,
her children's tutor, is to be recon-
ciled and remarked to her husband,
the crown prince.
Reginald c. Vanderbilt of New
York used his whip upon a news
paper man who attempted to photo
graph him while riding with his
fiancee, Miss Nelson.
Brigham Young, president of the
council of twelve apostles of the
Mormon church and son of the
great Mormon leader, Brigham
Young, died at Salt Lake City.
According to report from Hon.
duras, the president of that country
forced the Bank of Honduras to
give him 100000 pesos under pen
atty of being looted. It was also
said that the United States consul
at Tegucigalfa, Honduras, was
forced to contribute 100000 to the
revolutionists.
In the big railroad suit in which
the minority stockholders of the
Southern Pacific railway sought to
obtain an injunction restraining
the Union Pacific from voting it's
100000 shares in the Southern
Pacific election, Judge Lurton
of Cincinnati found for the defend
ants and refused to grant the in
junction.
Mrs. Alice Matthews of Shreve-
port, La, was killed and her TO-
year-old daughter was fatally
wounded by a negro. The man
used an axe, crushing the heads of
both of his victims. A e.
gro named Ed Porter, who
was suspected Of the crime was shot
and killed by officers while attempt
ing to escape. The body was burn
ed by a mob. >u.
Ii
The Grenada sentinel., 1903-04-18


tain lion in Yellowstone Park.
Immense beds of coal, valued at
a billion dollars, have been discov-
cred near Wilkesbarre, Pa.
Three young women were among
the graduates of the st. Louis COL
lege of pharmacy this year.
Serious conflicts between rioters
and police have followed a general
strike of workingmen at Rome.
About one hundred persons were
killed and injured by an eruption
of an old volcano in Colombia.
It is said that over $1,000, 900
was bet upon the result of the re-
cent municipal election in Chicago.
Miss Freida Pink, high school
girl of Indianapolis, Ind, was ia
tally injured in basket ball game.
Rev. William Henry A1ilburn,
blind chaplain of the United States
senate for the past ten years, is
dead.
The retirement of a number of
high army officers will result in the
promotion of many officers of all
grades.
Two attempts have been made to
burn the Herreshof boat shop and
the new cup defender, Reliance, at
Bristol, r. I.
Fifteen hundred persons are re-
ported to have been killed by an
explosion in powder factory at
Canton, China.
Six men were injured, three of
them fatally, by the falling of sew
eral tons of building material at
the Worlds Fair grounds, st. Louis.
Representatives of the British
army have completed arrangements
for the shipment of $4,000 head of
cattle from Texas to South Africa.
The murder of NJ. Stcherbina,
Russian consul, by an Albanian
soldier, it is thought will precipitate
the long threatened war in the Bal
kans.
It is estimated that the dedica-
tion of the Louisiana Purchase Ex-
position at St. Louis, April 80 and
May l and 2, will cost the manage
ment $175,0O0.
The attorneys who secured $780,
900 for Isaac Harry Stratton, of
Colorado Springs, COL, by contest
ing his fathers will, rccei;ed $115,-
600 for their services.
Joseph Chamberlain, British COL
lonial secretary, will visit the Unit
ed States with his wife, who was
the daughter of ex-Secretary Of
State William G. Endicott.
Twelve persons were killed and
more than a score seriously injured
by a cyclone which swept over
space one mile wide and two miles
long near Birmingham, Ala.
The net earnings of the United
States Steel corporation for the first
quarter of 1908 were $24,656, 1876,
a decrease of more than $2,O00,000
compared with last year.
James Leach, a farmer, was shot
and killed on the principal street of
Fayette, Mo-, by Norman Small
wood, from whose daughter Leach
had just secured a divorce.
The tragic death of Charles L.
Fair, the American millionaire, and
his wife in an automobile accident
in France has been recalled by the
trial of a suit in New York in which
the mother of Mrs. Fair seeks to
recover the entire Fair fortune.
The result Of the suit depends upon
| the question of which of the two
died first.
The merger of the Northern Pa
| ci6c and the great Northern rail-
ways was declared to be in violation
of the federal antitrust law by the
United States Court of Appeals at
st. Paul, MINI. The decision was
rendered in the case brought by the
United States government to en-
join the Northern Securities COM
pany from voting the stock of the
| Northern Pacific and Great North
ern railways. ...-.@
The Grenada sentinel., 1903-04-18

Mayor Hemingway, of Jackson,
has received a letter from A. K.
Clark, of Augusta, Ga, stating that
he is part owner of a cotton mill
which desires to move it's location,
and asking what inducements Jack
son can offer. He states that the
mill has 5000 spindles and $50
looms for the manufacture of COL
ored goods, and the present owners
are willing to sell preferred stock in
the concern.
The Grenada sentinel., 1903-04-18

Gov. Longino has commuted tho
death sentence of Dave Logan to life,
imprisonment. Logan is a negro,
and was to have been hanged at Hol-
ly Springs on April 10, for murder.
The Grenada sentinel., 1903-04-18

The Clarke county bar held me-
mortal meeting at Quitman last week
in honor of Justice Samuel H. Ter
IA, and after several eulogies by
prominent members of the bar on
the life and character Of Justice Ter
raj, appropriate resolutions were
read and adopted.
The Grenada sentinel., 1903-04-18


of the Berlin bank died as the r.
suit Of torture inflicted by his
tutors.
The failure of Russian oil fields
it is expected will cause a sharp
advance in the value of American
oil lands.
A general strike of all labor en-
gagged in transportation both by
land and water has been inaugu-
rated in Holland.
Ten thousand Indiana miners, s,who
have been on a strike, have accepted
the concessions of the operators and
returned to work.
Adlai E. Stephenson, former vice
president of the United States, was
injured while attempting to extin-
guish a fire in his home.
A 16-year-old boy named ZACH
ary of Greenville, Texas, shot and
fatally wounded his father because
he was asked to do some work.
Attorney General Hamlin of H.
linois has begun proceedings against
5000 corporations alleged to have
violated the state antitrust law.
Driven to despair by the death
of her six children within six
months, Mrs. James Crum commit
ted suicide near Guthrie, Okla.
The Hartman interests are said
to be negotiating for the purchase
of the consolidated railroads Of
Yucatan, valued at $35, 100000.
An anti-strike law has been pass
ed in Holland, absolutely prohibit
ing government employees which in
cludes all railroad employees, from
striking.
Ex-Presidcnt Stein of the Orange
Free State and ex-President Kru-
ger of the Boer republic are both
reported to be nearing the end of
their careers.
Mrs. Louise Van Weik, an Amer
lean woman, the divorced wife of
Baron Wolfbauer, an Austrian
nobleman, committed suicide in a
hotel at jersey Sity.
A large home, costing $4,000,
has been completed by the Elks Of
the United States at Bedford City,
Va, for the use of aged and infrm
members of the lodge.
N. O. Wilson, a st. Louis man.
has purchased large tract of land
near Los Angeles, which he will
convert into a home for consump-
tives and victims of nervous dis
eases.
An attempt of robbers to crack a
safe started a fire in a tenement
house at Lakewood, N. j., and re-
suited in the death of an aged man
and the serious injury of two wo-
men.
During a storm, the steerage pas
sengers of the steamer Anchoria be-
came so crazed with fear that the
officers were compelled to hold them
prisoners for ten days below deck,
where they fought like madmen in
their fear.
Pat Grove, noted train robber and
kidnapper of Millionaire Cudahy's
son at Omaha, who has been a fu-
gtive from justice for several years,
has again eluded the police after
spending three months near st. Jo-
seph, Mo.
Arthur R. Pennell, of Buffalo,
who, together with his wife, was
killed in an automobile while under
suspicion of connection with the
murder of Edward Burdick, a prom
inent resident of Buffalo, is now al
legged to have been defaulter to
the amount of nearly 100000.
Carter H. Harrison, the demo-
cratic nominee, was elected mayor
OF Chicago for a fourth term by q
majority of 6,94s. Jacob Fleish-
mann, republican, was reelected
mayor of Cincinnati, Tom johnson,
democrat, of Cleveland, and "Gold-
en- Rule" JonesAA independent, Of
Toledo, Q. The entire democratic
ticket was elected st. Louis.
One soldier was\killed and an
other fatally woun9ed while at
temntinp to escane\ from un1or
The Grenada sentinel., 1903-04-18
Rem Upoa Opsa K.lfe.

Little Eugene, the 4-year-old son
OF William Quarles, Jr., cashier Of
Charleston Bank, while at play last
week, fell upon an open knife, which
he had in his hand, and was severe
y wounded. The blade entered his
face just above the right eye and
penetrated the brain to the depth
Of an inch. The attending physi-
clan, Z. 3. Harrison, states, unless
mplications sst up, there i somo.
hope for his recovery.
The Grenada sentinel., 1903-04-18

Postofice Inspector Fitzgerald,
after spending two days in Yazoo
City laying off the delivery routes
OF the city, left for New Orleans.
There will be three carriers districts
and thirty-three street letter boxes
placed in the districts. Work Of
numbering the houses and other pre-
hminaries necessary to the service
will be complete in time to start the
system in abount sixty days.
The Grenada sentinel., 1903-04-18

Mrs. Fannie Rubush, living in the
north end Of jackson, was found II
ing on her front gallery last week il
semi-conscious state from blows on
the head. In the night negro en-
tered the house, presumably for rob
berry, and Mrs. Rubush got up to
frighten him away. The negro
struck her and fed. She staggered
% the porch and fell. It is believed
that she viii recover, though serious
i hurt
The Grenada sentinel., 1903-04-18
Mississippi. State News


w. A. Glover, the young section
foreman employed by the Yazoo &
Mississippi Valley Road, at Jack
son, who accidentally shot himself a
few days ago, is dead Glover was
experimenting work near the Van
Wrinkle neighborhood, and, while
stopping over, his pistol fell from
his pocket and struck the rail. The
weapon was discharged and the bull
let struck the young man in the
chest, the ball lodging near the
spine.
DauEhters of Confederscy.
The annual convention of the
Mississippi Division Of the United
Daughters of the Confederacy will
be held this year on June 3 at Water
Valley. Mrs. Helen D. Bell, the
State president, has received reports
which warrant the belief that the at
tendance will be the largest in the
history of the organization. Dur
ing the past year large number Of
new local chapters have been organ
lied in various parts of the State.
The Grenada sentinel., 1903-04-18
LlehtinR West Poinf.

West Point has perfected arrange
ments for putting in the very latest
and best street lighting service and
expects in few weeks to be the best
lighted city in the State.
The Grenada sentinel., 1903-04-18

The State Board of Pharmaceuti-
cal Examiners finished their work in
Jackson last week, but did not an
nounce the results of the examina-
ton held. The papers of the appli-
cants were taken home by the men,
bers of the board and will be exam
ined and graded and forwarded to
Secretary S. L. Crane of Columbus,
who will announce the results from
that place later.
The Grenada sentinel., 1903-04-18
Horses Are Wanted.

Hon. H. Clay Skarkey, chairman
OF the central committee'hppointed
to arrange for the entertainment of
the Confederate veterans who will
hold their State reunion in Jackson
on the lst, I'd and. Sd of June, states
that the committee will make an ef-
fort to arrange so as to have as many
OF the veterans who belonged to the
cavalry as possible mounted during
the parade at the laying of the cor
nerstone of the new State house, and
to this end he appeals to the farm
ers and planters of Kinds county
to bring all available horses to Jack
son on that date and loan them for
the occasion, together with the nec-
essary saddles and brides.
There will be a strong demand for
horses on the Sd of June, owing to
the big military pageant. The reg
imental officers of the national guard
will all be mounted, and it is expect
ed that the governors of several
Southern States will be present with
their military staffs. For this rea-
son the committee desires to secure
the pledge of as many horses as pos
sible in advance of the event.
Horsowhippod Son-in-Law.
The pedestrians along the central
portion of Washington street in
Vicksburg, last week, were treated
to a highly sensational and rather
exciting episode, in the matter Of
an energetic application of cow
hide over the shoulders of recre-
ant son-in-law by the irate father
in-law. The parties were Peter
Harwood, police officer, and w. NJ.
Wilkinson, the latter having quite
recently married the 16-year-old
daughter of Harwood. Owing to al
legged i'll treatment the girl left her
husband at Natchez and returned to
her parents in Vicksburg, telling
such a tale of Woe and mistreatment
as to arouse the parental concern
and ire. During the difficulty re-
volvers were drawn on both sides,
but the police were near at hand
and the men were disarmed and
placed under arerst.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-01-15
REICHSTAG HITS THE
STANDARD OIL CO.
Wants N DiGerentinI on Refined
Petroleum.

Berlin. Jan. 14.-The Reichstag to-
day adopted. by 14S to 20 votes, the
Tariff Committees resolution, asking
the government to consider whether it
is not in the interests of the nation
to place "A differential duty on refined
petroleum, as against crude, in order
to establish a national refining indus
try. The resolution is directed against
the Standard Oil Company.
Herr Wurm, Socialist said the reso-
luton was designed to increase the
price of petroleum for the benefit of
the bankrupt fuel and alcohol indus
try" If national refining industry
was established by state protection, it
would be dependent on foreign raw
material.
Baron Heylzu Herrnsheim said:
The Standard Oil Company sells oil
cheaply only long enough to ruin
competition and then sharply adj
vances prices. 1t signifies nothing that
domestic industry is dependent on
foreign raw material. Our textile man
ufacturers are in precisely the same
plight"
The Secretary of the Interior, Count
Posadowsky-W ehner. in the course of
the debate upon the petroleum reso-
luton, outlined Germany's new policy
regarding the most favored nation
clause, with special reference to the
United States. The speaker declared
that the United States were no longer
entitled to the most favored nation
treatment. He said
I'VE indeed thought so upon the basis
of the old Prussian ltreaty, but the
United States took the view that gene
raj most favored treatment no longer
applies to-day and that when the
United States make concession to other
countries under treaty disinterested
states do not acquire these concessions
without on their part making new con-
cessions. General most favored treat
ment between Europe and America has,
as a matter of fact, ceased. Accord
ingly, when we make new treaties, the
United States will not enjoy the ad-
Vantages thereof without rendering an
equivalent on their part. The question
of'most favored treatment must be APP
piled more individually than hither-
to"
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-01-15
COLON BIA IS SLOW.
Officials Want More Haste In the
Canal Matter.

Washington. Jan. At is stated at
the State Department that Ambassa-
dor Tower has received from the Ger
man Foreign Office an unequivocal
denial of the statement that found some
currency few days ago to the effect
that the German government was en-
deavoring to secure control of the
Panama canal franchise The ambas-
sador's advice did not credit the Ger
man government with any feeling for
or against the canal enterprise. but
1t is gathered that the state of the
public mind i'm Berlin, certainly in
commercial minds. is favorable to
American construction because of the
benefits expected to accrue to German
shipping engaged in trade on the Pa
cific and on the west coast of South
America.
1t is said that there is no change in
the status of the negotiations with Co
lombia respecting the canal. Great inn
patience is exhibited at the delay and
the failure of Colombia to accept the
terms held out, and pressure is being
brought to bear to hasten a conclusion,
so that the President may before Gse
adjournment of the present Congress
have acquired control of either the
Panama or the Nicaragua routes, and
be in position to begin the work of
construction.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-01-15
MILITIA BILL PASSES
WITHOUT THE VOLUNTEER RE-
SERVE PROVISION.
SENATOR BACON DEFEATED IT.
HOUSE WILL AGREE To SENATE
AMENDMENTS.

senator Bacon Had a Conference
With the Gentlemen i'm Charge of
the BiII-Said He Would Continue
to Fight 1t Unless Its Obnoxious
Features Were Withdrawn Sup
pOrters of the Bill Were Not Eager
for This Provision Anyway-Came
from War Department.
Washington, Jan. Ex-senator Bacon
has won his fight against the obnox-
ious volunteer reserve provision of the
militia reorganization bill.
To-day, in conference with the gen.
tlemen in charge of the bill, he ex-
pressed his anxiety to see the purely
militia feature of that measure en-
acted into law, but said he would con-
tinue his fight against this volunteer
reserve feature. The result was that
the members of the committee an
nOunced that they would agree to the
striking out of that feature.
The Pettus amendment was ac-
cordingly adopted, the bill was per-
fected by the elimination of everything
bearing upon this extraneous subject,
and, as amended, was passed by the
Senate.
The bill, as passed, retains all of the
features of the original measure which
have direct bearing upon the militia
of the states. These are the only fea-
lures in which the militia are inter-
ested.
While opposing the reserve feature,
Senators Bacon, Clay and other Demo-
Gratis have ali the time heartily sup
ported the purely militia provisions.
The Senate amendments will be agreed
to by the House.
None of the supporters of the meas
ure have been particularly favorable
to this volunteer reserve feature,
which was put in the bill at the in
stance of the War Department.
Senator Quarles of Wisconsin offered
the amendment striking out all of Sec.
ton "a of the bill regarding a reserve
force of 100000 trained men. An amend
ment of Senator Beveridge was also
agreed to after discussion, exempting
certain persons having religious
scruples against war from serving in
the militia.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-01-15
DROWNED BENEATH
WASHINGTON MONUMENT.
Three Skaters Lost Their Lives
When the Ice Broke.

"heh the Ice broke.
Washington, Jan. 14.-While a large
crowd was skating on the bathing ba-
sin near the Washington monument
this evening, the ice suddenly gave way
and precipitated twenty or more per-
sons into the water.
Three lost their lives. The dead are
Miss Jessie c. Thomas, clerk in Blu
reau of Ethnology, formerly of Fred
erick, Md. Arthur Wasserbach, en-
ploye of Bureau of Engraving and
Printing, native of Washington; Henry
c. Hamill, clerk in War Department,
formerly of Michigan.
There were probably 1000 persons
skating on the basin at the time of
the accident. A hot water pipe from
the engine room of the Washington
monument empties in the basin near
where the ice gave way. The skaters
had been warned that the location was
a dangerous one, but it is said they dis
regarded the advice given them to stay
away from the vicinity, and when the
crash came fully thirty men and wom-
en- went through the broken ice and
into the water. All We're rescued, ex-
cept the two men, whose bodies were
subsequently recovered.
Miss Thomas died a short while after
her removal to the hospital. Officer
Bannigan of the Metropolitan police
force jumped into a boat near at hand
and, unaided, rescued seven persons
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-01-15
APOSTLE REED SMOOT
WILL BE SENATOR.
He Received the Republican NOmi-
nation i'm Utah.

IN
Salt Lake City. Utah, Jan. 14-At a
caucus of Republican members of the
Legislature tonight Reed Smoot of
Provo, an apostle in the Mormon
Church. was chosen as the Republican
nominee for United States Senator to
succeed Senator Joseph L. Rawlins.
whose term of office will expire March
3 next. This nomination is equivalent
to an election.
To-night's caucus was attended by
all but seven of the Republican MEM
bers of the Legislature. The first and
only ballot resulted: Reed Smoot, 80;
Congressman George Sutherland, S;
George NJ. Cannon, >; Gov. Heber M
Wells. 6.
After the result was announced. the
last three named candidates withdrew,
and the nomination of Smoot was made
unanimous.
Reed Smoot was born in Salt Lake
City in January. 1862. He has since
1888 been a member of the Council of
Twelve Apostles OF the Mormon
Church, and therefore is in direct line
for the presidency of the church.
Previous to his candidacy for the
United States Senate, which was an
nounced last spring he had never
taken an important part in the politi-
cal affairs of the state. Mr.. Smcot
served his church for nearly a year
as missionary in England, also visit
ing Belgium, Holland, Germany
Switzerland, Italy and France in con-
nection with the church work. Mr.
Smoot is interested in a number of the
manufacturing enterprises of the state
and considered wealthy. He was mar
ried in September, 1894, and has five
children. He is a monogamist.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-01-15
COAST LINE WILL
HAVE DOUBLE TRACK.

Jacksonville, Fla, Jan. 14.-The At
shortly that will eventually result in
the line having a double track system
from Jacksonville to Savannah. The
first section of this double track is to
be laid from Grand Crossing. where the
single track takes effect, to Dinsmore,
a distance of six miles. From Dins-
more the double track will then be
laid to Callahan and to Folkston, where
the cutoff practically furnishes an
other track. This will necessitate the
laying of thirty-six miles. Even If
the track is not continued beyond
Folkston, the Western trains will all
have a clear right-ofway by the aid
of the cutoff.