The Grenada sentinel., 1904-01-09

vessels, after cOallng, proceeded t
Colon.
A large amount of hay was pul
chased at Carson City, New, on tn
LIST, for immediate shipment to Sal
Francisco. 1t was stated that the ha.
was being purchased for the Russial
government.
Will ]. Davis and Harry Powers, pro
prietors of the Iroquois theater, Chi
cago and Building Commissioner Will
iams were arrested, On the I'd, charge,
with manslaughter. They were releases
On $4,000 bonds.
Speed Mosby, author of ben Blunt,
the Missouri political novel which cos
him his job as deputy clerk Of tn,
Missouri supreme court, assumed &C
tive charge, on the I'd, Of the Col,
County (Mo.) Democrat
Gen. James Longstreet, soldier
statesman and diplomat, and the las
lieutenant-general of the confederate
army, with the exception of Gen. Cor
don, died in Gainesville, Ga, on thu
I'd, from an attack of acute pneumonia
Lawrence Depew, brother of United
States Senator Chauncey M. Depew, o1
New York, and one of the most prom
anent citizens of Detroit, Mich, Ael]
dead at the threshold of his home, on
the Sd. Death was ascribed to heart
disease.
Miss Emily Fuller, of Shippensburg
Pa, was killed, four persons were prob
ably fatally injured and ten others
were painfully hurt, on the 1st, at
MELVILLE, Pa, when a Cumberland
valley passenger train ran into an open
switch and left the rails
John A. Benson, who was arrested
In New York city by United States
secret service officers, charged with
defrauding the government out of thou
sands of acres of land, was released.
On the 4th, in the United States circuit
court on furnishing $4,000 cash bail.
At meeting, on the I'd of the ter
sitorial board of education, the time
was extended until March 1 for the
completion of the Oklahoma school ex-
hibit at the Worlds fair in st. Louis.
The collection thus far was consid-
cred excellent, but not covering all
portions of the territory.
Miss Julia Kicks, who created = SEN
.ation in New York city, by demand
ing large sum of money from Mrs.
May Harrington Stallo, the former
wife of Dan r. Hanna. of Cleveland.
O., was adjudged insane, On the 3Oth,
and committed to the state asylum for
the insane at Newburg, o.
The public schools of Chicago were
closed on the 4th, on account of the
large number of funerals of victims of
the fire. All the church bells of Chi
cago were tolled at noon. in token Of
grief. while the bodies of those who |
lost their lives at the 1roqouis theater
ire are receiving the last rites.
Fire gutted the northwest wing of !
the Iowa state capitol, at Des Moines |
On the 4th. causing an approximate !
loss of half a million dollars. The /
chamber of the house of representa-
flVes was charred mass of debris.
and can rot be repaired in time for tha |
approaching session of the legislature.
Ten thousand dollars was offered. on
the I'd, for the recovery of Granville
w. Garth, the president of the Mechan-
les national bank, of New York city.
who disappeared from the steamship
Denver, Christmas night, and who was
to have jumped into the Gulf
Of Mexico while suffering from mental
worry.
One death and five new cases of fever
were reported, on the Goth, at Butler,
Pa At that date the relief committee
had received in the neighborhood oil
545, 900. and although they had BEEN
curtailing expenses in every way. It
was estimated that $4,000 additional
would be needed before the stricken|
families could shift for themselves.
The street railway systems of
and Normal, Ill, were
lied up by a strike, on the LIST, and
not car moved in either city. The
request Of the men for an increase In
pay ranging from one to two cents DER
hour. according to length of service.
Eas refused by the company. There
Eas little prospect Of an early set