The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1904-05-14

eral, Phil Kearney, is in Jail there un-
der arrest on a charge of leading a
gang of highwaymen.
Carlisle D.. Graham, who earned FOL
himself the sobriquet of Hero of the
Niagara" by his frequent trips through
the whirlpool rapids in a barrel, is go
ing abroad, and will make an attempt
TO swim the English channel.
Contrary to what has been deemed
probable a general strike of all union
bakers in New England was not or
dered at the convention of the Massa-
chusetts state branch Of the Bakery
and Confectionery workers. held at
Boston on the 8th.
Haiime Hoshi is installing his Jap
anese printing office in the Liberal
Arts building at the Worlds fair at
St. Louis. and it will be in operation
in a few days. The types are metal,
of the same height as American type,
and are we'll cast with the Japanese
characters.
The Liberty bell will be taken to st.
Louis. This was decided upon, on the
9Th, when both branches of the city
council of Philadelphia passed a reso-
luton appointing a special joint COM
mittee of "a to escort the revolutionary
relic, and appropriating $4,000 to de-
fray the expenses.
Judge J. A. Elston, of Colorado
Springs, Col, appraiser for the Win
field Scott Stratton estate, has filed his
report, showing that the total value
of the estate at the time of the death
of Mr.. Stratton vas $6,307 100, and that
the amount due to the state under the
inheritance law is 1862, S44.
Seventeen business places and ten
dwellings were destroyed in a fire
which wiped out half of Utica, Mich,
on the 8th. Practically nothing could
be done in the way of fighting the fire
until the arrival of an engine and COM
pany of firemen from Detroit. The viii
lage had scarcely any fire fighting ap-
paratus.
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Charles w. Bryan, of Lincoln, Neb.,
and brother Of William Jennings Bry-
an. said in an interview, on the 9th,
that the reports of d~issension in the
Nebraska democracy are wrong, and
that his brother will head the delega-
ton to st Louis unitedly pledged to
vote for reaffirmation of the Kansas
City platform.
Kuhn, Loeb & Co. announced that
the Hong Kong and Shanghai banking
corporation and PARIS bank, limited,
of London, has purchased from the
Japanese government $40, 000, 900, sew
en- year six per cent. treasury notes,
redeemable after three years at the
option of the government, and secured
by an exclusive first lien on the GUS
toms.
The case of Charles Cunningham, the
eastern Oregon sheep king" Glen H.
V. Sailing, Shelly Jones and Dallas
O'Hara, charged with conspiracy to de-
fraud the United States government OF
public lands, was brought to an alb
rupt and unexpected conclusion on the
9Th, by pleas of guilty being made
when these defendants were arraigned
in the United States district court, al
Portland, Ore.
The demand for press seats at the
two national conventions far exceeds
&Lo oo1oaify ~ tho rnonA cot ~ - P1r
the newspapers of the country. At the
Chicago convention there will be 290
seats in the press reservation, and al
ready there have been received 1900
applications. The demand for seats at
the st. Louis convention also is far in
excess of the capacity of the space re-
served for the press.
Suddenly and without a moments
warning to the large congregation,
whose heads were bowed while the
minister prayed for their welfare, Rev.
o. r. Newell, pastor of the M. E..
Church at M~arshalltOwn Ia, fell strick-
en- with paralysis in his pulpit. For a
moment the parishioners were terror
stricken, and the form of the stricken
pastor was allowed To pitch headlong
to the floor. He was removed to his
home, but can not live.
After a search covering the whole Of
the United States, George Miller, heir
to more than 500, 900, left him after
he had been exiled from Brooklyn, N.
Y, for three years, has been found at
last. While agents of his fathers exec
utors were looking for him all over
the west, he was tossing in deliriUm
upon a bed in the Sacramento county
hospital in Sacramento, Cal. He is
still IN that institution, slowly recov-
ering from a long run of typhoid fever.