The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1904-12-17

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GRENADA. MISSISSIPPI
Secretary of State Hay was in
formed, on the Sth. that Japan would
gladly participate in a second peace
conference.
Mrs. Cassie l.. Chadwick, the female
Napoleon of finance. was twice indict'
ed by the grand jury of CIyahogs
county, O., on the 18th.
The court house at jamestown, Fen
tress county. Tenn, referred to IN
Mark Twain's "Gilded Age" wa:
burned by an %incendiary on the 9th.
On the nth the engagement of Miss
Daisy Letter, of Chicago, sister Of
Lady CurZon, to the earl of Suffolh
and Berkshire, was announced by Mrs
Letter.
The house of representatives. on the
9th, voted down a motion by Congress-
man Hepburn to cut from the appro-
BlIdLlOn Ulll Tic dlION dANO ~ SAN ~
il service commission.
Senator Stewart introduced a bill in
the senate, on the 18th. to fix presiden-
tial and congressional salaries. 1t pro
poses to raise the salary of the pres
ident to 500, 900 a year.
President Roosevelt, on the 18th
announced that Secretary Morton, a
his earnest request, had consented tc
remain in the cabinet after March 4
as secretary of the navy.
According to the London Posts
Shanghai dispatch, on the 9th, the
Port Arthur forces, with the exception
of those manning the forts, have al
ready reiterated to Laote mountain.
The first heavy snowfall Of the sea
sen prevailed, on the 18th, through
out the states of Wisconsin, Illinois
Missouri, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota
and the northwestern part of Indiana.
Funeral services over James N. Ty-
ner, former postmaster-general and
assistant encouragement for the post
Office department, were held at the
Tyner residence in Washington, d. c.
on the Sth.
Mrs. Cassie L. Chadwick, the mys-
terious woman of questionable finance,
arrested in New York city, on a fed
eral charge, was unable to give a $15,-
600 bond, and, on the 8th, was incar-
cerated in the Tombs prison.
Because he was refused admission to
the lower floor of a theater IN account
of his color, Henry c. Gibson, a negro
constable of Peoria, Ill, was, on the
9Th, given a verdict of $25 by a jury
composed mainly of business men.
A Rock Island passenger train run
ming between Kansas City, Mo, and
Chicago, was wrecked near Clio, Ia,
on the Sth, and Engineer Sherwood
and Fireman Lewis were fatally scald-
ed. The passengers were %uninjured.
George II. Ketcham, of Toledo, o.,
was, on the Sth, found not guilty of
establishing a fraudulent record for
his trotting stallion Cresceus, after a
hearing of the case before the board
Of appeals of the American Trotting
association.
~Schoolboys and students assembled,
several hundred strong, in Paris,
France, on the 18th, with the object
of making a demonstration at the
grave of Deputy Syveton. The police
broke up the groups, prevented a pro-
cession and closed the cemetery.
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The London Telegraph's correspond
ent before Port Arthur, telegraphed,
on the Sth, that all OF the Russian
Eattleships and cruisers, together with
the gunbOats GoliaX and Fusadnek,
were sunk or destroyed, and hat only
the torpedo boats and destroyers re-
main intact.
DR.. J. B. Vernon, charged with bril-
berry in connection with Charles L..
Blanton of the treasury department,
who recently located the post Office
sites at Columbia, Moberly and Kinks
vile, Mo, was found guilty, On the
9Th, by a jury in the federal court at
Hannibal, Mo.
The supreme court of the United
States has decided against the Western
Union Telegraph Co, in it's case
against the Pennsylvania Railroad
Co, owing to the latter's tearing down
Western Union poles and wires along
the railway right-of-way, upon the
termination of its contract in 1902.
The steamship Belgravia, of the
Hamburg-American line, arrived at
New York city, on the 18th, from Cux-
haven, with her bow stove in, the ma