The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1904-10-29
CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS ~ BRIEF.
PERSONAL AMI GENERAL.

ROrC Arthur Since OpSIdItOAs OS6on
last spring.
A man giving his name as Thomas
Kennedy was arrested at Harrison
vile, ILL.,, on the 21st, on suspicion or
being the assailant and murderer OF
Eleanora Woodcock, put was released
later ON proving an abb.
John Robinson, of CaTmi, ILL.,, who
killed his wife and brother-in-law, was,
on the 21st, sentenced to Imprisonment
for Is years in the penitentiary.
DIR. William P. Wilson, chairman OF
the Philippine exposition board, on
the 21st, rendered his resignation to
Clarence r. Edwards, chief of the blu
reau of insular affairs at Washington.
for transmission to Luke e. Wright,
civil governor of the islands.
A report from Hillyard, Wash,
states that men believed to be Russian
spies have visited the Great Northern
railroad yards at that place, apparent
ly seeking trace of the shipment OF
Japanese torpedo boats en- route to
the coast.
According to the Constantinople
correspondent of the London Daily
Telegraph, Kurds have burned 20
houses in the village of NareK, near
Van, and killed over 80 Armenians.
st. Louis, Mo-, was visited by a
seismic shock on the 21st. The culver
was sufficiently distinct that it was
noticed by thousands Of people, but
no damage was done.
Allen Parker, cashier of the First ma
ticnal bank of Tullahoma, Tenn, is
missing, and is alleged to be Short
about $4,000 in his accounts.
Three men were killed and two Sc
verely hurt, on the ed, in a head-on
collision between a passenger and
| freight train on the 1Jatchez-Jackson
branch of the Yazoo & Mississippi
Valley railroad near Natchez, Miss.
In a rear-end collision between two
trolley cars on the Westboro and
Marlboro street railway, near West
Doro, Mass, on the 23d, Is people were
injured. 1t is thought all of the in
jured will recover.
In a fire that destroyed property val
ued at $4,000, at Mexico, Mo-, on the
Esd, a negro employe of a livery barn
lost his life, and w. r. Kendall, a vet.
Urinary surgeon, was fatally burned.
Big Ed" Rice and George Shine,
two of the nest versatile bank sneak5
and confidence men known to the po-
lice in America and Europe, were ar
rested, on the 22d, in st. Louis.
Fire, on the 23d, completely de-
stroyed the tannery of F. Krehi &
Sons at Girard, O., causing a loss esti-
mated at from $250,O0O to $4,000 900; in
surance, $1,000 0O.
Burglars looted the railroad staten
at Columbia, Mo-, on the 22l, blowing
the safe with dynamite.
Five persons from st. Louis, mem
bcrs of a fishing party on their way
homeward, were injured, on the even
ing of the 23d, the wagon in which
they were riding being struck by a
| Chicago & Alton train at Venice. III.
Japanese heaquarters, reporting by
telegraph to Toxic, on the 23d, said
that the number of Russian dead
inferred up to October p makes a
total of 10,550. Upon this total Rus
sian casualties are estimated to exceed
| $4,000. The Japanese captured a total
Of As guns during the Shakhe opera
tons.
A man who refused to give his name
| aither threw or dropped a bottle of
nitroglycerin in front of 612 Chestnut
street, St. Louis, on the evening of the
23d. wrecking the front of the build
ing. He was injured to some extent
himself, and when arrested was found
10 carry two heavy-caliber revolvers
and two belts of cartridges.
Unless the Japanese take the initi-
alive soon, the Russians, it is expected,
will resume the offensive, and en-
leavor to drive the Japanese back for
the purpose of insuring the safety Of
heir winter quarters, which undoubt-
eddy will be north of Mukden, unless a
soLthward advance is successful.
Spontaneous combustion is believed
to have caused a fire which did $780,
O00 damage, on the oath, at the plant
of the New Home Sewing Machine Co.
at Orange, Mass. The blaze started in
the japanning room of one of the
buildings. Ten thousand new machines
were ruined.
Blandville (Ky.) college burned. on
the oath, leaving only the brick walls
| standing. Prof. Robinson. and a few
students who boarded with them, lost
most of their personal effects. No one
was seriously injured.
Safe-crackers gained entrance to the
| strong box in c.. M. David's general
store at Fillmore, Mo-, on the 23d, Sc
curing jewelry and money aggregating
81, 500. There is no clew to the rob-
berS.
Bandit Morris, last of the five men
engaged in the duel between detectives
and train robbers, in st. Louis, on Oc-
tober 81, died on tho oath.
The Brazilian chamber of deputies
has passed d bill to authorize the pur-
| chase of % new warships.
1t is expected that President Roose-
welt; Judge Parker and perhaps ex-
1-~z:l-4 H.1,o~ NI1-o1orI will xy;efk