The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1904-12-03
CURRENT TOPICS.
II NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AMI GENERAL.

probably have been larger had the
transportation facilities been adequate;
but the Wabash shuttle trains had
been taken out of commission n the
street a companies were caught nap
ping, having retired many cars with
the advent of cool weather.
Francis Buell. Cooley, founder Of the
wholesale dry goods house of Cooley,
Farrell & Co, from which sprang Field
& Letter, Marshall Field & Co., and
many other dry goods houses in Chi
cagO, died at Hartford, Conn, on the
25th, aged 80 years.
A great wolf drive occurred in the
pasture reserve near Chattanooga,
Okla, on the oath. Forty square miles
of territory was covered and about fifty
wolves corraled, ten of which were
captured and killed. 1t was the larg-
est hunt ever held in the territory.
Robert Causby was hanged at Bates
vile, Ark, on the 25th, for numbering
Sheriff D. Morgan on September Is,
1904. Causby was so near dead of
nervous prostration before he reached
the gallows that the attending physi-
clan thought that little life was eXtin-
guished with the moose.
Assistant Superintendent e. A. Pike,
of the Illinois mine, near North Free
dom, Wis, on the 25th, saved so min
ers from death by rushing into a burn
ing o at the bottom Of the mine
and eXtinguishing the flames, which
were licking at 1000 pounds of dyna-
mite.
Henry Holmes, q negro, was hanged
at Columbus, Tex, on the 25th, for
numbering Stewart John Bell and his
fOur-year-old son, by beating them to
death with an iron bar, his motive be-
ing robbery
Two bank burglars were fired On by
citizens of Wabash, Neb., on the 9th.
The burglars had exploded one charge
of dynamite on the heavy steel safe in
the Farmers state bank, and were pre-
pairing to explode another when citi-
Zens who had been awakened opened
fire upon them. The burglars returned
the fire, and succeeded in escaping.
Secretary of the Navy Morton, on the
9th, authorized denial of published re-
ports of the engagement of his daugh-
ter, Miss Pauline Morton, to Mr.. Thorn
as Chalmers, of Chicago.
President Roosevelt and party de-
parted from St. Louis one minute after
midnight on the morning of the 28th,
after spending two days at the Worlds
fair city.
A passenger train on the Mobile &
Ohio railroad vas derailed, on the 9th,
zeal Columbus, Mass, So people being
injured.
The latest compilation of the vote
by states for president "a few esti-
mated) gives Roosevelt a plurality of
2,454, 226, and a clear majority owe all
candidates of over a million votes.
One of the incidents of President
RoOsevelt's visit to the Philippine res
srvation at the Worlds fair was the
presentation, by Datto Fecundo, of the
Samal Moros, of his war bolos, on a
silver salver, and with them his fealty
to the president and the United States.
A Toxic dispatch of the 9th said
that, on the 26th, a special detachment
Of Japanese swordsmen, under Maj
Cen. Nakamura, effected an entrance
into one of the Port Arthur forts and
we're fighting fiercely when the dis
patch was sent. Another detachment,
lnder Maj.-Gen. SaItO also cut their
way into the Russian camp.
The tabulated vote by counties OF
the state of Illinois show the follow
ing totals in the vote for president of
the United States: Roosevelt, rep,
532, 745; Parker, DEM, 32S,006; Swal-
low, pro-, 34,759; Debs. Soc, 1925;
Corregan, soc.-labor, 4.708; Watson,
peop., 6,725; Holcomb, cont, $50. Roose
velt's plurality, 304, 739.
The official count shows that for
governor of Illinois, Deneen, rep,
received 634,0 29 votes; Stringer, DEM,
333, 1882; Patton, pro-, $3.50; Collins,
Soc, SO, 1850; Veal, soc.-labor, 4,379;
Hogan, peop., 1884; Specht, cont, 78O.
Deneen's plurality, 300,047.
Charles J. Warner was instantly
killed and 16 persons more or less
oTlOuSl luJuLCO, Oh Az @ONA' ~
the ov%erturning of a crowded north
bound Bellefontaine car at Fourteenth
and Papin streets, st. Louis.
Three laborers, Charles Mellich,
Frank Bennich, and John Poropat
were smothered to death IL a sewer
trench at Kingshighway and Fly
Ter avenue, st. Louis, on the 28th,
Herr Most, the noted New York an
archist, was arrested in ST. Louis, on
the 2Sth, following two Intellectual at
tempts to hold a meeting in that city.
In a clash between Italian factions
at Carbonate, Pa, on the 2Sth, n
man was killed, one MORALLY wounded
and another seriously injured.
The jury in the case of Nan Patter-
SON was discharged, in New York, on
The 28th, on account of the illness OF
one of the jurors.
A Toxic dispatch of the morning of
the 10Th said that the attack against
2O3-miter hill by the Japanese light
artillery was succeeding. With that
height in possession of the japanese
they wolld command every part of