The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1904-05-28
CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

senate President ROOSOVSis giving as
s~istance to a pretended negro In dis
tress.
Judge J. A. Yantis, for 16 years dean
Of the law department of the Un1ver-
sity of Missouri, died at South McAles-
ter, /. T., on the 10Th, of heart disease.
He had been practicing lazy there for a
year.
The emperor of Russia. during his
visit to Poltava, Russia, was waited
upon by a deputation of Jews, who as
sured his majesty of the loyalty OF
themselves and their coreligionists.
One hundred striking coal miners
who refused to be registered by the
| military authorities of Las Animas
| county, Col, which is under martial
law. were taken tn Trinidad, on the
| 18th, as military prisoners from the
| strikers camp near Ludlow. They
we're forced to march Is miles under
cavalry escort.
Thieves entered the post Office at
| Westboro, Mo, on the 18th, and robbed
the safe of 1888 in cash and 1896 in
stamps. Nitroglycerin was used on the
safe. 1t was evidently the work OF
professionals.
Mrs. Gallagher, tried a second time
, at Des Moines, Ia, for perjury in con-
nection with the murder of her hus-
band, was found guilty, Mrs. Gal
Laughter was charged by the state with
having killed her husband, I'M at
tempting to burn the body.
A fine flow of lubricating oil has
been discovered at a depth of 29S feet
on the farm of George Cole, near Ches-
terton, Ind. Much excitement has been
caused, and scores of farmers in the
vicinity are preparing to drill.
Four Cinnamon were burned in a
fire which DESTROYED a laundry at Mon
treal, Canada, on the goth. Two are
dead and two are dying. Many excit-
ing scenes attended attempts at rescue.
A. j. Davidson, president of the
Frisco railway, that the
company will spend over a million
dollars in improving the terminals at
Kansas City within a year.
The post office at Roberts, Ill, was
entered by robbers, on the goth, the
safe dynamited and $275 in cash taken.
The thieves stole a railway velocipede
and made their escape.
The Ulster county poOrhOuse, three
miles from New Paltz, N. Y, was to-
tally destroyed by fire on the 22d.
Three inmates who are missing are
- Lora honn h,,rrnd Tho loco
is placed at $4,000.
The conviction of Frank H. Burgess,
a sailor, who shot Capt. G. B. Towns
end of the schooner Charles K. Buck
ley in a quarrel over wages, was af-
firmed by the court of appeals of New
York on the 21st.
The Brady Union Stock Yards Co.
at Atlanta, Ca, was placed in the
hands of a receiver, on the 21st, on pc
tition of creditors. The liabilities are
placed at SIZE, 900; assets $500
Fred Williams, %colored, has been
sentenced by Judge Mcdonald, of st.
Louis. to be hanged on June q. Will
Jams shot and killed Luther Lewis last
August.
The bull fighters who were engaged
to give performances at the st. Louis
exposition have left Mexico City for
their destination.
Jesse l.. Jewell, state senator, went
to trial in the criminal court at Kan
sas City, on the 23d, upon a charge of
soliciting a bribe, for his vote and the
votes. of other senators upon certain
baking powder legislation pending in
the Missouri legislature of 1903.
A decree has been issued by Presi-
dent Castro of Venezuela, expelling
from Maracaibo ten Spanish Capuchin
monks, who preached in favor of the
re-establishment of clerical power over
civil society.
The greatest excitement prevails in
Harrisburg, ILL.,, over the discovery of
oil in the heart of the city, a half Lock
from the public square, on the prop
erty of L. S. Barger, a jeweler.
Seven indictments were voted by the
Chicago grand jury, on the 22d, against
the promoters of race track hand
books. The names of the accused were
withheld.
The plant of the Highland Power Co.,
on the Boise river, 20 miles above
Boise, Idaho, was swept away by flood
on the 23d. Loss $3.50, 900.
Peter o. Elliott, the man who was
arrested several months ago in Wash
irgton, D. c., on suspicion of being L
lunatic, with probably murderous de-
signs on President Roosevelt, hanged
himself from a girder of a railroad
bridge in South Minneapolis, on the
22d.
Mrs. Anna Clifton Springer, wife Of
John w. Springer, former president OF
the National Live Stock association,
died at her home in Denver, Col, on
the 22d. She was a daughter of Col.
N. E. Hughes, and lived the greater
part of her life in st. Louis.
During a recent reconnaissance of
Port Arthur by torpedo boats of Adj
niiral Togo's fleet a shell hit the tor
pedo boat destroyer Akatsubi, killing
one officer and "a men.
Mrs. Floyd Walton, Mississippi's Of
fetal hostess of "Beauvoi"," that
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