The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1904-08-06

AN Va lAldtN, has DtGu ldhtD "
st. Petersburg under an escort of gen
darmes.
A dispatch to the London Contra
News. from st. Petersburg says the
assassin of Won. Plehve is dead. ant
adds that he made no disclosures be-
fore dying.
The state department a again
taken up the Wainwright ~eXtraIition
case with France, due, 1t is under
stood, to the initiative OF Circuit At
torney Folk, of st. Louis.
There is grave fear of a strike In
volving approximately $4,000 men ii
The Scranton (Pa.) anthacite coal field,
owing to the refusal of the companies
TO deduct check weighman's wages.
Attorneys H. N. Hawkins and John
II. Murphy, counsel for the Western
Federation of Miners, are devising
ways and means to enable the depOrt-
ed Cripple Greek miners to return to
their homes.
On the 1st, every telegraph operator
and all but two agents on the Neosho
branch of the Missouri, Kansas & Tex
as railway system struck in compliance
with a general order Of the Order OF
Railway photographers.
Two Frenchmen have been arrested
and imprisoned at Wilhelmshaven, Ger
many, on suspicion of espionage. They
had in their possession photographs OF
the new Notifications at Wilhelmshav-
en-. and of the fort at Alton.
Perhaps the oldest person in the
world to kill himself was Isaac Webb,
aged 81, of Kokomo, Ind, who died, on
the 30th, from swallowing carbolic
acid. The family believes he took the
poison by mistake for medicine.
All the officers and employees Of the
Kni~ckerbocker Steamboat Co., as we'll
as the United States inspectors. indict-
ed by the federal grand jury in con-
nection with the Slocurn disaster of
June Is last, we're admitted to bail on
the 1St.
The sea wall to protect Galveston,
Tex, from overflow by the gulf during
storms. was completed on the 29th. The
wall is 1883 feet long, 16 feet wide at
the base, 5 feet wide at the top. with
a granite riprap apron extending II
feet outward.
4 p 1,-4;.1 HT,,A,rsnFf YIN
being driven to The Peterhof palace, on
the 2Sth, to report to Emperor Mich
olas the assassination of Minister Of
the Interior Won Plehve, stones were
thrown at hin and his carriage win
COWS were broken.
James Vi. Calvin, a wellknOwn ST.
Louis newspaper man, affectionately
known to q host of friends as Red"
Calvin, was found dead in his bed, on
the 2Sth, IN his room at the MetropOlc
hotel, in ST. Joseph, Mo, where he had
been staying during the republican
state convention.
Robert e. PattisOD, who was twice
elected governor of Pennsylvania on
the democratic ticket and twice on
troller of Philadelphia, died, on the
list. at his home in Overlook, a sub
arb Of Philadelphia. Pneumonia, COM
plicated with a weakness of the heart,
was the cause of death.
Fireman James Frames, of Chicago,
was killed, and four trainmen were in
jured in the wreck of a north-bOund
Chicago & Eastern Illinois passenger
train at HoOpeston, ILL.,, on the 28th.
The train ran into an open switch,
and the battered lock found near by
indicated the work of train wreckers.
Among the collection Of beautiful
and historic articles hat adorn the
Rhode Island building at we Worlds
fair are a pair of cut glass chandeliers
that were the gift Of Marie Antoinette
to Lafayette, and by him presented to
the First infantry company of Provi-
dence upon his visit to this country in
1926.
The forthcoming report of the Unit
ed States geological survey will show
that the United States exceeded all
previous records in the production of
coal in 1908. The total amount of the
output of the coal mines of the country
during that veal was 359, 421 81 tons,
an increase of nearly So, 900, 900 tons,
Or 10 per cent. over the preceding
year.
-0
WI TSng-fang, who for several years
represented the empire of China at
Washington as minister p%lenipoteu-
tiary and envoy extraordinary, &C
cording 10 his son, Wo Choa Chu, has
retired from the vice-presidency of the
foreign board at Pekin, which Office he
held from the time of being recalled TO
his native land, and has permanently
quit politics.
Owing TO the annual taking account