The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1904-12-03

THE SENTINEL.
J. ". BUCHANAN. Editor aad Proprietor.
GRENADA. ,i, MISSISSIPPI
The officials of the Cuban govern
ment have officially denied the pub
lished reports that there is yellow fe.
yer in Cuba.
The American Federation of Labor,
In session at San Francisco, on the
26th, reelected Samuel Gompers az
president of that body.
1t was reported. on the 2Sth, that
the pilot for President Roosevelt's spe-
cial train vas stoned by four men
while passing through a lonely spot
near Brazil, Ind.
Jimmy" Michael, the noted Welsh
middle-distance bicycle rider, died
suddenly, on November q, on board
the French line steamship La Savoie,
of congestion of the brain.
Gen. Jacob S. Coxey, of Mount Yer
non, o., celebrated as the leader OF
"Commonweal Army" filed a personal
petition in bankruptcy, on the 2Sth, in
the United States court at Columbus.
Nine. Schumann-Heinck, the we'll
known singer, received a cable mes
sage, on the 2Sth, announcing the
death of her husband, Paul Schumann,
at their home near Dresden, SaXony.
News reached Albuquerque, N. NJ
on the 9th, of the assassination OF
Col. r. Francisco Chaves, probably the
best-known republican politician in
New Mexico, at PinOs Wells, Terrence
county.
Prince Sanadaru Fushimi, Japanese
military hero, and the mikado's repre-
sentative visitor to the United States
and the Worlds fair, left st. Louis, on
the oath, for Philadelphia and other
cities in the east.
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Notices were posted. on the 9th. an
nouncing the shut down OF the steel
and bar mill of the South Deering
plant of the International harvester
works at Chicago. The suspension OF
work will throw 600 wOrkmen out OF
employment.
Adolph Weber. of Auburn, Cal, &C
cused of the murder of his father,
mother, sister and brother, was, on the
9th. served with a warrant accusing
him of having held up the cashier of
the Bank of Auburn. last May, and
robbing the bank of $4,000.
Stephen Putney, Jr., of Richmond,
Va, son of a wealthy wholesale shoe
dealer there, who mysteriOusly disap-
reared while visiting the Worlds fair
at st. Louis on November 16, was
found. on the 25th, in a detachment OF
recruits at Jefferson barracks.
The British foreign office has issued
an English translation of the declara-
ton signed at st. Petersburg by Sir
Charles Hardinge, the British ambas-
sador, and Count LamSdorff, the Rus
sian foreign minister, in regard to a
settlement of the North sea incident.
Benbow's Montana Meteor" made a
flight from the Worlds fair aerodrome,
on the 22d, but its dirigibility was not
demonstrated, as the motive power
N--z-4 lab, o11,OC+ C,ppOliofn1U after
the ascension was made, and a land
ing was effected at Underwood, four
miles away.
Miners have broken into a cavern
containing two dozen mummies, near
Silver City. N. M. Buried with the
mummies were stone weapons and in
struments, showing that they be-
longed to a prehistoric race. The
mummies were apparently about five
feet tall in life.
The American Art Exposition Co.,
having failed to satisfactorily complete
It's side of the arrangements, the pro-
posed trip of the Filipino constabulary
battalion and band from the Worlds
fair for a weeks engagement in Madi-
son Square garden, New York city, has
been declared of.
The special train bearing President
Roosevelt and party arrived IN st.
Louis at $40 a. m, on the 26th, and
was at once switched to siding inside
the Administration entrance to b
Worlds fair, where its occupants were
left to repose undisturbed until the
official day opened.
The congressional committee which