The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1905-01-14
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ter plenipotentiary to Morocco.
Brig. Gen. Nathaniel Collins Mclean,
U. S. A, retired, whose father, John Nc
Lean, was postmaster general under
Presidents Monroe and Jackson, is dead
at his home in Bellport, l.. l.
President Roosevelt has appointed
ex-Congressman Robert w. Taylor as
United States district judge of the
northern district of Ohio to succeed
Francis j. Wing, resigned.
James Gillespie, who, with his sister,
Mrs. Belle Seward, and Mr.. and Mrs.
Myron Barbour, was indicted for the
murder of his twin sister, Elizabeth Gill
lespie, was found guilty at Rising Sun,
Ind. and sentenced to life imprison-
ment-
An explosion Of q tank of gasoline
caused a fire in the Hubbard laundry at
Greenland. Mich, killed one woman and
probably fatally injured another, and
wrecked the building.
The body of Neil S. Phelps, the capt.
talist, who mysteriously disappeared a
number of weeks ago, was found, badly
decomposed, in the river at Battle Creek,
Mich. Mr.. Phelps had been missing
since October % last.
Detective James Keefe was killed,
Richard Birmingham, a fellow police
man, was wounded, and two men whom
they sought to arrest were struck by bull
lets in a fierce battle in Chicago.
Former Gov. William Clafin, of Mas
S~achusetts, died at his home in Newton
vile. Death followed an illness of a
few weeks, incident to old age. He was
governor in 1S72-1S73 and 1874.
The pope refused to grant an audience
to Louise, the divorced wife of the Saxon
monarch.
County and federal authorities clashed
at Cleveland, o., over the custody of Mrs.
Chadwick, and the latter kept even her
lawyer from the woman's cell.
James M. A. Watson. a clerk employed
in the office of former Auditor Petty, of
the District of Columbia, was declared
guilty on two indictments which alleged
embezzlement of $12, 826 of district funds
in 1901.
The p%resenters of Bishop Talbot. of
the Central Pennsylvania diocese, with
drew the charges against him, but re-
served the right to presentnew ones.
President Roosevelt, in an address be-
fore the forestry congress in Washing
ton, said the long campaign for the
preservation Of the forests is near sue
cess because the users of wood them
selves now aim TO protect the supply.
Theodore Thomas, creator and direc-
tor of the Chicago orchestra, and one
of the worlds greatest and best must
clans, died in Chicago. He was 50
years old.
Three men were killed near Wealth
erly, Pa, by the derailment of a Lehigh
Valley coal train.
Gov. Johnson, of Minnesota, was in
augurated in St. Paul.
The Forty-fourth general assembly Of
Illinois convened in Springfield.
Gen. Edwin r. Niles, aged II, died in
an asylum at Goshen, Ind. During the
civil wal Gen. Niles was hit by a can
non ball. For over 40 years his mind
has been partially wrecked.
The Massachusetts house of repre-
sentatives unseated Representative
Thomas F. Curley, who is serving a
Jail sentence for fraud against the
United States government in connec-
ton with civil service examinations.
Mrs. Margaret Downs, of Marinette,
Wis, aged 107, died at Pentoga, Mich.
Intense cold has prevailed for the
last few days in the province of Sile-
STA. Twelve persons were frozen to
death.
Seven persons persisted in a blizzard
that swept New York city and the coast.
Car traffic in the city was tied up and
the poor suffered heavily.
The beef trust case has been met by the
government, which filed its brief with
the supreme court in reply to the pack
ers, who seek to have a federal court
Injunction removed.
George H. Williams, ex-chief justice
of Oregon territory, ex-United States
senator from the state of Oregon, attor-
ney general in President Grants sec
ond cabinet, and present mayor of
Portland, Ore, was indicted for NAL
feasance in office in failing to enforce, |
as mayor, the laws against gambling.
The joint merchant marine commits
sion submitted it's report and a bill to
congress, recommending subventiOns, in
postal, a tonnage tax on foreign
ships and the creation of a naval vOlun-
teer service as the best methods of up
building the merchant marine.
Miss Muriel Byram, a prominent fig
ure in Chicago society, was killed in
stantly by the accidental discharge Of
a rifle which she was cleaning.
One hundred Prussian cities united
in a wedding gift of silver to the crown
prince and his fiancee.
The Chicago board of education voted
to ask immunity for w. A. S. Graham,
secretary of the board, who fled
to South Africa six years ago after en-
bezzling $40,0 of school money.
Gov. Yates, in his message to the Hill
nois legislature, urged prompt action in
matters voted on at the last election.
Official and resident Washington ex-