The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1908-06-20
OF THE WEEK
THE LATEST NEWS OF THE
WORLD BRIEFLY TOLD.
NORTH, EAST, SOUTH, WEST
Foreign Lands, Throughout the Ma
ton, and Particularly from the
Great Southwest.

man, six miles west OF Red Buu, Ill
Nr. Hoffman went out to feed it and
It followed him into the house A
small band was around its leg, with
the following inscription: II. \.
25,045."
Burnett Phelps. one of the several
men indicted in Marshall county, KY,
for night riding, vas placed on trlai
Tuesday. He is accused of being IN
the raid on Birmingham, when John
Scruggs, a negro, was killed n MS
x~randchild was so badly shot it 1
the next day.
So critical is the condition of Thos.
Lynott, a wealthy builder, OF $40
Seventy-third street, Brooklyn, VINO
was shot in the doorway of his home
by his nephew, John Lynott, who then
sent a bullet into his own brain. that
the police have been unable to OBJ
tain an ante-mortem statement.
Miss Ina G.. Richmond, a young
Irish girl, has just been appointed
manager of the great Magherafelt gas
works. She is the first M 10
occupy such a position and all Ire
land is proud Of her.
Spreading rails ditched an east
bound stock train on the Quincy, Oma-
ha & Kansas City route near Quincy,
Ill. The engine overturned. Engl-
neer Alonzo Border was killed and
Fireman Fred Mester was seriously
hurt.
Crazed with JOY over the addition
to the ranks of 1000 of the soldiers
of the Sultan Abdul Aziz, the follow
ers OF Mulai Hafd, the pretender, are
committing outrages that it is feared
will either call for Intervention by
France or plunge Morocco into a
bloody war.
An attempt to assassinate Gen. PIC
quart. the minister of wal and a Drey-
fus supporter, failed by reason of the
bad craftsmanship Of his assailant.
A Jury in the circuit court at Fort
Smith. Ark, rendered a verdict OF
Imprisonment for 81 years against
Elijah" Ekaggs, a Holiness preacher.
He was arrested ten days ago on a
charge made by n Of his followers,
Mrs. Nellie Taylor of Dallas, Tex,
that he had taken her to Electric
Park, and there assaulted her.
Prince Philip Zu Eulenberg's fam
ilv and friends are getting certificates
from alienists that he is afflicted with
q form of insanity. Thus the princes
kin hope to remove him from the
stigma of having been a Knight OF
the Round Table and SO themselves
escane the reflected dishonor of an
other public trial.
Three men working around a vat OF
molten metal met with a terrible
death at Rehon. on the Franco-Belgian
frontier. One of them, a man of 10,
fell headlong into the vat. A young
man named Nicolas Wons, jumped
forward to catch his third comrade,
and fell in after him. The third man,
the father of Nicolas Wons, in trying
to save his son also plunged into
the molten metal.
Caleb Powers and Jim Howard are
free. The men who for nearly a dec
ade fought to gain liberty after BE-
ing charged with the assassination
of Gov. Goebel of Kentucky, dofTed
their c~onvicts' stripes an hour after
Gov. Wilson, a Republican, had
signed their pardon.
The Cunard liner Lusitanla has
again wrested the laurels Of queen
of the seas from her sister ship, the
Mauretania. Not only did the Lusl-
tania make the best record for the
westward passage, but she also beat
the record for the days run and the
best average hourly speed.
Nine men were killed by a prema-
ture explosion of dynamite in a rail-
road camp east of Winnipeg, Man.
The victims were workmen employed
bv Chambers Bros. and belonged to a
construction gang.
The Federation of American Zion
lists has Sent out a call for the 18th
annual convention of the federation,
which will b. held at Atlantic City
from July 10 to Is.
Three thousand dollars worth OF
watches and jewelry were stolen dur
ing a daring robbery of Hyman &
Berg's jewelry store on State street,
Chicago. The robbers threw a brick
through a plate glass window.
Racing is dead in New York state.
The senate passed the anti-race track
gambling bill by a vote of &c to rs.
Thus ended the famous campaign.
Now that the sensation about the
Directoire gowns has subsidized some
what. and not a single one has been
seen on the street of London. the
napers have taken up what is gnown
in America as the Merry Widow
hat.
Meat prices in Chicago have gone
soaring. The packers had promised
or threatened to begin another cam
paign of high prices, and everything
went through as scheduled. Here
are some of the advances: Beer, 2