The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1908-10-17
NEWS 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.

WoI1Sh VI bSiIS ' - ASs
have formed their plans to hold a pie
supper-every woman to bring a pie
and sell 1t to the highest bidder, thu
purchaser getting the privilege OF eat
ing the pie with it's maker.
The Texas Railroad commission
does not believe that the Interstate
Commerce commission. or m othe1
Federal body, car compel Texans te
submit to riding in the same Pullman
sleeping cars with negroes.
Eight bricks, much resembling sc
many loaves of bread for size, piled
up on the table in the First National
Bank were among the sights delight
ing the eyes of hundreds of delegates
to the National Convention of Bankers
who visited Colorado Springs last
week. The gold came from the great
Portland mine, Cripple Creek, which
has produced $25, 100000 and paid
$4,000, 900 in dividends, and resulted
from a ten days cleanup at the Port
. land mill, West Colorado Springs. The
weight is 500 pounds and the value
$4,000
Disappointed after a search Of two
days in not finding Shep Jones, the
negro who assassinated A. j. Wall, a
wealthy cotton planter at his home
near Hickory, Miss, q mob of fifty
men has hanged one innocent negro
and shot two others to death. The
mob completed it's work by burning
a negro church and lodge hall near
the scene intthe negro colony.
Henry Baker, aged AZ years, once q
noted heavyweight pugilist, was run
over and killed by a train at Kansas
City. Baker. fought Jim Jeffries to a
standstill for eight rounds May 10, 1897
in San Francisco. In the ninth round,
however, Jeffries knocked Baker out
and there were those who saw the
fight who said Jeffries won by a
chance blow.
When Mrs. Sarah c.. Byrne, boarding
house keeper, 6 feet tall and muscular,
was granted a divorce and $500 ali
mony in the superior court at Indian
polls she proposed to Judge Harvey
that she would waive all claim to the
alimony if she could be locked up In
a room for five minutes with her form
er husband, William H. Byrne.
With a singing arraignment of COM
missions which attempt to regulate the
railroad business, Theodore P. ShOnts
of the Chicago e Alton railroad ad-
dressed the members of the Lakes-to-
the-Gulf Deep Waterway association, |
and gave them their first real "sit-up-
and-take-notice" speech of the session.
The British cruiser Inf1exible at her
official trials attained a speed of 27A
knots, breaking all records. 1t was
stated after the trial that her speed
have been greater had not the
fog hindered.
With every aeroplane record to his
credit and all requirements fulfilled for
winning the French syndicate prize OF
ing urged to make a flight across the
English Channel.
A shakeup in the official family OF
the United Mine Workers of America,
whereby Vice-President J. P. White of
Iowa and w. D. Ryan, secretary-treas-
urer, will retire, was announced at in
ternational headquarters.
A club of II Bucyrus (Ohio) young
has been formed with the ex-
press purpose of adopting the new
sheath nouyn Tho 0ournC - NOT tho
modified pattern, but the more in
.teresting original pattern.
The London cabman who drove King
Alfonso during his recent London
visit, and had the temerity to ask his
majesty for his autograph, which he
without a murmur, may con-
himelf a specially favored NOR
for the king of Spain usually
makes it a rule never to give his auto
graph to anyone except his own init
nate friends.
Bound, gagged and locked in a box
ar by haZing students. William +.
Smith, a freshman of Kentucky state
has disappeared and the grand
ury is probing what may be a CHASTITY
mystery, and police and railroad men
ire working desperately to ascertain
lis tate.
The case of William F. Stewart be-
ore the Army Retiring Board is clos
d. 1t is expected that the board will
ecommend his retirement. ,
President William X. .K4vanaugh OF
It, Louis called the convention of the
Akesto-the-Gulf Deep Waterways as
ociation to order in Chicago. A ]
thousand delegates, including $50 gov
rnors and congressman and other I
in public life. We're present at the {
session. l
Another 1OO0-car order has been
laced with the Standard Steel Car
70. Of Pittsburg by the Chicago & {
llton railroad. 1t is a duplicate Of an
placed a few weeks ago by the a
anne road The cars will, it is said, Y
e made at the Hammond Ind. e