The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1908-09-26
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.

with a short crow bar, AnureW l|iSh''
foot, a powerful mulattO inmate OF the
Government Hospital for Insane at
Washington, ran amuck, killing two
persons and breaking the arm OF q
third before he was shot and over
powered.
To spread the propaganda or hsh
culture and to work in conjunction
with the Governments Fisheries
bureau is h aim of the Fourth IN
ternational Fisheries congress-, which
began it's sessions in Washington.
The British government has lifted
the ban which was placed on American
beef following Upton Sinclair's aglta-
ton and the revelations resulting
from it.
Owing 10 the opening Of school, the
Western Union Telegraph Company
at Muskogee, Okla, found itself snort
OF II messenger boys, by virtue of the
compulsory education law, which re-
Quires all children under 16 years OF
age to attend school.
All DOpS VI dNohNihS q
cotton industry and allied trades IN
England was abandoned when 400 cot
tom mills shut down as a result OF the
rejection by 10000 cotton mill en-
ployes of the operators proposal OF a
5 per cent tut in wages.
The first break in the scheduled
itinerary of the American fleet occur
red Thursday when it was founded In
advisable, owing to the delay in coal
ing, to set sail for Manila until Friday
morning. The leave-taking could have
taken place Thursday, but it was de-
cided to spend one more night in
King Georges Sound.
More than 81, 600, 900 has been left
by John Burnham Brown, a pioneer
business nan of Chicago, who died
Thursday. for the founding OF one OF
the most unique schools in the
country. The institution Will ut
young men and women to enter bust
ness careers. One Of the peculiar
provisions imposed is that the bodies
of. Mr.. Brown and his wife, who died
suddenly Jan. 8, be buried under the
rotunda of the main building. Only
$50, 600 of the estate goes to relatives.
If Count Boni de Castellane will &C
cent an offer of $4,000 a week for III
weeks to appear in vaudeville, the
former husband of Anna Gould Will be
seen on the stage in New York during
the winter.
The Michigan Central Railroad COM
pany has closed a contract with the
American Car & Foundry company to
repair 5000 cars. This will keep one
plant busy until January 2, adding
1000 men to the pay-rolls.
A verdict of o guilty was return
ed by the jury trying Congressman
Jay F. Laning of the Fourteenth ONO
district, charged with embezzllng
from the Ohio Trust Co., of Norwalk,
O.. of which he was an officer.
Determined to pry Col. VIM. +.
Stewart loose from the army, wal de-
partment officials will shortly call that
officer. who has beer living in exile,
at Fort Grant, Ariz., before a retiring
board.
The refusal of a number Of rail-
roads to comply with the orders or the
Interstate Commerce Commission TO
furnish information in connection
with the enforcement of the sixteen
hour law that would be in erect evil
dence against themselves, has brought
%or+l oonctio comments from the
commission.
The Government is determined to
get out of the employers liability Jaw
all the potential power that is in 1t.
w. R. Harr, of the solicitor generals
office. has been sent to San Francisco
to prepare a brief, and make argu-
ment in a number of such cases be-
fore the circuit court Of appeals. Harr
had had charge of the employers
liability cases before the supreme
court.
When negroes attemI ted to lynch
Isaac Young, a member Of their race.
at Hattiesburg, Miss, for attempting
to attack a negro girl, white men in
terfered and saved Young's life.
w. M. Parker, Jackson county,
charged with assault to kill and sent
enced to the p~enitentiary for n year
went to Little Rock, unattended by an
officer taking a petition for pardon
end a commitment to prison. Gov.
Pindall granted a 40 days reprieve
and Parker returned home. Parker
shot Grit Gay, but claims he was pro-
tecting his family.
While a guest of Col. Cnas. Edward
Warde, M. P, at Teston, Eng, Maj.
Gen. Edward Lizard, retired, whose
wife was shot and killed mysterously
near London, Aug. "a, died by throw
ing himself beneath the wheels of a
moving train.
An inexplicable air OF mystery sur
rounds the nature of the accident that
befell Miss Violet Asquith, daughter
of Premier Asquith, who, after an all
night search, was found unconscious
on the brink of a high cliff near
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