The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1908-08-08

Walter HaDlnger, IS. a travelling
salesman from st. Louis, attempted
to commit suicide at Decatur, Ind.
by slashing his throat from ear tc
ear. He was well dressed, but pen.
niless when found. He will die.
About 200 men are out Of work as
a result of the order O: the employees
OF the International Paper Co. to &c
on strike. The company has a la -gs
plant in Niagara Falls. N. Y.
Blarei Widzise, 40, was founc muir
dered in his saloon in Chicago. There
were bullet holes in his head and
right hip. His two partners, held by
the police, say they found the man
dead when they entered the saloon
Monday, declaring burglars had shot
him. A revolver with four chambers
discharged was found on the car.
The Spanish capital is startled b.
a well authenticated rumor that a
fu~ll-f1edged plot against the life of
King Alfonso had recently been dis.
covered and foiled by the secret pc.
lice. 1t is known that several of the
terrorist leaders involved in the plot
are under arrest.
Organized seditiOn among the Rus
sian soldiers on the Manchurian front
Ter and the officials and employees of
the Chinese railway was reveaied by
the arrest of several of the leaders in
tho mOVnmnnt unnn uhnn, u,nra fo,,nI
discriminating papers.
Two passengers are reported in
tured in a wreck on the westbOund
Golden State limited ON the Rock
Island road, four miles west Of Will
cOX AriZ.
Cornelius O'Keefe, rs, an adherent
Of the Osler theory that a mans use
fulness vanishes after he is 60, com
n:itted suicide by hanging himself in
a shed at the real of his home in
South Chicago. He had been living
with his daughter and was unable to
find work.
Surrounded by a posse which had
pursued him for 20 miles to a point |
southwest of Lawton, Okla, J. NJ. Phil,
lips, a railroad contractor and farmer,
killed himself rather than face ar
rest for the murder of his sister-in-
law, Mrs. June Smith. at Temple.
Mrs. Douglas Gilbert, aged 70, of
Pana, ILL.,, the oldest person to partici-
pate in the annual worlds spelling
match in connection with the Ninona
Lake assembly program, won first hon
ors and will be awarded a prize Of
$40.
The st. Louis police have been
asked to identify the body of a man
found in the Mississippi river at Cry
stall City, Mo, with two bullet holes
in the head and the pockets of the
clothing turned inside out.
j. G.. A. Leischman, American am
bassador to Turkey, reports to the
state department hat general am
nesty for political prisoners has been
proclaimed. and that those impris-
oned are being released. He says the
to a constitutional govern
ment in the Ottoman empire has been
brought about with comparatively lit
tie bloodshed.
Absolutely absurd" is the brand
Judge Taft places upon the story that
Sherman is to retire as
Republican vice-presidertial can
1idate and be succeeded by Gov.
Sheldon of Nebraska.
II Q Do-oo+or A. A
Walter SCOTS Death Valley
from the Pacific coast to New
York a few years ago, vas instantly
killed in the wreck of the Santa Fe's
Chicago flyer, near Wax
Irussa, Kas.
Dispatches from Canton declare
hat 10000 persons, instead of 800, as
eported earlier, were drowned in the
there Monday night. The
is the worst China has had
years, the advices declare.
Mrs. John Smith is dying at Meal
lster, Mich, as the result of the bites
f flies received while in the woods.
he lost her way and wandered about
was found unconscious with
warns of flies biting her.
Doubt as to the ability of Represent
tive Sherman, Republican vice-presi- I
entail nominee, to take an active I
art in the coming campaign because ,
f ill-health was removed by the re-
eipt by Francis Curtis, director of Z
lie Republican literary bureau, of a !
letter from the New York
r, declaring the latter eve felt bet
II in his life.
The emperor of Germany may join {
..oOsevelt in the African hunt.
Hartman and Hill-Morgan railroads
Ian a concentrated attack against
le interstate commerce commissions =
rate decisions. :,
AS a result of what is believed to :
ave been a concerted meeting of T
onvicts employed on the plantations :
bout Houston, Tex, II negroes es- -
aped. Posses are in pursuit. .
Pursuant to his policy of moderniz- =
his empire, Sultan Abdul Hamid, Il