The Grenada sentinel., 1908-08-15

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labor strikes.
A gigantic public utilities corpora
tion to supply light, heat and power
| to score or more of cities and towns
| in Northern Indiana and Ohio has
been formed with a capital stock ol
| $4.5OO,OOO.
According to dispatch received al
the state department from William
F. Doty, United States consul at Tab
riz, Persia, the American flag flying
over the consulate at that place was
shot away by the loyalist forces and
| a man was wounded Immediately in
front of the door of the consulate.
What politicians believe is the be.
ginning of a sweeping reaction against
the inroads of prohibition in Ohio is
presaged in the defeat for renomina-
tion of State Senators Drake and w.
E. Atwell
For torturing his beautiful young
wife until she went insane and so
mistreating his infant child that it is
Count Margalho of the old Portuguese
nobility has been banished in dis
grace from King Manuers court and
deprived of the high office he held un-
der the late King Carlos.
Chicago has a population OF 2,425,-
600. according to an estimate of the
publishers Of the city directory. This
is an increase of $4,000 over the popu-
lation of 1907 and is based on the u
S. census of 1900 The school board
census puts the population at 2.140,-
900.
Fred NJ. Choate of New York, son of
Judge William Gardner Choate Of
Des Moines, Ia, secured writ OF
habeas corpus from the district court
to secure possession of his child,
which was taken to DeS Moines re.
Gently by his wife The child is now
in charge of the police. Choate fol.
lowed them all the way from New
York.
The preliminary draft of the Stand.
ard Oil rehearing petition has been
completed and forwarded to Attorney
General Bonaparte by United States
District Attorney Sims. The petition
will be filed for hearing Aug. 81.
For the purpose of fighting the in
creased freight rates in southwestern
territory, Senator Culberson, Attorney
General Pollard and State Commits
sioner Mayfield, all of Texas, and Com
missioner Love of Oklahoma, have
prepared voluminous complaint,
commerce commission.
The PillsburyWashburn Flour Mills
Co. (Limited), said to be the largest
milling company in the world, was
placed in the hands of receivers as a
result of a petition by certain stock
holders and holders of paper of~ the
company. The receivership is de-
clared to be step to reorganization
and the action is held to be friend
ly proceeding.
Bigamy has just been given official |
standing by the fifth chamber of the
Paris appeal court, which has con- |
firmed judgment of the civil tribunal |
declaring that a woman who was
married to a Frenchman living in
Paris named Raoul and also to a
Dane living in Copenhagen is legally
the wife of both
Capt. Jas. McAllister, veteran river
engineer, became a raving maniac at
the throttle of the passenger packet
OriOle. The boat was stopped and an
other engineer secured after some
hours delay.
With 10000 mechanics already on
strike and every shop on the Canadian
Pacific railroad closed down, the
union strikers promise that inside of
4 week practically all the conductors,
engineers and firemen on the system
will follow their example, bringing
he operation of the big railroad to a
standstill.
Speculation is rife over the success
;Or of the late Senator w. B. Allison
If Iowa and politicians are interested
n the announcement of Gov. Albert
3. Cummins that he will be candi-
late to succeed the veteran statesman.
1t has been learned that Uncle Sam
nay be the object of Mrs. Russell
Sage's next philanthropic venture.
She is considering the purchase Of
Island in the Hudson
liver, opposite West Point, intending
o give it to the government as a site
or military preparatory school,
The Arizona health authorities are
a plan to return to Cali
ornia, Gen. D. K. Wardwell and his
wife. the latter of whom is. victim
# leprosy. The officiols propose to
ompel the Southern Pacific railroad
o transport the couple to Sawtelle,
rom which point they came.
E. Bartolo Hall, Long Island mil
ionaire, began suit in Nassau county
or absolute divorce from his beauti-
ul young wife whom he accused of
aving gone west last May with the
lev. B. Denham, pastor of the First
'hurch of Christ of this city. Mrs.
TALL is now at the home of her father