The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1908-10-03

10 expected 10 remain ABOUT STATIONARY
for a week or ten days.
Herman Ridder, the new Democratic
National Treasurer, announced Mon
day that on Oct. Is he would publish
the full list of contributors to the
Bryan campaign fund. After Oct. Ii
the names of contributors to the fund
will be published daily.
On account of a high wind which
prevailed Friday, Lieut.. Lahm made
no flight in dirigible balloon No. ! OF
the war department which expert.
ments are being made in st. Joseph
Mo-. this week.
The call for the twenty-eighth an
nual convention of the American Fed
Grafton of Labor has been issued. The
convention will assemble in Denver,
Monday. November 8.
Thousands have been drowned,
towns wiped out, an area many miles
in extent turned into an inland sea,
and the bodies of flood victims found
lodged in the branches of trees and
lining the banks of the terribly swol-
len streams as the result of a hood
that is now r%avaging the Deccan region
in East India.
The forest fire situation in the Adj
rondacks is still alarming, although
the fires that threatened the most
damage have nearly died out.
Following many rumOrs on the sub
ject Chairman Hitchcock of the Re-
publican National Committee, Friday
announced that Gen. T. Coleman
Dupont of Delaware, head of the
Bureau of Campaign Speakers of the
National Committee, had resigned as
head of that bureau and also as a
member of the executive committee of
the National Committee and that his
resignation had been accepted.
Governor Haskell at midnight Fri
day resigned as treasurer of the Demo
cratic National Committee. His resig-
nation was announced by himself
three hours after his arrival in Chi
cago from Guthrie, Okla, and after he
had conferred with officials of the
Democratic National headquarters
here. In giving out his decision, Mr.
Haskell. in response to a question de
clared he did not desire to be rcspOn-
sible for any embarrassment which
might result to the Democratic party
by his retaining the office of treasurer.
Forest and meadow fires are raging
in Ohio. West Of Cleveland hundreds
of acres of wood and meadow land
are afire and are travelling. rapidly
toward Rocky River, a few miles from
the cit! square. Hundreds are night
ing, apparently in vain, to check the
of the flames. The country
is dry as finder as there has been no
rain here in over eight weeks.
Albuquerque, n. NJ, is crowded
with delegates and the advance guard
attracted by the Sixth International
Irrigation Congress which convenes
there Tuesday morning and its ac-
cOmpanying industrial exposition
which will continue for several days
the congress closes October ).
Although the flood which filled the
of Augusta, Ga, several weeks
ago has long since subsidized, the city
IS still experiencing great %inconveni-
ence because of the fact that not q
drop of water has been pumped. int
he reservoir since the food; and n
can be turned on for some days to
come.
President Roosevelt replies TO the
lemand of Bryan for proof of charges
Haskell, with a dismissal of
he Ohio bribery charges as being OF
COMMON nOtOriety. and makes a vigOr-
assault upon the Oklahoma gov
for alleged improper conduct in
he Prairie Oil case in Oklahoma, for
lis veto of the child labor law, for his
iealings in Indian lands, and for gen
,ral unfitness. Haskell replies to the
Presidents assault by challenging his
-eracity, declaring he is a member of
he Ananias Club of high standing, de-
ending his record and promising to
20 into Ohio and make warm campaign
speeches on the controversy.
Taft and Bryan both spent Sunday
n Minneapolis. AS soon as he arrived
Bryan sent a messenger to Taft, ask I
ng if it would be convenient for
Bryan to call on him at 5 p. m. TAFT
aid he would be there and hurried
an automobile, after an address to
he Y. M. C.. A.. back to his hotel,
where he found a note from MIR.
Bryan, stating that he found he had a
Inner engagement at 5 and asked If
o'clock would be convenient for the
Meeting. Taft, however, had another
Engagement, SO the two candidates
allied to meet.
With representatives from 80 for
ign countries, and forming the larg-
st and most distinguished gathering
II medical scientists eve held, the
ixth international congress Oh tuber-
,ulosis opened it's deliberative ses-
ions Monday in the Assembly Hall
# the New National Museum Wash
ngton, ID. G..
Denver's historic old pavilian, the
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