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

lSSSlOudl bdStEplI "a AN O
stretch in the race for the pennan
in the two major leagues been reach
ed with the leading clubs so closet.
punched and with the followers of thu
game excited to such a pitch of acute
interest. In both leagues, the leader:
New York in the Nationals; an(
Detroit in the American hold The
honors by one point.
The American battleship fleet
which passed Perth, Australia, las
week, is due off Manila Friday or Sat
urday. Because of the cholera out
break in Manila all arrangements FOL
the reception and entertainment O
the officers and men except h water
parade upon the fleets arrival, nave
been postponed. The fleet will in
dulge in target practice as previously
arranged and then depart for Japan
The st. Petersburg correspondent OF
the London Times says that Russia
and Great Britain have demanded a
clearer reply from the shah 10 their
representations on the subject of the
elections.
A special dispatch from Teheran
says that the imperial troops have sui
fered defeat at TabriZ and rs a con
sequence, and on the advice of the
members of his cabinet, the Shah has
decreed that parliament be opened on
October 80.
The proceedings of the opening SEES,
sion of the sixteenth National Irriga-
ton Congress which met in conven-
ton hall at Albuquerque, n. NJ, Tues
day, were impressive, and the specta-
tors who crowded the galleries were
moved TO repeated demonstrations OF
approval. Two letters and a telegram
were read 10 the congress from PreSi'
dent Roosevelt.
Conducting one days campaign i'll
South Dakota Monday William j.
Bryan poured voIleys of criticism into
the Republican platform. Mr.. Taft and
President Roosevelt. He covered d
good deal of ground in the state and
Monday night stopped in Sioux City,
Iowa, and left Tuesday morning for
Rock Island, Ill.
There were fourteen new cases and
three deaths reported for the twenty
four hours ending at s o'clock Monday
morning in Manila. Practically the
entire STATS of the bureau Of sciences
and the local schools have been draft
ed into the service TO fight the dis
ease. The stats of medical schools
are acting as nurses and attendants
at the various hospitals. for cholera
patients.
That the suit for civil damages
which Gov. Charles \. Haskell prom
Uses to bring against President Roose-
Welt in connection with the Hearst
charges against Haskell, that the
President took Up as his own, may
delay RooseYelts proposed hunting
trip Immediately upon his retirement
as chief executive, is the declaration
made TUESDAY By severa! Of HaskelIs
friends.
With characteristic aggressiveness
President Roosevelt made reply Sun
day night to William j. Bryar's recent
letter and speech, in which he main
tanned the Democratic party and plat
form were not getting a square deal
in the campaign. The president sets
forth in detail what has been accom-
pliShed by the Republican party since
the last Democratic administration,
and compares ii with the work accom-
plished under Democratic rule. The
president says that under the last
Democratic administration not a
single Indictment was returned
against shippers for receiving secret
rebates. Under Republican manage
ment forty-nine indictments have beer
returned for secret rebates, with
eighteen convictions. IN only four
cases have the indictments failed. The
other twenty-seven cases are still
pending.
Reports to the Washington Weather
Bureau from the West indicate that
the drouth is broken in practically all
territory lying east of the Mississippi
River. Forest fires are extinguished
and streams which had reached a low
water mark heretofore unknown will
soon be at normal. The sudden drop
in temperature will do no damage to
crops.
Three Americans and two Italians
were blown to pieces in an explosion
of dynamite while working at Cross
--eys cut on the Delaware, Lacka-
wanna & Western railroad near Toby |
hanna, Pa.
The British ship Loeb Finlas, from
Pert Prize, South Australia, for Callao,
was wrecked off Foster Island. Tas-l
mania, at day light Sunday morning
and twenty of the crew of tw%enty-four
were drowned. The other four men
were picked up by a passing steamer.
Unknown parties, supposed to be
night riders, posted notices on several
gins in Texas, ~instrucling wne not
TO Gin any more cotton until further
notice. The notices informed the gin