The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1908-07-04

resolution calling for a monument.
Declaring that the recount of bal
lots cast in Hearst-McClellan mayor.
atty elections in 1906 showed not the
vestige of fraud claimed, Supreme
Court Justice Lambert ordered the
jury to bring in a verdict declaring
George b. Mcclellan properly elected.
Nine. Sherstnova, who was confined
in the political prison at Kies. Russia,
was shot and killed by one of the
prison sentinels, who discovered her
signaling with a mirror to some OF
her co-prisoners. She was standing
at a window at the time, and the senti.
neI's first shot killed her.
An emphatic denial is made by
Secretary Loeb that Mrs. and Miss
Roosevelt have been the recipients OF
orders from the sultan of Turkey. II
the porte has in contemplation such
honors, no intimation of such inten.
ton has been conveyed to the White
House.
Under orders from Mrs. Grover
Cleveland. work has begun on the
memoirs of the late president, consist
ing of clippings from newspapers and
periodicals on his death and funeral.
The work will require six months.
Two firemen were injured and $780,
900 worth Of property was destroyed
by fire in the dry goods district @:
Jersey City.
One man is dead and 90 injured as
the result of a race between Firms
and Greeks in Chicago. The dead
man is Anton Happaja. a Finn. The
fight occurred in a saloon on the north
side. Happaja was beaten into un-
consciousness with peer glasses.
A cloudburst at Wellington. Kas.,
Monday caused the death of several
persons and so head Of cattle were
swept away by the volume Of water
that rushed from a stream into the
town, sweeping everything before it.
Many of the residents were asleep
and some were carried away in their
houses. Five bodies ,have already
been recovered.
Friends of Grover Cleveland de
clare that he was a poor man, despite
the impression that he had amassed
a considerable fortune. 1t is their be-
lief that he left virtually nothing e
cept his home at Princeton and his
country place at Buzzard's Bay.
The recent trip of the czar and
czarina to Reval for the visit with
King Edward has had a bad effect on
their health, particularly that Of the
czarina, whose condition is such now
as to cause the gravest alarm.
The sultan OF Turkey, anxious to
win the esteem Of the American pub
lie, has conferred on Mrs. Roosevelt
and Ethel. wife and daughter Of the
president, the decoration of the Grand
Gordon Of Chefakat.
John Heikkela, q resident of Han
cock, Mich, shot and fearfully in
jured his wife and an infant daugh-
ter, and then turned the revolver on
himself. inhicting dangerous wounds.
All three are in a hospital and it is
| uOuDllul IL IDeN VIII TcCOVCI JEALOUSY
is given as the cause of the act.
Frustrated over the widespread pub
licity given her suit for divorce from
her husband, Mrs. Frank J. Gould is
seeking absolute rest at her cottage
at Belle Haven. She is being con.
stantly attended by a physician and
nurse. She is suffering from a Sc
we're nervous breakdown.
Her mnid completely unbalanced,
and in a cell at the county insane
hospital, Miss Laura Whalen, matron
at the Iowa soldiers orphans home,
a state institution, probably will new
err be able to explain her motive In
keeping Frank Pratt, an orphan, IL
years old, locked up In her room, I'M
known to the authorities at the home,
for three months.
Five bodies have been taken from
the ruins Of the Pabst Chemical Co.'S
plant, 176-17S Huron street. Chicago.
wrecked by an explosion. and a sixth
is reported to have been found. The
bodies removed are those of Mrs. Jane
Nolan and her four children, Mary
Jennie, Emma and Helen. Twelve
women and seven men were severely
burned.
H. D. Everett, a government forest
err; T. r. Wakeley, a school teacher,
and four Filipinos were murdered by
hill tribesmen on the Island Of Ne
gros. The party had started across
the island.
The Spanish steamer Larache ha.
been wrecked on the coast near Mu
ros. Details of the accident are lack
ing. The Larache was bound from
Buenos Ayres.
A battle between the 10000 soldiers
of Mulai Hafid, the %pretender, who
are e~ntrenched in Fee. and the still
larger force of Abdul Aziz, the sultan
is ~momentarily expected. The sui
tan's troops are marching on Fee.
The czar of Russia would like tc
visit the United States, according to
Robert S. Mccormick, former ambas
sador to Russia. At a banquet Nc