The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1908-04-11
NEWS BREVITIES

On the Swan Lake Indian reserve
three Indians, unable to get whisky, !
drank lemon essence All are dead.
The Atlantic Monthly, n of the
Oldest magazines in the country, has'
changed hands. Houghton, Miff1in 81
Co.. who have published the magazine,
since 1873, announced it's transfer to
a new company to be incorporated IN
der the laws of Massachusetts. 4
Robbers entered the Bank Of Huron,
at Huron. Kas., blew the safe and
escaped with $4,000 in currency.
Emma Goldman, anarchist, was de-
tanned by United States immigration
officials as she sought to enter the
country on her return from Winnipeg.
The jury in the criminal suit OF the
government against the Great North
ern Railway Co. On charges OF grant,
ing rebates to the American Sugar Re
filming Co, brought in a verdict Of
guilty.
Anderson Jefferson is in Jail at
Clarksville. Tenn, charged with h
murder of his wife, Jane Jefferson,
while she lay asleep at her home near
Guthrie. He seemed crazed and made
no effort to escape.
In anticipation OF possible action on
the part of congress authorizing h
use of arms by the American govern
ment to enforce the American policy
regarding the Venezuelan problem, the
state department has called upon both
the army and navy for definite in
formation as to the available strength
hat can be sent to Venezuelan waters
and territory.
William Johnson, a negro, pleaded
guilty at Tecumseh, Okla, to attack
ing Mrs. Mary Cuppy, an aged white
woman, at Shawnee, causing her
death. The jury was instructed to
bring a verdict of guilty and the
death penalty was added.
In a seven-up game for the affec-
tions of a fair Mississippian, woman
in the case shoots and kills man,
who had asserted he was cheated in
the contest.
Shocked by thousands of volts Of
electricity, one man met instant death
and six others were severely injured
while working in the vault beneath
the street car tracks at Twenty-first
street and Wabash avenue, Chicago.
Col. William F. Coody C"Buffalo
Bill"), who has been critically i'll at
the Stratford hotel, in Chicago, is re-
ported better, and the physicians be-
lieve that the crisis has been safely
passed.
Aroused over the action of the Off
Gals of the Sandusky Portland Ce-
ment Co. in importing 20 Hungarian
and Italian labOrers, Americans en-
ployed by the same concern at SYRIA
cuse, Ind, touched off a large quanti-
ty of dynamite near the boarding
quarters of the newcomers in what is
known as the "blockhOuse."
When Clarence Hayes of Alton vas
given a life sentence for numbering
his wife, Emma Hayes, his mother-in-
law laughed in his face and seemed
overjoyed at his doom. Hayes shrank
back as the hysterical m laughed
shrilly and the court officers shud-
dered at the sound. for there was
something almost fiendish in her mer-
riment.
That Californians are enthusiastic
over the services of Admiral Evans
is shown by preparations being made
to force congress to grant Evans the
commission of vice admiral.
One dead and 20 injured, several
probably fatally, Is the casualty list
in a fire which practically destroyed
the four-story tenement at 470 Pearl
street, New York. Fifteen horses also
lost their lives.
Gov. Campbell has refused the re-
quest of the coal mine operators at
Thurber, Tex, to send rangers there
to protect the property. The opera
tors allege the miners threaten trou-
BILE. Gov. Campbell said he would
first have to be convinced the local
authorities could not control the situa-
ton.