The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1908-10-10
THE LATEST NEWS OF THE
WORLD BRIEFLY TOLD.
NORTH, EAST, SOUTH, WEST
Foreign Lands, Throughout the Ma
ton. and Particularly from the
Great Southwest.

ment OF CANADA IN SetlluS dSiuo
tract of land 60 feet wide to mark tn
international boundary between TN
two countries involves no g
features to which Uncle Sam is unac
customed. Such a strip has existed
for quite a number of years. 1t eX
tends along the southern boundaries
of Arizona and New Mexico, and Is
known to the American residents there
as the neutral strip. The one decld
ed upon by Uncle Sam and John Bui
Is to be called the buffer" strip.
Congratulatory kilograms have e
received by officers Of the lnterna
tional Congress on Tuberculosis from
Nathan Straus, the New York phllan'
thropist, who for siXteen years has
been fighting the white plague by
distributing ~pasteurized milk IN MS
city, and presenting ~pasteurlzlng
plants to other municipalities.
The Prohibition National party is to
receive $4,000 to carry on its WORK
against the liquor traffic, according TO
hill ANNOUNCEMENT -
Headquarters. The fund probably Will
be available for this campaign.
The formal announcement was made
that the next tuberculosis congress
will be held in Rome in 1911.
Prof. Eric Doolittle. assistant pro-
fessor of astronomy at the University
of PENNSYLVANIA, said at the university
observatory that the spots on the sun
could not be held accountable tor the
recent drought.
Friends of DR.. Frederick E. COOK,
well-known Brooklyn explorer, are
seeking his financial hacker, John X.
Bradley, to urge him to fit out an ex-
petition to search for the explorer, be-
lieved to be lost in the Arctic.
The proclamation of Bulgaria as an
independent kingdom was formally
made at the ancient Bulgarian capital
at Tirnova. Authentic reports ind
cate that Austria-Hungary is mobll1z-
ing two army corps on the Bulgarian
border to prevent any entertainments
into the territory of the empire.
Bishop Tierney of the diocese OF
Connecticut died as the result OF an
apopletic stroke.
That a repetition of. the fatal Hub
bard expedition into Labrador barely
was ayerted in the Arctic regions bor-
dering the mouth of the Mackenzie
River, Alaska, last month, became
known when three letters from With
jahlm ~Stefansson and DR.. R. M. An
derson, leaders of the Alaskan-Arctic
chronological expedition of the Ameri-
can Museum of Natural History, were
received by the museum authorities.
One fireman killed and four injured,
one seriously, with a property loss OF
between $150,000 and 100000, was
the result of a fire which ragged in
Dallas, Tex.
A special dispatch from Rome says
that the Duke de AbruZZi and Miss
Katherine Elkins, daughter of Senator
Stephen B. Elkins of West Virginia,
will be married on or about Dec. 10.
O1lCldl 0OCluCdUlOu Ol Tic WSuuiAS
will be given out in November.
The proceedings of the opening Sos.
sion of the Sixteenth National Irriga-
ton Congress which met in conven-
ton hall at Albuquerque, N. M, 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 to the congress from Presi.
dent Roosevelt.
Conducting one days campaign in
South Dakota Monday William j.
Bryan poured volleys of criticism into
the Republican platform, Mr.. Taft and
President Roosevelt. He covered a
good deal of ground in the state and
Monday night stopped in Sioux City,
Iowa, and left Tuesday morning for
Rock Island, Ill.
That the suit for civil damages
which Gov. Charles N. 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 .Roosevelt's proposed hunting
trip Immediately upon his retirement
as chief executive, is the declaration
made Tuesday by several of Haskelrs
friends.
Two children of J. F. Thompson
were burned to death in fire caused
by a lamp explosion which destroyed
the family home at Moselle, just north
of Hattiesburg, Miss. The mother OF
the children met death in a cyclone
last April.
Judge De Lacey. In the United
States Supreme Court, has rendered a
decision maintaining the constitution
atty of the act to regulate child labor
in the District of Columbia, and de-
cided that newspapers, in the n in
which they are named in the act, are
not merchandise. |