The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1908-10-31
NEWS OF The WEEK
THE LATEST NEWS OF
WORLD BRIEFLY TOLD.
NORTH, EAST, SOUTH, WEST
Foreign Lands, Throughout the Ma
ton. and Particularly from tne
Great Southwest.

Among the messages OF congratuia-
ton received by the president on MS
birthday was one from King Edward,
as follows: Il request that you VIII
accent nv cordial congratulations
upon the occasion Of your blrtnoay'
With nv best wishes for your welfare
and prosperity" Signed Edward X.
and l..
A milIion-dollar leaf tobacco poor
was formed in Madison, Wis, by the
members of the Wisconsin leaf toDac'
co growers department OF the Ameri-
can Society of Equity. Delegates re-
presenting growers of lo'ooo'ooo
mounds of leaf tobacco pledged them
selves to pool the crop n as lar DIS
possible sell direct &c the
manufacturers.
An endemic of typhoid, which mas
been prevailing in Montreal 1or
several weeks, is assuming serious
proportions. All the city hospitals
are filled and are refusing additional
patients. | Private physicians are
overrun with calls. So far the num-
her of deaths have been compar-
atively small. The bad water supply
and impure milk are given as the
causes.
By the adoption of an amendment 10
the Constitution prohibiting the seat
ing in the annual convention OF any
delegate not engaged actively at MS
trade. the Illinois Federation OF
Labor, put up the bars, against
politicians and those who the mem
hers claim have worked to the injury
of the organization by entering the
conventions in the interest Oh thelr
political bosses. The amendment 10
the Constitution was presented ny
Delegate Brady Of Chicago.
Singing in a 1O-cent moving picture
show at Fresno, Cal, May Yohe, once
Lady Frances Hope, now Mrs. Put
nam Bradley Strong, is trying to save
un enough money to sue her husband
for divorce.
While 5000 feet in the air the
Parseval dirigible balloon met Win
an accident and dropped to the
ground. causing great damage to the
apparatus with which the balloon
was equipped. Maj. Perseval n his
assistant were badly shaken up by the
fall. The bursting of the compart-
ment forming the tail OF the snip
caused the accident.
It is officially stated at the Al
miralty hat the Duke of the ADruzzl,
who is to marry Miss Katherine
Elkins. has received three months
extraordinary leave, with PERMISSION
to go abroad.
The supreme court mas sustained
the legality of the Nebraska plue
laws. f%orbidding almost all Sunday
business transactions.
At the trial of Ray Lamphere Tor
completely in the Guinness murders,
Attorneys barrow and Worden declar-
ed that they expected to prove Mrs.
Guinness alive. They declare they nave
three witnesses who saw Mrs. Gun
ness July%@9.
Whatever doubts nay have been
entertained by the Japanese OF the
genuineness of American expressions
of good Will is removed as the result
of the memorable, meeting between
the mikado and Admiral Sperry at
the imperial palace and the inter
change of. greeting on behalf OF the
emperor and President Roosevelt.
The Isthmian canal commission
asks s35, 900, 900 for work on the Pan
ANA canal during the fiscal year 1905
according to estimates submitted to
Secretary of War Wright by Col.
Goethals. chairman of the committee.
The appropriation for 1908 was $27,-
OOO, 900, of which $780, 900 was for
the purchase of three transports.
Electrifcation of all. the tracks OF
the Illinois Central railroad within the
city limits. of Chicago was authorized
at the annual meeting Of that roads
stockholders. j. Ogden Armour
Charles A!SPeabody and Alexander G.
Hackstaff are to succeed themselves
as stockholders.
A cloudburst at Gale, six miles
west of Shawnee, Okla, caused the
south Canadian to rise at an unpre'
cedented rate to a height of two feet
above the former high water line,
Much damage has been done to pro
perty and to crops, but SO far no loss
of life has been reported. Train ser
vice was demoralized, all trains being
detoured. =
Silas C. Mcfarland, consul general
at large and inspector of consulates
for Europe, shot and killed himef or
a railway train between Hamburg and
Berlin. The state department was ad
yised of his death by Consul Genera
Thackeray, at Berlin.
Capt. Peter G. Hams, who shot ant
Filled William E.. Annis for alleged
betrayal of his wife, will plead insanit,
as did Harry X. Thaw. This developed
when the army officer, with his brother
n Jenkins Hams, was arraigned be
fore Justice Garretson in the supreme
court at Flushing, l. ].