The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1908-06-13

South Orange, N. j., died suddenly of
heart disease in Fairmont Cemetery.
He expired beside the grave of his
daughter in the presence of his wife.
Testimony taken in the bankruptcy
proceedings against the stock broker
age firm Of Coster, Knapp & Co.,
New York, whose senior member,
Charles Coster, committed suicide last
April, became public and disclosed
that the books of the company show
liabilities of more thar 81, 900, 900 and
that the loss will fall on half a dozen
prominent customers whose names
have been withheld from the public.
Thomas H. Slavens, quartermaster
of the maneuver camp at Pine Camp,
n. j., has been assigned to command
of the United States military prison
at Fort Leavenworth, KaS.
The Missouri Pacific Railway Co.
has passed the dividend on it's stock.
In 1901 cash dividends at the rate Of
5 per cent a year was resumed. Pay
ment was continued at this rate ia
cases until six months ago, when the
regular semi-annual disbursements of
2k per cent was declared, payable in
the stock of the company at par.
Daniel H. Mcmillan, district federal
judge in New Mexico, died in Denver.
Word to this effect was received in
Buffalo, N. Y, by the judges on.
Hundreds of passengers are being
held up along the Northern Pacific
and the Great Northern railroads as a
result of the heaviest rainfall in 2S
years. Seven persons are reported
drowned, tracks are washed out and
covered with landslides, and the riv-
ers are reported still rising.
Senator Joseph w. Bailey of Texas,
who is in New York for an operation
upon the muscles Of his throat, said
he would submit to The surgeons knife
within the course of the next few
days. He said his trouble was caus-
ed by the strenuous campaign through
which he had passed.
Mrs. Ruth Bryan Leavitt, daughter
of William Jennings Bryan, was
named as delegate at large to the Col
orado Democratic convention to be
held at Glenwood Springs, June Is.
Mrs. Leavitt heads the delegation
from Denver county.
Mrs. Mary S. Rolfe, 81 years old,
was struck by a passenger train on
the st. Paul railroad at Pipon, Wis,
and sustained internal injuries from
which she is not expected to recover.
John Dryland, 81 years old, shot and
killed himself at Emmetsburg, Ia, hav-
ing been disappointed in a love affair.
Frank Stanley, 81, said by the police
to be wanted in Denver for % bur
glaries, was arrested in Chicago. He
will be taken to Denver at once The
police declare Stanley is accused OF
the theft of $40, 600 worth of jewels.
Two of the men who robbed a bank
at Cuba, Kas.. of a large sum were
captured DIT davenport, Neb. When
taken they had in their possession ST..
900 in currency. The prisoners were
taken to Hebron, Neb., where they will
be turned v e to the sheriff from
Cuba.
Col. William c. Gorgas of the Pan
anna canal commission was chosen
president-elect of the American Medi-
cal association. He received 80 votes
in the house of delegates to 20 for DR..
Casey A. Wood of Chicago.
The dead body of Mrs. Minnie Cru
pert has been found hidden In a
closet in her home in Appleton, Wis,
and the authorities believe she was
murdered. A piece Of stout Irvine was
wound tightly about her neck, indi.
eating that she had been strangled.
Gary, Ind, after worrying along for
a year or more, trying to find out
about "skirting machines" for which
the charter provided an annual license
fee of 81, at last has solved the mys-
terry. They are striking machines"
after the printers spelling has been
Strengthened out.
Man jumps from liner in midocean,
resists all efforts to save him and
finally lets himself sink.
Paying teller of New York bank,
seeing discovery of $4,000 shortage in
evitable, goes into cellar, writes con
fession and shoots himself dead.
Cancer no longer incurable is the
announcement made at the convention
of the American Medical association.
Congressman Lilley in a statement
regarding the recent finding Of the in
vestigating committee says that Con-
gresham Boutell praised him and sug-
gested a compromise after his evil
dence had been given.
Three men remarkably lucky at
games of chance during the Maure-
tania's trip are arrested on arrival in
New York, but no one appears to press
gambling charges.
Frank Johnson, a negro, who killed
a married woman because she refused
to elope with him and then barricaded
himself in a barn near Clarksburg, w.
Va, and wounds two members of a