The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1908-11-07
NEWS OF The week
THE LATEST. NEWS OF THE
WORLD BRIEFLY TOLD.
NORTH, EAST, SOUTH, WEST
Foreign Lands, Throughout the Ma
ton. and Particularly from the
= Great Southwest.

Nebo, N. c.. in a deep cut, every ca
except the rear sleeper leaving tn
track. 1t was at first reported that
number of persons had been killed
but the officials of the railroad com
pany now state that ali escaped Will
but slight injuries. r..
Duchess Vera of Wurtemberg and
Count Zeppelin's daughter accom-
panied the aeorist in his flight around
Lake Constance. The Count remained
in the air one hour. The ladies expires,
sed themselves as being delighted
with the trip.
The illness of the Grand Duke OF
Gutenberg is alarming his relatives
and friends. While the duke was at
his castle of Hohenburg he was sud
denly taken ill and his physicians
summoned.
Charged with classifying accounts
and postoffce money orders to the
amount of more than 81, 1000, Thomas
S. Lewis, postmaster of Grand Works,
ILL.,, was arrested by POstofhce In
spector Llewelyn and Elston and
taken to Chicago for arraignment be-
fore Commissioner Foot. Lewis is the
head of the Knights of Columbus OF
Grant Works, and prominent socially.
A carnival of holdups is on in San
Francisco and daily for the past week
the thugs have become holder. In n
case a lone masked bandit held up
eight men in a saloon and robbed the
cash register.
The first white woman to penetrate
the far north from Alaska will return
to Chicago this week, after spending
several months in the frozen Attic
regions. She is Miss Agnes Dean
Cameron a writer.
A request that she be allowed to
spring the death trap that will drop
her husbands slayer into eternity on
November 10 was made by Mrs. j. w.
Davis, widow of the railroad contract
or who was killed by Dave d. Ed
wards last March. Relatives of Davis
will be in Chattanooga from nine diff
derent states to witness the eXecu-
ton.
Action of suffragettes in claiming
themselves in the gallery of the house
of is likely to result in the
removal of the much despised grille.
Confronted by the ever-growing
problem of the unemployed, the Union
Jack Industries League plans a cam
paign to have contracts for British
wal materials placed at home.
yIv:1:.-. IIou ~
of the Independence party, and five
of his ~1ieutenants in the new political
movement, were made defendants in
a suit filed in the Marion Ond.)
superior court, by Henry w. Bullock
of Indianapolis for $500 wages, Bull
work for Hearst and his associates by
circulating petitions.
Taking of evidence is closed in the
trial of Charles w. Morse and A. H.
Curtis in New York.
The Boston Herald has announced
plement, declaring that the funny
side which delight the children have
Outlived their day.
The last vestige of the Balkan war
cloud has disappeared as the result
of the yielding of Austria-Hungary
and Bulgaria to the proposals laid
down in the tentative program for the
international conference, announce !
ments of which are expected to be re-
ceived soon by the various European
chancelleries.
Charged with. conducting the most
extensive matrimonial agency swindle
ever unearthed in Pittsburg, James l..
Leclaire and Miss Lena Miller are
prisoners. More than 1000 letters ]
from men and women and about 500 I
photographs have been confiscated by
the police. The police say that close
to 5000 men and women, representing I
every state in the Union, have each {
paid 81 after being promised to be in |
troduced and welded to an affinity. I
While 5000 feet il the air the
Parseval dirigible balloon met with a
an accident and dropped to the t
ground, causing great damage to the v
apparatus with which the balloon b
a S4uAPPNu. IhoJ. Y oCbdl dIu Ills Ii
assistant We're badly shaken up by the s
fall. The bursting of the compart- D
ment forming the tail of the ship.] n
caused the accident. Q
David H. Andrews, president of the
Boston Bridge Works, and Charles N. Il
Fitz, head of the New England b
company, were fined $1,000 a
each after pleading guilty to indict- a
nent of conspiracy by means of coll u
usive bids to mulct the city of Boston v
Only $4,000 out OF 500, 900 copies of a
Queen Alexandra's Christmas book. a
which is being sold for charity's sake,
ire now available for sale, the re- s
nainder being already subscribed for, tt
that there is every likelihood Of fl
he whole lot being disposed of be- r.
ore they are all out of the press. ST