The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1908-08-22

h telegraphers have been announced
from Washington.
Five million barrels, worth a dollar
a barrel, have been lost in the great
oil fire in the San Geronimo district,
which has been raging uninterrupted,
ly since July 4.
The Standard Oil Company Of New
Jersey declared a dividend for the
quarter of SC a share. The previous
disbursement was 50 a share, on June
Is last.
Because he carved his initials and
the name of his tutor, w. d. Parker,
on the back of his fathers pew, Ar
chic Roosevelt is in disgrace with
President Roosevelt and in trouble
| with the sexton of Christ Episcopal
Church, which the President attends.
On the charge of ambushing and
shooting their cousin, r. l.. CraddOck,
Ladd Collinsworth, a lawyer of Hum
boldt, Tenn, and his brother, Frank
Collinsworth, have been arrested. The
arrest followed the trailing by blood
hounds to the home of Frank Collins
worth.
Growing out of sensational charges
made against him in connection with
the Standard Oil suit now pending in
the Supreme Court, Gov. Haskell filed
suit for libel against O. K. Benedict,
publisher of the Oklahoma City
Times.
An active Republican campaign in
Illinois was decided On at a confer
ence between National Chairman
Frank H. Hitchcock, Mayor Fred
Busse, Fred w. Upham n Postmas-
ter Ben Campbell of Chicago. The
details of the work will be looked af-
ter largely by Mr.. Upham, it is stated.
The rivalry of two working girls for
the affections of a young social leader
of Springfield led one to a prison cell,
while the other is dying from a bullet
wound.
The most simple of services marked
the funeral of Ira D.. Sankey, the
evangelist, in the Lafayette Ave
nue. Presbyterian church, Brooklyn.
Hymns written by Sankey were sung
by his cousin, C. C. Sankey. E. D.
Bailey, assistant pastor, announced
that a special Sankey memorial SER
vice would be held this fall.
E. r. Thomas, the millionaire turf
man, whose leg was fractured in an
automobile accident here last week,
is facing a ninety-day Jail sentence
for speeding his 1870 horsepower car
when he ran down two women and
was himself manned.
The arrest of Mrs. M. L. Powell, 103
years old, and her daughter, Mary
Ann Ward, 67 years, on a vagrancy
charge sworn to by a woman at Citron-
ellie, Ala, to whom the two women
had asked for a bite to eat, has
aroused such indignation that the in
cident seems likely to result in the
adjustment of the criminal jurisdic-
ton of justices of the peace in Ala
bama.
Judge E. B. Adams of st. Louis, in
a speech before the Vermont Bar as
ISOLATION at Rutland, VT, criticised
President Roosevelt's attitude toward
the courts as tending to lead others
to criticise the courts, thus working
great injury to the operations of JUS
tice.
J. B. Richards, leader of the Anti
Saloon league in Georgia, fatly ad-
mitted that prohibition has proven a
failure in the state. He says it is
easy to get all the Joy juice" one
wants in Atlanta.
Burglars entered the residence of J.
v. Turner, merchant of North Little
Rock, Ark, chloroformed the entire
family, ransacked the house, and took
$500 worth of jewelry. The burglars
prepared and ate lunch in the dining
room.
A trial separation" not a trial
marriage" but under the sanction OF
the church, nevertheless, is a sensa-
ton that has completely upset the
poise of society in the village OF
Dobbs Ferry, Va.
Judge Taft had a fall from his
horse and narrowly escaped serious
injury, if not death. He was riding
down a mountain road some four
miles from the hotel at Hot Springs
when the horses knees gave way
and Taft was pitched to the ground.
st. Joseph, Mo-, was chosen as the
meeting place of the next annual con-
vention of the International Typo
graphical union. The vote was: st.
Joseph, 179; Minneapolis, 81; Seattle,
81.
The efforts of the earl of Yarmouth
to have reopened the divorce decree
obtained by his wife, formerly Miss
Alice Thaw of Pittsburg, in order that
he might effect a more advantageous
financial arrangement, we're defeated
by Justice Eve, who made absolute
the decree of a year ago. The action
of the justice absolutely cuts off fur
Their negotiations.
Harry K. Thaw was formally adj
judged a bankrupt by Referee n
Rankr,,ntcy William r. Blair. This