The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1908-07-25
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.

sey family of colonial fame, shoC anu
killed his wife in his home IN Bath
Beach.
Because she refused to live with
him again, Charles Wilhelm, a furnl-
ture salesman, dubbed his VIE 10
death at her home in Victor, Col,
and then blew out his brains. Their
l4-yearold son witnessed the tragedy.
Clement w. Kirkpatrick, aged 26, or
Springfield, Mass. married his step
mother. Mrs. Kirkpatrick. Mr.. klrk-
Datrick's bride is three years MS
senior. Kirkpatrick's father died two
years ago.
Admiral Sperry of the Atiantlc
feet has received a letter expressing
the gratitude of the leper colony on
the Island of Molokai, for arranging
to have the feet pass that island ana
giving the lepers an opportunity to
view it.
Dr. E. B. McGraw, well-known ply
stefan. was instantly killed and An
drew S. McSwigan, manager OF Du-
ouesne Garden and the Traction Co.
parks of Pittsburg, Pa, was severely
shocked in an automobile accident.
After several weeks of quiet prepa-
rations the Minneapolis Civic Fedora
ton has begun activities by causing
the arrest of Thomas Latty, a First
avenue saloonkeeper, former president
of the Liquor Dealers association. on
q charge of maintaining a wine room.
Secretary Loeb, replying to an in
yitation to President Roosevelt TO
speak at La Crosse, Wis, IN Septem-
Der during the county fair, has written
TO the local fair association stating
that the president will make no
speeches and take no part in the COM
ing campaign.
Chinese highbinders of Sacramento,
Cal. have set a price on the head or
District Attorney Eugene S.. WachOrst,
following his success in obtaining a
conviction for murder against Gin
Suiei who killed another oriental in
a recent feud.
Dan Patch, the great PAGER, was
aiken east following the announce
ment of H. C. Hersey, his trainer, that
the horse will go a mile Sept. II IN
Detroit in an effort to lower his W
record of 1:55.
Five members of Georgia's legls-
Iature are out on bail in Atlanta fol-
lowing a raid on the Kimball house,
one Of the city's leading hotels, Where
detectives captured the lawmakers
and confiscated a jackpot OF 5000.
John D. Rockefeller's pastor, Rev.
Charles F. Aked, has prepared n is
about to publish a series OF magazine
articles in which he declares the
churches are decaying and, at the
present rate IF loss, will be deserted
within a century.
Fire destroyed six stables at the
Windsor race track at Detroit. In all,
12O stalls were burned out. All the
horses were rescued, although several
were singed and two will be unht 10
race again this season.
Gen. Osman Pasha, commander or
the Turkish forces at Monastir, was
assassinated by an officer connected
with the Young Turkey movement.
Prince Philip Zu Eulenburg was
either insensible or in a condition Oh
semi-consciousness for several hours
following the suspension of his trial
on charges of perjury in connection
with the court scandals of last year.
Refusal to revoke a saloon license
and to Dust city officials leads to ten
sion between the governor of Ne
braska and the Anti-Saloon league.
Contest in Michigan for the Repub-
lican nomination for governor in
creases in bitterness as the date for
the primary draws near; Warner,
Bradley and Earle likely to be the
candidates.
Raymond n. Courley, 81 years old.
a cattle buyer, employed in the CHI
cago s~tockyards, was shot and IN
stantly killed while making a chiVal-
rous attempt to take the part OF q
woman in a quarrel, by Charles Prest-
schold, an awning manufacturer.
Prestschold asserts that he took Gour-
ley for a holdup man who was about
to attack him and fired when he saw
the victim make a threatening move
ment as if to draw a weapon.
Hugh McCurdy, past grand COM
mander of knights Templars and past
grand master of Masons of the United
States. died at his home in McCurdy
Park, near Corunna, Mich =.
Eleven thousand volts of electricity,
more than five times the voltage or
dinarily used on condemned criminals
at Sing Sing, failed to kill James
Hayes, % years old, a Westinghouse
employe in the New Haven railroad
yards at Stamford, Conn.
Orders have been issued by the navy
department to the gunboat Marietta
to proceed to Puerto Cortez, Hondu-
ras. to investigate the revolutionary
activity in that place and to protect
American interests. One party of the
ravol,itiouists is headed by Lee Christ