The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1908-10-10

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launched, Oct. 81, it will be named
George Washington.
In the hope Of prolonging the life
of Marquis Inouyo, who is seriously i'll
at Okitsu, Fukumora Takoho, a girl
Of II, and an orphan, stabbed herself
to death and gave her blood to the
fast sinking nobleman, according to
advices received from Japan. The girl
died in the belief that her blood could
be used to help the marquis to re.
cOvery.
Three million persons are shelter.
less, facing starvation and threatened
of the flood that has devastated the
city of Haldarabad and the entire
Musi River Valley in Indian.
Thomas Richardson, aged barely
IA, married three weeks ago to Min
ME Deskin, aged -, at Immalina,
KY, committed suicide by hanging in
the absence of his child wife. A note,
addressed Minnie Dear" read: When
| you ISdu tuCSc lilies i Will Ue dI fCSl-
Be good. Tell papa and mama by by.
Yours, Tom" His parents protested
against the marriage.
Jessie Bouterie, 10 years old, daugh-
ter of a lumberman at Patterson, La,
is in jail while Sidney Bouterie, editor
of the New Era, of Patterson, her
husband of two days, is lying at the
point of death in a sanitarium with
five bullet holes in his body.
Gerald Fairchild of Fort Sill, who is
serving a twO-year sentence for de-
sorting thearmy at Fort Leavenworth,
has fallen heir to an estate at Duluth,
Mimi, valued at $3.50, 900. Young
Fairchild enlisted at Boston a year ago
and since that time has deserted
twice and once since Imprisonment
has made an attempt to escape.
William r. Hearst carried his fight
against the junior senator from Texas
the course of a speech at Ell PasO.
letters from j. w. Bailey to H. G.
Pierce, a copy of a note for $4,000 and
extracts from a speech by Bailey in
defense Of Joseph Sibley.
After so years James Sherman OF
Bristol, Eng, has received the medal
for service in the Indian Mutiny, and
also a special campaign pension.
Patrick j. Shea, vice-president of
the Amalgamated Association of
Street and Electric Railway Employees
of America; President w. V. Lock
hart Of the Chester (Pa.) union, and II
strikers of the Chester Traction Com
pany, were indicted by a grand jury
for alleged conspiracy and dynamiting
20 cars of the company.
Ohio is going after the saloons with
a vengeance. Already 16 counties
have held elections under the Rose
ties have gone dry" driving several
hundred saloons out Of business.
Wilbur Wright made a crushing
answer to his critics Of the last few
days by a marvellous flight of one
hour thirty-one minutes and twenty
seconds, during which time ~hetraveled
an actual distance of ninety-eight Kill
Ometers, Or nearly sixty-one miles.
By this feat he established a new
worlds record. beating his brothers
best performance by more than a
quarter of an hour, and demonstrating
the enormous superiority of the
Wright aeroplane over all others yet
tried.
"LocomOtOr ataXia," hitherto con-
sidered incurable, has at last surrend-
cred to the advance of science, accord
ing to claims made before the New
York Academy of Medicine by DR..
casioning wide comment.
I President Roosevelt will give all the
trophies collected in his African hunt
next spring to the National Museum.
This was the official announcement
made together with a few other details
regarding the presidents forthcoming
trip.
Henceforth a letter to
England, Ireland, Scotland or Wales
will need only a 2-cent postage stamp,
instead of a scent one, to insure de-
This remarkable reduction ia
rates has been agreed upon between
the two governments as the best
means of promoting commercial and
friendly relations between the United
States and Great Britain.
AT the Children's Hospital in Wash
10 little patients have been in
oculated in the interests of science
and humanity with the deadly germs
of both human and bovine tubercu-
losis. The experiment, which is to de-
termine the value of a new method of
diagnosis advanced by DR.. Laszios De-
tee, professor of bacteriology at the
of Budapest, Hungary, is
being watched with keenest interest
by the delegates to the International
Congress of tuberculosis.
Thousands have been drowned,
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