The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1908-03-28
NEWS BREVITIES

Searchers among the ruins of the
Valley House hotel, Grafton, H., de-
stroyed by fire, found four c%ollarbones
among the debris. which indicates hat
there were two men burned to death
instead OF one, as had been formerly
supposed. /
Spencer Compton CavenIish, Duke
of Devonshire, president of the Union
ist Free Trade League and leader Of
the opposition to tariff reform in Eng
land, who twice refused the office of
prime minister, died in Cannes.
France, where he had stopped on mis-
return from a journey to Egypt. Heart
disease caused death. .
A fourth attempt to destroy prop
erty of anti-salOOn men in the liquor
val being waged in Joliet, ILL.,, was
made when d firebug set fire TO the
Illinois Match Co.'S plant, causing So
600 damage. Arrests of suspects fol
lowed and they are being held pend
ing an investigation.
An end of the night riding in Ken
lucky has been brought about through
a formal agreement reached between
the American Tobacco Co. and the ex-
ecutive committee Of the Society Of
Equity.
Reports from Southwest Georgia, a
section of which was hit By a tornado
Monday, the fact being unknown to
the outside world until Tuesday be-
cause of destroyed wire systems, indi-
cate heavy property loss and that the
fatalities will reach a dozen or more,
while more than twO-score were in
jured.
Ernest Myers, aged "a, OF Buckhart
township, Illinois, shot and killed him
self while crazed from a crushed skull
received in a runaway accident.
The government has decided to &C
cept the invitation Of China to have
the battleship fleet visit one or more
ports of that country.
John Stull, the oldest freight brake
man on the Illinois Central, was killed
by three tramps whom he attempted
to eject from an empty box car.
Attorney for the liquor interests
cites a dramshop license issued to
Abraham Lincoln in 1888 as showing
he was not commercially hostile to
strong drink.
Kentucky tobacco growers destroy
beds in panic over threats, while their
tenants fee the state.
Three factories in Joliet, HI. are set
on fire and the owners are known as
signers of the local option petition.
New York's brittle-boned boOtblack,
who survived GS fractures, is killed-by
fall downstairs.
Fire of unknown origin damaged the
factory of the Paducah Harness and
Saddlery Co. The loss is estimated at
$4,000, with insurance of $4,000.
The diamond trust has issued an
edict that the present prices of dia-
monds will be maintained, so the own
ers of that particular variety of jew
els need lose no sleep owe the report
that the recent money stringency Is
about to cause a slump in diamond
values.
The railroads west of the MISSISSIPPI
pi won their suits in the supreme
court of the United States against the
interstate commerce commission on
rates on meats west of the Mississippi.
The court held that there was no dis
elimination in rates in favor Of
dressed meats and against livestock.
The most recent of hotels exclusive
ly for ome vas opened the other
day in New York. 1t is for working
girls earning not more than $40 a
week. 1t is non-sectarian and is to be
maintained by the young people of the
Epworth league of New York.
Refusing to take a dare. William
Kelly, q, timekeeper at the steel plant
at Lorain, O., climbed an electric pole
and clutching a live wire to keep from
falling, was e~lectrocuted. He died a
few hours after being taken from the
pole. Kelly's wife, who had been seri-
ously i'll, is not expected to live.