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

the regular hours OI ldDOr per Nceh
were a per cent lower than 1906 and
the number of employees in the Ago
establishments investigated was l per
cent greater than in 1896.
Senator Joseph w. Bailey Of Tex
as, who for months has been i'll with
throat trouble in New York, has SO
far recovered that he will be able to
leave for Texas soon. Should he i'm
prove as the doctors promise, he will
take part in the campaign.
John T. Burford, a Chattanooga
(Tenn.) real estate man, lost a suit
case containing $4,000 worth of
stocks and bonds. He fears they have
been stolen. Burford was a witness
before the federal grand jury in Chi
cago and, after testifying, got his suit
case and hired a boy to carry 1t to
the station. He stopped at a store
to buy a cigar, and when he emerged
the boy had disappeared.
Twenty members Of a tallyho party
were scattered about the road at Col
ma, lear San Francisco, when a San
Mateo electric car smashed the We
hicle in splinters. Five of them are
still in a precarious condition.
G. w. Rowland of Cynthiana, KY,
for two years clerk in the state peni-
Tertiary, has confessed to the board of
prison commissioners that he is short
81, 600 in his accounts of ~"convicts
fund"
Disregarding cries for aid by his
wife and child, John j.. Burns saved
his mother and a little guest when
their canoe upset in Mystic river, near
Medford. Mass. Mrs. Burns, the
younger, and her baby boy were buried
Monday, and the father is h%eart-bro-
ken.
The Adams Express Co. is conduct
ing a search in Des Moines, Ia, and
Chicago for al express package con-
tanning 81, 900 which has disappeared.
Charles Sherman King OF Fort
Wayne, Ind, his wife and two daugh-
ters, Carl Timmins, the chauffeur, and
Miss Fayma Bradshaw, were killed
in an automobile accident by being
struck by a train on the Pennsylvania
railroad west of Columbia City. The
party was in Mr.. Kings automobile
and was going from Fort Wayne to
| Lake Wawasee to spend Sunday.
While preparations were being
made for his removal to a hospital be-
cause of i'll health, C. w. Hamilton, an
assistant district attorney of Allie
gheny county, Pa, seized a revolver
and shot himself in the head. He died
without regaining consciousness.
Ex-Chief Justice Henry CASTOR
Bum, aged 20 years. for II years on
the Arkansas supreme bench, died at
Eldorado. Ark. He was a native of
North Carolina.
Davis Bennett Hall, Is years old,
and Ernest Hopper. 10 years old,
while driving, were struck by Pennsyl-
vania passenger train No. 10 at Green
field, Ind, and both were killed.
Fearing that her pet dog would
mourn her loss, should she be in
TERED, Mrs. Otto Buseck of Memphis,
Tenn, made a dying request that her
body be crenated. The body has been
shipped to a crematory in st. Louis.
Cocaine and it's derivatives are
barred from the mails by an order
sent out from the p~ostoftice depart
ment. Reports which have been re-
ceived at the department indicate that
it has been the innocent distributor of
the deadly drug to an extent which
is alarming.
Sentenced to be hanged for the muir
der of Beulah Martin, a negress, at
Gypsy, w. Va, in March, 1908, Frank
Johnson, a giant negro, has confessed
to ministers that he has murdered
five persons since 1896, and gives the
names of three of his victims.
A. H. Forbes and J. c. Mccoy OF
New York and Lieut.. F. P. Lahm,
United States army, will compete in
the international balloon races to be
held in Berlin next October for the
James Gordon Bennett cup.
The powder magazine of the North
western Improvement Co. at Cleelum,
Wash, blew up at 5 o'clock Thursday
morning while a gang of men were
unloading powder. Nine were killed.
The new cruiser Indomitable, pride
of the British navy, carrying the
Prince of Wales, collided with a sail
ing barge shortly after leaving Ports
mouth on her trip to Quebec. The
damage to the great warship was
slight, and after a brief delay she
proceeded on her way. The barge was
smashed. Fortunately. only the crew
was aboard and no casualties have
been reported.
By a vote lacking only n of being
unanimous, Rev. F. E. Maddox, pastor
of the First Presbyterian church at
Texarkana, Ark, was expelled from
the Ouachita presbytery on a charge
of heresy. He was accused or deny
ing inspiration of the Bible as a whole
and also with denying that salvation
is an instantaneous act.
NJ .~I Mrc Iocco KinnaV we'll