The Grenada sentinel., 1908-08-15
NEWS 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.

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ers is now being made La Folletto
will personally edit the publication.
Roy Harrison, 9, who lives near
the Camp Perry range where the ma
tional shoot is being held. was struck
in the back by revolver bullet and
is believed to be fatally injured. The
accident occurred during Skirmish fire
by the Thirteenth United States in
fantry.
Thomas L. Hisgen, presidential
nominee of the Independence party,
will open his western campaign, ac-
cording to plans, at Indianapolis on
Aug. 80. Indiana is Hisgen's native
state.
Incensed at the murder of a negro
woman by her husband, John Harris,
of Memphis, Tenn, a mob OF negroes
gathered about Harris house and at
tempted to lynch him. Harris took
to his heels Several shots were fired
at him, but none took effect, and he
escaped.
Mrs. Louise Chanler MOultOn, the
well-known authoress, died at her
home here after an illness of nearly
nine months. She wrote large num-
Der of short stories for children, as
well as novels and poems. She spent
many years of her life in London.
Government statistics just issued
show an enormous growth of the cigar
cite habit in the United States in the
last year, 55,402, ,336,113 of the pa
per pipes being smoked.
Archbishop Farley of New York is
slightly indispOsed, owing to a stom-
ach trouble, due to change in climate
and food. The physician advised the
archbishop to go north to cooler eli
mate as soon as possible.
"America's naval expansion has but
one object in view-an ultimate clash
with Japan for the mastery of the Pa
cific," was the gist of an interview
given out by Count Okuma, one of the
foremost Japanese statesmen.
The Great Northern ore docks at
Allouez, Wis, are tied up by a strike
among the laborers. One hundred
and twenty-five Of the day crew, upon
being refused an increase from $3.50
to 81 per day, quit work. twenty-five
of the night crew were refused an in
crease from 81 to 1925 and struck. AS
q result the entire shift was laid Off
Capt Baldwin has succeeded in full
filling the first requirement of his
contract with the government for sup
plying a dirigible balloon for the sig |
nal corps of the army. The board of |
officers at Fort Myer accepted it as |
far as its construction is concerned;
the other requirements remaining to |
be fulfilled are the speed and endur- |
ance qualities of the aerial craft.
Mentally unbalanced by the unex-
pected information that he is heir to |
a fortune of $7,0O0,000 and to the Ital-
ian dukedom of Verona, Bartholomew |
Albanese, "a years old, once a night
watchman for a railroad, but for ten
years man of no occupation, is con-
fined to his home, No. 1908 South |
Rampant street, New Orleans, and is
permitted to see no one.
Gottfried Probst, waiter en-
pioyed in a bakery and lunchrOOm in
Brooklyn, is living in hopes and
dreams since a friend in Germany
sent him a newspaper clipping which
indicates he is one of the heirs to $50,
100000 left by relative, Paul Hof-
man, wealthy merchant of Bombay,
India. Probsts share, according to
his figures, would approximate S16,-
100000.
&C. w. Trickett, who was appointed
a special attorney general by Gov.
Hoch to enforce the prohibition law
at Kansas City, Kan, is arrested on
a charge of malfeasance in office. A
former jOint-keeper is the complain
ant. He accuses Trickett of having
extorted illegal fees. The latter de-
nies the charge and attributes his ar
rest to spite work.
Harry Hill, of Galloway, Mo, ar
rested charged with forging checks
on the Rhineland (Mo) bank, was
fined $40 and costs with the under
lie WOulQ De released WHeu
he reimbursed the bank
Much surprise was expressed at
Willemstadt when the officers of the
Dutch ship Prince Wilhelm II. an
nounced that the ship had been per-
mitted to land without opposition at
Caracupano, one of the Venezuelan
ports. The treatment accorded the
Prince Wilhelm ii. is believed to in
dicate a cooling of Castro's anger.
Swarming from jaiis and back from
banishment under protection of that
amnesty which accompanied the sui
tan's recent grant of constitution,
of long exiled or impris-
,ned Turks are spreading mixed joy
and terror throughout the country.
Instead of 1000 foot high build
ng. the Equitable Assurance society
nav distribute among its policy hold
,rs some $15.OOO,O00 At least, this is
he alternative that will be CONSIDERED
when the directors meet TO CONSIDER