The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1908-04-04
NEWS BREVITIES

suicide practically exploded by tho
result of the ~autopsies on the bodies
of Miss Lena .Zeichmann and Carl
Bernthaler, the police are working on
the theory that the school teacher n
music master were slain by a third
person in the lonely woods near
Cleveland, o., Sunday night.
The German cruiser Bremen re-
turned to Port Au Prince Tuesday
from Kingston to prevent President
Nord Alexis from expelling Manager
Reinbold of Hermann & Co. from
Hayti.
The Fred Miller Brewing Co. Of
Quincy, ILL.,, Tuesday confessed judg-
ment in the custer against it in the
Kansas supreme court. The company
agrees to pay $4,000 receivers fees
and costs of the case. 1t is the last
of the IA against which custer suits
were successfully waged by the
state.
Abraham Ruef Tuesday, through
his attorney, petitioned the district
court of appeals for a writ Of man.
date compelling Superior Judge Frank
H. Dunno to transfer the cases against
him in hat court to some other de-
partmelt of the superior court at San
Francisco.
Definite information that Rear Adj
miral Evans, en- route to the Hot
Springs at San Luis Obispo, Cal, will
arrive in San Diego late Wednesday
afternoon on board his flagship Con-
necticut was received at San Diego
by wireless Tuesday. =
Every mine in the state of Iowa will
be closed. Not one of thirty or thirty
five mines in the state will be worked
Wednesday. ~
A. four-story building at 299 Canal
street, Chicago, occupied by H. Schi-
mer & Co., manufacturers of wire
mattresses, was destroyed by fire
Tuesday, entailing a loss estimated
at $4,000. 9.
The residents of Wellington, n. T.,
are endeavOring to arrange for a por-
ton Of the American fleet to visit
Wellington from Auckland.
Notices of wage reductions averag-
ing 10 per cent, taking effect on Mon
day, April 6, were posted al the cet-
ton mills of the Berkshire Manufact.
uring Co., at Adams, Mass, Tuesday.
About three thousand hands are af-
fected.
At Topeka, Kas., the statement was
made at the office of the labor com
mission that 10000 Kansas miners
would quit work. The railroads Of
the state say they have plenty of coal
stored at division points to run them
for several months.
After ten years of leadership Of the
United Mine Workers Of America,
John Mitchell Tuesday retired from
the head of the great labor organiza-
ton, succeeded by Vice President
Thomas l.. Lewis of Ohio.
The Chapman & Dewey Lumber
Co. of Kansas City, Mo-, pleaded
guilty Monday in Judge Dyer's court
at ST. Louis to accepting rebates on
lumber shipments from the Frisco
railroad from points in Arkansas to
st. Louis. A fine of $13, 900 was i'm
posed.
Without exhibiting the faintest
signs Of emotion, Chester Gillette was
put to death in the electric chair at
Auburn, N. Y, Monday morning. With
almost his last breath he confessed
that he killed Grace Brown, his sweet.
heart, whose body was found in Big
Moose lake on July II, 1907.
One of the six-inch broadside guns
on the battleship Missouri blew up
while that vessel was at target prac-
tice in Magdalena Bay Monday. No
n was injured. The gun blew its
muzzle off. The fracture was a clean
one, indicating that there was no flaw
in the gun OF the metal.
Hope has been finally abandoned OF
saving the lives 4 any of the II men
entombed by the explosion in the still
burning Hanna (Wyo.) coal mine. 1t
is impossible even to enter the work.
ings, but the east slope is being sealed
in the hope of smothering the flames
below the tenth level, that the bodies
may be recovered.