The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1908-06-20

ceive an increase in pay beginning
Jan. 1, 1909. The increase will mean
an additional outlay of $500, 900.
Warren r. Fales Of Providence, r.
l., was granted an absolute divorce
from his wife, Katherine Fales. Fales
named his son as correspondent.
The New York police have been
notified by the authorities of Red
Bank, N. j., that they have found and
are holding Mrs. F. A. Marbury, the
wealthy woman who eluded her nurse
in a department store on Broadway.
Mrs. Marbury is a sister of the wife
Of the late Secretary John Hay.
1t is reported on high authority
that an honorary degree of LII. D. will
be conferred upon j. Pierpont Nor
gan by Yale university. President
Hadley believes Morgan performed a
self-sacriicing and patriotic act OF
worldwide Importance during the
financial panic last fall.
Eugene P. Murphy, GO, who repre-
scented the United States In Alaska
at the time Of it's transfer by Russia,
is dead in San Francisco.
A race between balloons and aero
planes is to be one of the features
of the Hudson celebration in New
York next year. The race probably
will be conducted under United
States government auspices.
1t is reported In Tokyo that SO
| fishing boats were wrecked off the
coast in a tornado and $50 persons
drowned. The governor of the Kago-
shima province has asked the govern
ment for aid from the navy yard at
Sasebo.
Nikola Drica, a. Greek, 80 years old,
died as the result of injuries sustined
while boarding a freight train at Roll
ing Prairie, Ind. Drica fell beneath
the train and both legs were crushed.
He is survived by a widow and six
small children.
Driven insane by ear of a monkey
thrown at her by Giuseppe Cansone,
an organ grinder, Miss Minnie Rec
sort, aged Is, of 100 Sanger street,
Peoria, H., lies at her home bereft
of eas and a prey to a parOXysm
of terror.
Scotch steel makers discredit the
report of a gigantic steel cOmbina-
ton of the leading firms of Great
Britain, United States, Germany and
Russia with a capitalization of $375,-
100000. They look upon the story
printed in the iron trades journal as
unauthorized.
After eight months of idleness, the
American Wooden Co., Plainfield,
Conn, employing 1000 hands, an
nounced that they will resume bust
ness Immediately.
An extraordinary fissure has opened
in the side of the mountain Machuan-
shan, near Ishang, China. The open
ing is several miles long, and hun
dreds of families and houses have
been buried by lava.
Frozen to death near the equator is
the fate that has overtaken the expe-
dition of the Duke Adolf Friedrich of
M~ecklenburg in the volcanic region
in the extreme northwestern corner
Of German East Africa.
Mrs. S. A. Ward, mother of Mont
gomery Ward, Chicago merchant
prince, died at Niles, Mich, aged ST.
Harry K. Thaw will not have to
go back to the Matteawan state hos
pital for the criminal insane. This
was decided at a hearing by Supreme
Court Justice Morschauser in the
rooms Of the Bar association.
Alleging that her husband, Adam
Roth, has not taken a bath since their
marriage in 1901, Anna Roth of La
ration.
Frank McAfee, an eight-year convict
from Woodruff county, Ark, sent up
for burglary and larceny, drank wood
alcohol, and died in great agony.
Anthony Comstock-s dictsm has
barred the sheath skirt from New
York.
While the kaiser and kaiserin were
out riding the kaiserin fell from her
horse. She suffered greatly from the
shakeup and on the physicians orders.
she was put to bed. A slight fever
has appeared.
P. T. Barnum's wealth, $275,000 of
which has just been received as a
legacy by his granddaughter, Miss
Eden Hall, brought quick hymeneal
action in San Francisco for the lega-
tee and William Byron Mcknight. Both
Miss Hall and her sweetheart were
clerks in a department store when
news that the legacy was real was re-
ceived.
Col. John F. Finerty, editor of the
Chicago Citizen, lecturer, politician,
soldier and renowned as a leader in
the Fenian raids on Canada in the
late COS, died at his home, 1862 Grand
boulevard, after six months sickness.
The police are making a house-to-
house canvass in East Providence, K.
l., to ascertain the names Of persons
bitten by a mad cat, expert examina-