The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1908-08-29
OF The WEEK
THE LATEST NEWS OF THE
WORLD BRIEFLY TOLD.
NORTH, EAST, SOUTH, WEST
Foreign Lands, Throughout the Ma
ton, and Particularly from tho
Great Southwest.

c%urtailing their liberties, the grand
jury at Eastland, Tex, openly recon-
mended that the "unwritten law
should be puaced on the statute BOOKS
as a means of protecting the home.
Worsting a burglar who had invad'
ed her home, Mrs. P. H. Cannon, wife
of a tax collector of Newton, Conn,
saved the funds of the town which
were in the safe in the house and is
the heroine of the whole community.
Mrs. Jack" Gardner, whose rela-
tions with the U. S. customs officials
in connection with the demand for
$4,000 duties on art treasures brought
to this country by her friend, Mrs.
Chadbourne, of Chicago, says that no
demand has been made upon her by
the government and disclaims all he
responsibility for the importation of
the articles.
Funeral services for Baron Speck
Won Sternberg, the German ambas-
sadOr to tho United States. who died
in Heidelberg will be held at Lutch-
ena. near Liepsic. Many men promi-
rent in Germany's public life as we'll
as members of foreign diplomatic
corps will attend.
Competitor that promises to mean a
cut in meat prices is scheduled TO
make an appearance in the beef trade
about Oct. /. An independent concern
has beer incorporated under the name
of the Chicago Stock Yards and Tran
sit Co. 1t has a capital stock of 81
SOC. 900. of which nearly half is to be
spent for a packing house n other
structures.
Receivers of the Minneapolis and
Northern Elevator Co., a subsidiary
company of the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
Co, have called on Minneapolis banks
for 81 200, 900 and have failed to get
1t. They have in their hands 80 ele-
yators in Minnesota and North Dako-
ia which they are unable to u be-
cause they no funds.
Unable to obtain a coffin in Coon
Valley, Wis, where her 2~-year-old son
died, Carrie Peterson, after two days
Journey. reached Lacrosse with the
body wrapped in a blanket. The po-
lice there furnished a coffin and per-
mitted the woman to RESUME her jour
ney to the village of West Salem,
G. P. O'Neal, right-of-way agent for
the st. Paul, is authority for the state
ment that the cost of construction OF
the road between Taft and st. Joe,
Idaho, sixty miles, will be $11,40O, O0O.
There will be 80 tunnels on this piece
of road.
Lightning struck and killed two
miners and injured a third SO badly
that he will probably die while the
trio were working $50 feet beneath
the earth's surface in one Of b mines
of the P. and r. Coal and Iron Co.,
at Ranch Gap, nea Tower CITY, Ia.
President Roosevelt approves of dis
missal of two West Point cadets and
suspension of six others found guilty
of hazing and order will be issued by
Secretary of War Wright.
New York detectives, after covering
four cities, arrest gang Of safe-bloW-
ers and later discover counterfeiting
plant at their headquarters.
Citizens of Brookhaven, Miss, are
aroused over the reported replacing Of
white postal clerks by negroes, and a
meeting resulted in warning the
negroes to stay away.
No Newport gayeties for Hetty
Green this summer. The worlds rich
est woman is in the old family resi-
dence at Bellows Falls, VT, where
she will follow the simple life far
from ~aristocrats. When Mrs. Green
left New York she went to the de-
pot on a street car and her few nee
essaries she carried in a we'll worn,
imitation alligator bag.
In the belief that a widespread rev.
dictionary plot is brewing in Portugal,
government officials have taken steps
to redouble the ~repressive measures,
which are now even more rigorous
than those preceding the ~assassina-
ton of King Carlos and Crown Prince
The German war office believes that
it has obtained the exclusive use OF
the most powerful explosive known to
the invention of a Munich me-
Less than half a pound Of
the new death dealer" melted a hun
dred-pound block ofelead by it's explo-
sion and a block of stone of three
cubic meters was crumbled to bits
with three pounds of it. The compo-
sition of the new explosive is careful
y guarded.
A charge of dynamite exploded on
fhe drillboat belonging to the Sullivan
Dredging Co. of Buffalo, while work
vas being done in the Detroit river,
,nd six men were fatally injured. Ten
,thers were hurt. The boat was
olown to pieces.
Cordoning the entire Braga district
with troops, the Portuguese govern
nent is rigidly maintaining a quaran-
inc against the cholera epidemic
which has been raging for weeks, but
IN account of the strict censorship,