The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1908-12-12
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.

The temperance movement which il
spreading owe Norway is overshadow
ing the nations . whole political an(
social life and causing great an.iet,
to many prominent persons. France
and Spain consider that the fighr
against wine is uafriendly to then
and retaliate by refusing to make Nor
wegian loans.
Eight hundred school children were
thrown into a panic, II girl was
bruised severely and many others were
hurt as the result of a fire that start
ed in a large frame building adjoining
the Scanlon school, Perry avenue and
One Hundred and Seventeenth street
Chicago.
Peace" was the keynote of the last
session of the federal council of the
protestant churches in Philadelphia,
when the delegates, who, for a week,
have debated every question agitating
the religious worlds, and 'Godspeed'
to each other.
German court circles were shocked
when it became known that Crown
Princess Cecilia had sold the diamond
diadem which was given to her by the
emperor as a wedding gift, in order to
obtain a large sum to contribute to the
fund for the relief of the widows and
orphans of the Hamm Colliery ex-
plosion several weeks ago.
Bill may be presented in the Wis
consin legislature for state insurance
and sick benefits for w~orkingmen.
Senator Isaac Stephenson of Wis
consin while in Chicago declared him.
self in favor of radical cuts or re-
moval of the tariffs on raw materials.
Firm of contractors. close to Tam
many lands the contract for the $780,
600, 900 improvements for the New
York, New Haven and Hartford rail-
road.
Rear Admiral J. B. Coghlan, COM
mander of the Raleigh at the battle
of Manila Bay and famed for his re-
citation of "Hocf der KAISER" dies.
The resignation of Judge Lebbeus
r. Whitley of Missouri, of the United
States district court of China, has been
accepted and President Roosevelt has
appointed Rufus H. Thayer of Wash
ington, D.. c., to succeed him.
Appropriations ~aggregating 1924
40S, 94S.O OF will be necessary for various
branches of the government service
during the coming fiscal year, accord
ing to estimates of the departmental
heads SEN to congress-.
Stewart Brice, the eldest son of the
late Calvin S. Brice, once United
States senator from Ohio, has been
adjudged insane. Brice was married
Nov. 10, 1906, to Mrs. Henry Clay
Mount of Indiana.
The case of David Laughlin,
charged with wife murder, vas
stricken from the docket when called
trial at Haskell, Tex. Laughlin
died after drinking a solution made by
soaking match heads in water.
Hiram w. Herr, aged p, son OF
Mrs. Emma Walker Herr, noted writer
made defendant in a breach of
promise suit for So 00, filed by Miss
Mary j, Langston, daughter of J. w.
Mount Sterling, KY.
Harry Boas, western representative
of the Bennett Electrical company,
was found dead in his bed in San
Francisco after he had taken some
stomach powders sent to him through
he mail.
While the Pope has virtually recov-
cred from his ~indisposition,% according
% a statement by DR.. Petacci, the lat
-er induced his holiness to agree to
in his apartments for the
.est of the week to insure against a
Tong Shao vi, special ambassador
rom China, conveyed to President
Roosevelt Wednesday the profound
hanks of the celestial empire to the
States for the remission of the
ia, 000, 900 Boxer indemnity. fund.
Two suits for sums a~ggregating ST.
100 were begun in the Chicago
municipal court against Arthur H.
yhetlain, a Judge of the superior
.ourt. The suits are On two notes
made by the judge in August and Sep
ember. l.
The officials of the Dunning Insane
were completely exonerated
n a preliminary report by a commit
ee of business men appointed by the ]
ounty commissioners to investigate !
at that institution. Charges (;
t cruelty to and neglect and abuse of /,
atients had freely beer made. I
Police in East ST. Louis, ILL.,, are
aarching for a band of burglars,
eaded by a woman, who escaped in +,
rain of bullets early Wednesday !
after invading three homes. |
the residence district of the East /;
ide city. t
Mrs. Emily Chadbourne, who ship {
ed to this country in violation of hte +
laws tapestries and bric-a-brac
at $82, 600, filed a petition |
|, limited States Judge Lands court, !.
skiing for the remission Of the penal
cho acted for Mrs lack Gard .