The Grenada sentinel., 1908-12-05
NEWS or 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.

Rough Rider poet and graoua'e v.
Cornell university, was arrested d.
Bellingham, Wash, charged with pass
ing forged checks for $5o Inc
police allege Stills used the name OF an
attorney.
Gen. Enrique Floris Magoon, one OIL
the alleged leaders of the Mexican
revolution, is being hunted In Chlcaso
by special agent Donahy of the Oniteo
States government. If Magoon is cap
tured he will be incarcerated at FL
Paso. Tex. Magoon is charged Win
shipping guns and supplies lhlo
Mexico from Texas.
A letter read by ]. w. Van Cleave
of the National Association OF Man
ufacturers to Chairman Payne OF the
wavs and means committee was maue
public Friday. Van Cleave says ne VIII
not appear before the committee. he
declares manufacturers would rather
bear the ills of the dingley tariff than
be party to tariff revision in the olo
manner.
Mrs. Barbara Billik, mother of Her.
man Billik. the condemned Chlcaso
murderer, died at her home IN CleVe-
land Friday.
While passing Florence, La,
gravel train on the New orleans
Great Northern jumped the rails ana
plunged through the station platform
and into the building. Mrs. John W..
Crandal, seated in the waiting ROOM
was crushed to death, her body belng
cut in twain. The wife OF the statlon
agent was buried beneath the deDrls,
but was rescued with slight injuries.
A 1O-year-old boy was hurt, but not
seriously.
Redman Clark, 10 years old, Is
under Arrest in Paducah, KY, charged
with murder 1t is alleged he COM
pelled a little son of Ira Davis,
farmer to drink whisky, which caused
the boys death.
Unless Turkey withdraws her boy
colt on Austrian goods and methods
within six days diplomatic relations
between the two countries Will De
severed. This ultimatum has been
served on Porte unofficially.
Thirty.three minutes to impanel
Jury: three hours for trial; thirty
nine minutes to reach verdict; ten
minutes for sentence and John Men
tesana went to the Jail at Newark, N.
J.. condemned to die in the electric
chair the first week in January for
the murder of 14-year-Old Edith
Pickett, with whom he was madly in
love.
Eight lives are believed to have
been lost as the result of collision
between the Panama steamer finance
outward bound, and the White Star
freighter George, inward bound Off
Sandy Hook. The Finance was almost
cut in two and now lies hopeless
wreck northeast of the Hook, her
deck houses, funnel and masts are all
that can be seen above the ocean.
A carefully prepared plan for
wholesale prison delivery has been
discovered at the Missouri peniten-
tiary. Convicts whose identity has
not yet been learned, tunneled
through 9 feet of the 1O-feet thickness
of the foundation of the eastern wall
of the prison, almost directly under
guard tower No. 4. Only compar-
atively thin crust of stone remained
between them and liberty when the
discovery was made.
The Bell Telephone company is
charged with attempting to form a
telephone trust in violation of the
Sherman antitrust law, in a suit filed
at Toledo, O., by the United States
Independent Telephone company.
Footpads have started reign of
terror in the vicinity of Van Buren,
Ark, preying upon the farmers and
cotton growers en- route home after
disposing of txeir cotton.
Mrs. Cornelius Westerhouse, Of
Grand Haven, Mich, deranged by loss
of her son and her husband in a rail-
road wreck, set fire to the upper story
of her house and was burned to death.
A man who had demanded $1,000
from w. r. Poag, wealthy farmer
living 10 miles south of Alton, ILL.,, on
pain of death, was shot by Henry
Joerger, a hand in Poag's employ, as
he crept under a culvert near the
Poag home searching for the tin box
of money he had ordered to be placed
there.
It has been learned from a sup
posedly authentic source that Anna
Gould, now Princess de Sagan. is to
re-marry Count Boni de Castellane
within ninety days, in the event that
she can secure divorce from her
present husband.
The amount Of Peter Van Vlissin-
gems forgeries grows daily. The
county recorder declared that one man
whose name he withheld, appeared
with SCI 900 worth of mortgages which
he had purchased from Van Vlissin-
gen. He discovered that $4,000 worth
Of the securities were forged