The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1908-08-29

river at Rising Sun, Ind, and the grue'
some leg of a woman discovered in a
sand bar in the river at the foot OF
Bridge street, Cincinnati. confront the
police with the most battling mystery
in years.
William j. Bryan Cancelled his
speaking date for Sept. IS at the State
Fair Grounds, Syracuse, N. Y. The
cancellation was announced following
the receipt of a telegram by Chairman
Mack stating that the State fair man.
agement refused to admit the public
free to the grounds on that date.
When the case Of Beech Hargis.
charged with the murder of his father,
Judge James Hargis, was called for
trial, Circuit Judge J.. P. Adams an
nounced from the bench that he had
decided not to preside in the case and
at once vacated the bench.
Declaring that he is 12S years old
and that he ono held George Wash
ington's horse on the road between
Somerville and Raritan. Rev. Mason
Brooks, a negro, is the object Of great
interest at Somerville. N. j.
Alleging that he was shot in the
head, numerically beaten and that his
home was riddled with bullets when
night riders raided Birmingham,
Marshall county, March 10, this year,
Nat Frizzell, a negro. has filed suit in
the United States Court for $685. 900
damages against II defendants, whom
he claims to have recognized in the
raid.
Freiherr Speck Won Sternberg. Ger
man Ambassador to the United States,
died in Heidelberg following an oper-
alton for cancer.
The death list as the result of the
wreck Of a Southern Pacific freight
train near Eugene. Ore. mounted to
five when Engineer John Nichols lc-
cumbed to his injuries. The others
dead are: Three tramps and Frank
B%OultOn, fireman.
Affairs in the United Mine Workers
of America, which have for some
weeks been muddled, e to be grow
ing serious. Pres. Lewis, who sue
ceeded John Mitchell at the head OF
the organization, is openly defied in a
few districts and the national officers
are issuing appeals for loyalty and or
ganiZers are working night and day
trying to increase the membership,
especially in the anthracite regions.
While the national target shooting
tournament is taking place at Camp
Perry, O., arrangements are being per-
fected for a tournament at Sea Grit.
N. j., which in importance in mill
tary circles compares favorably to the
national contest. 1t will follow the
Camp Perry tourney and will run sew
en- days from Sept. 4.
Twenty more indictments, making
so all told, were returned by the spe-
clal grand jury of SangamOn county,
III. The latest batch of accusations
includes five indictments against
Thomas Marshall and II other ne
grOes, whom he is accused of having
in a murderous assault upon W.
liam Bowe, chief clerk of the county
treasurer's office.
The Ohio state board of agriculture
announces that 20 young women from
will stroll around the
state fair grounds during the fair,
dressed in directoire gowns. They
come under the direction of Miss
Anna Delaney, who, in a letter to the
board, says that they will wear the
genuine article, split up to the knee.
A special from Brandon, Miss, an
nounces the death at that place OF
Col. William Walker, editorial writer
If the New Orleans Picayune for the
past 80 years. and at one time editor
n-chief of that paper. He was 65
years old and a native of Alabama.
Striking printers have closed down
.wo daily papers, the Monitor and
Messenger, at Mayfield, Ky. The
recently submitted a new
scale, which was rejected by the en-
Miss Flora Draper, reader" in the
Tirst Church Of Christ, Scientist, New
York City, is a patient in the psyche
,athic ward of Roosevelt hospital, a
-ictim of the ha~llucination that some
me is trying to hypnotic her.
Smashing the door OF the state
at the prison farm at Mil.
edgeville, Ga, Andrew Ford, a con.
rict, stole a gun and pistol, after
which he ran to the stables, took a
lorse and fled. A posse started in
Ford is a desperate char
lcter and a bloody fight is certain
When he is overtaken.
The body of a woman about rs years
I'D was found hanging to a tree in
he woods at Evanston, ILL.,, by Thorn
s Sweeney, a carpenter, about three
Jocks from where the body of an in
ant child was discovered the day
The baby had been killed
" being stabbed in the brain with a
In a duel between a negro and Mar
hal M. A. Davis and Lon Davis at