The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1908-05-16
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disreputable saloon are to be Grad
icated by action of the brewers of the
nation, according to plans for the
convention of the United States Brew
ers' association to be held in Milwau-
kee June s tO 10.
Mrs. Johanna Garvey, reputed to
have been more than 100 years old, is
dead at her home in Warrington, H.,
a small town near Waukegan. The
deceased had lived in Warrington
more than 60 years and was probably
the oldest resident of the state. She
is survived by three children.
Lincoln, Neb., has started the day
light saloon plan, a new experiment
in the anti-saloon movement. The ex-
else commission issued the order
which permits thirst empOriums to re-
main open only between sunrise and
sunset.
Out of 60 persons who attended d
church social at Rockwell City, Ia,
20 have been stricken with typhoid
fever. One is dead and five are dying.
All ate pressed chicken and cabbage
salad.
By a vote of 20 to /, the people of
a Francisco have voted SIS, 2 ,0OO
bonds to rebuild the schools destroyed
by the earthquake and fire, and to
provide an auxiliary water system to
fight fires.
Two masked men held up Express
Messenger Latham on the n%OrthbOund
Great Northern Seattle-Vancouver
train between Seattle and Ballard and
looted the express car, containing the
registered mail, after beating Latham
into Inconsistencies.
House committee concludes inspec-
ton of paper pulp mill at Corinth,
n. Y, and leaves for Washington.
Joseph Clark, missionary, says Pro-
fessor Starr of the University of Chi
cage shut his eyes to the atrocities
committed in the Congo Free State.
Mystery surrounds the killing Of
Trooper Powers at Fl. DeS MOines
rife range. Powers was shot while
he was arranging a target for other
troopers to fire at. Officers of the
fort will make no statement regard
ing the shooting. Powers home vas
at Byers, Okla.
Two brigades of MAJ. Gen. Will
cocks mixed British and Indian
troops are moving on the Mohamme-
dan tribesmen, who are again stirring
up serious troubles. Orders to the
expedition are to punish severely the
Mohammedan raiders. and news Of an
engagement is expected shortly.
A succession of tOrnadoes swept
over a district twenty-five miles south
west, south and southeast of Wood
ward, Okla. Several small towns, all
off the railroad and without tele-
graphic communication, are reported
destroyed; many persons have been
injured and several are reported
killed.
CONSERVATION reigns among more
than a score of women well known
in society circles of Clinton and De
catur, H., as the result of a rumOr
that attorneys for Richard Smell, dis.
inheTed son of the aged millionaire
Col. Thomas Smell, who is fighting
his fathers will for a share Of the
So, 600, 900 estate, have unearthed a
host of letters written by women to
the old man, through which they
preyed upon his senile love mania
to wheedle him out of large sums OF
money.
A ban has been placed against rats
and mice on the Panama canal zone
in efforts to prevent bubonic plague
from gaining a foothold there.
Announcement was made by the
papal delegate, Rev. Diomete Fal
COMO, that Auxiliary Bishop Muldoon
Of Chicago has been recommended
for appointment as bishop of the
Rockford Qll.) diocese. Bishop Null
doon's name has been SEN to Rome,
but the pope has not yet made the
appointment.
District Attorney Jerome admitted
on WlIuCSS Slduu III TIC HCdI lHS VI
the King charges against him, that
he threw dice for a dollar apiece and
the drinks with the two sons of Thorn
as F. Rryan, at a restaurant ear the
courts buildings, while Del
phin H. Delmas was summing up in
the first trial of Harry K. Thaw for
the murder of Stanford White.
War has been declared against east
ern railroads by commercial and man
u~facturing interests of cities extend
ing from the Mississippi river to
Maine, and preliminary steps toward
a gigantic fight against the proposed
freight rate advance have been taken.
Twenty members Of the council OF
the diocese of Texas were poisoned
by the luncheon served by the wom-
en- o Christ church at the parish
house in Houston, and for a time
several were in a dangerous condition.
One man was killed and four in