The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1908-12-26

A|eA 1890
ing to a dispatch from there. They got
$4,000. u :
The New York American. Friday
carried a retraction of the article in
which the paper printed under a Chi
cago date line hat John D. Rockefel-
Ter, Jr., had planned and instigated a
stockade and peonage methods at the
Corn Products and Refining company's
plant at Summit, Ill.
Demonstrating the deadly ease OF
attacking a town by night in an air.
ship, Roy Knabenshue, the Toledo
aeronaut, from the rain-flled clouds
bombarded Los Angeles with paper
bombs.
A combination to control the worlds
copper markets is declared to be the
purpose of leading producers, %refiners
and manufacturers meeting in Chica-
go. The interests concerned are said
to represent about 65 per cen of the
worlds copper output.
l. President Roosevelt's reply to the
resolution of the house demanding
the specific reasons governing his ut
terances i'm his annual message re-
garding the secret service, will be
ready for congress as soon as it reas-
sembles after holiday recess.
General Bliss of the Philippine
division has informed the war depart
ment of the death Of eleven men Of
the Eighteenth Infantry at Camp
Keithley. >Mindanao, from Methyl
poison due to drinking Columbian
spirits" a native drink.
James w. Adams, former Arkansas
state senator, and editor of the Pine
Bluff Graphic since 1888, died after a
long illness. Three brothers are news
paper men. He leaves a widow and
several children.
Instructions were sent by the state
department Thursday to Amer lean
Minister Furniss at Port III Prince to
accord recognition to the new govern
ment of Hayti, headed by Gen. Simon.
Miss Harriet A Thaw, IS years: old,
aunt of Harry Thaw, died at the
Friends asylum for the insane in
Frankfort, Pa. She is the third mem
Der of Harry Thaw's familyto die in
an asylum. Copeley Thaw and James
Ross were the others.
The General association of Baptist
Churches of America, which is in SEES
sion at Fulton, decided to meet in eX-
traordinary session in Little Rock,
Ark, the second week in March of
next year, for the purpose of further
strengthening and perfecting the Or
ganization.
Heir to 81, 900, 900, which she cannot
enjoy, is the fate of Mrs. Mary Voor-
man, who has for thirty-three years
been an inmate of the Stockton
asylum for the insane. A 50, 600 900
estate was divided by court order,
one-ahlf going to her and the re-
mainder to her children. 1t WILL be
held in trust, as SHE is hepelessly in
sane.
Venezuela has-declared a~state Of
war against Holland, according to
advices received in a dispatch from
Secretary Paxton Hibbon, secretary
of legation at Bogota, Colombo.
Members of the Hargis family and
it's connections are found on both
sides of the case of Beach Hargis,
whose trial for killing his father,
Judge James Hargis, is in progress at
Irvine, KY. The wife of Judge Hargis
is using the money which her hus-
band left to her to defend. Her
brother, w. Floyd Byrd, is assisting
the prosecution.
Jonh and Dick. Kelley, brothers of
Carterville, H., were fined 500 each
and 120 days in prison for violating
the local option law.
-Four. persons were killed when a
pier and span of the new bridge across
the Potomac river at Martinsburg, w.
Va, collapsed.
of the prosecutions witnesses the
trial of Broughton Brandenberg for
larceny in making alleged illegitimate
use of Grover Clevelahd's name, was
postponed until after Jan. 1.
Charges of rebating by the Penn
~sylvania railroad are being investi-
gated in Chicago by the federal grand
Jury, according to federal building re-
ports. District Attorney Sims would
not admit that an inquiry into the
Pennsylvania road was in progress. 1t
is known, however, that special
agents of the department of justice
have been Investigating the railway
company's dealings with shippers.
The safe of the First National bank
of Eufaula, Ok, was dynamited by
robbers who escaped with $4,000 in
gold.
James B. Hammond, millionaire
owner of the Hammond Typewriter
company, was arrested as he was
leaving the Plaza hotel New York on
a warrant charging disorderly con-
duct, preferred by Horace G. Allen,
one of the employees of the oncer
Miss Katherine Dufferin Campbell
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