The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1908-06-13
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.

lishment of Taylor Bros, Houston,
Tex. The stones, all mounted in rings,
were in a tray which was removed
from a showcase.
LLOYD Shelton, aged Is, was killed
at a ball game near Mayfield, KY, Sum
day evening by being hit in the breast
with a ball thrown from second to
first base. He was a spectator and
had just arrived at the game.
Secretary of the Navy Metcalf an
nounced that the two new battleships
will be named Florida and Utah. The
name of the monitor Florida will be
changed to that of some city in that
state.
NJ. NJ. Stewart, aged 68 years, OF
Chillicothe, Mo, was fatally burned
by the explosion of a gasoline can.
With clothes aiame, he grabbed his
wife around the waist with the remark
that he was burning to death and
wanted her to die with him.
According to a bulletin by the de-
partmeIt of agriculture, the condition
of spring wheat on June l was 800
per cent Of a normal, as compared
with SS.7 on June /, 1907, 93.4 on
June /, 1906, and 93.3 June average
Of the past 10 years.
Two persons were killed and three
seriously injured by a freak cyclone
which demolished the house Of John
Dalton, near Lindina, Juneau county,
Wis.
Doc" Chrisman. a negro wanted IN
Independence, Mo, to answer the
charge of having murdered anoSer ne
gro there, was arrested while work
ing in the ST. Clair hotel, Detroit,
Mich.
A well-developed plot to blow up
King Manuel and the whole Portu-
guese royal family at the religious
feast to be held June Is was frustrat-
ed by the police.
With new cases of the bubOnic
plague reported daily, the port closed,
business at a standstill and the
means of combating the spread of the
disease wholly inadequate, LaGuyara
Is facing the most serious situation IN
her history.
James Flood, the demented boy, who
killed A. P. Camden Of Minneapolis
without provocatiOn, was arraigned IN
the police court on a charge OF
murder in the first degree and held to
the grand jury. The action was pure
" formal. no examination being made.
With head swollen and blood
stained and throat bruised, indicating
a fierce struggle, the body of a man,
supposed to be James E. Murray OF
Syracuse, n. Y, was found near
Hampton. Ia, by James Shearer, a IA
year-old boy.
Two men shot. one fatally; three un-
der arrest and two escaped are the
results Of a battle fought by detectives
and a band of alleged bandits, who
were surrounded in a farmhouse at
Bellebridge, about 20 miles east OF
PittSburg, Pa.
Fifty women Of Winfield, Tex,
armed with axes, destroyed a carload
of key beer at the railway station.
Led by the wife Of a prominent pro-
fessional man, they met the train car
ing the beer and as the kegs were
unloaded they swung their axes until
every drop of the beverage was spilled
on the ground.
Thirty-one thousand members of the
National Educational association have
signifed their intention of being pres
ent at the convention of that Organi-
cation to be held in Cleveland June
20 to July 3, inclusive. The attend
ance may swell to $4,000 or more.
A new transatlantic record Is prom
ised when the Prince Of Wales sails
shortly to pay an official visit to Can
ada. The prince will sail on the In
domitable, n of England's new bat
tleships, and instructions have been
given the crew and stokers of the big
vessel to speed.
Near Crooked Bayou, a small stream
on a plantation near Stuttgart, Ark,
known as the Craig Place, B. r. Oil
yer shot and killed his sister, Mrs.
Stanley, while she was in the garden
setting put sweet potato plants, after
which he went into the house and
killed her husband, who was in bed
sick.
The Peter Rickmers, a German full
rugged ship, which ran ashore on the
Long Island coast several weeks ago,
has broken in two, and the remainder
of her cargo Of case oil was swept out
to sea.
Theodore P. Shonts warmly defends
the memory of his late %son-in-law, the
Duke de Chaulnes.
English may be a dead language in
400 A.. D., according to Prof. Alfred
Newton Scott of the University of
Michigan.
Court in New York assesses $4,000
additional duty On under-valued neck
lace brought in by a jeweler for Mrs.
William B. Leeds.
William Hammond Hubbard, said to