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


ran national convention have been
chosen and speeches of a high order
are promised
Birmingham, Ala, will provide free
entertainment for veterans who attend
the Confederate reunion there next
week, a hotel where everything Will
be free having been made ready.
Monetary commission meets and or
ganizes and prepares for its work.
Senator Aldrich was elected chairman.
A bench warrant was issued by the
supreme court of the District of Col
umbia for Theodore H. Price, the mil
~lionaire cotton king; Moses Haas and
Frederick A. Peckham, all or New
York. for their removal to Washing
ton to answer an Indictment in con-
nection with a leak" on cotton re-
ports from the department of agrlcul-
ture.
Prominent English society women,
headed by the duchess Of Marlbor-
Uugh, who was Miss Consuelo Wander
bilt, and Lady Henry Somerset, have
taken up the plan for better houses
for the working class, which was
abandoned four years ago by the Ma
tional Housing council, chiefly through
the efforts of the Socialist members
of the council, who were in the ma
5ority.
About 80, 900 employees are benefited
by the full time schedules that went
into effect Monday and during the past
week in Massachusetts, Maine, New
Hampshire and Rhode Island. 1nclud-
ing all New England, thus far manu-
~facturers employing about $4,000 per-
sons have given notice of the aboli-
ton of the short time schedules. The
change is due largely to an increased
demand for textile goods.
Photograph of the retina Of the eye
OF a murdered oma at Alton, ILL.,,
shows the picture of a man and is ex-
pected to aid in finding her slayer.
Rejected Wisconsin sutton kills the
and causes panic among congregation
by menacing it with pistol.
American flag blown about his feet
causes the death 81 a young aeronaut
while making a parachute jump at
Passaic, N. J.
Birmingham, Ala, reports more big
business in the last two weeks than
In the six months before, and the new
railroad connection with the north gets
credit for much of the improvement.
Four masked men broke into the
State bank at Cuba, Kas., dynamited
the safe and escaped with between
$4,000 and $4,000, after engaging In a
street fight with citizens.
II anyone with ambition to be made
a fellow of an exploration society has
a spare $4,000 he may make a good
start by applying to Commander Rob-
ert E. Peary, U. S. N, arctic explorer.
The commander is ready, Capt. Rob-
ert A. Bartlett of Brighs, N. F., is
ready, the big ice defying steamer
Roosevelt is nearly ready, the date to
start t O find the north pole, July 1,
has been set, but-there are no funds
available.
President Roosevelt pressed the
electric button which started the cele-
bration at Kingston, N. Y, of the 250th
anniversary of the founding Of the
town.
Judge William G. Loving, who shot
and killed Theo. Estes, who he al
legged had wronged his daughter, has
left Virginia for Florida to become
assistant general counsel for the Sea-
board Air Line railroad.
The British steamship Queenswood
and the steamship Loanda, a German
vessel, were so badly damaged in col
lisions in the ~fog-covered channel that
they sank, after having been brought
into Dover harbor. The Q~ueenswood
collided with the Borneo, a Spanish
vessel. It is not known what boat
Tammed the LOanda. The crews of
both ships escaped.
Information is that the Missouri Pa
ciic will discontinue dividends.
New rule of the interstate commits
sion that zone but labor. union men
shall receive appointment as inspec-
tors under the safety appliance act
angers railway managers and Off
Gals.
John D. Rockefeller will furnish
funds for the erection and main
tenance of a large hospital to be con-
Quoted in connection with the Rock
efeller institute for medical research.
It is planned that the patients treated
there shall be those suffering from OBJ
scure or chronic disease.
Gen. Stephen D. Lee, commander-in-
chief of the United Confederate Vet
Grams and the ranking lieutenant gen.
eral of the C~onfederacy, is dead. Death
was due to paralysis, which attacked |
MIN a week ago while entertaining
Wisconsin veterans.
Incessant roll calls and the reading
of lengthy documents Monday forced
both the house reading clerks, E. L.
ro-rcop and Donpic Award fo fam |