The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1908-06-27

to Toledo, has indicated a desire to
plead guilty on three counts.
The Persian town of Urmia was
ravaged by bands of wild Kurds and
unpaid Turkish soldiers, who attacked
the mosques, where the populace took
refuge. The Kurds sacked the town
and carried everything away of value.
The depredations were extended into
the surrounding territory and the
people fled in wild disorder.
The Locke bill, designed to stop
racing in Louisiana, passed the state
senate by a vote of II to 10.
A. M. Sherwood, president of the
Bank Of Verona, Mo-, and one Of the
best-known citizens of Lawrence coun-
ty, was stricken with apoplexy and
died a few hours later. He was over
65 years old.
Falling 500 feet in a flaming bal
loon, Joseph Randall, an aeronaut, is
nursing only a few bruises, after an
escape at Idora park, Oakland, Cal,
before thousands of spectators.
To court his wife and once again
win her love, Frank Jay Gould, the
New York millionaire, has leased the
P. P. Reddington estate at Belle Ha-
ven, Conn, which adjoins the cottage
at present occupied by his angry wife.
Gould is daily visiting his children
and hopes through them to again hold
first place in his wife's heart.
Six firemen were injured, two seri-
Ously, as the result of a naphtha ex-
plosion at a fire in Chicago. The
blaze started in the Commercial Cab
met Co.'S plant.
Because Indiana did not vote for
Secretary Taft at the Chicago cOnven-
ton. the newly nominated presidential
candidate will pay to an enlisted man
of the navy a good cigar. Taft made
a wager with Seaman Burns of the
monitor Florida that he would get
some delegates from every state in
the Union at Chicago.
Two tramps were killed and a brake
man, w. H. Manley, fatally injured,
when a car loaded with dynamite and
attached to a Denver & Rio Grande
train blew up cal Sargent, Col. A hot
box caused the explosion.
Dr.. Thomas w. Small, a resident
physician on the steamship st. Paul,
committed suicide in his stateroom by
shooting himself in the temple.
The LemOine diamond case came
to a sensational ending with an I'M
expected climax. LemOine has ied
from Paris and his famous formula
for the manufacture of diamonds is
a fantastic farce.
The special service squadron, con
sisting Of the battleships Maine and
cisco June 8 in advance of the Allan
tic battleship fleet, arrived in Homo
lulu Tuesday, one day ahead of the
schedule time. Secretary of the Int
rior Garfield was received by Gov.
Frear and other officials.
The Big Four directors have or
dered the dividend on common stock
passed, but declared the regular diyi-
dend on preferred. Lake Erie &
Westerns dividend was passed.
The American Thomas car has re-
covered much of its lost ground in
the last few days and is but 80 days
behind the German PrOtos. In its
present rate of gain it is believed
the American car VIII be on equal
terms with the Protos within another
week. The PrOtos won the $4,000
trophy offered by the Trans-Siberian
Alaskan Railway Co. to the car that
first reached Chita. The Italian car
Zust is still far in the rear and the
last reports from it showed it to be
in a bad way.
His body almost drained of blood
from slashing his wrists when cap
ture was certain, a farm hand known
as August, the Swede," lived just
long enough to confess crushing the
skull of Mrs. Joseph McVey in her
home and died in the Jail at Walden,
Ohio. The man attacked Mrs. Nc
Vey, ransacked the house and fled,
leaving her for dead.
Mamie Ann Williams, II years old,
has caused the arrest of DR.. E. Ly-
man Denison of Chicago. She alleged
the physician ON Oct. 10 of last year,
had given her drugged wine. The
girl also alleges that the physician,
who is married, and lives with his
wife and a 1~3-yearold son, also had
taken her and her sister to a flat"
in Forest avenue, the location u
which she is unable to tell. The ply
stefan was taken to a cell after being
arrested.
George E. Brennan has been named
received for the Barry Bros. Trans
r~ortation Co., which operates a line
of excursion and other boats out Of
Chicago. The action was taken by
judge c.. NJ. Walker on the applica-
ton of Joseph Lamoreaux, who holds
three judgment notes aggregating ST.
200.
John M~cElligott, Is years old, willis
playing tag with his sister on the