The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1908-11-28
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.

OAo Al ~ oNNohu UNSANS
a prominent man. died at Auburn
Ala, aged 81. His father, H. Clay
Armstrong, was minister to Brazil
under Mr.. Cleveland.
A carefully prepared plan for a
wholesale prison delivery has been
discovered at the Missouri peniten-
tiary. COnvicts whose identity has
not yet been learned, %tunneled
through 9 feet of the 10-feet thickness
of the foundation of the eastern wall
of the prison, almost directly under
guard tower No. 4. Only a compar-
atively thin crust of stone remained
between them and liberty when the
discovery was made.
After evading capture for four years
In a chase that led him around the
world, Elliot A. Archer, promoter, has
been arrested and is in Jail at Tacoma
Wash, according to information re-
ceived by the police authorities of
Newark, N. j.. Archer is wanted by
the Newark police in connection with
forgeries a~ggregating S120,0 00.
All word received from Teheran in
dictate that the Persian situation is
again acute. While the fighting in
the capital is desultory, it is intimat-
ed in the dispatches from the British
minister that it is likely to 20 in
volve the entire city and that a civil
wal is imminent in the south.
The Bell Telephone company is
charged with attempting to form a
telephone trust in violation of the
Sherman antitrust law, in a suit filed
at Toledo, O., by the United States
Independent Telephone company.
Footpads have started a reign of
terror in the vicinity of Van Buren,,
Ark, preying upon the farmers and
cotton growers en- route home after
disposing of their cotton.
Mrs. Cornelius Westerhouse, Of
Grand Haven, Mich, DEF anged by loss
of her son and her husband in a rail-
road wreck, set fire to the upper story
of her house and vas burned to death.
A man who had demanded 81, 200
from w. R. Poag, a wealthy farmer
living 10 miles south of Alton, ILL.,, on
pain of death, was shot by Henry |
JOerger, a hand in Poag's employ, as
he crept under a culvert near the
Poag home searching for the tin box
of money he had ordered to be placed
there.
Several towns and cities of eastern
Kansas are assured of an electric line
that will connect Kansas City, Law
renee and Topeka and extend from
Lawrence south to Independence and
Coffeyvil!e. For a year this project
has been under way, and construction
work is we'll in hand in Montgomery
county.
Samuel Gompers was reelected
president of the American Federation
of Labor with only one dissenting
vote, that of a Socialist. Toronto will
get the next convention. |,
Unless altogether abnormal weather
conditions prevail practically through
out the United States between now
and the first of the new year, this
country, within six weeks, will face a
famine, according to the
best judges among the largest paper
manufacturers of Wisconsin.
United States Minister Gummere,
at Morocco, reports to the state de-
partment sthat the dean of the Dip
corps has been informed by
The French and Spanish ministers that !,
the collective note to Mulai Hafid has :
been approved by all the powers sign
ing the Algeciras act without reserve. +
Minister Rockhill at Pekin cabled =,
the state department the request of 3
The Chinese government that the 7
opium congress which was to meet r
at Shanghai Jan. l. be p~ostponde
Until Feb. Il. .
Albert c. Mcdonald, former cor f
)~oration counsel of Brooklyn. was l.
ound dead in bed at his home. He had :
been suffering from insomnia and q
lad taken a drug to induce sleep. 9
After evading capture for four years o
n a chase that led him around the q
world, Elliot A. Archer, promoter, has i
,een arrested and is in jail al
Wash, according to informa- 6
received by the police authorities 6
Newark, N. j. Archer is wanted by n
he Newark police in connection with !,
orgeries aggregating $12O, 900. D
Messages from Chinese represent
tives OF British commercial houses ii
eny absolutely the storieslthat Prince a
hing, Yuan Shi Kai and the Dow W
ger Empress Yehonala had been as N
assinated by palace plotters. The U
is reported as quiet.
Fire in a six-story brick building at RI
and Sudbury streets Boston, G
aused the loss OF 500, 600. The blaze ii
Larted in the furniture establishment g,
: Stearns e Henderson company. The j
.nion Paint and Varnish company tr
lie Boston Mirror company and Tut H
e & Bailey we're also burned out e1