The Grenada sentinel., 1908-05-23


drive needed business out of the state.
1t included a drastic insurance section.
With more than $1,500000 Of its
funds tied up indefinitely as result
National bank, the city of Pittsburg
finds itself confronted with the pos
sibility of being forced to issue bonds
to raise money to meet current ex-
penseS.
The jury in the breach-of-promise
case brought against Prof. Marcou,
formerly of Harvard university, by
Annie Manley, a mulattO, for $4,000
damages. brought in verdict in favor
OF Prof. MarcOu.
One man was shot to death, two
mOrtally wounded and another seri-
ously hurt in battle between posse
and friends of a man who had barri-
caded himself in his home TO prevent
service on him as a result of a re-
plevin suit for a horse. The fight
occurred two miles west of Reading.
O., a small place near Cincinnati.
Further trouble is anticipated.
Division No. 2 of the supreme court
in an opinion by Chief Justice CAN'T
declared unconstitutional the law
passed by the last Missouri legisla-
ture which sought to protect candi-
dates for political offices from attacks
by civic leagues and other such organ
izations by providing penalty OF fine
and imprisonment.
The disappearance in LapOrte Of
two more Wisconsin men, believed TO
be victims of Mrs. Belle Guinness, was
reported to Sheriff Smutzer. y letter
from David HiCken, Waukesha Wis,
said G.. Riediger of Delatield, Wis,
disappeared a year ago after announc-
ing that he was going TO LapOrte to
marry a rich widow.
Advices from Porto Cabello say
three cases of bubOnic plague have
been discovered there. NOtwithStand
ing the fact that the Venezuelan gov
ernment declares the sanitary cOndi-
tions of the port are excellent, it is
feared the disease will spread and
the port be closed In this event
Caracas, and virtually the entire
country, will be isolated.
George E. Sterry. millionaire coal
operator and drug manufacturer. was
shot and killed in his office at No.
sc Pine street, New York, by his son.
George Z. Sterry, Jr., because the
elder Sterry, a man Of -, was about
to remarry.
Charging the operation of a conf
dence game, warrants are out for Miss
A. L. Skelly, the dashing young presi-
dent of the American Steel Car Co,
capitalized at $10,000.000. Detective
W. ]. Morgan of Chicago is looking
for the woman, who, it. is charged, has
exceeded even the fondest expecta-
tions of Mrs. Cassie Chadwick, the
female financier.
Rev. S. A. Coffman, aged so. and one
of the best known Methodist Episco-
palian clergymen in the West Virginia
district, killed his wife while suffer
ing from a fit of insanity. He is now
under arrest.
The appellate court affirmed the
decision of the lower court, in declar.
ing that the mayor of Chicago can
not be forced to close the saloons on
Sunday, in conformity with the stat
ute.
A band Of so masked night riders
invaded Hinton section Of Scott coun-
ty, Ky, and destroyed a number OF
tobacco beds. No shots were fired,
no warning had been given and no
other damage was done.
Congressman Charles z. Litt1efield
of Maine, speaking at a banquet at
the Union League club, Brooklyn,
characterized congressman as the
most cowardly class in America.
Expectations are that the wheat
crop in the Canadian west this year
will be 12O,OOO,OOO bushels, the in
creased acreage being about 100000
acres.
Last delegates to the Republican
national convention are chosen and
Secretary Taft has a clear majority
insuring his nomination on the first
ballot.
Hope has been abandoned of saving
the hull of the big German steel
ship, the Peter Rickmers, which ran
ashore on Jones beach two weeks ago
and from which her crew of 80 men
and about sixty shore workers bare
ly escaped with their lives when a
second storm a week ago drove the
ship higher on the sands. The heavy
seas have been pounding over the
wreck ever since that time.
All Brooklyn is suffering from an
invasion of eels They have found
their way into the water mains by
the thousands in the last few weeks
and there is not a section of the bor-
ough from which the residents have
not appealed to the department OF wa
ter supply for relief from the Shiny
wrigglers. Plumbers have reaped a
boryoct