The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1908-10-24

lier's Weekly, ~purportlng TO De the
| real story Of the "Archbold Standard
Oil Letters" read on the stump by
VIM. r. Hearst during the political
campaign. The story sets forth how
a negro file clerk in John ID. Arch
bold's private office at No. 26 Broad
way and a messenger ~conspired 10
steal and photograph the letters and
sell them to Hearst for $4,000. The
messenger is quoted as saying
| Hearst has not read the most sen
| sational of the letters.
To guard against indiscreet utter
| ances of chiefs Of bureaus at the
navy department during the cam
| paign, Secretary Metcalf directed
that nothing contained in any regular
annual report of those officers shall
be made public until after the cleo
ton in November.
A warrant has been issued for the
arrest of Miss Edith Writ, a school
teacher in Kansas City, Kan, be,
cause she pasted a strip of court
plaster across the lips of Harvey
Galloway, a 9-year-old pupil who
talked too much in school. The war
rant was sworn out by the boys
father and charges cruel punish
ment.
One body and injured en-
ployes have been taken from the
debris which buried from 40 to 80
men and boys when the roof of the
Lehigh Valley railways r~oundhouse
collapsed at North Wilkes-Barre,
Pa. The body recovered is that of
Peter Mullen. 1t is feared that a
number of bodies still remain under
the wreckage.
Four men were literally cooked to
death on board the steamer Barge
Maggie Marshall in mid-lake off Ken
osha, Wis, when a steam pipe in he
engine room burst and escaping
steam burned the men to dealt be-
fore they could escape.
Herman Billek. fortune teller n
necromancer, must hang for the muir
Ger of six members of the Vrsal
family. The supreme court OF the
United States at Washington dismis-
sed, for want of jurisdiction. the plea
of the condemned murderer for a writ
of habeas corpus The writ had been
demanded of Judge Lands, but he
refused to issue it. Appeal was then
made to the United States supreme
court.
Woman's suffrage in New York
state was dealt a body blow when
Justice TruaX in the supreme court
denied the application of DR.. Julia
Seton Sears, a suffragette, for a writ
of mandamus to compel the board of
election inspectors to recognize and
register her as a voter.
Mrs. Catherine T. Gelshenen, widow
tf the former president of h Gar
field bank, who. it is rumored two
years ago, Charles w. Morse would
marry, made $13 900 dealing in ice
stock through Morse, according to
testimony at the trial of the former
ice king and Alfred H. Curtis before
Judge Hough in the United States
circuit court.
A dispatch from P~aintsvllIe, KY,
says hat George Stafford's residence
caught fire and he and three children
were roasted alive. Mrs. Stafford tried
to save herself by jumping from a
second story window, and broke her
neck. The entire family was wiped
cut by the disaster. The Staffords
we're prominent.
In the presence of a hundred per-
ons Judge David B. Howell, OF the
first criminal court of Newark, n. j.,
twice shot himself i'll the head in
Branchbrook park, inflicting wounds
from which he died in a hospital two
hours later.
Boldly stopping the motor of his
aeroplane while 65 feet : above the
earth Wilbur Wright proved his con
tention hat accident would not fol-
low. The big machine glided a dis
lance of G5 yards with wonderful
ease and steadiness, alighting on the
earth without even a serious jar.
Rendered desperate by a fire which
destroyed 100000 worth OF property
in that city, already staggering under
the loss of the great flood a few
months ago, Bisbee business men are
planning to abandon the town site.
The chemists of the department OF
Agriculture believe they have solved
the problem of cheaper paper that
will dispense altogether with the
use of wood fiber. The new material
from which five grades Of paper al
ready have been made is the ordln-
airy cornstalk, and the officials pre-
dicted when the manufacture of the
new kind of paper is started on a
large scale it will be at least SO per
cent cheaper than the print paper
now made from wood pulp.
The Chicago Cubs again are the
baseball champions of the world. For
the second time they won a series that
means the title from the Detroit Tigers