The Grenada sentinel., 1908-09-12

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and of attempts on the lives of men,
bers of the royal family, the Dow
ager Queen Maria Pia Of Portugal IS
preparing to leave that country FOR
Iialy. where she will make her future
home.
Representative Ingram of Chester,
w. Va, while walking along the
Ohio River bank opposite Wellsville,
O., came upon the shrunken and
bleached body of an unrecognizable
young woman. The body has been
covered with quicklime and a rope
with blood stains upon it was found
nearby.
That Dr. Frederick Rustin, the
Omaho surgeon was murdered by an
unidentified man, and did not commit
suicide, was the testimony at the
Coroner's inquest by Mrs. Grace
Rustin, the widow, and by DR.. Lang
field and DR.. Lavender, the two
physicians who attended the wound
ed man and conducted the post
mortem.
Roswell A. Peters, a pioneer and
and one of the best known stock
brokers in Chicago, is dead. He was
63 years of age and was born at
Lafayette, Ind.
Two men were burned to death and
dozen other persons were seriously
injured in Denver in fire which
| partially destroyed the Hotel Bel
mont in Denver One hundred guests
were in the building when the fire
started and many were compelled to
jump from the upper stories.
Emperor William is undergoing the
rigors of soldiers life this week. AS
umpire-in- of the great annual
maneuvers Of the German army in
| Alsace-Lorraine, he is camped with his
men. and he rides for hours on horse
back, following the maneuvers of the
men.
Since the killing of white man by
a negro in Kansas City, there has been
a growing alarm of a race war
among the negroes and the police
have learned that many of them are
| purchasing firearms.
| Cassius Brown, twice convicted and
once under sentence of death, is ac-
quilted of the murder of Mrs. Nancy
Ann Day, which occurred near Gar
rettsburg, Mo-, November %, 1904.
The Duke Of Abruzzi is reported to
have made up his mind to marry Miss
Katherine Elkins, daughter of U. S.
Senator Stephen B. Elkins of West
Virginia, January 20, his birthday an
niverSary, whether his relatives give
| consent Or not.
The ST. Louis National Life had its
first death loss last week, when it paid
a policy of $1,000 The company be-
gan issuing insurance in August, 1907,
and has s2,5OO,OOO in force.
The Republican National Committee
has issued the campaign textbook for
1908. It's $50 pages contain in concise
form such information as is likely to
be required by speakers and writer's
and other campaign workers.
Leon S. Ehrenberg, one of Little
Rocks best-known young business
men, was shot and killed by Charles
B. Parsell There were no eye
| witnesses to the killing and Parsell re
| fuses to talk, merely stating that he
killed Ehrenberg in self-defense. The
men were former partners in the
plumbing business, and were believed
to be on friendly terms.
John R. Early, the leper, signed his
pension certificate without touching it,
except with the point of the pen and
without seeing it. The paper was
covered when it was handed to Early,
little spaces just large enough for the
signature being exposed. In these
spaces Early wrote his name, and the
covering was then removed by the
health authorities and burned.
Not only will Mrs. Peter G. Hams,
the wife of Captain Peter c. Hains Jr.,
who, with his brother T. Jenkins
Hams, is a prisoner in Long Island
CHdIScu Will ing w IL
liam E. Annis, at the Bayside Yacht
club be called on to testify at her
husbands trial, but it is expected that
the mother of the brothers will take
the stand in their behalf.
The city authorities at Springfield,
ILL.,, have agreed to make good the re-
cent losses by fire, due to the riots in
that town, for which the companies
were not liable on account Of the riot
clauses in their policies. 1t is under
stood that an agreement has been
made to have the city pay IS per cent
of the total damages and the owners
will have to lose the remainder.
The "state saloon" or liquor dispen-
sary system in Oklahoma, as salary
producer and money maker, is not
proving the success anticipated. The
Rev. j. J. Thompson, who left the pas
torate of a Presbyterian church to ac-
cept a position as district dispensary
insnertor has reDOrted that the county