The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-08-20
NEWS Of THE WEEK
LATEST NEWS OF THE WORLD
TERSELY TOLD.
NORTH, EAST, SOUTH AND WEST
Notes From Foreign, Lands Through
out the Nation. and Particularly
The Great Southwest.

and Well-knOWn merchant of syria
cuse, N. Y, shot himself to death il
his store. He suffered a nervous
breakdown three weeks ago and has
been Respondent ever since. Mr.. Sey
bold's stamp collection is said to be
worth $100, 900.
Driving up to the Valley bank OF
Santa, Clara, Cal, in a hired automo
bile, two youth covered Cashier Birge
and his assistant with shotguns and
after securing $1,000, fed in the ma.
chine. Seven miles away, after they
had been chased by police and a posse
OF citizens in automobiles, the ban.
dts were captured. The money was
recovered.
Mrs. Augustine Pierre and Edward,
her son, were arrested at Idaho Falls,
Idaho, on a charge of numbering Gus
tave Pierre, the husband and father.
A younger son, Paul, was arrested
previously. Paul admitted he shot
his father after the father had threat
ened to kill the entire family. He said
%> mother and brother helped bury
the body.
senry Salzner, a photographer, is
in Jail at Cairo, H., charged with at
tempting to murder his wife with an
AK. The was found in a mutt
lated condition and recovered con-
seriousness only long enough to &C.
cuse her husband Of the crime. Her
chances for recovery are slight.
An inventor named Gross, living at
Christiania, Denmark, claims to have
constructed an electric storage bat
terry which solves the problem which
long has occupied the attention Of
Thomas A. Edison. Experts consider
Gross invention of high Importance.
Lewis Livani, an elderly second
hand clothes dealer of Portchester,
N. Y, who was known to keep con-
siderable cash about him, had his
throat cut by robbers within ten feet
of the passing crowds on the sidewalk.
He will die.
Two men were killed and property
valued at $4,000 was destroyed in an
explosion at the Aetna Powder mill at
Aetna, Ind. Joseph M. Kolna and
Michael Mccarthy were killed.
A number of persons were trampled
on and others injured when a dozen
steers, which were part of a wild
west padade, charged into a crowd
at Port Huron, Mich. Dogs stamped
ed the steers.
J.. H. Mackie, a Columbus, Ohio,
lr,Ggchant, arrested at Los Angeles,
al E~Aseveral days ago on a charge
of being a fugitive from justice, was
denied a writ of habeas corpus and
will be taken east at once.
The National Irrigation Congress,
in session at Spokane, Wash, accept
ed an invitation extended by the
Trans-Mississippi Congress, to be held
in Denver, and Endorsed the Chicago
Exposition, to be held November 20.
III with typhoid fever, Miss Jessie
Merrell, of Abingdon, ILL.,, jumped into
a cistern and was drowned.
The British cruiser Forte returned
to Cape Colony after an unsuccessful
search for the steamer Waratah, dur
ing which a distance of 1920 miles
was covered. The Waratah has been
missing since July &c. She had SO
passengers and a crew of 207 men.
Judge William T. Wallace, promi-
nent in California politics for more
than fifty years, died in San Fran
cisco at the age of 81. He presided
over the grand jury which broke up
fha On no1ln1 TI,.- D,,11o~ 49, =.
San francisco.
A captive balloon in the Spanish
lines discovered two new camps OF
the Moors, which were promptly
shelled by the Spanish artillery. The
Moors were driven out, carrying away
their dead and wounded.
Willard Webb, a negro, was con-
victed of criminal assault upon Mrs.
Evy Brown at Brownings, Ga, sew
eral weeks ago and sentenced to hang
September IT.. To prevent lynching,
he has been taken to Atlanta.
Ella Gingles, the Irish lace maker,
who was recently acquitted on a
charge of larceny after a most sensa-
tional trial, is on her way home in
Larne, Ireland. She is accompanied
by Mrs: Grace Vandusen Cook.
Milton sChandler, 2 noted citizen of
Georgia, formerly Congressman and
for several terms a member Of the
state Legislature, died at his home in
Decatur, Ga, aged ~ years.
Miss Myrtle Maude Lawrence, for
the last few years companion to Mrs.
aMry Copley Thaw, was married to
DR.. C. L. Mackenzie of Alberta, Can.
ada. The ceremony was performed
at st. Luke's church in Matteawan.
Mrs. Mary Scott Castle, the erst-
while actress from California, who
denied William B. Craigs fountain
pen and slightly wounded the lawyer
when she fired a 22-calibre revolver
at him in the Waldorf, a released
The New York jefferson Market
ander- S. 5000 bail, after six
days Of Imprisonment.