The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-04-16

| SdnUS. 1HTOuSHOu( the night hcl
| siren could be heard booming. warn
ing other craft from her ,p~erilous po-
sition. Assistance was sent. from Do
yer at dawn today.
Sixty members. of the Nebraska
Bankers association have voted to
attack the Nebraska guarantee bank
Ing law passed lby the legislature at
the earnest solicitations Of W. J.. Bry-
an. Both state and national banks
were represented in equal proportions
at a secret meeting and by a unani-
nous vote decided to attack imme-
diately the constitutionality of the new
law.
1t is announced by directors Of the
National Railways of Mexico that $12,-
| OOO, 900 will be spent in improving the
| Mexican Central line and in changing
| the InterOceanic railway between
Mexico City and Vera Cruz into a
broad-gauge system.
Santos umont Friday flew a dis
lance of $500 meters (about n mile
and a half with the greatest ease in
his new m%onoplane. He %alighted safe.
ly and without difficulty.
A typhoid epidemic is raging in
Madrid, and statistics compiled show
that FOG deaths resulted from the dis
ease in the month of March.
Ben alias Booker Brame, was
lynched neal Hopkinsville, KY, by a
| mob of 300 farmers Friday afternoon.
Wholesale arrests are reported to
have taken place in Barcelona follow
ing an anarchistic outbreak. Strict
censorship obtains in the Spanish
| port and only meager details have fiji.
tered through. The government is
adopting the sternest 'repressive meas
ures. 1t is believed several lives have
been lost.
Paper manufacturers and newspaper
publishers were given a hearing
Thursday by Senator Alrich, chairman,
and Senator Smoot of the senate con
mite on finance.
John Sharp Williams, former minor
ity leader in the lower house of con-
gress. has accepted the invitation to
deliver the commencement address
June 10 before the University of
Nebraska.
AS a result of a SiXty-mile gale on
the lake Wednesday the fishing tug
George Flood, of Cleveland, with Z
men aboard and the sand sucker,
Mary H. with a crew of nine men
Wednesday were reported missing.
The captain and twenty men of the
British steamer Oakbranch, who had
ben missing since that vessel went
down in the Straits of West Minister
a few days ago, have been picked up
and taken to Punta Arenas. All the
passengers, officers and crew are now
accounted for.
Tired of living, Simon Tee, of Meri-
da, Yucatan, ended his life by cutting
his throat, with a razor. He is the
fifth brother in the family to end his
own life and he committed the deed in
the same room and same manner as
the last brother. Only one brother
out of six survives.
In sustaining a demurrer entered by
counsel for the defendants, New York,
New Haven & Hartford Railroad COM
pany, Judge Wheeler of the superior
court has held that the employers liza
bility act passed by congress in June,
1908, is unconstitutional.
Johnny Flood, IS, indicted on two
counts charging forgery, must enlist
in the navy or be sentenced to the re-
formatory. Recruiting officers may
reject him because of the objection
made to a similar order made last
year, which was considered an insult
to the navy.
The information vas conveyed to
Secretary Knox Monday that the Mic
araguan government would make an
early effort to settle either by com.
promise or by arbitration the claims
for damages of the c.. D. Emery Com
pany, whose concession for cutting
mahogany vas cancelled about two
years and a half ago for alleged viola
ton of the terms Of the concession.
The transport Thomas sailed Mon
day for the Philippines, carrying 700
men of the Twelfth cavalry from Fort
O%glethorpe, Ca, commanded by Col.
Dodd.
Col. Samuel H. Stone, former state
auditor of Kentucky, died Saturday
night in Louisville, aged SO years. In
1899 he was defeated for the Repub-
lican gubernatorial nomination by
w. S. Taylor by a few votes.
1t is said that King Edward will be
godfather to the son of Mr.. and Mrs. |
John Hubert Ward, who vas born on
March "a last. Mrs. Ward was Miss
Jean Reid, daughter of the American
ambassador.
During a riot at Scandal coal mines
near Des Moines, Ia, late Sunday
night, Joseph Brady, 48 years old, was
struck in the head with a beer bottle,
suffering d fractured skull. and Frank
Bowlich received a load of buckshot
in the abdomen. Bowlich can not live.
Gov. Shallenberger TUESDAY after
noon signed the daylight saloon BILL"