The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-11-05
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.


front of his office with a bullet in hi
back His watch and revolver wer'
gone and the key of the Jail was brok
en- off in the door.
Judge J.. L. BethShareS, 70 year
cid, was struck by an automobile driv
en- by C. Smith, a Snowman, at Pa
ducah, KY, and MORALLY injured
Judge Bethshares formerly was coun
t. judge and is one of Paducah'!
WealthieSt men.
ven that more than 100000 was be
Queathed for use in the medical de
partment of Yale university by the
will of the late DR.. Shoemaker OF
Wilkesbarre, Pa.
Guy Mosser, a farmer, four miles
northeast of Wendelin, H., vas fatal
ly injured in a runaway. He was
husking corn when his team became
frightened. He became entangled in
the reins and was dragged more than
SOC yards.
Officials of the controllers office at
Washington believe the shortage in
the First National Bank of Mineral
Point, Wis, will be between $500, 900
and $500, 600. Receiver Schofield re-
ports that it will be six weeks or more
before he will be able to ascertain the
approximate amount, on account OF
the large number Of certificates of de-
post supposed to be outstanding and
which are not on the books Of the
bank.
Prof. Parker of Columbia university
will not accompany DR.. Frederick A.
Cook on a second expedition to Mount
Mckinley, because he thinks it would
look as if he were indorsing the ex-
plorer. He said, however, he would
make the ascent himself next year
in an effort to find the documents DR..
Cook claims to have left at the top
Of the mountain.
Mrs. Sadie Martin, a widow so years
old, living near Louisville, Ill, has
been arrested and placed in Jail
charged with larceny. Joseph Hollis
hansen, a farmer, had the warrant
issued, charging her with stealing
corn out of his field.
Robert Fincheer, 81 years old, Of
Lyon, Mo-, who was found bruised
and unconscious on the Union Pacific
railroad tracks in Kansas City Octo-
Der 9, died at the general hospital.
Death was caused by exhaustion, fol
lowing the amputation of his left leg.
which had been crushed. Fincheer |
said he was enticed from the union
depot, slugged, robbed and left on the
tracks.
Physicians who examined the body
OF Mrs. Henry Joseph, who died at
Terre Haute, Ind, declare her death
was due to poison, which was alb
sorbed into her system by excessive
application of b~elladonna, which she
used as a cure for rheumatism.
Brig. Gen. John ]. C%oppinger, U. S.
A, retired, SOn-in-law of the late
James G. Blaine, is seriously i'll with
pneumonia and, owing to his advanced
age, his friends are alarmed.
In a revolver fightbetween police
and two men caught robbing a
house in Indianapolis, one of the bur-
glars was shot and the other, Samuel
Caldwell OF Chicago, vas shot in the
leg and arm. None of the policemen
was hit.
Leonard Kohler, an electrician, was
in a fire that destroyed the
car barns of the Peoria Terminal Rail-
road company, Peoria. Ill. The loss
Or the barns was $50, 900.
An understanding has been reached
between counsel for John R. Walsh of
and United States District
Attorney Sims that no attempt will
be made to send the convicted banker
to prison until the United States SUI
preme court has taken Jurisdiction of
his case.
Fred Mikel, the man who shot and
killed young Magruder in the Higbee
(Mo.) jail last June, pleaded guilty in
the circuit court Monday, to murder
n the second degree. He was given
sentence of ten years in the peni-
,entiary. +,
Mont Hall. proprietor of the Demont
hotel, at Seneca, Mo-, was tried in the
circuit court on the charge of keeping
gambling house. The jury returned
verdict of guilty and fixed the pun
shment at two years in the peniten-
larry.
DR.. Frederick A. Cook closed his
ecture tour in Minneapolis, and from
here will go to Missoula, Mont, to
ook into the matter Of the Barrill aft ,
Iavits relating to the ascent of Mount !
dcKinley. !.
The supreme court of Arkansas af-
rned a $4,000 judgment ag the !.
Mountain railroad for the DEATH ,
( Murray Conan, a brakeman, Of
Wagner, Okla, in 1907. The courtd !
cid the company negligent for fall
to provide a derailing device at !
he end OF a switch and for failing :
!, keep brakes on work cars in order, :