The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-08-13

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hibitory law.
Secretary OF the Treasury MacVeagh
mas announced that he had decided
10 have the minting of the new Lin
coin pennies stopped for the present,
and that new dies will be prepared
as soon as possible eliminating the
initials of the designer, which now
appear so prominently, and substitute
ing the single initial "B" in an OBJ
scure part of the design.
For five hours Lieut.. Harold Utley
Of the marine corps vas subjected
to an ~exacting cross-examination In
regard to his connection with the
death of Lieut.. James N. Sutton Of
Oregon, which Is the subject before
the naval board of inquiry at the
naval academy at Annapolis.
Rev. Robert j. Burdette, humorist
and preacher Of national fame, who
is suffering from a conclusion of the
spine, received from a fall on the
stone veranda of his Pasadena (Cal.)
home, was pleced in a plaster cast
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probably two months.
James Speyer & Son of New York
have cabled $4,000 as a subscription
toward the Acapulco and Chilpancingo
earthquake sufferers. This is the first
American contribution the Mexicans
have received, and Mexico is deeply
grateful. There is a lamentable short
age of food, shelter and supplies both
at Acapulco and ~Chilpancingo.
The torpedo boat destroyer Paul
Jones, which left Seattle July 26 for
a cruise in Alaskan waters, is said to
have struck a reef several miles from
Skagway, and made port in a sinking
condition. The extent Of the damage
is not known.
A special dispatch from Barcelona
says that a meeting of the city council
there a resolution was adopted de-
nouncing the recent violence and in
| cendiarism. 1t was adopted by the
narrow margin of six votes, % for and
10 against it.
A monument to Count Zeppelin was
unveiled at Oppenheim IN the Rhine
to mark the spot where the Count
landed in his airship August 4, 1909,
during his flight from Lake Constance
to Mayence.
NJ. CONNER, the aeronaut, using
Henry Farman's bi-plane, made a flight
of two hours and ten seconds. This
lowers all French records except that
of Wilbur Wright, the American, who
last year flew two hours and nine min
utes at LeMans.
Mrs. c. S. Bennett, Hazel Hudelson
and Eva Porter, of Clarion, Ia, were
drowned on Elm Lake. A party of a
dozen girls crowded a launch, which
sank with all on board.
In a quarrel over a ball game at
Lee City, KY, w. F. Lawson was
struck over the head and his skull
crushed with a baseball bat in the
hands of his brother, Clay Lawson.
The injured man died in a hospital at
Lexington.
The will of the late Don Carlos, the
%pretender to the throne of Spain,
leaves to the pope works of art and
money totalling $4,000, 900 in value.
The fifth victim of heat prostration
during the summer season at Musko-
see was Michael Hynes, a Bartles-
vile oil operator.
President Diaz has headed a sub
scription list for the relief of the
women and children Of Spain, made
dependent on account of the war in
Morocco. His donation was $1,000.
The Spanish colony and the Mexican
public are contributing literally to
the fund.
Approximately 142, 900 acres of land
in Wyoming near Gillette, which had
been withdrawn for the purpose OF
coal classification, were, upon recon-
mendation of the geological survey,
restored to the public domain by act
ing Secretary of the Interior Pierce
for entry.
Charles Brown, who is said to have
been a banker of Buffalo, N. Y, com
mitted suicide by cutting his throat
on board the steamer Vaderland, as
the vessel was nearing Antwerp. He
previously had made an unsuccessful
attempt to kill himself by jumping
into the sea-.
While regretting that death should
occur from boxing exhibitions in the
navy, department officials said in
connection with the death of Harrison
H. Foster on board the battleship
Vermont that it occasionally is a re-
suit of the sport nc matter where it
is encouraged.
The Georgia state court OF appeals
has affirmed the sentence of the lower
court that William H. Mitchell must
serve a year on the chain gang for
assault and battery upon a rich girl,
Miss Lucille Linton. After Disgusting !
himself as a negro, he tried to abduct
her about a year ago..
Thomas Cummins was shot to death
by his brother, Frank Cummins, in a
revolver duel fought on the public
road near Paola, Kan. Charles Cum
minis, a third brother, witnessed the
dunI h,f did not take sides. |