The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-05-07

church, died Sunday at Delaware, O.
Gilbert d. Preston. president Of the
Interstate Coal & Coke company shot
and killed himself Sunday in the bath
room of his home at Columbus, Ohio.
Cornelius Fellows, founder and the
| president of the National Horse Show
association, died Friday, aged So. 1t
was largely due to his efforts that the
annual horse shows held in Madison
Square Garden attained their popu-
larity.
H. Ota, councillor in the department
of agriculture and commerce for he
| Japanese government, has been ap-
| pointed commissioner general to the
| Observation-Disclosures exposition and
will come to Seattle Immediately to
take charge of the Japanese exhibits.
Fire caused by crossed wires Thurs
day night destroyed the plant of the
Piqua CO., Home Telephone company.
switchboards when the fire broke out
had narrow escapes, the entire build
ing being in flames a minute Or so
after it was discovered.
Senator SmoOt Thursday received
assurances from the officials of the
be an investigation of the charge OF
discriminating by the Hartman rail-
roads which were recently made by
the merchants of Salt Lake and other
cities in Utah.
At least two persons were burned
to death and many severely injured In
a fire which threatened to destroy a
six-story tenement in New York. The
fire, starting on the third floor, worked
up to the roof and imprisoned many
families.
When Margaret Tarney, a beautiful
~16-year-old girl, saw Des Moines OIL
GERS arrest Charles A. Morgan, a mar
ried mar to whom she wrote burning
love letters, she swallowed an ounce
of laudanum. She was taken to a hos
pital, where her condition is preca-
rious.
Charles X. Shu, probably the first
Chinaman to be made a justice OF the
peace in this country, was Wednesday
invested with that authority by the
commonwealth of Massachusetts. Shu
is a native of Seattle, Wash.
New York is to have the highest
hotel in the world, is plans filed with
the bureau of building are carried out.
They call for a thirty-one story struc-
ure, 376 feet high.
The Rev. Edward Everett Hale, aged
chaplain of the United States senate,
was taken i'll on his way from Wash
ington to Boston Wednesday,, n is
now confined to his home.
Nat Goodwin has purchased h Her.
vey 6O-acre orange grove near Fuller
ton, Cal, paying for it G. 1900. The
ranch is considered n of the most
attractive in that section.
The annual edition of the "Quax,"
Drake University's student publlca-
ton, was confiscated by the faculty
and it's editors threatened with posi-
BILE expulsion unless two Objectionable
cartoons were withdrawn.
The Florida house Of representa-
tives Tuesday adopted a resolution en-
dorsing the democracy of the match
less and peerless leader of the Demo
cratic party, William Jennings Bryan.
Former Congressman John j. Len
of Ohio, Tuesday filed a petition In
bankruptcy in the United States court
scheduling liabilities of $87,0S2.41, OF
which $4,000 is secured and assets
of $2O,645.
J. R. Capablanca, the Cuban cham
pion, after fifty-two moves scored his
victory Tuesday night against
Frank J. Marshall, in the fifth game OF
the chess match at the Manhattan
club at New York.
On account of the funeral of Maurice
Powers, a former member of the Phil
adelphia Athletics, the game between
Washington and Philadelphia Amerl-
can Leagues scheduled for Thursday
at Washington will be postponed.
Advices received Tuesday from
Sydney, Australia, state thai Jack
London. the American author VINO
~
on a tour of the South Sea
Islands many months ago in the sloop
Shark has sold the boat at that port
and gone to South America.
Earth and snow slides which have
continued internationally for the past
hours at a point on the Great
Northern, a mile east of Nyack, Mont,
completely blocked traffic ana a
trains, including our passen-
ger trains, are tied up on either side.
Adele Boas, the 1~3-year-old daugh-
ter of Arthur e. Boas, is at home with
her parents, the mystery Of her disap-
having been ~dispelled and
the case resolves itself into nothing
more than the ~escapade of a child
with a sudden desire to e the world.
According to a dispatch received
Monday night former Governor Low
rev. of Mississippi, who is i'll in New
Orleans, has suffered a relapse and
It is not believed. he can survive for
many hours.