The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-03-12

By a vote Of AZ to Is the senat
Wednesday refused to pass q stat
hood rider ON the house resolution loo
ing to the prevention Of discrimin,
ton against American Jews ~travelin
| in Russia.
One of the last acts Of Presiden
Roosevelt was the signing Wednesda,
night OF proclamations creating add
tons to 10 national forests in Nevada
California, New Mexico and Arizona
aggregating 1880, 1876 acres.
The a men and other employees O
the Manila street railway systm wen
on strike Thursday to enforce Q series
OF demands. The men ask an increas'
in pay and a Encouragement of hours
A Chinese-Siamese syndicate ha'
chartered six Norwegian steamship,
for one year In order to engage in tn,
rice traffic between Bangkok ant
Hong Kong, a monopoly hitherto hel,
by the North German Lloyd Steam,
ship company.
Captain Merritt H. Insley, one O
Leavenworth's oldest and wealthiesr
citizens, died Friday, aged 75.- Cap
tain Insley served with distinction
through the civil war and was one Cd
the special guards appointed to guard
the White House in 1861.
Gabe E. Meier, an attorney, SON oil
the late Isaac Meier of Peoria, ILL.,,
was arrested in Chicago Friday night,
after a search of two months. eMief
is under indictment in Peoria for al.
legged participation in the primary
frauds of last fall.
News was received in Rome Friday
night that an avalanche had destroyed
a house in the village of Bradel, prov.
ince of Belluno, Venetia, killing IF.
teen persons. +.
The boiler of a locomotive exploded
miles north of Dayton, O., on the
Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton rail-
road Friday afternoon, killing the fire.
man, e. G.. Trip. The engineer was
painfully scalded, but no otherwise
hurt.
Following a conference with ex-Gov.
John 1. Cox at Hopkinsville, KY,
Thursday night. eight Democrats who
fled from Tennessee to break a quo
rum in the legislature, have returned
Nashville in order to permit the
passing of important legislation.
Gprfrr6o uOffp,on Tho oo%rno~
enjoined by the Kansas City circuit
court Thursday from presenting the
Salome dance on the grounds that the
dance Is obnoxious to public morals.
Unexpectedly ordered to return to
Constantinople, the Turkish naval off.
GERS who came to this country on the
American feet started Wednesday on
heir homeward journey. They were
o have visited the principal cities of
he country as guests. of various cham
'ers of commerce and boards of trade.
In the district court at Newton, Ia. |
Earl w. Lindsay. of Prairie |
,ity, manager Of the Prairie City Tele-
hone Co, who was convicted of Grim
nal assault on Grace Hopkins, s years
Id. .Was. sentenced to Imprisonment
or life.
Judge harrington of the United
circuit court handed down a
Wednesday sustaining the
railroad commission in its ruiz
lgs against the Southern Pacific road.
he court ~dissolves the old injunction
gainst the commission.
The resignation Of United States
enator Philander C. knox,, as United
tates senator from Pennsylvania,
as received Tuesday by Governor
tuart. 1t becomes effective March 4.
he governor made no statement re.
the resignation.
In the lower house of the Tennessee
'gislature Representative Hickman
ltrOduced a bill which permits any
arsons Of good character, on applica-
on and payment of a SO fee, to get
permit to carry a pistol. A convic-
on for homicide in any degree shall
,erate as a forfeiture of the license.
While craZed with drink, George l..
arcott, a valet in the employ Of
General James Miller, u. s.
!, retired, ran amuck in Temple, N.
:, and after shooting at several vii
gers, was shot and killed by Rev.
aryey Eastman, pastor of the local
congregational church.
An appeal to astronomers to coop
ate in following the movement of
undiscovered asteroids, or minor
anets, has been issued by Prof. Ed
ard c. Pickering of the Harvard OBJ
rvatory and Rev. Joel H. Metcalf, |
e eminent Tauton astronomer. ]
The indisposition of the pope con- a
lues, but it did not prevent him !
,m arising Sunday morning and S
for several hours in his Ii a
airy.
HUT, the artist and illus
tor was stricken suddenly Sunday. I
it is supposed from nervous h
eakdown. f
the country Sunday in j,
cry city where a meeting could be X
.anged there was an equal suffrage r.
monstration,'' under the auspices of s.
!, Socialist party and the Socialist =