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

The very Rev. John Marshall Lang
chancellor and principal Of Aberdeen
(Scotland) university, died Sunday
He was born in 1884 and was noted
writer and lecturer.
Rear Admiral He>,worth Lambton
commander of the Ea.glish squadron
anchored in Yokohama harbor was
granted an audience with the emperor
Monday.
Promptly at midnight Friday night
the government of Saskatchewan
province took over the entire tele-
phone system in that province recent
Nv purchased from the Bell Telephone
and now the Bells are out
of the vast tract from the great lakes
to the Pacific. Manitoba and Alberta
already had taken over the systems
In their borders.
After DR.. F. w. Page Of Waveriy,
Mass, an ~alienist, had declared that
Chester 8. Jordan, on trial for the
murder of his wife, was incurably Ill
and could not survive three years,
the defense attempted Friday to have
a record breaking hypothetical ques-
ton of 1000 words introduced. The
court decided that the question was
really a review of the evidence.
New York City finds itself facing a
problem in carrying out its agreement
with Andrew Carnegie to provide sites
for seventy-eight public libraries for
which the ironmaster appropriated
S.. 900, 900. So far the city has ac-
CURED only fifty-five sites and Will
have to acquire t~wenty-three more.
Antonio Cipollo was hanged at Fol
som prison, California, Friday for the
murder on March 4 of last year OF
Joseph Priano. Cipollo and a com
panion enticed Priano up the Sacra-
mentO river, stabbed him and threw
him into the water after robbing him.
Chas. ". Fairbanks, former vice
president, concluded through agents
Thursday a deal for the purchase OF a
100000 residence in one of the tash-
ionable districts Of Pasadena. IL IS
said he will make this his future
home.
l.. w. Bingham, of Cleveland, a prl-
yate detective, was shot and probably
fatally injured by his wife Thursday
afternoon. After telephoning the po-
lice to come, the woman and her
daughter ate ice cream.
Contracts have been awarded by
the isthmian canal COMMISSION APP
proximating in value $1,000, 900 for
supplies of various kinds to be delV-
cred during the fiscal year 1910.
The Wisconsin house Wednesday
killed the Stou woman suffrage bill
bv a vote of SO to "a. Since the bill
passed the senate -four weeks ago the
m of the organization did every
thing within their power to influence
assemblymen in favor Of it.
EUGENE Pearson. chief clerk OF the
United States army transport service
in San Francisco was arrested
Wednesday on a charge of having en-
s1.145. Pearson's books are
said to have shown several apparent
shortages.
The French government has award
ed a frst-class life savers mccall W
John r. Binns, for courage dlsplayeu
when the White Star steamer Repuo-
lie was run down by the steamship
Florida off Nantucket last January
was the Marconi operator on
board the Republic.
William E. Johnson, of Salt Lake,
Utah, special Indian agent VINO mas
been investigating the source or sup
DIV of what is known as the "Peyote
bean. which has been sold to the In
dams, condemned the supply or beans
and bought them for the government
paving $3.50 per thousand.
Chester M. Hamsher, in the federal
court at Kansas City, pleaded guilty
to a charge of signing his wife's name
to love letters which he wrote to Nell
Johnson, a wealthy man Of Atchison,
Kas. and he was sentenced to a year
in Jail.
Chief Inspector Cochran or the Den
yer p~ostoffice announced Wednesday
that a mail pouch containing 20 regis
tered packages had been lost from
q Union Pacific train between Green
River and Bryan, Wyo., Sunday night.
Governor Shafroth of Colorado
Tuesday signed the campaign ex-
penses bill passed by the recent legis-
lature. and the unique measure be-
comes a law in ninety days. The bill
provides that the state shall contrib
ute for campaign expenses every two
years, Is cents for each vote cast at
the preceding general election.
J. Frank Randall, former building
commissioner of st. Louis, charged
with Offering brides to members Of
the Oklahoma City school board, was
arrested Monday night IN his return
from Mexico.
A mass meeting of 1000 citizens
decided that Goldtield should offer $780,
600 for a fight between Jack Johnson
and James J. Jefferies, to take place |
in the latter part of September during
session of the mining congress.
Tboodnra Roosevelt started on his |