The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-02-26

Sergeant w. H. Dawson of the
United States marine corps, stationed
at the Mare Island navy yard bar.
racks. committed suicide Friday by
shooting himself in the head with a
rifle. Disappointment in a love affair
is believed to have been the cause OF
his act. He enlisted from Forest
Ind.
Edward H. Hartman, the railroad
magnate, was given a verbal fiaying
In the Oregon state senate Friday,
after which that body adopted a reso-
luton proposing the amendment of
the state constitution so that the
state may own and construct rail
roads. This resolution has already
passed the house.
President Roosevelt, by signing the
bill for the creation of the Calaveras
national forest, has completed the leg
islation which saves for all time the
most famous grove of trees in the
world. This act is the elimination of
efforts extending over the past nine
years.
1t is formally asserted that King
Alfonso does not intend to make an
ascension in the Wright aeroplane.
The ravages of tuberculosis among
Indians was made known to President
Roosevelt by the board of Indian COM
missioners who Friday visited him at
the White House, and appealed for
more extensive measures of relief for
them.
The Tennessee legislature Friday
three times OVERRIDE the veto Of Gov.
Patterson, passing over his protest
the bills providing for a compulsory
legalized primary and for creating,
without aid of the executive, state and
county election board.
Rev. John Eastman, Of Sisseton,
S. D., a full blood Sioux Indian, was
Friday appointed South Dakota's rep
resentative Oh the staff of the grand
marshal of the inaugural parade.
A million dollars has been collected
by the American Red Cross for the
aid of the Italian earthquake suffer
ers. a contribution Friday of 5000
bringing the grand total up to 1,O0O,-
GIG.
Not during the present session of
congress has such a large amount Of
legislative business been done by the
senate as was accomplished Friday.
Rear Admiral Robley D. Evans,
U. S. N, retired, is having more trou-
BILE with his lecture course than he
had i'll commanding a%squadron
of battleships. The bureau under
whose auspices he started out in Jam
uary is threatening 10 concel the con
tract if he does not obey orders, and
incidentally the Navy League of the
United States is involved in the diff
ficulties and officers Of the navy are
more-or less displeased with the way
things are going.
Stating false arrest caused her hui
initiation and anguish of body and
mind, Mary West has sued Sheriff R.
B. Ramsey of Muskogee county, Okla,
for Sic 5000 damages. Suit is also
brought against Ramsey's bondsmen.
John G. Wooley of Chicago, head of
Prohibition party for many years,
and nominee of that party for the
presidency in 1900, has deserted the
party and will work from the lines of
The older parties in future.
Leslie M. Shaw, former secretary of
he treasury, has announced that he
will soon remove from Iowa with his
and will locate in Philadelphia, |
where he will head a large trust com
)any. Mr.. Shaw, it is stated, says
he report that he contemplated To-
eating in Kansas City had no founda-
ion. |
The mayor of Rome, Sig. Nathan,
las decided not to carry out the pro-
,osal to confer upon Theodore Roose-
-elt the citizenship of Rome during
lis brief stay in Italy on his way to
Cast Africa.
The Teheren correspondent of the
Times says that reyolutionists
ave kidnapped Shues Sultaneh, the
hah's brother, who arrived at Resht
rom Europe on Tuesday last, and
ave demanded $4,000 ransom
Louis Anthehue Gregori, the French
lilitary writer who made an attempt
the life of Major Dreyfus at the
of Emile lola at the
anthem last June, Monday filed a
omplaint against Madame Alophe
.teinheil, the woman charged with the
murder of her husband in
'aris May 81 of last year, in connec-
ion with the death of Felix Faure,
Tho was president of France when
e died in 1899.
A score Of fishermen and their dogs
'ere carried out into Lake Erie Sun
ay morning when the ice field was
ct in motion by a shift in the wind.
IL were rescued except Joseph Ga
who is missing.
At the close of a long conference at
he palace in Havana between Presi-
ent Gomez and V~ice-President Zayas,