The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-07-09
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.

liners are to be built by Germans for
the projected Chinese trans-Pacihc
and coastwise shipping. line.
Today ground was broken at Spuy-
tenduvil for the site of he monu'
ment to Captain Henry Hudson, who,
in his good ship Half Moon" com
pleted the exploration of the Hudson
river three hundred years ago.
Nine members of a Fourth of July
picnic party were injured. John Det-
ter and wife perhaps fatally, when a
big moving van. bringing them back
Lafayette, Ind. fell oyer a sixteen
foot embankment near Wild Cat
bridge this evening.
In accordance with the program Of
the liberal majority, the Cuban house
of representatives passed the budget
of $50, 500, 900 as received from the
president, abandoing all attempts to
effect retrenchments.
President Taft was or the losing
side in a fOursome at Golf. He and
his partner, Gen. Edwards. were de-
feated by Senator Bourne of Oregon
and Captain Butt, military aide to the
president, by two UP.
A series of tornadoes. swept over
the small district in the vicinity of
Niles, S. D., Thursday. The twisters
and the last was the most violent.
At a celebration in G%uayaquil in
honor of st. Peter and st. Paul, a mob
attacked the police. The troops were
called out, but many of the soldiers
joined the mob and a pitched battle
was fought in which 16 persons were
killed and 80 wounded.
The body of Edward st. John, buried
in CascO, Mich, six years ago, was
disinterred and brought to Otsego for
ing of the casket to be petrified. His
hair, white at death, was black.
The senate came within one" OF
agreeing to vote next Tuesday On the
entire income tax amendment to the
tariff bill, including the corporation
tax substitute. The compact was pre-
vented by the objection of Senator
Buckley.
John Novak, a laborer, accused of
killing Miss Caroline Braush, a book
keeper for a San Francisco contract
ing firm in the office of the company,
has been arrested. The girl was shot
down during a dispute over 65 cents
difference in a pay check.
Gen. Geo, B. Crosby, aged SO, a ma
tive of Kentucky and n of the few
surviving b~rigadiers of the Confeder-
ate army, committed suicide by inhal-
ing gas. He had been suffering from
paralysis.
Ex-Vice President Charles w. Fair
banks and Mrs. Fairbanks, on a tour
of the orient, were presented to the
emperor and empress by Viscount
Some, the Japanese resident general.
Jay Eye See, known the country
as the first 2:10 trotter. died
on the Pleasant View farm.
Death was due to old age, the horse
being 81 years old.
Driven temporarily insane by the
excessive heat, Mrs. Emma Monthly
threw herself and her e~ight-year-old
daughter from the roof of a FIVE story
apartment house in Quincy street IN
exclusive section of Brooklyn.
Both were killed instantly.
The supreme court decided that
machines can not be used in
Ohio. The court holds that they dc
not meet the requirements of the pro-
vision of the constitution which says
all elections shall be by ballot.
The Fallansbee Brothers tin mills
at Fallansbee, w. Va, and the Pipe
in mill of Steubenville, o., signed the
scale asked by the Amalgamated. AS
ISOLATION of Iron, Steel and Tin Work
srs, thus preventing a strike at these
About 1000 men are affected.
Samuel Gompers, president Of the
Federation of Labor, who is
Ireland, preparatory to an Eu-
trip, was welcomed at a spe-
.ial meeting of the Dublin Trades
Council.
Marvin, alias VIM. Mathews, was
held in $4,000 bond by United States
Commissioner Frazier to appear be-
lore the federal court in Omaha on the
charge of completely in the hold-up OF
/ Union Pacific train May 20.
An unidentified woman jumped into
he Hudson river from a window of a
pennsylvania railroad ferryboat, when
he boat was in midstream, and was
lrowned. She appeared to be about
To- years old and well dressed.
Mayor James Brown of Nashville re-
.eived an anonymous letter threaten
ng him with death because of the ac-
ivity he is taking in the enforcement
the prohibition law.
The butchers of Santiago are on
trike. and the market has been closed.
The police are now engaged in butch
ring cattle, and trouble is feared.