The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-01-02
OF THE WEEK
THE LATEST NEWS OF THE
WORLD BRIEFLY TOLD.
NORTH, EAST, SOUTH, WEST
Foreign Lands. Throughout the Ma
ton. and Particularly from the
Great Southwest.

boss of San Francisco. was sentenced
to IA years in the state penitentiary
at San Quentin prison. Sentence was
pronounced by Judge William P. Law
Tor whOpresided over Ruef's trial on
the charge of bribing members of the
Schmitz board of supervisors in the
award of an overhead trolley franchise
to the United Railways.
1t will be several weeks before the
report of the board of engineers which
made a survey of the proposed lakes
to the gulf deep waterway reaches
congress. The report may not be in the
hands of Chairman Burton of the
rivers and harbors committee before
the end of the present session.
Walter Scott who is better known
to the public as "Scotty the Million.
aire" filed in Chicago his application
for enlistment in the United States
novy. Scotty, who attracted con
siderable interest about two years age
from the West to Chicago, and tried
to break the speed record, says he has
spent enough of his one time ap-
parently unlimited fortune.
President Roosevelt, it was officially
announced has invited the following
engineers to accompany President
elect Taft on his trip to Panama, the
last of January; Arthur V. Davis, chief
engineer, reclamation service, Wash
ington; John r. Freeman, Providence,
r. l.; Allen HaZen. New York; Isham
Randolph, Chicago; James D. Schuy-
Ter, Los Angeles; Fred D. Stearns,
Boston.
Unable to speak for IS months, and
with his body almost entirely para
lyZed, Alexander Goodner of Camden,
N. j., sat up in bed and spoke after
a delicate operation had been perform
ed in a Philadelphia hospital by
means of which pressure on the brain
was relieved.
A railroad from the proposed deep
water port of Arkansas Pass, OF the
Gulf Coast, to Eagle Pass, on the Rio
Grande border, is being projected,
with Charles P. Taft, brother of the
holder.
Edgar Parrish, the young mar who
was arrested Monday charged with the
killing of George Rider at Louisville,
Mo, Christmas eve, will be given a
preliminary hearing January IA Par
IRISH was captured at the home of his
father, four miles from the church in
which the murder took place.
The British authorities have started
an investigation of the capture of the
British steamer Tai On by two
Chinese cruisers near Kun Chuka.
Lloyd Thorpe and Otis Leggett were
arrested at Minden, Neb., on suspicion
of being implicated in the Keene and
bandits" 10 days ago.
Anti-saloon League in Nebraska
proposes to start a fight to have the
mails closed to the advertisements
and circulars of brewers and distillers.
Baron Cote, chief of the cars
secret police, is slain in an encounter
with revolutionists near Moscow and
the troops are twice routed.
Governor Hughes committee to
probe Wall street will begin work on
the produce and cotton exchanges, and
members will advance expens mony
for tn investigation.
The entire press of Paris, with the
exception of such reactiOnary news
papers as Ia Libre Parole and LAC
ton Francois, consider the attack
dent Fallieres by an unemployed wait
er named Maths a fantastic act with
o political reason.
After a trial of twenty-one days
duration Mrs. D. B. Duncan, wife of
the pastor of the First Presbyterian
church of this city, vas granted a d.
yorce. A correspondent was named
by Mrs. Duncan. This was a girl 26
years old who had made her home
with the Duncans for three years.
Jack Johnson won the heavy weight
championship of the world from Tom
my Burns. The fight went fourteen
rounds, and Johnson was declared
the winner on points. The police stop
ped the bout.
A pistol duel was fought in the
J. w. McCullom drug store in Dexter,
Mo. by McCullom's sons Harry, FL
years old, shot and instantly killed
Fred, his Junior. The store was crowd
ed with Christmas shoppers. Though
several shots were fired, only one
bullet took effect.
The crew Of the Norwegian steamer
Munin fought fire for five days with
the hull of the vessel SO hot at times
that it hhrned holes in the bottom of
the shoes of the men on the deck I'm
der the men at work was 10000 cases
of oil.
Real work on behalf of woman suf-
frage will begin with the establish
ment in New York City of a bureau of
publicity and propaganda by the
Equal Franchise society, which has
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