The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-09-03
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.

from lue SeCOLu HOOI, WHeIS d Sdoo'
line tank exploded and threw fire owe
the room, George McRoberts was
killed, three persons were probably
fatally injured and a score of others
were severely hurt.
An application has been made to
the Cuban government by Jacinto
ALA, an Argentine engineer, for per
mission to raise the battleship Maine.
which lies in Havana harbor. His
proposition is under consideration by
the department of state.
The Gotten manufacturing plant of
the York Manufacturing company, at
Saco, Me-, was shut down indefinitely.
Two thousand operators were thrown
out of work.
Senior Nodarse, director Of posts,
left Havana for the United States. 1t
is believed that he goes in response
to a summons to confer with the
authorities in Washington in relation
10 measures to be taken for the ex-
clusion from the mails of tickets in
the new lottery, the sales of which
begin August 80.
Captain Libbey. known to the olde.
generation of good livers from coast
to coast as The Original Libbey,"
died at his home in East Orange,
n. J., at the age Of 81. For more
than SO years his down town oyster
house first in Wall street and then
IN NInrraJv ctrnnt u-oc fonnJc
The supreme court, ForesterS of
America, adjourned after selecting
Detroit as the place of meeting in
1911. E. M. McMurtry, retiring sec
rotary, was made national organizer.
Atlantic City, N. j., was selected by
the Sons of Veterans as the place for
holding the next annual encampment
of the organization. and George w.
Pollitt, of Paterson. n. j., was elected
commander in chief after a spirited
contest.
President Roosevelt's famous Rem
sen referee board of consulting sci
entiic experts" Endorsed by the con-
vention of the Association of State
and National Food and Dairy depart
ments. After a fight in which the
term "medicated garbage" was used,
the association approved of the use of
benzoate of soda as a food preserva-
tive.
Nearly 80 900 people from other
cities attended the opening exercises
of the United Bohemian Turner's
tournament at Pilsen and Lawndale
parks, Chicago. They were received
by 1000 local members of the So
ciety.
The steamer Fair Oaks was wrecked
on the bar at the entrance to Gray'S
harbor during a gale and is a total
loss, according to a wireless dispatch.
A United States gunboat was stand
ing off the bar awaiting favorable
weather to enter the port of Hoquaim,
Wash, and rescued the crew.
Two children were killed and fifteen
injured several of them seriously, at
Humboldt, Ia, when a hay rack a r
rying a Methodist Sunday school pic
mic overturned at the bottom af a hill,
hurting the children down a seven
foot embankment.
In a shooting ARRAY at Lone Noun
tain, nine miles north of Silver City,
New Mexico, between Clark Rogers
and c. G.. Messenie, of Ransom, ILL.,,
the latter was killed. A dispute yer
the lease of a fruit farm caused the
shooting.
Eastern Nebraska became the vic
tim of another heat wave, the mer-
curry rising to SO in the government
bureau. Reports indicate the South
Platte country of Nebraska will suffer
further serious injury to its corn crop
unless rains come in a day or two.
A catch of mullets %aggregating half
a million pounds, said to be the larg-
est V known along the Atlantic
coast, was made off Beaufort, N. c.,
by deep sea fishermen.
A bloody street battle between
prominent white youths and a band
of negroes took place on a street car
at Louisville, KY, the results of which
have confined three of the youths in a
Louisville hospital.
LIN 4NO" 4Olh ldQICo duAlIloly
ward of the Jewish C~onsumptive Re-
lief Society sanitarium in Denver was
dedicated. Funds for the building,
$4,000, were raised by the auxiliary.
The presentation was made by the
Rev. Harris Mastiansky. of New York.
While bathing in the Menominee
river, Milwaukee, Joseph Britz, 452
Clark stdeet, and Harry Weidnes, 496
Clark street, aged Is and Is years,
respectively, were drowned. The
bodies were recovered.
Sterling Birmingham, the discharged
loan clerk of the Windsor Trust Co.,
New York, under arrest for having
received $3.50 commission from a brok-
er in conjunction with the Joyce
Heinze copper deal, waived examina'
ton in the police court and was held
in $500 bail for trial. His counsel fur.
uished bail.