The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-03-26
Fire Friday did 100000 damage in


First avenue, Minneapolis.
The bill providing that no aliens
shall be allowed to fish in Hawaiian
waters was passed by the territorial
senate Friday.
A strike in the mines of the Bache
Denman Coal company, Cornada, Ark.
was ordered Friday by President Pc
ter Stewart of District p, United
Mine Workers of America. About a
thousand miners are involved. The
union is fighting the company's sys-
tenn of working the men double" in
each room of the mines.
The secretary of the treasury Fri
day announced the appointment OF
Charles Dyer Norton, of Chicago, as
assistant secretary of the treasury, to
succeed Louis A. Coolidge, resigned.
Charles Doggy Hilles, of Dobbs Ferry,
N. Y, has been appointed assistant
secretary of the treasury, succeeding
Beekman Winthrop.
The federal grand jury in session in
Chicago Friday returned an indict-
ment against the Illinois Central rail-
road for a violation of the federal
quarantine law. 1t is alleged that the
road accepted a shipment of cattle out
of Mississippi when that state was
under the quarantine.
A consent verdict for $2,750, against
Governor Conner Of Alabama for the
killing of ]. D. Biles by the governors
automobile, was awarded Friday. The
governors chauffeur was en- route to
the depot to meet the governor when
the accident happened.
A novel way of raising revenue was
proposed in the house Friday by Rep
resentative Sisson, of Mississippi. 1t
is provided in a bill he introduced
that a tax of So be levied on every
deadly weapon, such as pistols, dirk
knives and brass knuckles, manufac-
tured and sold within the United
States.
After killing three bills looking to
legalizing Sunday baseball, the Ne
braska house Thursday voted to ia
vorably consider Shoemaker's bill per-
hitting Sunday games in the cities OK
Omaha and South Omaha.
Lieut.. Semmes Reed, U. S. N, naval
aide to President Taft, was probably
fatally injured late Thursday while
riding with several other naval Off
GERS in Rock Creek park. His horse
his left thigh and injuring him inter
nally.
The two houses Of the Pennsylvania
legislature, in joint session Wednes-
Oliver of Pittsburg elected to the
United States senate to fill the unex-
pired term of Philander C. Knox.
The Southern Iron and Steel COM
pany was incorporated at Trenton,
N. j., Tuesday with $7,00O,000 pre-
ferred and SO, 900, 900 common stock,
as the successor of the Southern Steel
company, an Alabama corporation,
which went into a ~receivership in Oc-
tober, 1907.
George P. Kemp, of Lamar, Mo,
was bound over in bond of $1,000 at
Bloomington, ILL.,, last Tuesday on the
charge of passing fraudulent paper
in trading for a Missouri farm, secur-
ing a dairy concern in exchange.
Pedro Ezequiel Rojas, n of the
men driven out of Venezuela by Pres
ident Castro will be acceptable to the
United States a. minister from that
country, according to official state
ments made Monday. He has been
living in New York until recently and
is we'll regarded in Caracas.
The Nesadag senate Monday passed
the anti-gambling bill. 1t contains a
provision placing bridge whist and all
other games of. nance played for
money or prizes in the same category
as faro and roulette and the other pro-
hibited gambling games.
The torpedo boat Faragutt which
was damaged in a collision with the
destroyed Davis in San Diego harbor
Friday returned to ,ne yard Monday.
leaking badly, and was placed in dry.
dock. The full extent of the damage
has not been ascertained.
DR.. A. D. Foster, surgeon in charge
of the marine hospital at Annoy, China.
reports sporadic cases of bubonic
plague in Annoy. He Recommends the
detection and detection of persons for
the Philippines before they embark.
Charles l.. Burpee OF Denver, Colo,
a prominent banker and former act
ing mayor of Denver, dropped dead
at the home of his sister in Rockford,
ILL.,, Sunday. Mr.. Burpee attended a
family reunion in GAINESVILLE the day
before. u
Los Angeles vas provided with a
mayor in the person of w. D. Ste
phens, former president of the cham
Der of commerce. He was elected by
the city council.
There was filed in a Cincinnati
court Monday an entry of a settlement
which John J.. Ryan, the we'll known
sporting man, has effected with John