The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-01-29

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effect a statewide prohibition act. Il
is effective July 1, 1909. In eacf
house the passage was effected
through a combination of Republican
and Statewide Democratic strength
California members of congress gen
orally are supporting President Roose
welt in his contention hat the anti
Japanese measures now pending be
fore the legislature of that state
should be killed.
A telegram from New York states
that Charles l.. Tut of Colorado
Springs, Colo, one of the richest min.
ing and smelling magnates in the
West, is dead there of heart disease
and pneumonia.
Coroner Hoffman announced Thurs
day afternoon that after a close inves-
tigation he was convinced that &C men
have persisted in the fire which de-
stroyed the crib in Lake Michigan
Wednesday.
The urgent deficiency appropriation
bill was reported to the senate. 1t
carries $1,151, COZ, an increase of only
$25, 900 owe the amount as passed by
the house. The committee struck out
the house provision for an a%ppropria-
ton of $4,000 for the purchase of au-
tomobiles for the use of the president,
which was included upon expressed
wish of President-elect Taft, who pre-.
fers the automobile to the horse.
What are believed to have been
earthquake shocks were felt in Cincin-
natl and the suburbs Saturday morn
ing.
Rev. Thomas J.. Shahan of Hartford,
Conn. it is stated in w~ell-informed cir
cles, has been selected to succeed
Bishop Dennis J. O'Connell as rector
of the Catholic University of America.
Bishop Carroll has originally been
spoken of for the position, but was
unwilling to give up his work in Mon
tana.
After an Investigation lasting some
days, State Railroad Commissioner
w. l.. Seeley, in his report of the Dot
sero (Col.) wreck on the Denver g.
Rio Grande, fixes the responsibility for
the accident on the crew of the passen-
ger train.
Gov. Charles S.. Deneen Friday night
committed to life Imprisonment the
sentence of death which had been pro-
nounced on Herman Billik of Chicago,
who was condemned to hang for the
murder of Mary ZZral, who he is al
legged to have poisoned, with others
members of the family.
The James river dam bill is dead
so far as the present congress is con-
cerned. The presidents veto of the
bill was referred to a subcommittee of
the house committee on interstate and
foreign commerce. Mr.. Stevens, chair
man of the subcommittee, said there
was no need making an effort to pass
the bill over the veto.
With full military honors the body
of the late Vice-Admiral Rojestvensky
was inferred at ST. Petersburg Mon
day in the presence of representa-
tives of the imperial family, the min
listers of war and marine, and an as
semblage of high officials. Wreaths
from the emperor and empress were
placed on the coffin.
The senate ratified arbitration treat
les with Chilli, Costa RIGA and Austrio-
Hungary and an extraditiOn treaty with
Honduras, this latter completing the
series Of fOrty-four new extraditiOn
treaties negotiated to include the
crir.e of bribery among the extradit-
able %of1enses.
The stormy weather in the earth
quake region is adding greatly to the
affiction of the refugees. The work
of hut construction has been retarded
and the country all about Messina is
like a lake CT mud. The panicky feel
ing also is kept up by numerous
which have been felt as far az
Brindisi.
After seven hours of heated debate,
characterized by bitter d~enunciatiOns
and caustic criticisms, the house of
representatives passed the bill prohib-
lting the manufacture of intoxicating
in Tennessee, by a vote of 60
to sc. The bill vas passed by the
senate Thursday.
Grieving over the illness of M Of
his five motherless children, Eugene
Schoech of Highland, near Edwards
vile. ILL.,, crept from the house where
his boys and girls were asleep early
and lay down on the Pennsyl-
vania railroad tracks. Five minutes
later a fast train, flying through the
ran over him, cutting him in
two.
With railroad traffic practically sus-
on some lines, train scedules
demOralized on other roads, telegraph
and telephone wires Frustrated and
communications only ftfully main
tanned at some sections of the San
Joaquin and Sacramento valleys, Cal
has within the last "a hours
experienced one of the worst storms
In a quarter of a century, covering
an area that extends from the Oregon /