The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-05-28
NEWS OF THE WEEK
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.

States consul general at Shang Ha
arrived from the Orient on the Mi
pom Maru.
Mrs. Hattie Pope was found guilt
Of the murder of her mother, Mar
King, at Montevallo, Ala, on Marc
4 last, and was sentenced to serve 3
years in the pentitentiary. Mrs. Pop
broke down when the verdict was an
nounced.
Fearing Joe Williams, the Negro
who attacked Mrs. Cole at Sharp, OK
lahoma, would be lynched, Deput.
Sheriff Wagner took him to Musko
gee and placed him in the fedora
Jail.
The annual meeting of the Indiana
Associated Weeklies was held at In
%dianapolis. Mayor Bookwalter wei
coined the editors, and among the
speakers were w. E. Groves of the
Milford Mail, r. B. Wood of the Wolf
Lake Trolley, A. ]. Heuring of the
Winslow Dispatch, and H. F. Harris
of the Pierceton Record, president 81
The association.
Stoically Indifferent to his fate
Charles Kaiser, a full-blooded Warhoe
indian, was hanged at Carson City for
The murder of his wife. Kaiser is the
first known Indian who made his de-
tense the "unwritten law"
A report received from ST. Anne
Des MOnets, IS miles east of Quebec,
says that while crossing the river at
that point a boat upset and fifteen
persons were thrown into the water.
Five were drowned.
A bill arranging for a progressive
Inheritance tax in Russia has been an
nounced by the finance committee OF
the douma. 1t provides for a grad
uated tax varying from one-half to
Ewo-thirds of IN per cent.
The gallery in the monastery
church, in one of the suburbs of Lis
bon, collapsed during a service.
Seven persons were killed and a
hundred injured.
The First military tribunal Of Mex
leo sentenced Edward P. Berney, the
American who, it was alleged, had
assaulted a soldier of President DiaZ's
guard of honor when the president
was returning from Manzanillo, to
one year four months and eight days
Imprisonment.
Blaine Taylor, &c years of age, an
attorney, son of the late T. B. Taylor,
a capitalist, and nephew Of former
Gov. Vansant of Minnesota, was ar
rested at Los Angeles on charges of
having passed fictitious checks and
forged others to the amount of nearly
IS, 900.
At the May meeting of the Yale
corporation announcement was made
of the offer of 500. 600 from Mrs. Nor
ris K. Jessup of New York, to estab-
fish a professorship of ~silviculture in
the Yale forestry school.
Announcement is made at Pittsburg
that $4,000 employees of iron and steel
in that vicinity will receive
advance in wages averaging ten
per cent, the first Of June or the first
Of July.
Broughton Brandenburg, the maya
zine writer whose troubles quickly fol
lowed the publication Of a letter in
the New York Times last fall, pur-
ported to have been written by the
ate Grover Cleveland, is a prisoner
New York.
The Paris postal strike is now prac-
dead. The government Off
;ials that only 400 men are
out and these are expected to return.
Official estimates place the number
If cases of bubonic plague in Annoy
1t about forty weekly. There is a Sc
1ere epidemic at several of the inte-
'ior towns.
Owing to the shortage of American
Ind Canadian cattle landed at Birken-
lead and allegations that the United
States was withholding supplies with
view to raising prices the Liverpool
of commerce is urging the
,oard of agriculture to remove imme-
the embargo on live cattle
rom the Argentine Republic.
The leaders of the Paris postal en-
,loyes at a mass meeting admitted
hat they had been bluffing all along.
Pauron announced that there was
to expect from outside
Inions which either were not ready or
lot willing to strike. T,
Capt. Alex M. Wetherill Of the Nine
zenith infantry was Wednesday or.
cred to duty at the Alaska-Yukon.
'acific exposition at Seattle, Wash,
nd will report to the, president of /:
he exposition by May Is. /,
While the st. Anthony car, which is s
raveling over the country in the in.
crest of the Catholic church extern
ion movement, was at Evansville, {
nd, filed with fashionably gowned 8
omen, during mass, some one stole I
large glass bowl on the altar that t
vas filled with silver and gold, {
mounting to several hundred dollars. I