The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-10-08

when TWO foreign St~rlkeDreakerS WIN
! were leaving the mills at the midnight
shift, opened fire on a number of strik-
ers' pickets and policemen interfered.
firing at the officers. All the bullets
vent wild.
Fire wiped out the lumber yard of
Manley Chew, at Dollartown, Ont.
sweeping an area of thirteen acres
bare. This is the second fire in two
weeks. The loss will reach nearly a
million dollars The total quantity Of
lumber was $4,000, 900 feet.
The supreme court Of Georgia re-
fused a new trial to Clifford NJ. Orr,
former cashier and director of the Ex-
change bank, of Macon, who was con-
victed in March, 1908. of embezlement
and sentenced to serve seven years in
the penitentiary.
The aeroplane and balloon carnival
scheduled in the Fort Indianapolis
speedway on October IA, 10 and 16,
has been called off. according to IN an
nouncement Friday by Director E. A.
Moross. Failure of the speedway
management to reach suitable terms
with the aviators, particularly Glenn
H. Curtiss, is given as the principal
reason for the action.
With a view to carrying out Post
master General Hitchcock's policy Of
retrenchment and economy in the
postofice department. Alexander
C,a-t NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. 50 tl,r ,a;Iv,ox,
mail service. directed the division SUI
perintendents Of the mail service to
meet him in Washington on October
II for a conference.
John H. Morrow, a veteran Southern
Pacific engineer. forced his way into.
his wife's home at Oakland. Cal, and
killed her. He shot at his sister-in-
laws baby, which his wife had been
holding, and then inflicted probably a
fatal wound upon himself. Mr.. Nor
row had been estranged from his wife.
The American Red Cross society,
through the state department. sen an
additional 2 1000 to the food sufferers
in the vicinity of Monterey, Mexico,
making a total contributed TO date Of
$ I 1000, and one thousand blankets.
Fishing schooner Caldwell II. Colt,
of Pensacola, Fla, has been seized by
a Mexican gunboat off Progreso and
her crew of eight men thrown into
prison.
On the steps to the Hall of Fame at
New York university an unknown MAJ
shot himself in the head. The body
was removed to the morgue.
DR.. Frederick A. Cooks claim to be
the discoverer of the north pole was
Endorsed by the American Association
of Critical Surgeons in convention in
Chicago.
Unprecedented cold weather in the
valley in the vicinity of Mexico City
has destroyed the corn crops. 1t is
estimated hat the loss will reach
$4,000. 900. The thermometer We'd
nesday morning registered 2 degrees
below the freiezing point.
A government balloon sen up by
the weather bureau from Bluemont,
Va, landed at Rockport. Mo. A de-
vice for recording the temperature
and the height attained was in the
basket Of the balloon. 1t was sent
back to Bluemont.
BY mutual agreement, between coun-
sci for defense and prosecution, the
preliminary hearing of Rev. Wallace
M. Stuckey, of Williamsburg, Kas.
who was taken to Ottawa from Wau'
kegan, H.. charged with the abduc
ton of Lorena Sutherland. 16 years
old, was continued until October 8.
While near the finish in the ~600-yard
race, at an athletic meet in Brooklyn,
Michael McCaffrey broke his right leg
Just above the knee. 1t is believed
that Mccartney, who was in third po-
sition at the time, crossed his legs
while turning into the stretch and
thus cracked the bone.
BY a decision handed down in the
district court, Sweetwater, Tex, will
retain the permanent h~eadquarter:
and shops of the Kansas City, Mexico
& Orient railroad, in Texas. Sweet
water obtained a temporary injunction
restraining the removal of the office.
to San Antonio.
The Rev. Henry F. Xavier. know
In Yonkers. N. Y, as the "strenuou
clergyman expressed from the pulpi
in st. Joseph's Roman Catholic churcI
his intention to publicly chastise cy
cry couple in his parish whom nc find
%spooning in secluded streets.
G. w. Bruce, superintendent Of ID
state school for the blind, at Fort Gil
son. Okla, has requested Governo
Haskell to have the census enumers
tors make a separate list of the bin
children of the state, that they ma
be induced to attend school. Bruc
believes there are 300 blind childre
in the state, and of that number onl
~ffty-seven have been enrolled in tn
school.
Judge A. H. Huston. of the Loga
county district court, declined 10 a.
cept the appointment to be Unite
States district attorney of the Yves
ern district of Oklahoma to succee
John Embrie, resigned.