The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-06-18

sibly Mount Washington.
A message from Smoaks, s. c..
states that guile Simmons and Frank
Samuels, negroes arrested there
charged with the murder Of young
Ben Smoaks two weeks ago, were
lynched by a mob Of over 500.
The bodies of two men, J. Gooder
OF Rock Valley, Ia, and w. d. Toney
of Sioux City, were found in a well
on the McNally ranch, two miles north
of Kadoka, S. D., and Michael Malone,
who was in their employ, is under
arrest, suspected of their murder.
Another of the series of great bridges
which are gradually built to connect
little old Manhattan with the various
boroughs which comprise Greater
New York was formally opened with
a week of elaborate ceremonies begin
ming Saturday.
WI Ting Fang, Chinese minister at
Washington, has reached the isthmus
of Panama from New York. He Is on
his way to Peru, 10 which country he
also is accredited. Through the cour-
tesy of Gen. Goethals he will inspect
the canal.
A special from Vancouver, B. c.,
says that six Chinese performers, en-
route to the Alaska YukOn-Pacific TX
position at Seattle, are being detained
there by Dominion immigration Com
missioner Munroe until the $500
Chinese head tax is paid. An appeal
is being made to the Chinese ambas-
sador at Washington.
Chinese are refusing to sign agree
ments with the salmon Gamers at the
old wage scale and a general strike
of Celestials and a complete tie-up or
the %canneries is threatened. 1t is
practically Impossible to replace the
| Chinese in the canneries with whites
and Indians.
George Cox of st. Paul, a dining car
| conductor on the Northern Paclhc,
went to Burlington, Ia, and going to
q rooming house where his wife, Bes-
sic Cox, had been employed, shot her
to death. He also attempted to kill
| another woman named Pearl Smith
but the bullet missed her. He was
arrested. Jealousy is said to be the
cause.
The announcement is made positive
ly that Francis J.. Heney will be a
| candidate for district attorney at the
| coming election. He says he has con-
| scented to enter the fight, as he wishes
to continue the graft prosecution IN
which he is now engaged.
An informal invitation from Amer
lea to Great Britain to participate IN
the naval review to be held IN san
Francisco next October to celebrate
the rebuilding of the city after the
earthquake of 1906 has been presented
by Ambassador Reid.
President Taft has directed the pro-
motion to the grade of major of Capt.
F. R. Lang, second United States IN
fantry. who was seriously wounded In
the Picking campaign and is now inca
FACILITATED for active duty, that the ON
Ger may be retired in the advanced
rank.
The bursting of a valve in the ice
plant of the Pacific Mail steamship
China, as the vessel was nearing a
Francisco from the orient, flooded the
tirst-class cabins with ammonia n
several passengers narrowly escaped
suffocation.
Soloston Beaubien, a member OF the
B~eaubien family which settled in h
cago when it was only a trading post
on the western frontier, died in De-
kalb. Ill. He was born in Monroe, |
Mich, in 1926.
Fire damaged the hardware ware
house of the B. F. Avery & Sons pillow
factory, in Louisville, KY the second
largest concern of it's kind in the
country, and for a time threatened
the entire group of large buildings.
The loss is $4,000.
Mrs. Electra r. Beard, convicted or
misappropriating $4,000 of the funds
of the Children's Hospital assocla-
ton of Denver, while treasurer OF that
institution, was sentenced to serve
eighteen months to three years in the
~penitentiary.
Louisiana Petite, so called Sleep
ing Sickness" girl, of Lowell, Mass,
died after lying on her bed practically
unconscious for thirty-two days. In
that time the only nourishment which
passed her lips was milk forced
through her teeth.
It is stated by a San Sebastian
that King Alfonso recently
another operation on his
nose by a Bordeaux specialist, DR..
Moure. which has proved successful.
During the current fiscal year tehe
national banks Of the country nave
received in individual deposits $4,-
826. 060. 1884, more than a billion and a
half dollars in excess of the entire
outstanding money supply OF the
United States.
Senator Beveridge OF Indiana has
introduced an amendment to the tarln
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