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

The firm of r. M. Smith Il CO., luml
her dalers, with large hoidlngs III
West Virginia, Indiana and LOUISIANA
was adjudged a bankrupt by F~'eral
Judge Dayton at Parkersburg w. va
on voluntary petition.
Joseph Cullen Root of Omaha SOW
ereign commanded of the w. .. w.
said that a special committee wouio
renort favorably on the proposal to
erect a $3.50, 900 building from Il to
Is stories high at Omaha.
Two $50 gold pieces from the United
States mint at Philadelphia in 1877
were sold at the Numismatlc cluD u
William H. Woodin of New YORK 1or
$40 600 each, the highest price e
maid for an American coin.
That there is to be no let-up IN the
Investigation Of the federal authorities
into the affairs of F. Augustus HelnZe'
the former copper king, is attested by
q new batch of grand jury subponenas
that have been issued.
Gideon Taber Stewart, for sixty
years prominent in the countrys pro-
hibition movement and in 1875 that
narty's candidate for vice president,
died at his home in Pasadena, CAL, 81
the age of So. He practiced law IN
Ohio and during the wal edlte'l
papers in Toledo, Norwalk and DuD"-
que, Iowa. :
President Castro, of Venezuela n
his wife are living quietly IN a Vlila
near S~anstander, Spain. There is no
evidence that he is planning to assist
financially a rumored flibuSterlng eX-
petition. ,
Henry C. Ide, the newly appointed
American minister to SpaiL, presented
his credentials to King Alfonso. he
drove in state to the palace, where
fbe king received him surrounded by
his ministers. The ceremony was
brilliant.
To investigate what opportunities
are omen to American finance IN ue-
yeloping China, several of the pronll-
nent financial houses and banking III
situations of the United States shortly
will send an agent to the orient.
.Joseph Floria, an Italian, was ar
rested in Albany, n. Y, after ne had
called at the residence OF Blsnop L.
NJ. A. Burke of the Catholic diocese
where he is alleged to have made a
threat that he would shoot the blshop.
Bishop Burke was in Troy at the time.
The minister of French colonies has
received advices from Morocco that
on June 5 a French detachment re-
nulsed an attack by a band OF adher-
ents of the rebel chief Maelalnln on
the outskirts of Moudzerid. The en-
emv lost ten men killed, while the
French casualties numbered three.
The Berlin Tageblatt's Aleppo cor
respondent states that the TURKISH au-
thorities last week executed Twelve ol
the r~ingleaders, including six Arme-
mans concerned in the Adana mas
sacres.
Secretary Dickinson received from
Gen. Marshall, chief of engineers re-
norts of two boards of engineers WHICH
investigated the project for a deep
waterway from ST. Louis to the Jul
of Mexico. In accordance with the
desire OF several members OF congress-
the reports will be forwarded TO thal
body at once. They will not be mao
public until submitted.
On her first visit to New YORK n
her first ride in an elevator, MISS
Lena Schoonmaker, 10 years old, was
crushed to death Monday afternoon
when her head was caught between
the floor of the elevator and the slx'h
floor of the Flat Iron building.
Murad Bey, editor and proprietor OF
Mizan. at Constantinople, has been
sentenced to life imprisonment at
hard labor for participation In the
revolutionary movement of April l3.
REPRESENTATIVE Rodenberg QH.) In
PRODUCED a resolution providing LOT
an appropriation of $500, 900 for part
icipation by the United States In the
Brussels exposition.
Disastrous floods continue among
the Rocky Mountains and trafnc is
completely tied up at some places on
the main line of the Canadian Paclnc.
Rev. Aaron S. Watkins, OF Ada, o.,
In 1908 candidate for vice president on
the Prohibition ticket, has accepted
the office Of president OF Asbury col
lege at Whitmore, KY.
Forest fires which swept v e more
than 100 square miles in western
New Brunswick last week are prac'
tieally under control. 1t is estimated
that fifty square miles OF excellent
timber land have been fire swept.
Members of the Modoc and klamath
indian tribes have filed a complaint
with the secretary Of the interior
agent here against H. G. Wilson, In
dian agent in klamath reservation,
alleging neglect in the education OF
their children and naming other al
legged offenses for which they ask his
removal.