The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-04-02

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The American Sugar Refining Co..
Friday posted an advance in rates for
all grades Of sugar amounting to 10.
points. The rise, officials says, is
due to the steady advance in the price
of raw sugar, especially in the Sudan
and Porto Rican product.
Clara Renning, an 1S-year-old girl
who ran away, it is alleged, from
her home in Minneapolis because Of
her failure to pass a college exaraina-.
ton, was taken into custody as she
alighted from a train at Oakland, Cal.
Kenneth Archibald, "a Dartmouth
graduate, son of Rev. DR.. Andrew w.
Archibald of Brockton, Mass, has
been declared legally dead by the
| probate court and the division of his
estate of about SIS, 900 ordered. The
young man went west in 1907 and
later, while with a hunting party in
the California mountains, disappeared.
Wiley Gill, a youth, shot and killed
Melville Mickle Thursday night in
| front of his home at GAINESVILLE, Tenn.
The killing was caused by q letter
Mickle wrote to Gill's 15-year-old sis
ter, in which Mickle expressed his
love for her.
The federal grand jury which has
been conducting an investigation at
Chicago into the beef industry during
the last three months completed the
taking of evidence Friday and adj
jorrned until April 6, When it is ex-
pected to make it's final report.
The First Nationl bank of Fort Glib
| son, Okla, closed it's doors Friday. 1t
is capitalized at $4,000. All the de-
| posts have been transferred to the
Citizens State bank Depositors will
be paid in full.
The recent earthquake made the
harbor at Vera Cruz so shallow that
ships drawing twenty-four feet of
water touch bottom. Dredging will
be necessary.
The recent earthquake cracked the
walls of the cemetery and exposed the
bodies of many victims of the cholera
| epidemic of 1851, at Oxaca, Mex. The
discovery Thursday caused much con-
sternation. In 1851 deaths from
cholera were so numerous that it was
found impossible to bury all, many
bodies were sealed up in the inches
in the walls.
The president announced Tuesday
that he will nominate Henry A. Wise
as. United States district attorney for
the Southern district of New York to
succeed Henry j. Stimson.
A substitute resolution, offered by
the senate committee on federal re-
~lations, asking congress to enact a
general Asiatic exclusion law (includ-
ing Japanese) was favorably reported
in the California assembly Tuesday.
Grove l.. Johnson, author of the Jap
anese school segregation bill, which
aroused opposition from President
Roosevelt, moved the adoption of the
report.
Sergeant Cortes, the leader of the
insurrectionists, and his whole band
surrendered Thursday night to the
civil authorities of Remedies, in Santa
Clara province.
The Arkansas house Monday adopt
ed a joint resolution providing for an
amendment to the constitution that
the boundary line of Arkansas shall
be SO changed that they shall take in
the "Choctaw strip q celebrated
strip of land neal Fort Smith, over
which Oklahoma and Arkansas have
had a long standing controversy and
which figured prominently in much
litigation.
Prince Michael Whilkof, a men,
Der of the council of the empire Of
Russia and formerly minister of COM
munication, died suddenly Sunday.
He was present at the inaugural meet
ing of the Russo-British chamber of
commerce when he tainted. The
prince was removed to his residence,
but did not regain consciousness.
The remains of Peter Dieter, a
young ranchman who was murdered in
his mountain ranch house near Pu-
eblo, Colo, several weeks ago, was
found buried under a straw stack
Sunday. AS the body was clothed
only in a night gown, it is evident
that he was shot in his bed. Two
bullet holes were found in the body.
The first bequest made to the de-
partment for the blind of the library
of congress since that department was
opened seven years ago is n OF
1000 contained in the will of the
late Capt. Napoleon ]. Smith OF Wash
ington, d. c..
Monsignor Falconio, the papal del
egate to the United States. if present
plans are carried out, will leave this
country about the middle of May for
Rome, where he probably will make
a prolonged sojourn. Primarily, he
will make the trip to attend the
golden jubilee Of the American col
lege.