The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-01-22

position Co. filed a consolidated bill
in the federal court in which 1882
delinquent jamestown exposition
stock subscribers are sued for bal
ances due. or the total, 775 arc
persons owing on preferred stock n
SIT owing on common stock. The
amounts sued for range from a few
dollars to $39,575 due on the. total
subscription in ommon stock OF
$50, 1000.
Vice-Admiral Roj~estvensky, who died
in st. Petersburg Thursday. was given
a funeral with military honors Satur'
| day. The body was buried in the Alex
ander-Nevsky monastery, the Russian
pantheon, where rest many OF the
famous soldiers.
Acknowledgement Bonaparte insists
in a public statement that suit has
been brought against Hartman rail
| roads to force forfeiture of certain
lands in Oregon, though Senator Til
mans speech gave the impression
| such suit had not been instituted.
Ben L.. Reitman, self-styled king
of Tramps" and a socialist agitator.
is in Jail at San Francisco Friday on
eight charges of conspiracy tending
to incite a riot" His bail was placed
at $1,000 on each charge, and his
friends have SO fare been unable to
| raise this mount. Reitman was ar
rnCind "hiIa on yOlJta tn q thnatnr
where he was to have addressed a
meeting of socialists.
Oil City, a town in the Caddo oil
field, nea Shreveport, La, was vir-
tually wiped out by fire. Thirteen
buildings, including three hotels and
the postofice, were burned to the
ground. The loss will exceed 100000.
Dispatches relayed by wireless
from Nome say Mondays earthquake
was felt there and at ST. Michael's
and Ketchiken, but that no damage
was done. The town of Fairbanks
and the interior were not shaken.
Cape Henry advices state that a
steamer is ashore two and a half
miles north of Currituck. N. c., which
is believed to be the British steamer
Leesbridge, bound from Gibraltar to
Philadelphia.
The b~attleships Wisconsin and
Kearsargearrived at Valetta en- route
to Algiers. Sir Curzon Howe, COM
handing the English Mediterranean
fleet, gave a ball for the officers.
There was much excitement in Wall
street over a letter received by the
Hoboken Chamber of Commerce from
J. j. Hill, expressing the view that
there could be no real return of pros
perity until public policies are so
framed that the railroads are given
fair play and permitted to earn a
reasonable profit" on the capital in
vested.
tons, from Gray's Harbor, Wash, for
San Pedro, Cal, is reported wrecked
Off the California coast sixty miles
north of Santa Barbara. Two men are
known to have been drowned.
Leipsic is claiming the worlds
greatest child musical prodigy in
Pillar OsiriO, a 3-year-old girl. In a
| piano recital before an audience of
| critics she played classical selections
from memory perfectly.
1t is learned authoritatiyely that the
mission of Special Commission Buch-
| anan to Venezuela has been entirely
successful in renewing diplomatic in
~tercourse with Venezuela after the de-
parture of Castro.
Miss Estella Finch, an American,
who has been for a long time con
nected with the Seamen Missions at
Yokosuka and other naval bases, has
been granted naturalization. This is
the first instance in Japan Of the
naturalization of a
Two members of the staff OF he
daily paper Ell Ronacimento at
Manila were found guilty of having
published libelous articles in their
papers concerning Dean Worcester,
one OF the American COulIulSSlOLieiS.
The convicted men are Martin Ocampo
and Fidol Reyes. They were senten-
ced to six months in prison and also
fined heavily.
DR.. Kirke Stanley of New York, who
has brought suit for $150,000 for
breach Of premise against Mrs. jean
nette Deere Chapman, is in Chicago
to prosecute the suit.
John CONFESS, at n time United
States senator from California and the
last surviving pallbearer of the funeral
of Abraham Lincoln, is dead at his
home in Jamaica Plain, Mass.
The recount of the st. Louis votes
for ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS started Friday
afternoon at the election commission
ers' office under the direction Of a
Joint committee of the legislature.
After having been lost in the Guada-
loupe mountains several days in a ter
rible snow storm that ragged through
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