The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-01-08
NEWS OF THE PAST WEEK
LATEST NEWS OF THE WORLD
TERSElY TOLD.
NORTH, EAST, SOUTH AND WEST
Foreign Lands, Throughout the Ma.
ton and Particularly From the
Great Southwest.

" AL L u 10 ICtSAliy tld ItSoluCAl
Arman Fallieres intends to resign the
presidency at an early date. No con
1mation of the report is o%btainable.
Queen Helene was injured while
trying to stop a panic caused by a
slight earthquake shock Friday night
at Messina, Italy.
Greeks, Japs and Chinese now want
to take a hand in the framing of the
new tariff bill. The San Francisco
Chinese Chamber of Commerce,
through Tang Mint. it's president, has
submitted to the ways and means com
mittee a brief asking that the duties
be reduced on soy, rice, fish, meat,
type and firecrackers.
Preliminary steps have been taken
toward the capitalization of the Pacific
oas extension Of the Chicago, Mil
waukee & st. Paul Railroad Co. which
will provide for a total bonded debt
of $500, 000, 900 covering the extension
should that amount be found necessary.
John Sergief, known as Father
John of Cronstadt is dead. Father
John was leader of a sect of fanatics,
by whom he was regarded as a saint.
At one time his influence among the
ignorant classes of Russia was enor-
nous and eve of late years, notwith-
standing that Father Johns leading
satellites has been proved guilty Of
immortality and drunkenness and of
avn1Cif;nr fha;r looIo,so olJo~oJ ,o,o
tity to their financial advantage, he
had a following that numbered many
thousands.
Referring to a report that G.. P.
Taft was likely to succeed Ambassador
Whitelaw Reid, at the court of St.
James, P~resident-elect Taft said that
there was no foundation for it. He had
not, he added, given n consideration
whatever to appointments abroad or
changes in the corps of ambassadors
and ministers of the United States and
should not do so until his cabinet had
been selected.
Harry and Theodore Mercer,
brothers so and "a years old respec-
lively of Oakland, Cal, were taken to
New York by officers who had ar
rested them in the California city. The
men were arrested on a bench war
rand issued on complaint of James A..
Howard, a lawyer, who charges them
with larceny of "a, 900 through alleg-
ed false representation on settlement
of a street railway accident case.
Statewide prohibition laws went in
to effect Jan. 1 in three southern
states-North Carolina, Mississippi
and Alabama. Georgia is the only
other southern state wherein satu-
tory prohibition exists, the law hav-
ing ben in operation one year.
The inaugural step toward re-estab-
lishment of the Cuban Republic was
marked with the New Years recep-
ton at the palace at Havana, when
Gov. Magoon formally presented the
diplomatic representatives, consular
officers and other officials to the
president-elect, Jose Miguel Gomez,
and the vice-president elect, Alfredo
Zayas.
After a continuous service for forty
years as a conductor with the Illinois
Central railroad, missing but four
days in that time, Billy Bryan, whose
train is named for him. has resigned.
Bryan was the Oldest MAI in service
on the line.
An hour after he had wished his
former sweetheart, o a bride of less
a week, a long life and a happy
one" Ray Reese returned to her home
in Kansas City, Kas., and shot her
through the breast, after which he
stepped into al adjoining room and
suicide by shooting him
self In the head. The woman, Mrs.
Clyde Setter, 10 years old, is not ex-
pected to live.
Several persons were reported to
have been killed and the lives or a
number of others endangered when a
frame dwelling at North Sixty-fourth
and Madison avenue, Irving park. Chi.
cago, blew down.
The biggest theft" ever recorded
in Vermillion county, ILL.,, was enacted
when six residents of Brownville, cart
ed away the town hall and six persons
are under arrest. 1t is said plans
were made to use the municipal home
for a dance hall following a wedding
celebration.
Wilbur Wright made another as
tonfshing fight in his aerodome,
sweeping in a great circle at a high
for one hour and fifty-three
minutes and covering fifty-eight miles.
After stabbing his aged mother to
death in their apartments in New
York, Arthur Cotter, 33 years old, at
to kill himself by jumping
from the window. Cotter was taken
q prisoner, charged with homicide to
Bellevue hospital.
Edgar Parrish, the young man who
was arrested Monday charged with the
killing Of George Rider at Louisville,
Mo-, Christmas eve, will be given a
hearing January IA Par
fish vas captured at the home of his
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