The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-02-05

COnSldnUlnOple, the turkish agent q
Sofia has presented a note to Premie
Malinoff assuring him that Turke
has no aggressive intentions agaip1
Bulgaria, but that at the same I'M
she is DESTROYS of securirs a rectin
cation of the existire frontier.
The president thursday vetoed the
act Of consress providing that off
| GERS 81 the army, navy and marine
corps and of the revenue cutter serv
ice on the retired list, whose ranks
are advanced in accordance with the
law, shall receive commissions in &C
cordance with such advanced rank.
Carrie Nation was arrested Thurs
day and will have to appear in a Lon
don police court for breaking the
glass Of an advertisement Of cigarettes
in a station of the WaterlOo-Baker
street underground railway.
Secretary Newberry has written a
letter to F. G.. A. Jennings, seaman
on the U. S. S. Arehusa, commenting
him for his gallantry in jumping over
board and assisting in the rescue of
human life during the fire at the
navy yard, Mare Island, San Francisco,
September IS last, following an explo-
sion of floating gasoline.
An Oklahoma syndicate has estab-
lished headquarters in Boston for the
booming of immigration OF girls to
Oklahoma to relieve the scarcity of
wives there.
The president has accepted the res
ignation of Chaplain Joseph Casey of
the First infantry at Vancouver bar
racks, Wash. to take effect at once.
Kirk Bailey Is years old, Of Sc
dalia, Mo-, who was stabbed in the
abdomen by his 13-year-old brother,
Victor, Sunday. died at haywood hos
pital Thursday. The brother, who
disappeared Immediately after the
stabbing. was found Wednesday night
the family farm near Dresden and
brought back to the city and is 10Y
his mothers home.
President Samuel Gompers, Vice
President John Mitchell and Secretary
Frank Morrison, recently adjudged in
contempt of court and sentenced to
Imprisonment in the District of Co
Jail, were Tuesday ordered by
Wright to pay the cost In
Cured in the proceedings which re-
suited in the sentence for contempt.
These aggregate about $500.
The possibility of the federal author
ties having to stand aside to permit
he state and county of New York to
proceed against the publishers of the
New York World for the libel in con-
1ection with the Panama canal pur-
,hase, was made apparent Tuesday in
letter written by District Attorney
to United States District At
Orney Henry l.. Stimson.
There are 14,235,451 Roman Cath
,lics in the United States according
the advance sheets of the 1909
Niltzius official Catholic directory,
published in Milwaukee. The sta
istics are furnished by the archbish-
'ps and bishops of the United States
.fter the taking of a census in all
.ioceses.
Rev. Thomas J. Shahan of Hartford,
,onn., it is stated in well-informed cir
les, has been selected to succeed
Bishop Dennis ]. O'Connell as rector
f the Catholic University of America.
bishop Carroll has originally been
poken of for the position, but vas
nwilling to give up his work in Mon
ana.
Edward Kaiser Of Evansville,
ld., aged 16. who has been mar
ed a year and is father of one son,
thursday obtained a divorce from his
ife, aged II. He alleged she hypno-
zed him and that he married her
gainst his will. Kaiser formerly lived
East st. Louis.
Will B. Orwell, the editor of Of
ellis Farmer Boy at Carlinville, Ill,
formulated his plans to establish
coloney of farmer boys in the ST.
rancis valley in Arkansas. There
r. Orwell has secured options on
600 acres ON land, which he will
vide into tracts of 10, 20 and so
;res.
The United States government has
ed 80 suits against the Oregon &
alifornia Railroad Co., the Southern
acifc Co., the present owners of the 9
& California Railroad Co., and =,
orethan 100 other individuals and {
'ivate corporations. The suits are &
recover from the railroads and their
~antees, who comprise the other de-
ndants, an aggregate of 353,288 acres
land within the old Oregon and T
alifornia land grant in Oregon. The =
nds are valued at I'VE SIS, 900 ,000. :
Being fatty reversed by President i,
)osevelt's referee board Of chemists, :
:. Harvey w. Wiley, chief govern !
.nt chemist, whose administration
the pure-food law is under fire from
any quarters, for the first time dur
g his long service at the head of the
deral chemical bureau, is in immi- u
mt danger of losing his job. '
Prominent Germans of Omaha have q
a movement which is ex- a