The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-09-24

1le pant OF the portland f1OuliuS
Mills Co., one of the largest on the
Pacific coast, caught fire and the
flames soon spread to the company
dock. 1t is believed the loss will zap
proximate between S350,O00 anc
$40O, 900.
Running at top speed a Reading
(Pa.) trolley car turned over on 3
sharp curve at a culvert under the
tracks Of the Philadelphia & Reading
railroad. The conductor, Winfield
Wiedner, was killed and four passen
gers were injured seriously.
According to reports from Sebasto
pol the cars health is very bad. The
emperor and empress intend to re
main some time in the south. They
will make a long %sojourn in the VI
cinity Of Malta.
st. Louis has landed the Eagles
convention for next year.
In the federal court at Marquette,
Mich, E. T. Larson, former cashier
of the defunct Ironwood National
bank, was sentenced by Judge KNAPP.
pen to seven years in the Detroit
house Of correction.
Three robbers dynamited the safe
of the Neosha (Kans.) State bank and
escaped with $4,000. The bank fix
lures were wrecked. The thieves ex
changed several shots with the city
marshal without effect.
John S. Parks of Kansas City was
appointed receiver for the Merchants
Refrigerator Co. of that city by Judge
Phillips in the United States district
court. The refrigerating company
failed in October, 1907, with approXi'
mately 5000, 900 in creditors claims.
The First Natinal bank of Burnside,
KY, has closed it's doors. The bank
has $4,000 capital stock. Overloans
and some unfortunate business deals
are said to be the cause Of the failure,
After holding up and robbing Miss
Freda Santiago, Is years old, about two
miles from the end of the Spring Gar
den avenue a line, at Pittsburg
Leon Johnston, a 17-year-old negro
narrowly escaped lynching at the
hands of three infuriated neighbors
from the city.
An advance of from 5 to 10 per cent
in the price of watches to jobbers has
been made by the Elgin and Waltham
watch companies. 1t is stated the
advance is based purely on the new
tariff bill, though both companies
deny this.
Texas Democracy and the yelled at
tack against himself by w. J. Bryan
in his Fort Worth speech. Senator
Bailey announces hal he will reply
TO Bryan in Dallas.
j.. E. Savers of Richmond county,
w. Va, vas OF the verge of madness
In his cell after being arrested for
the murder of his bride, a girl of IA.
They had been married only two
weeks. The allegation is that he gave
poison to his bride, with whom he
eloped.
Fulfilling his promise to Sheriff
CASTOR, made at his Birmingham
home, where he was questioned, Fred
Banding, the University of Michigan
baseball player, who has been men
toned in connection with the murder
of Mabelle Millman voluntarily went
to Detroit. He went Immediately to
police headquarters for a secret con
ference with Captain of Detectives
Mcdonnell.
Running at full sped into a group
of three nuns crossing the street, the
automobile of Charles Mueller, a real
estate dealer of New York, hurled the
women aside with frightful force, kill
ing one of them and possibly fatally
injuring another.
Secretary Ballinger, it is under
stood, will retire from the Taft cab,
met. This does not mean that his
resignation will be Immediately ac-
cepted. 1t is the information of his
subordinates that the president is not
satisfied with the explanations which
have been given regarding his con
nection with the Cunningham coal
tract in Alaska.
One torpedo boat destroyer and
three torpedo boats, bound from
Hampton Roads to st. Louis, entered
the mouth of the Mississippi river
at Port Eads, La, Monday afternoon
and proceeded on their way to New
Orleans.
Fire destroyed the business section
Of Monroe City, Ind, at a loss of $780,
600. Both telephone exchanges were
destroyed and communication with
this city was cut off.
John r. Early, the so-called leper,
has been stricken from the pension
rolls, as he has been found to be en-
tirely free from any disease, having
recovered from the skin eruption
which was declared by eminent
physicians to be leprosy.
After killing a ~12-year-old boy and
terrorizing the community at Moselle,
Miss, Leroy Watts, a negro crazed by
whisky bought from a blind tiger, was
rIoin hy q nOccp which ran him