The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-04-09

and $3.50 in money and stamps taken.
The revenue cutter feet, consisting
of the Rush, Thetis and Manning will
start for Alaska May Is, cruising
through Unimak Pass to Dutch Harbor
in the Aleutian Islands. They will
patrol the Pribyloff Island in Behring
Sea during the SUMMER to prevent seal
poaching by Japanese and other for
eign nations.
Robert ]. Maloney, a New Orleans
lawyer convicted of defrauding clients
of large sums Of money was Friday
sentenced to fourteen years in the
state ~penitentiary. 1t is claimed that
his defalcations amounted TO more
than $500. 600.
The Nebraska state senate Friday
passed a bill compelling saloons to
close at s p. m. until 8 d. M. The
measure has already passed the house
and will be sent to, the governor,
M. Barrere, the French ambassador,
presented to Queen Helena. Friday,
the French Red Cross medal in recog-
milton of her courageous conduct in
visiting Messina at the time OF the
earthquake and m~inistering to the suf-
ferers.
The wireless operator aboard the U.
S. S. Salem established a new receiv-
ing record for the navy, in~tercepting
a communication between the U. S.
Battle Ship Maryland, lying at Anna
pala, off the N%icaraguan coast, and
Colon. Ampala is 2400 miles from
here.
A claim for $36,544 has been filed
against the United States government
by the New York Central lines to re-
imburse the road for disinfecting stock
cars at Buffalo and other places dur
ing the cattle quarantine. The rail-
road contends that it's cars were found
to contain no germs of the disease.
President Taft and family expect to
make their summer home in the VI
cinity of Gloucester, Mass. 1t devel-
OBS that the arrangements in that con-
nection were perfected the other day
by Mrs. Taft and her friend, Miss
Boardman. Members of the presl-
dents family will leave in time to es-
cape the heated term. The president
will remain in the capital as long as
congress is in session.
1t was announced Tuesday that Sen
ator George w. Nixon of Nevada has
disposed of his entire mine holdings
to George Wingield. The price OF
the Nixon stock is said to have been
IS a share, or So, 1000. 900 for the whole.
Mrs. Machla Schlatsky, LOG years
old, died Tuesday at the home for the
aged in New York city. She is be-
lieved to have been the oldest oma
in New York.
eff / die in Kansas City, have my
body cremated at st. Louis and scat
ter my ashes upon the waters of the
Mississippi" This request, made by
Christian aYtes, 81, who died in Kan
sas City, will be carried out by her
niece, Mrs. C. A. Dearduf.
Dispatches received at st. Peters
burg from Radon, in Russian Poland,
state that thirty persons have been
drowned by the floods. The river Wis
tula has reached the highest point
since 1852. Fifteen villages in the
vicinity of Radon are submerged.
Railroad traffic is demoralized.
William R. George returned to It'll
AGA, N. Y, Monday from California,
where he instituted a junior republic,
similar to the one at Freeville, N. Y.
He says the republic idea for juve-
niles is spreading and that he ex-
poets to put them in every state.
E. r. Leorifed suffered a fracture Of
the spine Sunday at Los Angeles as
the result of falling fifty feet after
he had made a balloon ascension.
| Leorifed went up about 5000 feet
from which he made a parachute.
jump. When within fifty feet of the
earth his parachute struck an arm
on a telegraph pole.
Mrs. Harry A. Smith, aged 80 years,
was run down and killed in Philadel-
| phia Monday by an automobile driven
| by DR.. e. Lippincott. The accident
occurred in front of the aged woman's
home.
A fire which broke out early Sunday
| in the yard of the Continental Tie and
| Lumber company at Cimarron, N. M,
was under control late at night. The
| flames destroyed the planning mill,
| storage house and a large quantity OF
| lumber. The loss is estimated at $70,-
4 900.
Two men were instantly killed and
four more are entombed, as a result
OF an explosion in the Echo mine at
Beury, in Fayette county, w. va,
Wednesday afternoon. Two other men
injured by the force of the explosion
were rescued.
Two workmen were killed and two
injured Monday when the walls OF the
old county Jail at Los Angeles on
which they were working collapsed.
The men were raising the walls when
suddenly they toppled over. One body
has been recovered.
Governor Samuel G. Cosgrove OF