The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-08-13
NEWS OF THE WEEK
LATEST NEWS OF THE WORLD
TERSELY TOLD.
NORTH, EAST, SOUTH AND WEST
Notes From Foreign, Lands Through
out the Nation, and Particularly
The Great Southwest.

WIN lllouSe GACltcIIlSIt piSN
In Gainesville, Ga, Edom Matthews, a
negro porter of a local hotel VINO at
tempted to criminally assault Mrs. w.
T. Lawson. q trained nurse, was
rushedd to Atlanta to prevent a .ynch-
ing. Matthews has an ugly wound in
his neck, Mrs. Lawson having stabbed
him with a knife.
The Lisbon Secoli's Melilla CORE
spondent says that the Spaniards have
lost 500 men killed and 1900 wounded
in the last three days fighting with
the Moorish tribeSmen, II that thlr-
ty-ive officers and $50 men have fall
en- into the hands of the MOOrs, who
tortured them before putting them to
death.
The Evansville street car strike,
which has lasted siXty-nine days, vas
ended by the Garments union, by The
lifting of the boycott. The terms OF
settlement have not yet been made
public.
Federal Judge Ralph E. Campbell
sustained the demurrers of defendants
III OU,UUO luldu Ahiu SuiNo
brought by the government. h &C
tons by the government were ordered
dismissed. The court held that the
titles obtained from the Indians be-
fore the act removing restrictions
went into effect are good.
Because he attacked an 11-year-Old
girl in 1898, William Bowman, at Fort
Smith, Ark, was sentenced to hang.
He was convicted ono before but Sc
cured on technical grounds an order
by the supreme court for a new trial.
The girl, now % years old, appeared
in the case Doth times as prosecuting
witness.
Action will be commenced in the
United States courts next week to test
the Kansas state bank deposit guar
anty law, according to a decision
reached at a conference of representa-
tives of Kansas state and national
banks.
John H. Shaw, charged with forgery
at Bonneville, Ark, who was being
taken from Greedy, Colo, where he
was arrested Wednesday, jumped from
a train near Shawnee, Okla, and suf-
fered injuries from which he died a
few hours later. The train was run
ming so miles an hour at the time.
Jeu Sing Wah, a Chinese, who has
amassed a fortune as a merchant at
Eudora, Ark, and is now on his way
to China with his American wife and
a son II months old, called on United
States immigration Inspector James
r. Dunn at st. Louis to get a certifl-
cate emitting the boy to citizenship
in the event he wishes to return to
the United States when he reaches
maturity.
Letters demanding $4,000 ransom,
coupled with a threat to dynamite
the Pennsylvania lines, steamships
and vowing death to the travelling pub
lie in the event of refusal, led to the
arrest in Philadelphia of Abrac Z.
Eby, mayor and referee In bank
ruptcy of Burkeville, Va.
The record for laying $50 feet OF
hose, breaking coupling and attaching
to pipe, after a half mile run was
broken twice in the Iowa State Fire
mems tournament. A Clinton tear
reduced the record Ills to liza Id,
and later a Sioux City team set the
record at 1:13 3-5.
Earth shocks are being felt daily IN
the Rikateje region of Portugal, where
the populace is greatly frightened and
camping in the fields.
Clara, the 13-year-old daughter OF
G.. ]. Braithwaite, a hotel keeper OIL
Harrisburg, Ont, hanged herself to a
tree. She had received a whipping
from her step-father. The tree she Sc
lected was at a point where her father
would be certain to see her body on
his way home.
Mrs. H. 8. Baker filled her hus-
bands pulpit in Brooklyn. She has
been preaching ermons in her hus-
bands place in order that he might
take a months vacation.
Marital troubles caused Mrs. EN- |
ma Michael, of Chicago, to kill her
two children, Meta, Is years old, and
Gustav, ~ years old, and then com
nit suicide by near Of Illuminating
gas.
The Alexander & Boyer Lumber
company of Fort Smith suffered a loss
by fire of Is, 900, which partly de.
stroyed their large yards. The cause
of the fire is unknown. The Like
Lumber company, adjacent, lost sew
eral piles of lumber.
William Dean Howells, the author,
who has been spending the summer at |
his country place in Maine. is said to
be In very poor health. He will sail
next week, with his daughter, Mildred,
for Carlsbad.
President Taft pardoned Manning
C. Palmer, former president of the
American Exchange National bank.
of Syracuse, N. T., who was convicted
of misapplication of the banks funds
and sentenced to five years imprison.
ment in the Auburn state prison. His
sentence would have expired on the
3lst inst