The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-05-14

l UdIIu L. INCONSISTENCIES ASoh
Greek, Okla, United States Deputy
Marshal Lou Holden was killed. Three
Of the m~oonshiners were captured. ]
James A. Dawson, night Waterman
FOR a mill company at Three Lakes,
| Wash, shot and killed his wife and
1~4-year-old daughter and then killed
himself Friday.
The White House vas thronged Fri
day afternoon at the first garden par
ty given by Mrs. Taft. More than 500
guests were received by President
and Mrs. Taft in the East Dom be
cause of the inclemency of the
weather. 5Hr
Fire started by an explosion at
Pioneer, New, Friday, burned 25 bus
mess buildings. There was no water
with which to fight the fire and it was
allowed to burn itself out. The dam
age is estimated at $4,000.
Posey is the sixth Indiana county to
vote wet under the local option law,
having Friday decided by a majority
of 1.449 to retain the saloons. n
majority is the largest yet obtained
by the VETS"
At the concluding session at Wash
lngton Friday of the American So
lciety of Mechanical Engineers, a num-
Der of papers of a technical character
were read, after which the delegates
visited Mount Vernon.
In order to perfect the motor, the
fight of the Army Dirigible balloon
No. /. which was scheduled for Thurs
day. was postponed until Saturday.
Prince Chun, the regent OF China,
gave a remarkable luncheon at the
winter palace Monday to the foreign
anvoys who gathered there to attend
the funeral ceremonies May 1 OF the
late Emperor Kuang Hau.
Canon Arthur W.Behrens, aged IS
years. chaplain sof ST. Adams school
for boys at Knoxville, committed sui
eide Thursday by drinking cafDohc
acid. He had been in poor health
and was in constant fear of INSANITY
or paralysis. He awakened his wife,
saying that he had taken poison and
a anxious to die. =
The National Daylight association
was organized at Cincinnati Thurs
day night to carry on an agitation FOR
more daylight" The plan is to move
the clock two hours ahead between
May l and October l, this having the
effect of bringing two daylight hours
into the leisure period of the day.
Wesley, B. c., a lumber town, was
practically wiped out by fire early
| Wednesday. The loss included the
Yale Columbia company's mill, all
the lumber in the vicinity. all the resi-
dences and the ether buildings in the
place.
Ortis Hamilton, former adJutant
general of the state of Washington
was arrested Wednesday at the IN
| stance of Gov. E. NJ. Hay, charged
with embezzlement and forgery. Ham
ilton is alleged to have stolen $4,000
from the state military fund.
Former Mayor and Congressman
| William Maybury died at his home al
Detroit, Mich, Thursday, following a
sudden relapse of his old illness. Mr..
Maybury had been a victim of uremle
poisoning.
Five thousand dollars were sent by
the Red Cross society to American
Ambassador Leishman at Constantine
pie Wednesday to be used by him al
his discretion for the relief of suffer
ers in Turkey.
The senate Tuesday confirmed the
nominations of James Thomas VIII
Jams. Jr., of South Carolina, to be a
civil service commissioner, n Thos
r. LYONS of Aalaska, to be Unlteo
States district Judge in Alaska.
More than 1000 automobiles o 0
mart in New York's annual carnival
parade Tuesday. Prizes a~ggregaune
80 600 were distributed to the pes
decorated vehicles. More than ",
600 persons. it was estimated viewed
the five mile line.
Bert Russell, arrested at Waubay
S. D., Monday on a charge OF beating
his wife over the head with a shafI
instrument, in1icting probably fata
injuries. broke away from the officer
seized a knife and cut his throat
dying instantly.
President Taft has been an uncon
scious speed maniac" and his frleno-
are apprehensive that he will flgure
in a serious smash-up if he continues
riding at the fearful pace his chauf
feur now maintains.
Brooding over a quarrel with MI
sweetheart, Alexander Jennings, =
wears old and the son of wealthy par
ents. threw the congregation at {
crowded country church at LITTLE
Hickman, KY, into a panic Sunda.
by firing a bullet into his brain.
The the result of an explosion II
the film room of the Crescent nlckel
odeon Sunday night, resulting II
plunging the entire front OF the the
alter into flames, William W. Robinson
city editor of the Peoria (llL) Sta
and manager of the playhouse, is dead