The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-08-27
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.

"uSoh, q AdHu, ~ years oAu ~
death with a ~horsewhip, Ernest E
Stout, %, is in Jail at Grand Island
Neb.
A record-breaking claim in the Los
Angeles (Cal.) courts was allowed by
Judge Wilbur. 1t called for the pay
ment of $1,320,0 900 to the Hibernia
Loan and Savings Society of Sar
Francisco. The claim was a note
executed by E. j. (Lucky) Baldwin
on January II, 1909, due in one year
The government of Cape Colony and
the admiralty have abandoned the
search for the steamship Waratah
which is now about a month overdue
from Australia to London.
President Taft will have special
agents investigate the facts in the
Pinchot-Ballinger controversy. He
wants to know on his own account,
and from unbiased sources, just what
the facts are.
On a bet that his first-born would
be a boy, George Ward, a Chicago
newspaper solicitor, won a ride, of
eight miles through the business dis
trict of Chicago in a w~heelbarrow.
Charles Maine, the loser of the wager,
held the handles IF the vehicle and
furnished the power.
Probably the smallest claim for a
refund of alleged overcharges by a
railroad that ever was filed with the
interstate commerce commission has
been received. It was a claim for 20
cents.
One million Philippine cigars have
been admitted to this country under
the free provisions of the Payne tariff
law. Practically all of these came in
before the law became operative Au-
gust 6, but had been held in bond In
warehouses in anticipation Of the
passage of the act.
Order have been issued by the Car
negie Steel Co. to place its plant at
Columbus, O., in operation as 500 as
possible. 1t will require some time
to get the plant in operating condi-
ton, and it is not likely that any of
the steel will be made before Septem-
Der /. The plant has been idle two
years.
Enraged because he had been Tilted
Harry Bliss, Is years old, shot and
fatally. wounded Miss Minnie Clarke,
aged II years, at Portsmouth, o.
The name of Allen Newton Of
Helena, Mont, was the first drawn in
the drawing for the Spokane lands
recently thrown open to settlers by
the government.
The London Daily Graphic asserts
that Orville Wright, the American
aeroplanist, has been engaged to make
demonstrations with his machine in
England two months hence under the
auspices of the British government.
A community apartment house, run
on a Utopian basis, with every man in
his own home and each tenant his
own landlord, is the unique expert
ment to be put in operation by seven
prominent Washingtonians in Septem-
Der.
The design for the monument to the
ONE of the Lost Cause" has been
completed. 1t is the work of a South
ern 'girl, Miss Belle Kinney, of Nash
vile, Tenn, INC has been accepted
by several states.
The loss of a rope of pearls worth
$4,000 was reported by Mrs. w. T.
Earl, wife of a millionaire newspaper
owner of Los Angeles, who is now at
her summer home at Avalon, Catalina
Island. Mrs. Earl does not know how
she lost the jewels.
The state department denies the ru-
NOR from Havana that this govern
ment has asked for the recall of Car
los Garcia Valez, the Cuban minister.
Acting Secretary of State Adee said
that the Cuban minister is persona
grata in every way.
Captain Ferber, the French aero
naut, won the military aviation prize
which was offered for a fight of one
kilometer. Ferber used a machine Of
his own invention and far exceeded
the requirements by making a fight
OF five kilometers.
William Graulich, of Lansing, Mich,
shot and killed his wife. Immediately
after the shootin, Graulich swallowed
a quantity of carbolic acid, dying soon
afterward. Both were 10 years old.
By a ruse, Sheriff Feagin outwitted
a posse at Desoto, Ga, and in an auto.
mobile took Dean Adams, a negro,
who confessed to attempted criminal
assault, to Americas.
A score of miners are reported to
have been killed by the fire which is
destroying the Camelia mine at Real
Del Monte, in the State of Hidalgo,
Mexico. Six bodies have been recov.
cred.
The fate of the prosperous Punjabi
City OF Dera Ghazi Khan. population
25.000, which for months has been
gradually slipping into the River In
dus, is now regarded as definitely
sealed. Nothing a be done to pre-
vent the sncroachment of the water.
The process of erosion is going -on.
very rapidlss.