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

tation to President Taft at the ball
grounds.
By a decisive majority, the street
car employees of Chicago voted to end
the wage controversy which has last
ed more than two months, and accept
the latest proposition offered them.
Gen. Albert l.. Meyer, commanding
the Department of Texas at San An
tonic, ordered 5000 troops at Fort
Sam Houston to entrain October II
for Ell Paso to be present for the meet
ing between President Taft and Pres.
ident Daz of Mexico on October 16.
The annual reunion Of the Twenty.
sixth and Seventeenth Missouri infan.
try and the Tenth Missouri cavalry
will be held in Chamois Saturday. DC.
tober 2. The order has been issued
by Captain R. d.. Denny, commanding
the T~wenty-sixth infantry.
Sixty-ive suits, ~aggregating 1925 0O
damages, were filed against the Frisco
railroad in the federal court at Hugo,
Okla, by excursionists to the recent
Confederate reunion at Memphis.
The first person to greet DR.. Freder-
lex A. Cook when he returns home
will be his wife. This was arranged
by the committee of the Arctic club,
which has the reception in charge, at
the request of Mrs. Cook.
Guy Anderson, manager Of the
Nebraska cotton glove factory at
Omaha, which was damaged 500 0
by fire Saturday night, confessed he
robbed the safe and set fire to the
building.
Willis Boyd, 90 years old, of Jones
boro, ILL.,, committed suicide by laying
two sticks Of dynamite on top of his
head and touching them off. His head
and shoulders were blown off. He
worked in S. H. Trips silica mine.
Dependency over family troubles is
given as the cause of the act.
Grating operations aggregating
sec, 900 were uncovered and seventeen
business men, some of them among
the wealthiest and most prominent in
Ohio, were indicted by the special
grand jury investigating charges Of
bribery and grating in Youngstown
and Mahoney county.
Miss Rose B. McKaig, a clerk in the
pestoffice at Washington, has filed a
breach Of promise suit against Will
liam c. Brownlow, son of Congress
aman Brownlow, of Tennessee, for
1875, 900 damages.
Although a reward of $500 has been
offered for information leading to the
arrest of the murderer of Theresa
Procopio, Z years old, and Ferdinand
I~nfusio, aged 213 years, at Utica, N.
Y, the police are without a clew.
Commander Peary has declined an
invitation to attend a reception in his
of Portland and South Portland, Me.
The answer to the invitation was re-
ceived by wireless from Battle Har-
Dor.
An impersOnatiOn of DR.. Cook, the
explorer, as given by Henry Lee, a
vaudeville performer, at the American
music hall, New Orleans, was cheered,
while an im~personatiOn of Command
er Peary was greeted with Kisses and
catcalls.
Two masked highwaymen held up
Clarence BOardman, compelling him
to stop his automobile at Garfield
boulevard and Roby street, Chicago.
He was forced to stand on the curb
stone while they searched his clothes
for va1uables.
Mrs. Raymond Long of Salem, O.,
killed her t~hree-months old son by
thrusting his head into a bucket of
water and then committed suicide by
cutting her throat with a razor. Mrs.
Long had worried over her child'G i'll
ness.
The frozen bodies of three German
tourists and a Swiss guide, who lost
their lives during a recent snowstorm
on the Jungfrau, were found at the
foot of a glazier.
In a runaway at MillersDurg, Ind,
Mrs. Sarah Crouch, 40 years old, was
thrown out and killed and her daugh.
ter, Miss Jennie Matther, q years
old, was injured seriously. Two chill
dren escaped unhurt. The harness was
defective and when the party drove
down a hill the horse became fright
ened, ran away and overturned the
Mrs. Mary Zagello, aged 80, and
Antonio Ffrto, aged 10, are dead, the
result of gunshots and thirty Italians
are in Jail as the climax of a days
debauch in the Italian section OF
Hutton, Pa.
The report that the American Tel
ephone and Telegraph Co. (the Bell
interests) has bought control of the
Western Union Telegraph Co., was
generally credited in Boston. 1t has
been known for some time that West
ern Union stock was being bought up
for the purpose of taking over the