The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-03-19
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.

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James Christensen. former state
treasurer of Utah, who retired from
office on January /, is under arrest on
the charge Of being a defaulter to
the amount of $7e,0o0.
Horticultural experts at Nebraska
university, after field investigations,
declared the peach crop to be almost
a total failure.
The announcement has been made
that December 6 to IS has been def
nitely decided as the time for this
years National Corn exposition which
Is to be held in Omaha.
Veterans in gray and veterans in
blue marched side by side at the
fourth national encampment of vet
Grams of the opposites at Fitzgerald,
Ca, Friday.
Mrs. A. G. Vanderbills Of New York
has donated $4,000 to found a chill
dren's hospital at Lausanne, Switzer-
land.
A reward of 1000 was offered Fri
day by the Chicago, Burlington &
Quincy railroad for the arrest and
conviction of the parties or parties
who tempered with the Weary mine
switch, five miles out Of Peoria, H.,
Thursday evening, resulting In the
wreck Of a passenger train.
The Arkansas house Thursday killed
the Bouic-W Wilmington racing bill
which provided for racing at Hot
Springs under the direction of a COM
mission. The vote was 81 to IA
against.
BY a vote of 125 to 70, the Georgia
division of the United Daughters of
the ~Confederacy decided on Ander-
sonville as the location for a monu-
ment to Capt. Wirz.
Levering P. Young, ex-Confederate
veteran, was cut and perhaps fatally
wounded by Attorney A. NJ. Baker
Thursday afternoon during an alterca-
ton in the ~latter's office in Lexington,
KY, over a business transaction.
J. j. Mack was killed, Avery Bern
stein and Policeman Robbins fatally
wounded and Detective Stowe serious
" shot in a street fight Thursday in
San Antonio, Tex.
In an exhibition billiard match in
Kansas City Thursday night Willie
Hoppe established a new worlds rec
cord for the 1872 billiard game for
high runs and average. Winning the
bank, he clicked off 329.
The wife of a poor cigarmaker of
Havana. the mother of IA children,
gave birth Thursday to bankruptcies,
W boys and two girls. President
Gomez Sent congratulations to the
mother as a woman deserving we'll OF
the republic with tender and substan-
tial assistance.
AS a result of the action of the
coal operators of Nova Scotia combin-
ing their forces to fight the entry
of the United Mine Workers of Amer
lea into that province, a great labor
war is predicted.
Three heavy earthquake shocks
were felt at Messina and Reggie
Wednesday night. No damage was
done, but the inhabitants were thrown
into a panic.
Irrigation BilI' Reeder, the husky
Kansas congressman, called on the
president Thursday to suggest that
the administration put through one
measure that would make it possible
to imprison John D. Rockefeller.
Major Edmund Louis Gray Zalinski,
u. S. A., retired, inventor of the pneu-
matte torpedo gun and other military
devices, died Wednesday from pneu-
years.
President Taft Wednesday received
the acceptance Of Judge John w. War
rington of Cincinnati of the ~judgeship
of the Sixth Ohio circuit, to fill the
vacancy caused by the death of Judge
John X. Richards.
Peter Dieter, the son or a banker at
Downer's Grove, a suburb OF Chicago,
was murdered at his ranch 35 miles
west of Pueblo, according to the state
ments of ranchers in that vicinity. His
father is there making an investiga-
ton.
Harrison Crockett Heinrich, a we'll
known artist of Vienna, and Mrs. Car
olyn Harbaugh Turner, a wealthy
widow of Los Angeles, were married
at the Hotel Del Coronado In ASH
Diego. Mrs. Turner is the widow OF
the late w. w. D. Turner, known as
the Leroi mine king.
Equal suffrage met a decided defeat
In the Iowa senate Thursday by a
vote of 81 to II. The limited SUI
frage bill for women was also defeated
by a vote of SO ayes to IL nays. This
disposes of the movement for woman
suffrage at this session.
The Corning mill of the Rand Pow
der company's plant, located at Mar
low. Tenn, blew up Monday, killing
two men and injuring three others.
The bin ~forbidding the further pur-
checo NJ lands in Cuba by aliens al