The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-07-02

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The supreme court decided that
voting machines can not be used in
Ohio. The court holds that they do
not meet the requirements of the pro.
vision of the constitution which says
that all elections shall be by ballot.
Jay Eye See, known the country
over as the first 2:10 %trotter. died
Friday on the Pleasant View farm.
being 81 years old.
The six years fight for an interna.
tional apprenticeship law, which has
been waged by Denver Union No. 40
of the International Printing Press.
mems Union, eliminated in the adOp-
ton by the convention of that union
of a bylaw making a four-year term
Of actual press work a qualifi7 alton
for becoming eligible to the union.
Driven temporarily insane by this
excessive heat, Mrs. Emma Monthly
threw herself and her ei~ght-year-Old
daughter from the roof of a five story
apartment house in Quincy street in
an exclusive section Of Brooklyn.
Both were killed instantly.
Otis B. Gooda1l, for several years
private secretary to the assistant Sec
rotary of m and labor, has
been appointed special agent of the
census. He will have charge of i'm
portant field work of the thirteenth
census.
After shooting his wife to death and
trying vainly to kill his 3-year-old
daughter, Armour Duwir, of Ford City,
Pa, cut his throat with a razor when
his revolver failed to explode a car
fridge.
The United States attorney general
| directed the dismissal of the govern
ment's suit against the New YORK,
| New Haven & Hartford and the Bos-
ton & Maine railways and others for
violating the antitrust laws. The
| Massachusetts legislature has expressly
authorized the consolidation of those
| roads.
Lie DOW III oldSN iOi
county, Cal, carrying five passengers
was held up and robbed by a masked
highwayman a short time after leaV-
ing. The robber took $50 from the
passengers and the Wells Fargo Elk
press box.
The workmen employed by the gas
company which is a part of the light
and power company of Rio Janeiro
have gone on strike. The city is in
darkness but there have been no dis
orders.
Rev. Father Buckley, assistant rec.
tor of the cathedral in st. Augustine,
drowned at South Beach, Fla, Wed
nesday afternoon while surf bathing.
mebers of a sheriff's posse in pursuit
of a desperate near Claremore, Okla,
opened fire on each other, mistaking
one another for the outlaw. Crutch.
field is dying and Price is seriously
wounded.
DR.. H. B. Hoover Of Susquehana
university, Selins Grove, Pa, was
elected president of Carthage, ILL.,, col.
lege.
The seasons pine apple pack will be
mates of the Hawiian Pine Apple
Growers association. The association
appropriated $50, 900 for advertising.
Geo. Howell, a planter of Dublin.
Ga, was shot and killed and his wife |
was fatally injured by Robert jenkins
a negro in Johnson county. The negro
escaped.
President Taft committed to life i'm
prisonment the sentence Of death i'm.
posed on Henry L.. Schrifogle, alias
"Ducky' Holmes, convicted of the
murder of Mrs. Mary A. Hamilton,
26, 1907. The execution
was to have taken place next Thurs
day.
Governor Stuart OF Pennsylvania,
the pardon for James B.
the actor, who murdered his
sweetheart, Madge Yorke, in Phf1adel-
.hia in 1895. The papers were mailed
to Philadelphia, and Gentry was set
free.
Oswald Lippold, 35 years old, and
Arnold, 81, both of Milwau-
kee, drowned in the mill race at Ann
Arbor, Mich, while swimming. Will
liam Cole, also of Milwaukee, was res
cued. Lippold and Cole were teach
ing Arnold to swim. Arnold pulled
them under water.
: A hay and grain elevator partly
filled and owned by A. F. Walther of
Chicago was destroyed by fire. The
loss is estimated at $110,0 00. Several
iremen were injured slightly.
Mrs. Minnie Tracy, arrested at
York, Pa, pending an investigation OF
the sudden death Of her husband,
Tracy, has, the police say, con-
that she poisoned him. In a
which is held by the police
It is officially given out she duplicates
her brother-in-law.
During a fight between Cinnamon in
4 laundry at Tenth and Locust streets,
ol.,~Soy-h;a To- Koo Tho DrOpriotOr