The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-10-15

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president of the First National Bank
of Jacksonville and served several
terms in the state legislature.
The commission of Supervisor OF
the Census Robert r. Wallace II
Hamilton, ILL.,, for the fifth s%upervis-
or's district 'of Illinois, has been
signed by the president.
Samuel Gompers, president Of the
American Federation of Labor, who
has been in Europe studying CONT
METAL labor cOnditi ms and problems.
mental labor conditions and problems.
French liner Savoie.
The grand jury OF Richmond, Va,
indicted F. H. Osterle and Eugene
Reilly Of Chicago, representing the
American Seating Co., in connection
with a contract for furnishing chairs
for the new Richmond high schcol.
The men have disappeared.
Jack Carroll, the wrestling promo
ter, for a long time Frank Gotch's
manager; Bert Warner of Minneap-
oils, a middleweight wrestler, and
VIM Sharks of Spokane were arrest
ed al Curfew, Wash, as members OF
the Maybray gang Of wrestling and
foot-race swindlers.
Information has been received that
Charley Taft. youngest son OF the
president, will take lessons in boxing
the coming winter from Jimmy Walsh,
Boston fighter.
During a heavy windstorm, the res
idence of Marshal Clements, six
miles west of Smithville. Ark, was
destroyed and several members of
the family We're injured. The wind
pulled up every fence post on the
place.
While resisting arrest David Hayes
was shot to death by Deputy Sheriff
Gordon Owens at Edgewood Mines,
Ky. Givens fired four bullets into
the mans body.
The office of United States District
Attorney W. j. Gregg at Tulsa. Okla,
was entered by thieves, and it is said
papers bearing upon important cases
were taken.
A telegram was received at the
state department that American Mis-
s%ionary w. H. Sheppard, in the Congo
Free State, has been acquitted of the
charge of criminal libel.
Wandering to a lonely spot in a
wood within the grounds Of the gov
eminent hospital for the insane at
Washington, William Ollie, CO years
old, veteran soldier and an inmate
of the institution, committed sIlci1a
by tying a handkerchief around his
neck and suspending himself from a
tree by means Of a rope Another in
mate discovered the body.
Former Governor A. NJ. Dockery, of
Missouri, addressed 10000 visitors at
the German-American State Fedora
ton festivities at Little Rock. A pa
geant of allegorical floats was given
in the morning.
In q freight train collision on the
Canadian Northern railway lear Ban
ming, Ontario, Fireman Woodcock and
Brakeman Lockhart were killed and
Engineer Hauser badly injured. Two
engines and eight cars were piled up.
By the collapse OF a section Of bank
brackets which supported a thirty
foot embankment during the building
of a concrete wall, one mar was kidd
and five others were injured on the
Ontario e Western road in Archibald.
Fourteen persons were injured, five
cnrin,,c1,- uhnn n ro,,fI, hound noccnn \
ger train on the Frisco railroad col
lided with a freight train near Blythes-
vile, Ark, late Tuesday night.
The automobile carrying the Phila-
delphia Press courier with a message
from President Taft to the Alaska
Yukon-Pacifc exposition president,
rolled down an embankment into the
river near North Bend,
Wash. The occupants swan ashore.
The automobile was submerged.
Thomas II. Swope, millionaire and
philanthropist, died suddenly at his
home in Kansas City, following a
stroke of apoplexy. He vas 81 years
I'D.
The Germans Of Chicago celebrated
anniversary of the German pill
grim fathers and the founding Of
Pa, on October G, 1853.
The celebration was opened with a
in which 5000 Germans par
.icipated and eco societies were rep
'csented.
Lieut.. 0. w. Baird, % years old, a
ecruiitng officer in the United States
committed suicide at his board
ng house in North Adams, Mass, by
liking poison. The suicide left a note
with the words: Here goes
| misspent life. May God forgive
ne."
Using a Glenn H. Curtiss aeroplane,
Foster Willard made two brief but
successful fights at the state fair
at Richmond, Va.
Charles r. Crane, newly appointed
minister from the United States to
oekin, was recalled to Washington, by
telegram from Secretary Knox.
A. B. Bryant, aged 81, one of the
yealthiest men near Ferris, Tex, was