The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-11-12
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.

of his career, is likely to be sold,
is learned to the Atchison, Topeka
Santa Fe Railroad Co.
Ten million dollars is the sum Mr..
John Jacob Astor is expected to re
ceive in lieu of the alimony for whic
she has not applied, when she gets
divorce from her husband. The de
cree of an absolute divorce in favo
Of Mrs. Aston is expected to be hand
ed down this week.
DR.. William V. Ames, SO, a promi
nent physician, reputed to be the old
est active member of the Elks in thu
United States, died at Fremont, o.
The Standard Oil Co. has announced
a ten-point reduction in the price O
refined oil, as follows: Refined, il
cases, 10-45c; refined, ~in tanks, 4.55c;
standard white, S.05c. The company
also reduced the price of crude oil {
points, to 1.4Sc.
Cardinal Merry del Val, the papal
secretary of state, telegraphed tC
Abyssinia in the pope's name to in
sure the safety of the missionaries
n converts in the event of King
Menelik's death. The pope is extreme
ly anxious about them.
Mrs. Arthur Risley, living near Pc
tersburg, Ind, was burned to death,
her dress catching fire from leaves
which she was burning in her yard.
Cash and bonds amounting to near
ly 100000 were stolen from the home
of Schuyler Rainier, aged ~72/years, by
a masked robber at Burlington, n. j.
j. G.. Scott, a stockman, accidentally
shot and killed himself at California,
Mo, while getting ready to hunt. The
load entered his right lung. He was
So years old.
Mrs. Hanna Johnson, 107 years old,
died at Marshall, Ark. She went to
Arkansas from Raleigh, n. c., sixty
years ago, and was the mother of ten
children. eight of whom survive her.
The United States Rubber COM
pany's boot mill at Millville, Mass,
will be shut down next week indefi-
nitely to curtail production. Eight
hundred hands will be thrown out of
work.
Returning home from an all-day ex-
cursion at Spearfish, S. D., Miss Ethel
Logan, 10, was instantly killed and
her cousin and aunt, Edna and Edith
Sedgwick, were injured in a wreck on
the Burlington, five miles south of
DeadWood, when the rear trucks of
the baggage car, in which the women
Wpro ridipU loft fhn ,oi1C pnfOro fho
train could be stopped the car struck
an empty on a siding and lurched over
into the creek. Miss Logan was
thrown through the open door, strik-
ing on her head and breaking her
neck.
After being out a few minute a
jury at Marshall, Mo-, acquitted John
w. Gofero of the charge of killing J.
E. Spangler.
Mayor Murphy OF Oregon, Mo-, pro-
bate judge of Holt county, Mo, is dead
at his home in Oregon.
Mrs. Clara E.. Safer, widow OF Mil
ton Safer, a Cincinnati lawyer, who
died October 10, was found dead in
her room. Mrs. Safer had written a
AOlC ooyIAS lOudy was ucI WSuuiuS
anniversary n she could not hive
any longer.
The sight of William Holloway of
Sioux City, Iowa, was suddenly re-
stored to him following a brief spell
of weeping. Some time ago Mr.. Hol-
loway became blind while reading a
newspaper. Specialists held out little
hope for the aged man.
Two masked highwaymen held up
the Cariboo stage at 150-Mile House
in Cariboo, B. c., and stole several
sacks of registered mail. 1t is be-
lieved they obtained $4,000 to $4,000.
Mrs. Thomas Spencer of Webb City,
Mo-, gave up her life in an effort to
have her son, Carl Postlewaite, a con-
vjcted forger, pardoned by Governor
Hadley. The boy arrived home in
time to crafty the wish of the mother
to see her son before she died.
Mrs. Alpha Mack, a st. Louis wild
ow, is preparing to go to Asheville,
N. c., to take charge of an estate val
ued at between $4,000 and $4,000,
which has been left to her by John
Hastings, 43, an old sweetheart whom
she had refused.
Robert Lee Thomas, an influential
turfman, was stabbed and seriously
at New York in a quarrel with
H. Schilling, a Jockey, in the pad
dock at the Sheepshead Bay race /
track. .sss
Withr the death of .Davie Ayres near {
Lebanon, O., it developed that he and
MS brother, Jasper Ayres, of Roches- ]
Ter. with whom he fought side by side. u
Turing the civil war, eachcadrew pen i
,ions for injuries received on the i
same day, n Of them, however, al
eging his injuries to be due to sun
stroke and the other to frozen feet !