The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-03-26
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.

"A obL Ooo
l.. owen, involving the title to S5,ooo
tracts of land in Oklahoma, valued al
two million dollars, had its first
hearing Tuesday. The suit was nled
in behalf of a number of Indians who
when they became of age Claimed
their allotments, which had been sold
by their guardians.
John Potts, who lives in a solitary
cabin 25 miles from Fort Collins,
Colo. and E. J. st. Clair, a cowboy
employed by Lady Moon on her ranch
near Fort Collins, were arrested
Wednesday charged with holding up
a Denver & Rio Grande Western east
bound train at Military Junction, Just
outside of Denver, on February *.
Cipri.ao Castro, the former presl-
dent Of Venezuela, has given up the
idea of going directly to La Guaylra.
He will leave the steamer Guadalupe
on which he will sail March 26 from
Bordeaux at Port of Spain, Trinidad,
where he will take up his residence
temporarily at least.
Geo. w. Covington, president Of the
Bank of Hazelhurst, Miss, was IN
jured. it is believed fatally, and his
wife severely hurt when their auto
mobile was struck by a passenger
train of the Illinois Central railroad
Thursday night.
William ST. Clair, arrested at Fort
Collins with Frank Potts as a suspect,
was Thursday identified by two mail
clerks as one of the men who held
up and robbed the Rio Grande passen-
ger train near Denver February Is.
Sergeant Cortes, the leader of the
insurrectionists, and his whole band
surrendered Thursday night to the
civil authorities of Remedies, in Santa
Clara province.
Thirty-Seven suspects in the Petro-
sine case were taken into custody.
These were at once Intercepted by
the authorities, after which detectives
were sent out into the country around
Palermo to search for persons men
toned by the prisoners.
Special dispatches from Berlin state
that Count Forgach de Ghynes ct
CAGES, the Austro-Hungarian munster
to Servia, has been assassinatea ,
1.-THE. first piece of legisIat!oR to be
acted on by the house during the spe-'
cial session was the bill providing for
the taking of the thirteenth census,
which was passed. In it's present form
the measure gives to the civil service
commission jurisdiction over appoint
ments and provides for the printing off
the reports by the government print
ing office. !
"A fast passenger train on the At
lantic Coast line jumped the track at
Pikesville, N. c., a flag station be-
tween Goldsboro and Wilmington,
Shortly after midnight, killing the ems
gineer, fireman and brakeman. The
conductor and several passengers
were seriously injured. :
t5The testimony in the case of the
Ozark Fruit Growers Association Of
Arkansas and Missouri against the
railroads entering these states was
completed late Wednesday in Chi
cago. 1t will be submitted to Inter-
state Commerce Commissioner Frank
lin K. Lane in Washington. s.
!. Arthur Award, a veteran of the
civil war, died at his home in Bell
wood, Pa, Monday, aged IA years.
While the body of President Lincoln
lay in state in independence Hall in
Philadelphia, the night of April %,
and the day following, Edward was
one of the guard of honor. Only two
Of the guard of honor, it is said, now
survive.
Edmund N. Morrell, former governor
of Kansas, his term of office extending
over a quarter of a century, prominent
III Republican circles, banker and
financier, died Sunday at Santa Rosa
hospital, San Antonio.
mo one can tell YOU at what hour
death will come,' said the pastor of
the Presbyterian church at Poland, O.,
from his pulpit Sunday. Hardly had
he spoken when Mrs. Matilda Williams
fell from her seat dead She is sup
posed to have died of heart trouble.
Police Lieut.. Peter Berry, personal
friend of District Attorney Jerome of
New York, and head of his staff Of de-
tectives, was Monday dismissed from
the force by Commissioner Bingham
as a result, it is said, Of his having
permitted the escape from custody Of
Francis G. Bailey, of "Goldsboro"
"A. L. McLemore, a wealthy farmer
residing at Stone Bluff, near Haskell,
Okla, was shot and killed Wednes-
day afternoon while at work on his
farm. A negro tenant with whom
McLemore had q~uarreled over a settle
ment for rem is suspected.
A meeting of representatives of the
various textile associations of Georgia,
North Carolina, South Carolina, Ala
bama, Mississippi and Louisiana will
he held in Atlanta on Tuesday Of this
week. at which tariff revision with ref
erence to It's effect on cotton manufac-
.,ros will he considered.