The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-04-16
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.

Though only six years old, Fred Bell
is a prisoner in the Union county rs.
CO Jail, with the charge OF murder
resting against him. 1t is charged
that the child Wednesday afternoon
shot Ethel Thomas, who was three
years old. ii is said the boy tried to
hide the body of the little victim IN
an apparent effort to cover up he
tragedy.
Just as Mrs. George CULVER, of
Usage. Ia, had started a search for
her aged mother Thursday night she
was Mortified to see her plunging to
the ground from a ~fifty-fOOt windmill
to her death. Mrs. J. G. Pierce was
&c years old and had been i'll several
months.
Ordway Pullen, a former member
of the Virginia legislature was shot
Thursday by a policeman just after
having broken the window Of a saloon.
The officer, presuming some n was
breaking into the place, ran to the
scene and shot Pullen. Pullen it is
thought is not dangerously wounded.
- d. c.. Noonap. general superintend-
ent of the Minneapolis e st. Louis
railroad. has resigned his office. Mr..
Noonan will leave Minneapolis for
Watertown, S. D., where he will en-
gage in business.
Rev. Joseph d. r. Rees, of Parkers-
burg, w. Va, died Thursday night
from injuries received Thursday in a
street car accident near the national
capitol.
Henry A. Wise was sworn in Thurs
day as United States district attorney
for the southern district of New York,
in succession to Henry L.. Stimson.
President Taft has appointed Mr.. Wise
to the office for the full term of four
years.
Three men were killed Wednesday
when one hundred quarts of nitro
glycerine exploded in a construction
camp at Blue Sulphur, Va. A heavy
blast set off the explosive.
Representatives OF lead mining in
terests in Iowa, Illinois and Wisconsin
ut a mass meeting Wednesday adopted
resolutions asking their congressman
to demand a tariff Of m and a half
cents per pound on zinc.
That Pope Hill, a prominent attor-
ney of Macon, Ga, is the third victim
of an assassin in the now celebrated
Dodge case is the belief of the author
tiles of this county. The c%oroner's
;,,~u of%1r n oorof,1 ouopoin ofinn DO
clared Monday afternoon that Hill
was murdered by parties unknown
1t is reported that Jack London, the
novelist, will sell his sloop the Snak,
with which he planned to circumnavi-
gate the globe, at Sydney, and re-
turn to San Francisco June 6.
Senator Shelby Cullom of Illinois
introduced a bill extending the term
of president to six years. No presl-
dent, under the Cullom bill, will be
eligible to reelection.
In honor of Tokataro Sakai. COM
missionergeneral, and Hikojiro Wada,
commissioner of the Toxic exposition,
who are in this country in the inter
est of the Japanese worlds fair, a
dinner was given at the White House
Tuesday night.
Col. Hoffman, in charge OF the state
troops hunting Crazy Snake and his
troublesome Snake Indians, received
orders from Gov. Haskell to remain
in the field until he captured the
chief. Col. Hoffman had planned to
break camp Monday.
William v. Smith, George D. Rose
and Herman Schuman, creditors of
the brokerage firm of John Dickinson
& Co., which suspended business in
New York Saturday, filed an involun-
tary petition in bankruptcy against
John Dickinson Tuesday. Judge Holt
appointed Edward S.. Thomas receiver |
for the Dickinson company, under a
bond of $4,000.
The corner stone of the new chapel |
of the military academy at West
Point, N. Y, was laid Tuesday in the
presence of the officers and cadets of
the academy by Col. Scott, the super
intendent.
Chief of Police Charles Brubaker
and Policeman G. B. Johnson, were
arrested and jailed at Fitzgerald, Ca,
Wednesday on a charge of murder in
the first degree for the killing of
Robert Gresham, Saturday. The Of
1cers were trying to arrest Gresham
on a charge of robbery, and alleged
that he resisted.
Matthew libby, head of the libby
Bross.' Glass Co., died Sunday in Pitts
burg at the age Of "a years. In 1852
he entered the employ of the Penn
sylvania railroad along with Andrew
Carnegie and Robert Pitcairn.
Thomas, Birch and Edward Rhodus
were r~e-indicted Friday by the fed
eral grand jury in Chicago on a charge
of using the mails to defraud in con
nection with the Central Life Securi-
ties company, n of their enterprises.
A previous Indictment on this charge
was quashed as being Improperly
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