The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-01-02
President-elect Taft win have an op-


p~ortunity to deliver a message to the
entire South while he Is in Atlanta,
Ga. While there he Is to be q special
guest at a banquet at which every
section of the South will be represent
ed.
Two masked men held up and rob-
bed Michael Meir. treasurer Of San
born county, S. d., of $5.0S7 in cash,
locked him in a money vault and fed.
The robbery occurred at Woonsocket,
county seat of Sanborn county. Posses
are pursuing the robbers.
That the Standard Oil company does
not intend to submit to its custer
order from the state of Missouri. is
likely, as an appeal is being talked of
by oil attorneys.
There has been a decrease in the
number of the clergy in the Episcopal
church of the United States, due to the
large number of ~defections from the
church and also to the high death
rate. The annual statistics show a
decrease of 13 per CEN from 1907.
with 1876 deaths and forty-one deposit
tons.
Hearing that physicians were coming
to perform an operation for
paralysis, Mrs. Charlotte Rufner of
Clarence, Mo-, hanged herself in a
shed in the rear of her brothers home
at Abilene, Kas.
Following a sermon in which Rev.
r. l.. Porter of the First Christian
church, Baton Rouge, La, attacked
the city administration and George
w. Garig, city commissioner of public
improvements, the latter administered,
a sound thrashing to the divine.
Thomas F. Gilroy, receiver for the
Fidelity Funding company, whose for
mer president, Patrick j.. Keiran, is
wanted by the police. testified before
a referee that the total liabilities of
the company amounted to more than
5000, 900 and the total assets to
about $24, 900.
A colonization scheme of vast i'm
pOrtance is seer in interpretations of
a syndicate headed by James J. Hill
and B. F. Yoakum in the consolidation
of 1000, 900 acres of Gulf coast land,
valued at $4,000, 900, which is being
arranged at Kingsville, Tex.
What is hoped to be the final fight
against the present system of leasing
%convicts in Missouri has been started
by the legislative committee of the
Missouri Federation or Labor, backed
up by both Democratic and Republi-
a party platforms. the manufacture
ers and the humanitarians of the
state.
President Roosevelt, in reply to ap,
peals in the Gompers' case, says he
Guild nOt pardon the labor leaders
while the case was before the courts.
but state that the sentences might
dropped.
Seventeen more members of the
Pittsburg city council are declared
under surveillance and are warned
not to leave.
Court rules in trial of Thornton J.
Hams at Flushing, N, Y, for the kill.
ing of w. E. Annis, that even if the
who did the shooting was insane
his aid can be convicted.
Christmas was celebrated in the
White House just about as it was in
the average American household.
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., came from
the New England carpet works, where
is employed; Kermit from Har-
ward. Archie from Groton and Quentin
from the Episcopal High school over
in Virginia.
President Fallieres of France was
attacked in a restaurant Christmas
moring by a young man interested in
politics, and, in the struggle with his
assailant, was slightly injured by be-
ing bruised.
Thomas H. Cloar, another night
rider, testifies at Union City, Tenn,
that he refused to go with riders the
night, they killed Ranken.
States evidence against T. Jenkins
Hams, accused in connection with the
kingg of William E. Annis on Long
is almost in and the de-
tense hopes to conclude next week.
Admitting that he was intoxicated
the day he killed his father, Beach
told how that last desperate
struggle took place in Judge Hargis'
store. He told all this right after the
suddenly announced it's case
the prosecution finishing with
the testimony of a witness who
swore he heard young Hargis, that
day, threaten ito get even with
the old man. before he left town.
The $4,000 note found by Patrick
Sullivan of East ST. Louis, in a
can, is worthless according to
a Pinkerton detective who examined
note. The Pinkerton reported to
the st. Louis ~subtreasury officials that
the piece of paper is a United States
of deposit issue under the
act of Feb. 25, 1862. These certificates
we're for the use only between the
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