The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-04-09
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.

The imports of merchandise and the
duties collected upon in New York Tor
the month of March break all records.
The total appraised value of merchan-
disc was $S7, 997 1887, a million n ne-
half dollars in excess of the previous
record in March 1907.
William F. Downs, the young stock
clerk of the Baltimore city registers
office, is. in the city Jail in default OF
bail fixed by Judge Wright, in The
criminal court at $S7.500. The grand
Jury returned 35 indictments against
him Friday.
The Rome Tribuna Thursday pub
fishes a rumor that King Victor Eman-
nuel will either meet Roose-
welt in the straits of Messina, or take
Mr.. Roosevelt to Sicily on board an
Italian warship.
Claims of Greek merchants for dam
ages sustained during the South Oma-
ha riots last February, a~ggregatlng
s26.562, have been prepared for pres
entation to the state department. AL
ditional claims by Greek laborers TOT
losses of personal effects amount TO
$11, 900.
The Venezuelan government has
asked the Argentine government 10
request the Argentine minister to
Italy. DR.. r. SaenZ Pena, to accept
the office of arbitrator in the ques-
tions pending between Venezuela ana
the United States.
Yussiff Mahmout last in a handicap
match with Joe Rogers at Claveland'
O.. Mahmout agreed to throw Rogers
twice in an hour, but the Turk was
unable to secure a fall within the linn
it. Rogers outweighed- Mahmout Az
pounds.
The Russian foreign office Wednes
day made an absolute denial OF the
statement published in Berlin that the
powers were negotiating on the posi-
bility of forcing the abdlcatlon Oh
King Peter of Servia.
Rev. Father William Mcmahon, OF
Cleveland, filed a petition in oluntar
bankruptcy before Judge Taylor IN
the United States district court
Wednesday, giving his liabilities at
81. 500, 900 and asets at $4,000.
President Taft, Secretary Meyer
Assistant Secretary Winthrop. AID
miral Dewey and about fifty ranking
officers of the United States navy at
tended the funeral service at 81
Johns Episcopal church of Rear Al
riral George A. Converse, Who dled
suddenly at his home in Washington
last Monday. With full military non
ors the body was laid to rest IN Ar
lington cemetery.
Mrs. Carrie Chapman Gait OF New
York, president of the International
League Of Woman Suffragists, Tues
day night delivered her first address
before a large number of German u
fragettes in Berlin.
Joe Cans, former worlds champion
light weight pugilist, has developed
tuberculosis of the lungs and may
never again be seen in the ring. KEEL
cree Charlie White is quoted as being
responsible for the statement.
Attacks by Arabs on steamers ply
ing the Tigris have been so persistent
that the British line has been com
PEELED to suspend service. und a
government steamer vas riddled with
bullets. several of the passengers be-
ing killed or wounded. The steamer
carried a machine gun and had troops
aboard, but the Arab fire was SO Sc
we're that the gun al put out OF ac-
ton.
Health conditions on the Panama
canal zone in 1908 were more favor
able than at any time since the Amer
lean occupation, according to a report
made by Chief Sanitary Officer Gorgas
of the isthmian canal commission
With 1880 employees, there were but
571 deaths, or 1901 per thousand. The
black death rate was less than the
white death rate.
In anticipation of a possible out
break of cholera in Russia this sum
mer and it's extension to western Eu
o D nStrucLlOnS nave UcCA ioSuCu u
insure purity Of water and ample sup
ply of disinfectants.
The Kimon Ginko, or Golden Gate
bank, a Japanese institution in Sar
Francisco, failed to open its doors
Monday. Y. Mawa, manager, said this
was because a u was feared, re
ports having been circulated that the
hank was not sound and that its presi
dent. H. Shihaka, had taken most o.
the funds to Japan.
George Noopfer early Monday morn
ing, while in an insane rage, chopped
the heads from his wife and chile
while they were asleep. He is nov
at large in the woods a Marcelona
Mich.
Three men were killed Saturda.
night in a train wreck west of Bran
don. Manitoba. The regular coas
limited train of the Canadian Pacif'
railway west bound took the wron,
track at a point neal Kemnay, .ol
whi:h vas i freight. east bound. Til
engineman, brakeman and fireman o