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The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1912-04-12

Surprise is frequently expressed be-
cause there are so many school chill
.dren who are bad spoilers, but there
is a substantial reason for it. In
Kansas very few OF a short list OF
words were spelled correctly by liz
school and college students. Now
these pupils are not taught the way
their fathers and mothers were. says
the Boston Globe. Under the old pub
lie school system there were spelling
bees in the schools and the pupils
took pride in excelling. Under the
spelling bee system children between
the ages of eight and twelve a ac-
,Quire quite a large Vocabulary by the
practice of spelling words OF several
isylables. The rising generation is full
lof poor spoilers, but it is not their
fault, for little attention is paid to
that accomplishment. 1t would be well
for all teachers to put their pupils
Through a course of spelling every few
days, and also to teach them to read
laloud. Reading, writing and spelling
should go hand in hand. Those lack
ing these accomplishments are not far
removed from the illiterate class.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1912-04-12
ROOSEVELT GETS A FALL
Mishap Forces Him to Show Heels to
Audience.

Portland, Me.-With a resounding
crash, the immense stage of the Aud
itorium collapsed here letting Col. Roose-
welt down with it. The ex-president
had entered the hall just a moment be-
fore. A throng of 5000 that jammed
the Auditorium was standing upon
chairs, waving hats and handkerchiefs
and cheering the colonel madly.
Roosevelt waved at the crowd, and had
just taken his seat in a chair toward the
middle of the stage when the flooring of
the platform began to sag.
A ripping sound, followed by a gigantic
crash, echoed through the hall. The
platform fell to the floor level. Col.
Roosevelt, who had grasped the sides of
his chair when the warning was sounded
and had tried to rise, was precipitated
backward. He chung desperately to the
chair.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1912-04-12
Suffragette Sentenced.

London.-Ellen Pitield, the sufrra.
gette who attempted to set fire 10 the
general postofice in London on the even
ing of March 3 by throwing a bundle
of paper saturated with petroleum into
the building, was sentenced at the Old
Bailey sessions to six months imprison-
ment in the second division. This means
that she will be accorded many privi-
leges which are not granted to ordinary
prisoners. The judge explained that
her sentence would have been more Sc
we're except for the fact that she was
in ill-health.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1912-04-12
los MINERS GO
Down TO DEATH
TERRIFIC EXPLOSION OCCURS IN
OKLAHOMA MINE.
wRECkAGE STOPS RESCUE
Mining Town Thrown Into Scene OF
Bedlam When News of Explosion
Spreads-Little Hope of Find
ing Men Alive.

Forst Smith, Ark.-Out of a total OF
ZIG men who entered mine No. 2 OF the
Sans Bots Coal Company, at ecu
tain, Okla, 81 miles west OF Fort
Smith, only II are known to be alive,
and absolutely all hope has been given
up for the others. A gas explosion
wrecked the mine, piled hundreds OF
tons of wreckage in the path OF the
half hundred rescuers who are at work
searching the ruined entries for the en-
tombed men. The explosion was the
most ten iblc in its horrifying results
that has occurred in the mining history
of the Southwest, and the 5000 people
at the little mining camp which ncstles
among the Sans Bots Mountains are
dazed to such an extent that they
scarcely realize the extent OF the dis
aster.
Superintendent A. A. Brown, who was
one of the first to reach the mouth of
the mine slope, following the explosion.
gave up all hope of seeing any of his
miners still in the bowels of the earth
alive again.
Heroism almost unbelievable is being
recorded by the band of rescuers, who
are exerting every effort to reach the
cntombed men. The eight men who es'
capped from the inferno through the
mule passage are among the leaders OF
the rescue party. Scenes in the little
coal camp are almost indescribable
About the mouth of the slope hundreds
of women with children Juggling at their
skirts are shouting words of encourage
ment to the rescuers. The groans and
cries of the widows and orphans can be
heard a block away. Occasionally a
woman is seen to drop to her knees
and offer a prayer. Twenty-Five bodies
have been located in enry No. ~.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1912-04-12

George Weller, director of physical
education at the University of Wiscon-
sin, has instituted rest classes for
fdgety girls whose nervous systems
"go to pieces" under the fatigue fol-
Sowing undue exertion. In a report
to the United States Bureau Of Educa-
ton he says: We do not go on the
theory that the gymnasium is good for
every one. and, therefore. every one
must take gymnastics. The purpose
of these classes In rest is to teach
girls who are restless from the per-
Torrance of tasks that ought not to
produce fatigue how to acquire con
troll owe their own ervou systems.
Putting every one-girls as well as
boys-through a stiff regimen of gym
nasium work has had bad results In
many instances, and is a thing to be
avoided. II the director of physical
culture in the University of Wiscon'
sin makes allowance for constitutional
differences students not built to en-
dure overstrain will have reason to
thank the good fortune which made
him arbiter of their physical destinies
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1912-04-12
SEEK VALUATION OF
ALL OUR RAILROADS
ONLY WAY TO STOP OvERCAPITAL.
IZATION AND ADJUST RATES.
So, 900 TO DO THE WORK
In Securing Physical Valuation Commerce
Commission Will Insist Upon In
vestigation of Books of ]. P.
Morgan and Kuhn Loeb.

INDEPENDENTLY a complete
plan for the physical valuation OF all
the railroads in the United States and
expressing firm conviction that overcap-
italization can never be prevented or
equitable transportation rates fixed until
such valuation is made, Democratic and
Republican members of the Interstate
Commerce Commission have joined hands
in IN appeal to congress for an appro-
p~riation of So, 1000, 900 to accomplish that
great work. They ask for an additional
appropriation to investigate the amount
of water in present railroad securities.
As one of the essential steps to an
adequate physical valuation the commits
sion %oun that it would insist upon
authority to investigate the books OF
j. p. Morgan & Co., and Kuhn, Loeb L.
Co.
The revolutionary step was advised
by Commissioner Clements, Democrat,
and Meyer, Republican, ct an executive
session of the house committee on inter,
state and foreign commerce, now consid-
ering a bill drawn by Chairman Adam
son, urging the commission to make the
physical valuation and the bond and
stock investigation.
Commissioners Clements and Meyer
expressed belief that they can make the
special inquiry into stocks and bonds in
two years, but that it will take at least
three to complete the valuation of the
railroad properties, which are said to be
worth SIS, 500, 600, O00.
"The inquiry ought to be extended
declared Judge Clements, "to enable the
commission, or whoever makes it, tt
make an inspection or examination Of the
books of those banking institutions that
conduct these organizations, like Pier
pont Morgan's house in Louisville ant
Nashville, and the Atlantic Coast Line
transactions, and Kuhn, Loeb & Co., that
figured in the Alton case.
"The holding company that stands be
tween the operating company which
serves the public and is a kind of a screer
for the people who actually control tn
operating carrier and yet are not in di
rect contact technically with it, is {
matter that ought to be investigated"
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1912-04-12
100000 Men ARE
idle IN ENGLAND
BRITISH CABINET HAS LITTLE sue.
CESS IN SETTLING STRIKE.
MINERS ARE BREAKING AWAY
Railroad Will Have to Abolish All Pas.
senger Service if Strike Is Not Set
tled-Some of Cotton Mills at
Lancashire Resume.

London.-Premier Asquith and his
the mine owners and the miners without
being able to move either party one inch
from their positions.
The twenty-ffth day of the coal strike
ends with nearly 100000 workers idle,
many thousands dependent upon charity
to keep them from starvation, every
manufacturing industry in the land un.
dergoing a throttHng and settlement up.
parently as remote as ever.
The position of the government is that
it cannot put the 6 and 2 shillings clause
into the bill without creating a precedent
that would be quoted by every trades
union in the country as justifying that
their W wages shoald be fixed at their
own figure by parliament. The ministers
are divided on the subject, but the ma
jority, supported by a majority Of the
Liberals and all the Unionists, are reso-
Lutte against creating such a precedent.
The miners are equally firm in refusing
to return to work unless they are guar
anteed s shillings for adults and 2 for
boys in the bill or by an agreement with
the mine owners. They say that they
have already given in on the major ques-
tions Of the hewers' wages and claim
that the owners should give way in
their turn on the s shillings minimum.
The mine wner reply that while
many mines can afford to pay 5 shillings
and 2 shillings, there are others that
cannot. They refuse. therefore, to yield
to any authority save that of an act of
parliament, which the ministers, for rea-
sons stated, refuse to pass.
Many of the chapels and all schools
in Cardiff and its vicinity have oragn-
lied soup kitchens where the poor can
obtain a meager nourishment. Labor
yards have been opened by the authori-
ties, and many of the men are there
earning a small amount daily.
officials of the municipalities are try
ing to relieve the women and children.
In one district alone in South Wales 400
unionist workmen have applied to the
parish poor authorities for relief.
Throughout Wales the army of unem.
ployed continues to increase in every
branch of industry.
All passenger trains on many railroads
will stop running next Monday if the
strike is not settled. Hospitals are run.
ming short of coal to warm the wards
or to cook food for the patients, and
distres funds are being raised to save
women and children from starvation.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1912-04-12
Will Exploit South.

Annapolis, Md.-Two bills were in.
PRODUCED in the legislature in connection
with the Southern development and
demonstration organization which was
formed here recently to exploit the
South. One was a bill of Incorporation
and the other provided for an appro-
priation of 100000 for the organization,
which will depend upon contributions of
states, railroads and transportation COM
panies, boards of trade and industries
and individuals to maintain it.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1912-04-12
DOCTORS IN UNITED STATES.

To one who observes the consider
table number OF physicians signs in
1.-THE average city or large town the
report of the last ensus that there
ARE in the United states only 10000
physicians, including osteopaths. psy-
lchopaths. %hydropaths and doctors OF
every description. may come as a rev.
.elation and a surprise. The addition
lal information, afforded by the cen
isus, that this country has only n
doctor to every $50 OF its population
rs not likely to relieve the observers
fwonderment until he reflects that a
physician to every $50 people is, after
all, a fairly liberal safeguard to the
public health, says the Manchester
Union. The figures, OF course, repre-
sent the average the country over
some sections of communities having
fewer doctors in proportion to their
population and some having more.
Manchester, for instance, on b basis
of the census figures, would have lVI
.or los physicians. The city directory
gives SO. The census report on the
matter is not incredible, yet a person
travelling along the streets OF almost
ANY New England city and remarktng
the numerous doctors shingles
would have been almost certain to
estimate the percentage OF doctors
HIGHER thar that given by the census.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1912-04-12
Destroy American Propertv.

Del Rio, Tex.-Mexican bandits were
reported playing havoc with American
property in the mountainous region of
Mexico Immediately west of here. A
party OF Americans arrived here stripped
Of cattle, horses and guns. This party
included several %well-known Texans
They were held up on Mexican soil bv
a party of Mexicans bearing a red fac
on which was inscribed the word lib.
erty." The bandits warned some mem.
bers of this party never to CT oss into
Mexico again.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1912-04-12
ONLY HEALTHY CAN MARRY
Church Will Require Physicians Certif-
cate From Couples.

Chicago.-Dean Walter T. Sumner, of
the Cathedral Saints Peter and Paul,
delivered a sermon upon the Sacrament
of Marriage" during which he made the
following announcement:
"After consultation with the Right Rev.
c. +. Anderson, bishop of Chicago, and
with his approval, Dean Sumner and his
co-workers of the Cathedral Saints Peter
and Paul, have agreed upon an advanced
policy with regard to the administration
of marriage in the cathedral.
beginning with Easter no persons will
be married at the cathedral unless they
present a certificate of health from a
reputable physician
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1912-04-12
Miners Nav Strike.

Cleveland, O.-Wage discussions be
tween the operators and representatives
of 10000 union miners in The bit,,.
minous coal fields Of Western Pennsyl
vania, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois, aim
ing at averting a prolonged suspension
Of business after April /, and also to
avert a possible strike, were without,
definite results The prospect that all
bltumlnous coal mines would be closed
after the first of the month, pending the
making of a new two-year working and
wage agreement, was said to be i'm
minent.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1912-04-12
16-YEAR OLD SHOOTS UP TOWN
Kentucky Police Chief Is Fatally Shot
as a Result.

Russellville, Ky. - Sixtecn-year-old
Herman Lovelace wound up a riotous
afternoon here by shooting and prob
ably fatally ~wounding Russellviile's
chief of police who went to arrest him.
Young Lovelace and Elmer Eaton, an
1S-year-old companion, had quarreled
in the street and when Eaton hurled
a stick at Lovelace, it is said, the latter
drew a revolver from his pocket and
fired, the bullet striking Eaton in the
forehead, inficting a serious wound.
Lovelace ran home and got a gun and
waited. As Police Chief John Cleaven-
ger approached him, the boy fired at
close range and C%leavenger fell with a
bullet in his body,
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1912-04-12
C~entenarian Dead.

Atlanta, Ga.-William Cape, aged 1902,
veteran of the Seminole Indian and Civil
wars, died here as a result of injuries
received in a fall several weeks ago. He
Is survived by seventeen of his twenty
three children. Mr.. Cape never was
wounded in his war careers, and while
suffering from a fractured hip as a re-
suit OF his fall, pathetically remarked:
"This is the worst injury 1 ever received
in my long life" His funeral was in
charge of local Confederate veteran or
carnations.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1912-04-12
Mexican Troops Defeated.

Mexico City.-Apparently reliable
messages received by Ell Impartial report
. complete federal defeat at Jiminez.
Ten. Gonzales Salas, comamnder-in-chief
OF the federal army, is reported to have
committed suicide. Both Gems. Banquet
and Teller are reported wounded. Other
Officers were killed and fifty officers
taken prisoners to chihuahua, together
with many privates. In the rebel camp
the federal dead were estimated at 400
and the rebel mortality at 100. The
estimate OF the government losses 10
based on interviews with prisoners taken.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1912-04-12
Happiness Postp

An awkward predicalll
q sailor bridegroom and
placed in St. Mary Major
eter, Devonshire, Ensla|
caused the postponemenl|
ding. The banns had peg
at the church, but Wns1
presented themselves .!
bridegroom, who had >
paid off from his snip ..
was unable to produce J
permission from bis conn
bride swooned, and e'
turned home, while 'ns
left for Plymouth to GEL
document.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1912-04-12
KNOX REPORTS SUCCESS
Telegraphs Washington Objects of Trip
Attained.

Washington.-Secretary Knox by
wireless from the cruiser Washington
advised the state department that the
results which it was hoped would CONF
from his tour of Latin America had
been attained.
Worldwide importance attaches to
the secretary's trip, AMI while the full
significance probably has never been of.
ficially announced, it's prime purpose is
said to have been to lay the founda.
lions for closer relatioxs between the
United States and Lain America
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1912-04-12
Fastest ~Dreadnought.

Rickland, Me.-The fastest dread
nought in the American navy and prob
ably in the world, is the title claimed for
the government-built battleship Florida,
which made 22.54 knots on her stand
ardization trip off the Rockland course
The British d~readnought Vanguard with
a record of 22.50, has been considered
previously the fleetest battleship of the
world, and the Florida's sister ship, Utah,
bwlt at a private yard, made a record
OF 1858 on her fastest trial run.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1912-04-12
Great Strain on Levees.

Washington.-Flood warnings have
been issued for the Ohio and Missis-
sippi valleys and the valleys of tho
Roanoke and Neuce rivers in North Car
DINA n the Trinity river valley in
iexas. 1t is estimated the Mississippi
river will reach a depth of 80 feet above
1000 stage, by Saturday, with a fur
liner slow rise for several days after that.
Inc strain on the levees at Memphis and
other points will be very great. The
ONO river, swelled by the spring rains,
SHOWS a tremendous volume of water
n'iow the mouth of the Great Kanawha.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1912-04-12
In a Bad WI

Stranger lin train)-l
business can't get homs
presume?
Commercial Home!
not. Why, sir, | get ho
that l can't remember
where | live. Have to
the firm to send me N.Y.
S~tranger-You don't
Commercial-That d
time | was away SO lonS|
I'd ever been married
such a fancy to a pretty
In a strange town that
her.
Stranger-My! My!
Commercial Yes, II
been a terrible thing
called on the firm duri1
moon and introduced bel
told me she was my \
London Tit.Bits.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1912-04-12
NO WORDS WAY
A Swift Transfori'a.'"
seribed.

About food, the follow
emphatic letter from ~
an goes straight to
convincing. -
"My frequent attacks
and palpitation OF u]
minated in a sudden anu
ness. from which ] arose
mind and body. The au
me- to live on cereals }
them agreed with No D,.,j
Grape-Nuts food ana sV m
"The more l used o. ~, |.
7 felt convinced that ). ~. /
what l needed, and ~ y
,.. .ss made a different 'aa. y
NV stomach and heart y, !
peared as If by mas ~ N
Los restored and Is Is &C
was. .,a IND
idly that my friends 49,, s' n
Postum and Grape,Nd' sm
me so greatly tna' ,,sm.
this testimony" S Ss.is
Postum Co., Battle C ass, !,
.rhere's a reason ANN sl' r \
in the little booR'
ville," in Pkgs. \,
Ever read tho sI ,sms =
one one genuine. trse' anu
infefesf.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1912-04-12

The assertion that caviare has sup
planted the oyster as the appetizing
opening of banquet menus may be pre-
mature. Hotel managers may prefer
the Russian delicacy, but it will be
well to hear from the general" be-
fore taking everything for granted.
American blue points on the halt shell
are very good.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1912-04-12

San Francisco custom house off,
Gals have just made the first arrest
ever recorded at that port for the Of
Tense OF smuggling diamonds-and the
diamonds in the case were valued at
only $477.50. When the New York
custom house looks at the San Fran
cisco custom house it will have to
aaugh.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1912-04-12
THE CANAL FlvE-SlXTHS DONE
Remainder Must Be Completed in Less
Than Two Years.

Washington.-Only one-sixth OF the
excavation necessary to open the Panama
canal to navigation remained to BE- Gone
on March /. This must be completed in
twenty-one months if Col. Goethals is
to redeem his promise to have on Amer
lean battleship-probably the famous old
Oregon-pass through the waterways on
January !, 1915.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1912-04-12

A poultry paper tells us that hens
stop laying in cold weather because
they cannot lay eggs and grew feath.
ers at the same time. AS yet no in
genious poultry raiser has tried the
experiment Of fitting out his hens in
the fall with warm red flannel over.
coats.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1912-04-12

Instances are multiplying in which
costly fatal fires have been traced to
carelessness with lighted cigarettes or
matches 1t should be made a minor
degree of arson for the careless toss
ang away OF fire in this manner.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1912-04-12
HAD GROWN TIRED OF HIM
Grace Says This Is Why His Wife Shot
Him.

Newman, Cain addition to want
ing the insurance money I made payable
to her at her i~nsistence, she had grown
tired of me. 1 had noticed that for
several weeks before she shot me. l
wasn't interesting to her any longer, 50
at one and the same time she thought
she would get rid of me and secure the
money"
This was the statement of Eugene H.
Grace, the victim of the mysterious
shooting case in Atlanta. He made it
after being reminded of doctors repeated
assertions hat he had but a few weeks
to live.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1912-04-12

A New York woman called a police
mar when a man proposed to her On
the street. Perhaps she merely want
,e6 him held until the Massachusetts
aspinsters could get out a requisition
for him.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1912-04-12
Chinese Womex Riot.

London.-Chinese suffragettes at
Marking, dissatisfied with the national
assembly's academic resolution fayor
ing woman's suffrage, forced an entry
to the assembly, and after knocking
down the police on guard, smashed the
windows of the building.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1912-04-12
Salazar Defeated.

Mexico City.-The vanguard of thu
federal army numbering 500 men. com.
manded by Gen. Tlucy Aubert. met
and defeated 1900 rebels under Gen.
Salazar, twenty miles south Of Jindper.
according to reports receive. a. ths
governments Offices herc.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1912-04-12
Wiley Matter Shelved.

NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Martine's reso.
luton expressing the regret of the SEN
ate over the retirement of DIR. Wiley
as chief chemist of the agricultural de-
partment was shelved by the senate.
The New Jersey senator moved its adop-
ton, but Mr.. MARITIME of Virginia offered
a substitute referring the resolution to
the committee on agriculture, and the
substitute prevailed.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1912-04-12
Tries TO Kill Familv

~Harrodsburg, Ky.-Insane from drink.
Edward Moore attempted to murder his
wife and family, seriously wounded two
officers who went to the rescue, and then
committed suicide on the back porch of
his home here.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1912-04-12
Bit Child's Toe off

Washington, Pa.-After Paul Sin.
iski, a miner, had bitten off one of his
infant child's toes he barely escaped
lynching at the hands of a mob of hi.
indignant %neighbors.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1912-04-12
Gen. Noble Dies

st. Louis.-Gen. John W. Noble. WIN
was secretary of the interior in presi.
dent Harrison's cabinet, died here. Hs
had been sick a month.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1912-04-12

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