The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1903-02-19
Caught from the Wires at the
Last Moment.
LOUISIANA AND MISSISSIPPI.
Matters Cleaned Too Late to Classify
and Served Together in Condensed
Paragraphs---Personal, Pertinent and
Otherwise.
LOUISIANA HAPPENINGS.

mont oil IS to be operated in New
| Orleans.
The jury in the celebrated Craw-
ford case at Shreveport has re-
turned verdict OF not guilty as to
DR.. c. S. Crawford.
The police jury has disapproved
the new courthouse at Lake Charles
or the grounds that the building is
Inadequate to the expenditure IL
volved, which was over $4,000.
Sheriff Browning, of Ouachita
parish. has captured Philip Irwin,
who killed John Williams about
month ago. Irwin fed to Arkansas
in which State he was apprehended.
1t is now thought the Alexandria
cotton receipts will reach $4,000
bales, 1000 bales in excess of previ-
Gus estimates.
Natchitoches has been favored
with 100000 appropriation from
congress for a government building.
A genuine case of smallpox has
been discovered at Morganza. The
patient, who had just returned from
some smallpox district in Texas, has
been isolated and every precaution
taken to prevent the spread of the
disease.
Active work has begun looking to
making our State exhibit at the St.
Louis Fair lasting monument to
Louisiana's splendid resources.
A. Il. Mayfeld has been appoint
ed sheriff of Lincoln parish, vice T.
b. Finley, deceased.
Immigration Agent Fuqua has or
gained progressive league at Tan
gipahoa. He will make thorough
tour of the State in the interest of
immigration.
Burglars entered the store of r.
Landlnan at Baton Rouge a few
nights ago and rugged themselves
out with cheap watches, shoes and
pants to the value of $50.
The relatives of Fritz Hanmman.
Insane have taken him from the
Baton Rouge Jail, owing to his rap
idly declining health, and carried
him to his home. There are still in
the Jail at the above named city four
insane persors-one a white woman
all awaiting room in the State in
sane asylum, which is crowded.
MISSISSIPPI NEWS MATTERS.
Ex-Lieutenant Governor Stands
has announced that he will not yield
to solicitations to become a cardi-
date for governor.
At a meeting OF prohibitonists
in Jackson few days ago it was
suggested that the campaign to be
instituted include both statutory
and constitutional prohibition.
Governor Longino will attend the
Natchez carnival.ss He will leave
Jackson Monday, February %, and
return Wednesday following.
Governor Longino has approved
the charter of the Wyatt Lumber
Company, domiciled at Moss Point,
capitalized at $4,000
Greenwood has a new compress
and storage company, capitalized at
100000.
AS shown by the quarterly report
to the railroad commission the Hi
nonis Central's net earnings for the
quarter ending December 81 were
$40, 1872, an increase of 1924, 448. 81
over last quarter; and the Yazoo
and Mississippi Valley earned, out
of which interest on bonds, etc., is
to be paid, $3.50, 41O.74, decrease of
Sc, 1926. 20 from last quarter.
The Pearl river continues to rise
ard is seriously retarding railway
traffic on lines crossing it.
!. Meridian is to have $4,000
waterworks system under the mu-
nicipal ownership plan.
New Statehood Compromise.
Washington. - The Republican
leaders are working on new State