The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1908-03-14

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existing. This will mean a 40 per cen
reduction from the present rates on no
only Illuminating oil, but other pro
ducts, including benzine, gasoline and
other commodities.
Tony Nelson, a young man "a years
old, has brought suit against w. B.
Swain, county convict contractor oil
Washington county, for alleged severe
corporal punishment while serving a
sentence on SWANS farm. Nelson al
leges that Swain held him a day over
the order of his release and that he
was severely beaten by the overseer.
For this he sues for $1,000 damages.
One thousand people assembled at
the depot at Canton to greet Mr.. Bryan,
who was expected to pass there on his
return from Jackson, and a grand ova-
ton and a profusiOn of spring flowers
awaited him, but when Mr.. Bryan
failed to appear the flowers we're dis
tributed among the passengers on the
train.
Gov. Noel sent to the senate the fol-
lowing to be members of the Yazoo-
Mississippi levee board: D. G. Pepper,
Holmes county; L. G.. Montgomery,
Yazoo; NJ. p. Sturdivant, Tallahatchie;
w. II. C%arothers, Sunfower; d. A.
Scott and T. H. Mckenzie, Coahoma.
The governor has not decided upon the
members from Tunica, Quitman and
DeSoto counties.
Several thousand pounds of cotton
seed, hundreds of tons of cotton hulls,
together with 600 sacks of ~cottonseed
meal and other products, to the value of
S35, coo, was destroyed by fire at Meri-
dian. The fire vas the ~fiercest ard
hottest the fire department was ever
called on to fight.
Gov. Noel nounc the appoint
ment of Hon. George A. Mclean of
Montgomery county to succeed Judge
j. I. Dunn of Eupora, as circuit judge
of the Fifth district, whose term ex-
pires June l, 1908.
A bill is pending in the legislature
authorizing an increase of the proper
~ty-holding limit of corporations to
$4,000, 600. The present statutory limit
is 1900, 900, and two years ago an eff
fort was made to have the limit in
creased to SO, 900 900, but it was IN
successful.
The penitentiary trustees report no
sales of either cotton or seed during
February, they having 1,47O bales of
cotton at Clarksdale and Greenwood,
and 40 at Jackson, for which they are
waiting a favorable urn in the market,
possible.
Capt. Frank Potter, chief of the
Hattiesburg fire department, received
a letter bearing a crude design of O
skull and crossbones, beneath which is
the inscription, printed with a pen, in
ink, "Your end is near. Fair warning;
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Mississippi's congressional campaign
this year is going to be the most spir-
tied that has occurred in the State
within the past decade, judging from
the number of candidates who have
appeared in the field.
Maj. VIM. M. Strickland, one of the
members of the Holly Springs
bar, is dead. Maj. Strickland became
member of the Holly Springs bar in
lS49, and was one of its most promi-
nent members.
Gov. Noel commissioned the Hon. E.
A. Howell, of Canton, to preside as
judge over the regular term of
the Holmes county circuit court, Judge
Sydney NJ. Smith being disqualified.
1t has been decided that the ware
house of the Lowndes County Farmers
Union will be located at S~teenston.
There is no bank at Steenston, but the
will start one there.
Congressman Byrd has introduced a
bill in congress to indemnify Clarke
county for destruction of the court
house by Federal troops during the
Civil War. The damaged amounted to
$4,000.
Judge Milton Redus died at West
Point from an apoplectic attack after
attending to business affairs all day
md in apparently good health. He
vas a native of Oktibbeha county.
Hon. G.. r. Hightower, president Of
he Mississippi division of the Farmers
Union, has made arrangements for an
4dvance of $685. 600 on cotton stored in
he State at the rate of 8 per cent.
The Gulf and Ship Island Railroad
filed for record in the Office
f the chancery clerk of Forrest county
6 per cent gold mortgage on its prop
rty in Mississippi in favor of the /,