The Grenada sentinel., 1908-08-15
Wississippi
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the state live stock sanitary board, says
the field work now being conducted un.
der the direction of experts OF the
United States agricultural department
in North Mississippi is we'll in hand,
and much interest is being created in
the endeavors TO clear that section from
quarantine restrictions as soon as pos
sible. The work in Marshall and Ben
ton counties is progressing well, and
soon as forces are available similar
| work will be undertaken in DeSoto and
Tate counties. Had the board the re-
sources sufficient to put full corps OF
workers in dozen or more counties at
the same time it is estimated that
within two years the entire state would
be successfully covered, and the quar-
antine lines brought down to the gulf
coast, almost.
Chancellor Robbins held q special
session of chancery court at Pontotoc
for the hearing of the injunction sued
out by the citizens of West Pontotoc
| against the NJ, J. and K. G. railroad
| company in an effort to hold the depot
| in that part of town. The case had
been fought through every state court
and at last through the supreme court
| of the United States, and everybody
thought the case had been finally set
tied, and the railroad company was
preparing to carry out the orders OF the
T,,I
porary restraining order. The chan
cellor dismissed the bill and dissolved
the Injunction The railroad company
can now proceed to carry out the orders
of the court.
George Toombs, colored, after hav-
ing been three times respited, was
hanged at Waynesboro, in the presence
of upward of 1000 people. The scaf-
fold had been boxed in so as not to re-
veal the doomed man in his death
struggles, and it having reached the
sheriff's ears that few in the crowd
with morbid curiosity had threatened to
tear down the walls and see the negro
in the throes of death, the sheriff as
cended the platform of the scaffold and
in cool, dispassionnte talk said that he
regretted that any such spirit was rife
in the crowd, and warned the gathering
that if such an attempt was made it
would be at their peril.
That Lincoln county soil will grow
almost anything has been shown in
large yields of grain, tomatoes, pota-
toes, watermelons, pumpkins, onions,
ETC., but it remained for Pink Smith OF
the Union Hall neighborhoOd to pro-
duce the latest in the shape of large
mangle beet weighing lii pounds and
measuring 25 inches in length. This
species of beet grows easily and luxu-
riantly and furnishes fine feed for cat
tie, horses and hogs.
The railroad commission refused the
application of the Western Union Tel
egraph company to be allowed to close
a number of offices in the state on the
ground that business conditions do not
justify the expenses attendant. This
petition was filed at the July meeting
and was held over for consideration,
since which time number of protests
have been sent to the commission from
different points. This prompted the
commission to refuse permission to
close any of the offices.
According to the report of Treasurer
Hood of the Mississippi levee commits
sion there is in the treasury the sum of
s92. .5O9.45. A large amount of levee
work will be done during the next few
months, which will not only require all
of the funds now on hand but will also
require a considerable sum of the re-
ceipts to be derived from the tax COL
lections of the coming fall and winter.
Judge Lex Brame of Jackson, uncle
Of Lex Brame, Jr., who mysteriously
in Vicksburg Aug. s, will
take legal steps to secure the life insur-
ance of Lex Brame, Jr. This step is.
taken upon the conviction that the
young lawyer was murdered and his
body successfully disposed of, the as
being placed upon the mate
rial circumstances which have develop
ed during the intervening period since
the disappearance. The insurance
amounts to $2l, 900.
President George r. Hightower of
the Farmers Union, addressed an audi
ence of a6 least l,500 at a picnic at
Bellfontaine. The address of Mr..
was abe, thorough and con- =.
and superb presentation Of IS
the objects and airns'of the great order,
In this state of which he is the head.
The section around Hermanville ex-
perienced the worst rain storm last
week in it's history. 1T is believed by
many that the damage to crops will
amount to quite 5Oper cent; ..Anumber+
Of bridges were washed away and much
IF the low land fooded.
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