Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1908-03-13
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The railroad commission, after care
fully considering the question Of Trans
por:ation rates on petroleum and its
products, made an order placing the
commodity in the sixth class, tn s being
a reduction from the third class as now
existing. This will mean a 40 per cent
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 ~ years
old, has brought suit against w. b.
Swain, county convict contractor OF
Washington county, for alleged severe
corporal punishment while serving a
sentence on Swain's farm. Nelson al
leges that Swain held him day over
the order OF his release and that he
was severely beaten by the overseer.
For this he sues for 5000 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 grand eva
ton and profusioa Of spring flowers
awaited him, but when Mr.. Bryan
failed to appear the flowers we've dis
tributed among the passengers on he
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;
Scott and T. H. Mckenzie, CoahOms.
The governor has not decided upon the
members from Tuniea, Quitman and
DeSOto counties.
Several Thousand pounds Of cotton
seed, hundreds of tons of cotton, hullS,
| together with 600 sacks OF co'tOnseed
meal and other products. to the taluc Of
$35. 00O, was destroyed 10y fire At MsFi
dian. The fire was the fiercest anil
hottest the fire department was eve;
ca led on to fight.
Gov. Noel announces the appoint
ment of Hon. George A. Mclean of
Mont gomcry roun'y to succeed Judge
IT. Dunn OF Enp"ra. rs circuit judge
of the Fifth district, whose .cpih OF.
pires june |. 1908.
A bill is pending in the leg :slature
authorizing an increase OF the proper
ty-hOiding limit of corporations 10
s5,000.00 The present statutory limi;
IS s2,000, 900, and Two years ago an ef
fort was m.dr TO have the limit In
creased to s1a, OO0, 900, but it was un-
>ucc ssful
The peniicniiary trustees report co
sales of either cotton or seed during
February, they having lao bales III
cotton at Clarksdale and Greenwood,
and 40 at Jxck.on. for which they are
waiting favorable lu In the market.
and will hold on to the staple As long
possible.
| capt. Frank Potter, chief OF the
Hattiesburg fire department, received
a letter bearing crude design of q
skull AM crossbones, beneath which is
the inscription, printed with n pen, in
ink, "Your end is nsar. Fair warning;
a word to the wise is sufficient"
Mississippi's congressional campaign
this year is going to be the most spir-
tied that has occurred In the Stale
within the past decade, judging from
the number of candidates who have
appeared in the field.
Maj. VIM. NJ Strickland, one Of the
Oldest members of the Holly Springs
bar, is dead. Maj. Strickland became
a member of the Holly Springs bar in
lS49, and was one of its most promt-
nent members.
! Gov. Noel commissioned the Hon. e.
A. Howell, of Canton, to preside as
special judge over the regular term Of
the Holmes county circuit court, Judge
Sydney NJ. Smith being disqualified.
1t has been decided that the waFsr
house of the Lowndes County Fermers'
Union will be. located at Steenston.
There is no bank at Steenston, but the
farmers 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 WaFr Fhe damaged amounted to
SAC, 900. - !.
Judge Milton Redus died at West
Point from an apoplectic stack after
attending to business Affairs all day
and in apparently good health. He
was a native OF Oktibbeha county.
Hon. G. r., Hightower. president Of
the Mississippi division OF the Farmers
Union. has made arrangements, for an
| advance of $4,000 on cotton stored in !,
the State at the rate of per cent.
Fhe Gulf and Ship Island Railroad
Company fled for record in the Office
Of the chaRcerJ clerk of Forrest county
a per cent gold mortgage on It's prop
erty in Mississippi In favor of the
Metropolitan Trust Company of New
York for $1,000, 600.
The prison board of trustees has or
dered the establishment Of two CON-
press plants on Sunfower farm, q tu-
bcrcu'osis camp at the Oakley hospital, :
and the building of telephone lines
from jackson to the Oakley aud RAn-u
kin farms. .''. ~
Building Trades Get Tossther. -
Following the lines laid down By the
American Federation. Of LABOR At Its,
recent Norfolk 0nrantiOn fho ContraT