The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1908-05-30
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TRAGEDY AT BRoOKAAVEN.
Two Families Engage in Bloody Con.
Hict-Three Men Killed.

miles southeast of BrOokhaven, result
ing in the death of three men, VIM
Hilton, Tom Hilton and Tom Nation.
The trouble arose over a negro EN-.
ployed by the Hiltons. Several weeks
ago the negro thrashed Benson Nation,
son of Tom Nation. Tom Nations
farm adjoins that of VIM. Hilton. Ma
ton sent word to Hilton to drive the
negro from the neighborhood, and never
allow him to set foot in the community
again. This Hilton refused to do.
A few days ago Hilton and his son,
Tom Hilton, rode by Nations home in
a wagon, the negro who had thrashed
young Benson Nation driving, and
when Nation saw taem he rushed out
of the house toward the wagon.
The elder Hilton and the elder Ma
ton began fighting with their fists.
Tom Hilton, the son, leaped from the
wagon and began shooting the elder
Nation with a pistol. Mrs. Nation,
who was seated on the porch when the
fight began, screamed and young Ben
son Nation, who was in the rear of the
house, ran to his fathers rescue. He
ecured a pistol and fired all of the car
tridges and then returned for more.
Mrs. Nation also rushed to assist her
husband, but was knocked down by the
elder Hilton.
Grabbing a double-barrel shotgun,
young Benson Nation rushed back to
assist his father and mother. The elder
Hilton was leaning over Tom Hilton,
his son, who had been shot through the
heart, when young Benson Nation again
reached the seen Of battle. AS he
turned to defend himself young Nation
fired at close range with the shotgun,
and the elder Hilton's head was shot
entirely off his body.
When the tragedy ended Will Hilton
and his son, Tom Hilton, lay dead and
the elder Nation mOrtally wounded.
The negro who caused all the trouble
escaped.
The United States supreme court
rendered a decree affirming the position
of the state of Mississippi in what is
termed the "Pontotoc case" The
highest court OF the land decides that
the decree Of Chancellor Robbins di-
recting that the Mobile, Jackson and
Kansas City Railroad Company and the
Gulf and Chicago Railroad Company
should proceed to standardize and put
in order for regular traffic the line Of
road running from the north toward
and to the east of the town of Pontotoc,
and connect with the depot built some
years ago is sound and within the law,
and therefore will stand. This puts an
end to litigation begun in 1904, when
the citizens of Pontotoc filed a bill in
chancery to compel the Gulf and Chi
cago railroad company to abandon the
new line, which had been built 20 run
around the town proper to the west
ward, and use the depot at the site Sc
lected by the railroad commission.
Secretary L. II. Wilkinson, Jr., of
Ind anOla, reports a busy time since the
meeting of the Mississippi board of
pharmaceutical examiners in April. He
is kept busy answering communications
flowing into his Office and compiling
list of the unlicensed druggists of
Mississippi. He is much gratified at
the way the good citizen are rallying to
the assistance of the board and bring.
ing before that body the names of all
who are violating the drug laws.
The Oktibbeha county fair will be
held at Starkville Oct. g., 7 and s, and
the officers are determined to make it
the greatest in the history of the ass
A meeting will be held at Lexington
June 2 for the purpose of forming q
drainage district and turning many
thousand acres of land now inundated
by Black creek, and practically useless,
into valuable farming land.
Bonneville has just experienced one
Of the greatest revivals in the history
Of the town. Great crowds attended
day and night. There were about one
hundred accessions to the different
churches.
There are 1850 educable children in
Warren county, an increase of about
500 the past ear. The personal as
;essment of the county amounts to
81, 282s220, and increase of 500, OOO.
The Cumberland Telephone and Tel.
company is having trouble with
he citizens of Laurel, and the railroad
commission has been called upon to ar
the controversy.
At a revival meeting held at Corinth
~ Rev. o. L. Savage of Iuka one hun
lred sinners were converted.
The so-called era of financial depres-
has apparently had no effect on
he several cities and counties in Mis-
issippi, in SO far as public improve