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have to move. This enraged Birdsong,
and is said to have been the cause of
the tragedy. Dr. Birdsong is Il brother
of Dr. ]. S. Birdsong, the husband of
Mrs. Angie Birdsong, who killed DIR.
Butler at Monticello three years ago.
The railroad commission has been
notified by the New Orleans Great
Northern railroad company OF the COM
pletion of its Bogue Chitto branch,
which runs northwestardly from the
main line toward Tyier;own. The COM
mission expects within a very short
time to be notified of the completion
and arrangements for operation of the
entire main line in Mississippi from
Columbia junction to jackson.
Mrs. Marion Hooper escaped from
the East Mississippi insane hospital
one night lest week. Obtaining a lead
pencil with which to write letter and
shaving the lead into powder, she
BACKED her face and disguised herself
as negress. Tying an old shawl over
her head and taking a marke. basket
on her arm she escaped from the hos
pitaI grounds and went to Meridian,
where she was captured and returned
to the institution.
While the current quotation for cot
ton seed among the Mississippi mills
is $15 per ton, many of the mills are
paying much higher prices, and, as the
end Of the season approaches, the usual
scramble for seed is about TO take
place Transactions at SIC and SI7 per
ton are quite frequent. In some parts
of the state the number of plants Is TOO
large for the seed territory, and it is
these mills that are Offering the top
notch prices.
Judge j. L. McCaskill died at Bran
don, aged 60 years He was lawyer
by profession, a brave Confederate SOL
der, hero of the reconstruction pc
riod, state senator, consul to Dublin
during Cleveland's administration, and
chancellor of the Brandon district at
the time of his death.
An exodus of negroes from Adams
and adjoining counties to the delta is
on. The labor situation has reached
an acute stage. Bankers, merchants
and planters have organized against the
labor agents and scant courtesy will be
accorded them in the future.
Gufport is jubilant over the first
shipment of cotton ever sent out from
Mississippi port The shipment com
prised 10000 bales, together with 1000
tons of cOttOnseed oil cake. This event
marks distinct era in the progressive
history of the port.
The Clarksdale and Six Counties
Medical Society held very interesting
and profitable meeting at Clarksdale
| The counties composing the associa-
lion are Bolivar, Sunfower, Coahoma,
| Tallahatchie, Qutman and Tunica
VIM. Seymour, well-known citizen,
was murdered at his home near Ocean
| Springs. He was some seventy years
| of age, and among the Oldest residents
| of the section. 1t was a diabolical,
cold blooded murder.
Capt John A. Webb, member of the
Mississippi railroad comm ission, has
been appointed to act as adjutant-gen-
eral of the Mississippi division United
| Confederate Veterans, to succeed the
| late Col. J. L. McCaskill
A bill has been introduced in con-
gress by Senator McLaurin to pay a
years salary to the widow of the late
Charles Fitzgerald, the postofice in
spector who was killed in Clinton a few
months ago.
1t is reported that Iowa capitalists
have purchased site near Seminary
for the erection of a paper mill, the
pulp to be obtained from bay trees.
The plant is to cost $1,000
Acting Governor Manship offered
reward of 5000 for the arrest and con-
viction of George alias Lige Gilmore,
lwho killed his wife and George A.
Sharpline at Greenville.
BY unanimous vote the North Mis-
sissippi Methodist conference put itself
on record as committed to constitutional
prohibition as the proper end and goal
of temperance legislation.
State Auditor Smith has issued call
for statements showing the condition of
the state banks throughout the state on
Nov. q.
Already some of the people of Vicks-
burg are calculating the cost in dollars
and cents that the closing of the sa
looms will mean in that community 1t
is claimed that for the first year after
The statewide law becomes operative
There will be sheer traffic loss and
rental loss of at least $4,000 or $50, COO,
while the public revenues will deprs-
ciate in like proportion.
In the circuit court at Eupora Wal
ser Cooper was convicted of the muir
Ter of Sam Hightower, and Judge
| Mclean imposed sentence OF ninety
| 1ine years Imprisonment.
mons and I spoke of It on he way up
| from the train He said he should
mention it to his wife,
| You poor. ignorant creatures," said
| Mrs. Perkins, tenderly. The days and
| days it must have taken to make that
neat, simple, plain little waist. 30
| Youths Companion
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