The Tupelo journal., 1908-03-13

News


The railroad commission, after care
fully considering the question of transr
p%ortation rates on petroleum and its
products, made an order placing the
commodity in the sixth class, this being
a reduction from the third class as now
existing. This will mean a 40 per cent
reduction from the present rates on not
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 of
Washington county, for alleged sever
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 sue for S., 900 damages.
One thousand people assembled at
the depot at Canton to greet MI. 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 were 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. H. Carothers, Sunflower; 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
$35, 600, was destroyed by fire at Meri-
dian. The fire was the fiercest ard
hottest the fire department was ever
called on to fight.
Gov. Noel announces the appoint
ment of Hon. George A. Mclean of
Montgomery county to succeed Judge
j. T. Dunn of Eupora, a. 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, 900. The present statutory limit
is S 1900, 900, and two years ago an ef-
fort was made to have the limit IN
creased to $40, 00O, 900, but it was un-
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 turn 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 a crude design OF a
skull and crossbones, beneath which is
the inscription, printed with a pen, in
ink, "Your end is nea 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 State
within the past decade, judging from
the number of candidates who have
appeared in the field.
Maj. VIM. M. Strickland, one of the
oldest members of the Holly Springs
bar, is dead. Maj. Strickland became
a member of the Holly Springs bar in
1849, and was one of its most promi-
nent members.
Gov. Noel commissioned the Hon. E.
A. Howell, of Canton, to preside as
special judge owe the regular term of
the Holmes county circuit court, Judge
Sydney M. Smith being disqualified.
1t has been decided that the ware
house of the Lowndes County Farmers
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 War. The damaged amounted to
SAC, 900.
Judge Milton Redus died at West
Point from an apoplectic attack 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 $780, 900 on cotton stored in
the State at the rate of s per cent.
The Gulf and Ship Island Railroad
COMPANY filed for record in the office