The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-03-19
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OHenSe charged, DuC Offers III eXtenua-
ton the fact that the amount was made
good to the injured parties; that his
mother had died when he was a child;
that proper restraints were not thrown
around him, and that he wandered into
bad company and riotous living, having
been under the influence of liquor at
the time of the commission of the crime.
Suits have been fled in the Federal
Court by the heirs of the Pearl River
Navigation Company, claiming the title
to 10000 acres of land in Marion u
ty, and if they should prevail it would
render homeless q large number of the
most prominent citizens of the county.
1t seems that in 1886 the State donated
these lands to the above company upon
condition that they should clean out
and improve Pearl river. Some years
later the State declared the donation
void, and ordered the land sold, and the
people who are suing hold their title
from the State.
Gov. Noel announces the appointment
of Frank H. Lewis, of Scranton, to act
as Sheriff of Jackson county, vice A. IL.
Smith, just deceased, who will act until
a successor of Mr.. Smith can be duly
and regularly elected. Sheriff Lewis is
not an untried man in the position to
which he has been appointed, having
served his county as Sheriff, and in addi-
ton to that was for twelve years chan
Gerry clerk of Jackson county.
A fight is about to develop between
the Federal authorities and the State of
Mississippi for possession of John Ruth
erford, alias Tennessee Dutch," the safe
blower in Jail at Birmingham. Ruther-
ford's attorneys swore out a warrant
charging him with being a fugitive from
justice in Mississippi The prisoner adj
mitted that he escaped from Jail in
that State nearly five years ago after
being sent up from Carroll county. Fed
eral authorities want the man for rob-
berries committed in South Carolina.
An attempt at Jail delivery was
thwarted at Clarksdale by the timely
appearance of the Sheriff and one of
his deputies, who were notified by a
trusty that such efforts were in progress.
An iron bed had been broken and a bar
from this secured, which was used for
= file, with which iron the leader of
the gang was fast fling his way to lib
erty when the alarm was sent to the
officials.
Ed Harris, an employee of the New
ton Oil and Manufacturing Company,
met death in a rather peculiar manner.
He was in the second story of the build
ing, showing cotton seed through a hole
to the first floor, and in some unknown
way fell in the hole. His body was
caught, and the hole not being large
enough for him to go through, the seed
covered him up. Before it was discov-
cred he ~suffocated.
{. A movement which promises much for
the. beauty of Holly Springs is the sue
cessful reorganization of the Improve
ment Association, a society composed
of many of the leading citizens of the |
town. A sum of money is already on
hand, and to this will be added such
contributions as can be secured, and
with the fund a number of improve
ments will be instituted.
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Hon. j. N. Powers, State S%uperintend-
ent of Education for Mississippi, has
accepted an invitation to deliver an ed
ucational address at Walden Friday
night, April 2. Mr.. Powers is waging
a vigorous campaign for school improve
ment all over the State and Walden
school authorities feel themselves for
tunate in securing an engagement from
him.
The Board of Levee Commissioners of
the Upper Yazoo-Mississippi Delta dis
trict, will, on April 90, receive bids on
a bond sale issue aggregating 1926 900
of forty-year bonds, bearing AZ per cent.
interest and payable s~emi-annually, the
proceeds of such sale to be applied to
the r~efunding of a like amount of 6
per cent bonded indebtedness, issued
some time ago. This issue, as the one
preceding it, will be made subject to
call at any time, such being the condi-
tions governing the sale of the bonds.
The East Mississippi Four Counties
Medical Society, composed of Lee, Chick
asaw, Monroe and ~Itawamba, met in
Okolona last week, and after eiecting
officers, a motion was made and carried
to meet next in Aberdeen, the second
Tuesday in May, and in Amory the sec
ond Tuesday in june, making the four
towns of Tupelo, Okolona, Aberdeen and
Amory permanent meeting places Of the
society. I
Gov. Noel signed the commissions for
the following men appointed to Office
in the Mississippi National Guard: j.