The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-07-15

| a&nOStac,. WINCH is a. ScnDlaIuy way
OF saying we are from Missouri. We
would like to know what has become
of the clause in the United States
constitution, which forbiIds that man
be tried twice for the same act.
| The town of Magnolia lis trying
to have all trains run at six miles
an hour within a quarter mile of
town. 1t would doubtless be cheap
err for the railroads to make a de-
tour than come to lose the time with
out picking up any fares.
Having produced the smallest and
youngest murder ON record-a Pike
county 9-year old negro who murder
ed a white boy some years ago-Mis-
sissippi now brings forth one, Link
Wilson, colored, age IA, but looks
10, who robbed the Osyka bank of
$3.50 DIM broad daylight, lifting the
cash from the teMer's drawer. Link
blew i'm 500 with a. pal. The pair
were caught by am Illinois Central
conductor, Lewis McLaurin, near Nc
Comb.
New Orleans bakers are not the
only ones to have trouble with their
wives. A Pass Christian bakeress
brought suit against her husband
for assault and battery. The baker
easily proved he was the unfortunate
ONE of the pair, producing evidence
of a beating he got explaining it was
necessary for him TO dane wheen
This Muscular wife whiStled.'
There will be no special terms to
| try the Meadville feudis, the Newman
and Pritchard clans. 1t is reported
That NO good can result from trials
when the Franklin county people are
so worked up over this matter. If
the state does net insist ON some
kind of court procedure, the clans
may determine to hold anohher trial
by battle. Dr. Newman, lit will be
remembered, was acquitted, in a
court of Law and convicted at a tri-
al battle, and Ernest Newman raNing
from his wounds in Natchez sam
itarium, promised to hold another
session of the extra Judicial court as
SOON as he was better.
The Natchez Democrat says that
if There are any white slaves inn Mis-
slssippi, the Officers haev b been re-
miss in their duty For this specific
information ON a complex issue, much
thanks. We may now discover
whether the officers have been re-
miss by asking the crusaders against
the white slave traffic if they cam
produce AN adequate reason fCG
their exist ence.
Colonel Charles Scott, of the Del
ia, one of the largest individual cot
Jackson Friday that the crop was
the worst he had seen in forty years
The colonel will deliver a Fourth o
July address at Seminary, Covingto1
county, and may dwell more on NOR
al issues than prosperity. We havI
been through 1t before, however.
and are still alive.
Judge Wood tssned a perpetual in
junction restraining the city council
of Biloxi from collecting taxes on tbs
increased assessment made last year
The railroads of Louisiana should
get out a similar order on the State
at once. The bowling public serv
ice corporations of Mississippi have
now found a way to get around tht
railroad commission. Then if NIX
orders are Forthcoming, We might al
rush to the Federal courts.
Contractor H. F. Garbish, of Vicks
burg, indicted at New Orleans for q
violation of the eight-hour law, in
tends to plead ignorance of the law
MIR. Garbish, who evidently has mo-
read the papers, says from what he
knows of the case he infers he has
| BEEN indicted.
A. S. Pitts, late postmaster of Hat
tiesburg, lis in Nashville, Tenn, ar
ranging for the republication Of
'tThe Copeland Clan" In the early
| fifties his father served term In
Jail for publishing it. The book is
founded on the confession of James
| Copeland, given to- MIR. Pitts's father
before he was hanged in Perry cOun-
u $1,000 i, o.f~,~o Tho civil