The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-01-08
Mississippi
News


Gov. Noel has approved the amend.
ment to the charter of the Vicksburg
levee district, which changed the name
to the Warren County Levee District,
and extends its scope so as to take in
all the Mississippi river front from
Brunswick to West Pass, a distance of
about twenty-three miles, and, together
with the levees already existing to the
north of Brunswick, will afford pro-
lection to a large area of territory
drained by the Yazoo river, Sun1ower
river, Deer creek and several other
streams running through low territory,
which has. always been flooded with
backwater when the gauge at V~icksburg
records thirty-five feet or more. 1t is
contemplated that $1,5OO,OOO will be
spent on the work during the next
three years, and when completed the
levees protecting all the Yazoo-M issis-
sippi delta will be the best that have
ever existed there. 1t is expected to
result in the ultimate reclamation of
thousands of acres of land which no
effort has been made to cultivate in
the past, on account of the almost an
nual overflow of water from the Missis-
sippi river.
While in Vicksburg in attendance
upon the ceremonies incident to the
dedication of the Indiana monument in
the National park, Gov. Noel visited
the State Charity Hospital there and
inspected every nook and corner of it,
without giving previous warning. He
arrived about supper time, and had
ample opportunity to see how the food
was prepared and served under perfect
ly normal conditions. He was most
enthusiastic in his praise of the a
ner in which it is being conducted, and
it is a great edit to the State,
as well as to the management. Every
ward, operating room and every other
part of the institution, he says, is kept
the most %scrupulous sanitary condi-
ton, and the culinary department is
under the supervision of a competent
nurse, trained in the art of cooking for
the sick room. There are twelve in
mates in the Old Soldiers annex, and
room for only two more.
Mrs. Eliza Kizer, died near Potts
Camp, aged SO. Mrs. Kizer lived in
Marshall county for nearly four-scoIe
years, having a membership in the
Methodist Church at her home COM
that extends over a period of
years. Her father, Nat Callahan,
was one of the first settlers of Marshall
at a time when Holly Springs
consisted of a few log cabins. He
served under "Old Hickory" Jackson
md was in the famous battle of New
Orleans.
w. II. Hardy, Jr., convicted of en-
oezzlement of funds of the Bank of
IIeadville, and who was confined in the
lincoln county Jail, pending the appeal
# his case to the Supreme Court, was
on a $4,000 bond on a habeas
proceeding before Justice Flet-
her. Bond was granted on the show
ng that Hardy is a sufferer from acute
Indigestion and that his health and pos
his life would be jeopardized by
lis close confinement in Jail.
Because the marriage of Miss Ollie |
Patton, the pretty little American girl, |
Lum Jack, a Chinese laundryman, |
which was celebrated at Meridian was
ontrary to the laws of the State of
Mississippi, inasmuch as marriages be-
ween white persons and negroes or
Iongolians are prohibited, the marriage
as been annulled, and both Miss Pat
on and Lum Jack are nov liable for
prosecution.
'Black Hand No. 3 Society" sent a
to Mrs. Sallie Walters, a grocery
in Natchez. The letter was
IliIcu WIFI d Icdu PcHClI WIlIp'Ut
marks, and demanded ST.
90, and further declares that a demand
Or money was made on Robert F. Reed,
no was murdered at his home in Nat
aez recently. The Black Hand threat
MS to kill Mrs. Walters and child if
lie money is not paid.
In his charge to the Federal grand
at Vicksburg, Judge Niles paid his
to night riders. He said he
ad received a number of letters COM
of the sending through the
ails of anonymous letters, the whip
ings of persons and ordering of 9th
IS to leave. He declared this was the
ork of irresponsible towards, and in
the grand jury to make a
borough investigation.
Following a quarrel over a lawsuit, in
hich it is said threats to shoot it
1T" at next meeting were made, E. B.
fitzgerald, a prominent planter, shot
I'd instantly killed O. G.. Mcclure, a