The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-09-02

Monterey, we may take stock OF the
awful damage wrought by the high
water. Conservative estimates place.
the number of dead at no less than
1000, and while the money and prop
erty losses will probably reach $780,
900, 900.
Now that Roosevelt is no longer on
the job to shake up things in Pana-
ma, nature steps into the breach and
jars the canal workers with lusty
young earthquake.
Now we are told that pellagra is
not produced from eating corn. May
we consider this vindication Of corn
juice?
'Uncle Henry Hutchinson, Ham
mond negro of the "befo de wah"
type, was severely whipped by three
young blacks who have been captur-
ed. The timely arrival of some neigh
bors who heard the cries saved 'Un-
Gle Henry from being hanged. The
old negro, he is over seventy, will not
be able to work for some time, but
the whites will care for him. The
whites will doubtless take care of the
three brutes in Jail as well.
Ivey Scroggs, aged Is, and MILFORD
Scroggs, age 25, first cousins, quar-
relied after a haptising at Center
Point, Avoyelles parish. La, MILFORD |
pumped three bullets into Ivey and
Ivey is dead. Scroggs is surely not an
Italian name, and the situation Illus
trates that the supposedly degenerate |
sons of effete Italy are not neces-
sarily the worst we have among US.
A rapid fnsilade of shots, one ans
wering another, cracked the atmos-
phere. near Monroe La, Monday even
ing. Pale, but determined, the sheriff |
gathered one deputy to his alliance |
and hied him hence, doubtless mum |
bling his oath to obey the law drre-
spective of persons or powers. Steal |
thi1y approaching the spot from |
which the decorations came, the
seriff found two younhg braves of |
Ouchita were practicing with their
revolvers.
All the Jones county farmers who |
subscribed to the proposed Farmers
Union Saving Bank have recovered |
their money but Mr.. John Bush i,
of Ellisville. 1t is staetd that Mr..
Bush would have received his if he |
had sent his receipt to Jackson. If |
this is true, the promoters certainly |
had a. careless system of accounts |
not to know who subscribed to their |
stodk:
If the art of war really be to get |
there first with the most men, the
Mississippi militia need not worry |
about Camp Perry scores. They got
there once before the lynching fever
reached it's height and several times
before the allies of the clan could |
gather from the countryside. Last
time they got there before the mob
gdt a chance.
Will Jones, negro, in the Meridian
hospital and in a plaster jacket, es-
capped, crutches and all. If Will does
not return promptly he will doubt
lessly be indicted by the Lauder
dale county grand jury for stealing |
the crutches.
After a chase, an arrest, bond,
an escape, another chase, requisition
papers and return, and four years
of teeth and nail fighting In the
courts, one ]. McGowan has at last
been convicted Of arson at Columbia |
AS there is nothing else for Mr.. Nc
Gowan to do but appeal to the State
Supreme court, the United States
supreme court, apply for rehearings
and the notification of his trials.
and them a pardon petition, We think
his race Is now well on
Il
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The Magnolia Gazette thinks what
Franklin county needs Is enforcement
of the law against Newmans and
Pritchards alike. The clans seem to
present all the power there il