The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1910-07-21
DROWNED While BATH
ING With PARTY OF 80.
lreacherous Undertow at Ship
Island Claims Victim


Island Claims Victim
MANS DECOMpOSED BODY IS FOUND
Fruit Season Has Been Profitable.
Damage Suit Against Auto
Owner. Lumberman Buys
Pine Lands.
browns While in Bathing.
Warren Chadwick, fourteen-year-
old son of William Chadwick, was
drowned while bathing with some
other small boys,a in Hobolie Chitto
Creek about two miles west of
McNeilI.
Drowned in Surf at Ship Island.
Mrs. Leila De Llorens, wife of
Joseph De Llorens, the Spanish con-
sui at Gulfport, was drowned in the
treacherous undertow at Ship Island
while bathing in the surf with a
party Of twenty men and ten women.
Will Hutchins and Miss Arabella
Eaton, of Biloxi, were rescued in an
unconscious condition, being carried
TO shore by John Hutchins, a broth
er.
Mans Body Found in Thicket.
The body of a man, with head
crushed, badly decomposed, was
found in a thicket near Roxie. He
is supposed to have been murdered.
Auto Owner Sued for $4,000.
j. T. Stone claims in suit that
the automobile of w. K M. Dukate
at Biloxi was being run at a speed
approximating forty miles per hour
by chauffeur named Trealor. Mr..
Stone was driving mule which took
fright and threw the occupant out
on the shellroad, causing permanent
injuries. Damages of $4,000 are
asked.
Purchases Large Tract of Land.
Sam Mouton, lumber and mill
operator of Monroe, Miss, has pur-
chased 5000 acres of pine lands, at
a cost of 1000, at Mccall, Miss.
Brookhaven elected Heuck mayor
in second primary.
w. T. Bennett resigned as repres-
entative in the Mississippi Legislature
from Alcorn County.
Rev. S. H. Werlein, of New Or
leans, delivered the opening sermon
at the Seashore Camp Grounds.
Mayor Benbrook, of Natchez, APP
pointed river and harbor commit
tee.
F. r. Powell was convicted at Col
Inns of embezzlement and sentenced
to a year in the Penitentiary.
The Jackson Y. NJ. C. A, will es-
tablish summer damp near Long
Beach.
The Mississippi Levee Board of
the lower district carried its dis
pute to Governor Noel.
The Crystal Springs Chautauqua
will be one of the best for many
years.
The case of the Baker heirs is
being heard in Chaneery Court at
Natchez.
Marshal Cromate, of Virgins, re-
signed, following charges of incom-
potency by U. B. Parker, an attor-
ney.
Arrangements have been completed
for the first section of the Jackson,
Miss, Y. M. c. A. to be held at Long
Beach.
Clyde R. Crosby, manager at
Vicksburg for a piano company, is
missing, and is short in his ac-
counts.
Dr. P. H. Saunders, of Laurel,
president of the Mississippi Land De-
velopment Association, outlines a
plan to attract immigrants to south
Mississippi pine lands.
Fisherman "Pulls In" Mans Body.
The body of Frank Clay, a young
negro, who was drowned in the Mis-
sissippi river at Natchez, was picked
up by a fisherman, who caught it
on his trot line.
Banker on Objectionable Law.
Mr.. Hill, president OF. the Gulfport
Bank of Commerce, in an interview
concerning. the impediments by the
state to the contemplated building of
the Hines Railroad, said: "The peo-
pie of Mississippi do not really
know what a hardship section 909,
Code of 1906, is working upon them.
1t is understood that the Hines in
terests agreed to construct two saw
mills, each to cut 100000 feet of
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