Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-05-12
A CHAPTER Lucille. the little ..
OF year-old daughter of
CASOAl1lES. Mr. and Mrs 1 D

OCNy, od. Inc gun WAS X
singie-barreled breachioading and a
io-gauge shotgun, and was standing in
the closet of room. The little girl
and her brother went into the closet
to play. The gun fell i'll some way
striking the hammer against the wall
Margaret Demont is dead at Kan.
kakee, ILL.,, as the result of the explos.
ion Of celluloid hair comb. The
young lady touched a red-hot stove
with the comb, when it exploded. burn
ing her badly. Lockjaw resulted in
her death
While sitting asleep on the tracks
of the Nashville, Chattanooga and st.
Louis railway at the foot of Lookout
mountain, d. G. DeArmond, aged rs,
an employe OF Fl. H. Thresher e. Co.,
was instantly killed when he was
struck by Train No. 93 The body was
taken to Hartman, Tenn, for burial.
TWO persons are known to have
been killed and four others are re-
| ported as dead through the derailment
of Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Pas
| senger Train No. in the heart of the
Blue Ridge mountains ten miles from
| Hinton, w. Va.
Harvey Mcfarland aged Sc years, a
] prosperous Monroe county, Indiana,
farmer, was taken from his home at
midnight by fifteen masked whitecap-
pers, stripped of his clothing and beat
en- until his body was sore and lacer-
ated. A Moose was placed about his
neck and he was dragged 200 yards
from his home. The whitecappers
charged McFarland with stealing tur-
keys and permitting his horses to run
loose. Mcfarland bears an excellent
reputation in his community
+ The unwritten law. as well as self
defense, were bases of a general
charge for the defendant in the case
of Thomas Hightower, white, charged
with murder, in the criminal court at
Birmingham, Ala and verdict of not
guilty was Immediately returned by
the jury. Hightower shot and killed
Dick Collier in a hotel at Ensley last
year, and self-defense and the unwrit-
ten law We're Immediately claimed
The trial lasted four hours.
Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. H. Davis, who
have been posing in kenosha, Wis, as
Charity workers." 1t is said, are un-
der arrest, charged with kidnapping the
two little daughters of Mrs. Catherine
Getchel of Chicago. Both the Getchel
girls were dressed as boys, and, ac-
cording to the police, were forced to
sell lead pencils and cheap jewelry on
the streets. Attention was attracted
to them by their voices.
A clod thrown by Richard, the 49,
year-old son of Deputy Sheriff ]. w.
Rowland, of Dublin, Ca, struck the
temple of Don Cooper, white man,
late Saturday night and Cooper died
Sunday afternoon. Rowland is in Jail
facing murder charge. He says that
Cooper Kicked him. Cooper formerly
lived at Social Circle and Narrenton,
Ga.
Asserting he had been shot from
ambush, Nolan wilkins. aged 23 years,
who was found wounded in his buggy
near the Galloway county, Kentucky,
line, died few hours later at the
home of Bert Boyd, where he had
been taken for medical attention.
Reprimanded by her mother because
she had broken a plate, Hillie Blake
man, ten-year-old daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. w. B. Brakeman, committed sui
eide at Nieholasville, KY, by shooting
| h1r f,, he ri hnr fotb or,s,
pistol.
| News was received at Middlesboro,
KY, OF a duel to the death at Penning-
ton Gap, Va. fought between George
Hinkle, chief Of police of Pennington
Gap, and William Short, policeman,
of st. Charles Va. Both men were
killed.
While despcndent, Mrs. Martha
Weigand killed herself and her hus-
band, William, by illuminating gas at
their home in South Boston. Mass.
The husband and wife were found
dead by their daughter
( Because he was tainted by his fell
low-workmen for spelling a mold at
the Bethlehem, Pa, Steel works,
where he was employed Willis Scholl,
a 17-year-old boy, committed suicide
by hanging himself.
The steamers e. l.. Fisher and the
Clement collided near Grassy Island,
ten miles below Detroit, Mich, in the
Detroit river. VThe Fisher was sunk,
and the cook, his wife and the chief
engineer we're drowned.
| One woman was killed and another
woman and man were badly injured
in an automobile "joy ride" near New
burg. N. Y. The dead woman Is Mrs
Annie Toner, and the injured are
Mrs. Pearl Grant and John Campbell
Fire destroyed the $4,000 suburban
home of Joseph Carson Coke, in
Kingston pike, Knoxville, Tenn. In
surance was but $4,000. Mr.. Coke is
the father of Mrs Daniel Hull, of Sa
vannah, Ga.
State Supreme Court Justice Edgar
A. Spencer died at his home at Glov'
ersville, N. Y, after long illness
! His term Of Office would have expired
December 81, 1851.
Mrs. Anna Pacino was found dead in
her bed at her rooms in Hamilton
street, New Haven, Conn. The woman
had been choked to death by moose
of twine while she slept.
w. Huc,1elby, prominent mer
chant and farmer Of Randolph county
was found dead In the ladies' waiting
room of the depot at Opelika, Ala.
Mrs. Patrick Cain and her step
daughter, Ellen, were burned to death
at Rawdon, N Y, when fire destroyed
their home.
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