The Jones County news., 1913-09-11

HS project 10 improve Lear river
as far up as Hatliesourg and open il
for navigation, was rejected
The pecan crop around Pascagoula,
Miss, is record breaker and is
worth to Jackson county 81, 600, o00
annually And we can do the same
Thing in Jones county
Last Thursday terrific typhoon
swept The East coast OF North Caro-
ilnai dong damage OF -, 1000, 900,
Syeral towns were nit and an island
oil Buford swept oyer.
The cotton mills, according to
Hester's report, were very active
during the year, both North and
South. The output oil 1928 IS
valued al sy9S, AIS, U59.
GOV. Bease, OF South Carolina.
Witnessed last Friday tie double exc
cutIon OF two negroes who had killed
one OF Ills friends, dispensary CON
stable.
A pipe gang near Washington,
Pa, had battle win 100 copper
head snakes. They killed 81, but
several OF the men were bitten and
may die.
The Republicans won out in Maine
last Tuesday, electing d Cong ressman.
The Progressive vote showed de-
crease Of 90 per cent. since the
November election.
a compromise was effected by
which The cotton future tax was made
effective Sept. Ia, 1874 Wall street
simply played IA blun game on the
Democrats ia Congress and won.
The marriage OF Miss Jessie VIII
son, daughter OF the President, is
set Tor Nov. 10Th, and it Will be the
most brilliant ever occurred in the
W bite House.
A 100000 damage suit has been
filed by young woman at w aukegan.
ILL.,, az ainst some married women of
the town who rode her on rail- for
being too intimate with their hus-
Danus.
owing TO complication of the i'm
laws, Harry Thaw may
remain in Canaua for a year. HIS
prosecutor, jerome, was arrested for
gambling and had himself TO Zee into
Vermont.
The auditors who have examined
the Mississippi Insane Asylum say
THAT the State has been defrauded OF
thousands, by its employees and
traces OF thievery and corruption are
fou nd in every department.
A new trick to tvaue the prohibl
ton law has been discovered in
oklahoma. A load of watermelons
was sent to Tulsa, but concealed in
side of every melon was bottle OF
whiskey or beer.
A man near Athens, Ca, died from
ptomain poison, caused from eating
canned salmon. Most of the salmon
now sold is made from porpois and
other coarse fish dyed pink, and much
of such stuff is poisonous.
A young girl at Atlantic City, who
was resuicitated from drowning, tells
how she felt while drowning. She
hears sweet music, smet perfumes,
and 81 want TO go back, were her
first words on returning to life.
Lieut. Acosta rode across the Rio
Grande bridge at Ell Paso, Texas,
fired on two U. S. officers, and who
killed the Mexican in self-defense.
Acosta announced that he was going
across the border TO kill Gingo.
Darius Reed, while hunting in La
mar county, Ala, shot a squirrel and
climbed tree to get it. While Reed
was up in thee Amos Pennington,
aged IS, came along and mistook Reeo
An Atlanta mother was fined SIC
for letting her little tiny tots romp on
the front piazza without even fig
1 leaf TO conceal their nakedness. At
lanta seems to have another spasm OF
virtue.
A drunken man in Montgomery,
/ Ala, is accused of wilfnlly shooting
negroes, "just to see them keel over,
as the brute expressed it when ar
rested. In one day be killed on,
negro and badly wounded another
and neither had harmed him.
The 12-year-old son of L. B
Mathews, Of Holly Springs, Miss.
told the jury of the horrible cruelt,
of his father and showed the bruises
on his body. His father attacked th,
child while he was at work, beat him
with the hoe and axe, and knocked
him senseless to the ground. Mathews
was convicted and given IL years.
A man at Birmingham, Ala, swal
lowed a watch, and physicians had Il
pump it out; but the watch ticke
when removed, never having stopped
running, He put the watch,sa ladies
model, in his mouth, while he reached
for something in his pocket, and tn
next thing he knew he felt it ticking
in his stomach.