Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1913-12-12
NEWS OF
MISSISSIPPI

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farm land, located near Ashland was sold
to Nebraska capitalists, who will estab-
lish a stock farm there. The property
brought $40, 200.
Burglars entered the store of P. U.
Roberts at Amory, stealing $275 from
the safe, secured groceries from the store
of ]. 7. Duke, and also entered the store
of E. D. Bourland.
Boyd Harden, a young farmer of
Coldwater, was painfully hurt when the
stallion he was riding became frightened
at an automobile and slipped on the
concrete pavement.
Mr.. and Mrs. S. L. Murray of Wilkin.
son county, are in jail at V~icksburg,
charged with having caused the death
of their infant child, whose body was
found in the street.
G. II. Manning, a planter, was shot by
5. A. Childress in the latter's store al
Satartia, and died two hours later as a
result of the wound.
At a banquet given the 1918 football
team of the Gulf Coast Military Acad-
envy, at Gulfport, Dean Hebron was
elected captain of the 1914 team.
The new $4,000 First Presbyterian
church at Meridian is fast nearing com.
pletion. The building is of gray gram
lite and will be one of the finest houses
of worship in the state.
The Lauderdale county supervisors
convened the December session. Influ-
entail cattle owners and breeders and
dealers appeared before the board, urg- /
ing the adoption of tick eradication.
Gov. Brewer has pardoned j. L. Lott,
white, serving two years for grand lar.
ceny from Marion county, and Emma
Robertson, negress, serving five years,
from Holmes county, for manslaughter.
Chief of Police Groome and Policeman
Stevens of Vicksburg have been sus-
pended by Mayor Hayes because of the
killing of Burke Warren, negro, Novem-
Der Is, after he had been arrested for
stealing.
"The Bank of Commerce" is the name
of a new banking institution, which will
open for business in Meridian on Jan. 1.
The bank will have a capital stock Of
$780, 600 and will do a general CONNER
cial banking business.
Dan Perry, eldest son of Rev. R. M.
and foreman of the machine de-
partment of the Hattiesburg Machine &
Company, was instantly killed
while attempting to connect an extension
light cord with a wall socket at the
plant.
Depositors of the defunct Union Bank
and Trust Company at Meridian, who
have received about 40 per cent of their
money since the bank closed a year ago,
are getting restless and are looking for.
ward to the payment of the next divi.
dend.
Proved insane, Jessie Scott, negress,
who killed Ella Sperry, another negress,
claiming she stole dress scraps, was
committed to an asylum in court at Ha.
zlehurst by jury. It was proven also
that the Scott IN had suffered in.
-ense epileptic attacks.
c. E. Wright, architect, has been EN-.
to draw plans for remodeling the
Jail at Senatobia. This build
.ng has recently caused considerable
in the papers of the state On
account of the criticism of DR.. Rowan.
of the state board of health.
j.. Il. Price, special government crop 1
for Madison county, states that i
',461 bales of cotton have been ginned .
n this county from the 1919 crop III :
o Nov. l. The figures for the same pc
iod of time in 1912 were 1888 bales.
is still considerable cotton in the
;elds. {
Criminal proceedings against the per.
who are said to be implicated in q
he alleged conspiracy that resulted in
he abduction of Mrs. Alice Shear from
florida and her Incarceration at Meri-
ian, may follow the legislative commit
investigation of the Meridian asy-
nm.
0. P. Mcpherson has withdrawn from .
he race for the state senatorship IN
he seventh district, made vacant by the
esignation of R. f. Jackson, recently I
ppointed to the circuit bench. This ]
three candidates in the field. A. I
!, Stratton, Abel j. Street and Polk
albert, all of Amite county.
One of the curious finds of the leyi,.
committee in its investigation Of
ate institutions was a glass receptacle
| the East Mississippi Insane Hospital !
t Meridian containing three and a ouar- .
ar pounds of FUNK" that was taken
-cm the stomach of one of the patients b
that institution who died. There were e.
individual pieces of Junk includ.
lg pins, buttons, small bolts. taps. n,
'cks, glass and other things too numer. I,
rs to mention. -
The Greenwood Business League has
pPointed the following delegates to the "
Cattlemen's Association. which v,
in Memphis, Dec. 1O-11: W. s -.
ardaman, Douglass Robinson, A. Hen. :
'rson, w. L. Craig, w. c. Proctor. Wal :