The Jones County news., 1913-07-31


4 80 year-old man In Pennsylvania
had his appendicitis cut out.
: The Alabama coal operators may
abolish convict labor Ia mines.
Last Monday corn advanced two
cents per bushe IN the Chicago
i, market.
A. U. S. Federal officer was shot in
the back by Mexicans ut I'll paso,
Tex. and may die.
Senator Vardeman will eight the
nomination Of negro as Register Of
Deeds by tine President.
| a Mexican gunboat was this week
destroyed by bomb dropped from
an air ship.
After August 18th, the weight Of
parcel post packages is raised from
III TO 20 pounds.
a plant In Louisiana is making
wood alcohol Of sawdust. One
ought TO be located in Laurel
Mrs Emily Schlater, OF Natchez,
Miss. died from installing poison
for med icine.
Two men deded death at Niagara
Fails to save a drowning dog that
was being carried over the cata ract.
5. J. Openheim travelling sales
man. drowned at Gultport last week
while his wife was looking on.
AT Munroe, La, three girls were
drowned. While wading they stepped
OIL sand-bar into the river.
John Haywood, an ll-year old boy,
was drowned IN Burketts creek,
about four miles from Hattiesburg.
Three brothers named Eberhardt,
near Gainesville, Ca, had fight and
one was killed and another seriously
wounded.
Andrew Bunch, Of Shreveport, La,
who killed his bride OF nine days, |
has been sentenced TO the penitentary
Tor fifteen years,
Pellagra, SO far incurable, is
spreading to new territory, according
to United States public health OF |
! iicials.
AT the recent election in Texas all |
the amendments proposed to the !
Constitution OF the State were de-
feated by immense maiorities.
Frank Brau, New Orleans sales
man, fired a bullet into his brain and |
then turned the pistol on his wife who
rushed TO his aid. He was i'll and |
worried.
At Shreveport, La, last Monday,
Mrs. Lizzie Leonard shot and killed
her husband IN view of herr -rs,ur babies
rand assses-s arssYuis---4shotesi thsa-y,,ifets
She claims cruelty and neglect OF his
family as her reason for killing.
A mob near Palm Valley, Okla,
is hunting four negroes who cut on
a white mans head. The victim was
selling water-melons at negro picnic
when he got into dispute about
the buyers not paying for three sold.
After being hanged, negro at
Starke, Fla, lived for three hours
with broken neck. The body had
been cut down and turned over to
relatives when the executed man came
to life.
Congress made an attempt to pre-
vent Postmaster Geberal Burleston
from reducing parcel post charges,
but he has the law Oh his side and
will not be deferred TO help out ex-
press companies.
Near Monroe, La, last Friday, a
racing moter car turned sommer-
sault and one person was killed and
five hurt, They were party OF
society people returning from a house
party.
1t is said that the President app
pointed Patterson, the negro registrar
of deeds, at the insistence OF Senator
Gore. The nomination may be with
drawn, as much oppo sition has deve-
loped. 1t is a shame ON a Democratic
administration.
Forrest county is this year assured
OF bumper crop OF corn, according
TO County Demonstration Agent II
a. Carpenter, who also states that
there is a fairly good prospect of
cotton yield on every farm where
fight against the weevil has been
made.
William Rockefeller, who pretend .
cd that he was TO near death to an
swer questions from the Puio COM
nittee, participted in q meeting of
i've hours, that interested his imam
,ial interests, and took an active
part He simply played a flim-ham
game on that committee.
Several Judges in Mississippi are
low to be investigated. One Judge
S charged with drunkenness, another
we'll known in Jones county, with
those who secured his APP {
continent to dictate his charges and
'ulings on the bench, and two other =
Judges are guilty of acts of tyranny
Ind oppression in office.
Col. w. a. Montgomery, another
member of the Penitentiary Board of
Directors, was convicted of malfea-
ance In Office, but recommend to the
nercy of the court This makes the II
econd member of the board con-
iicted. No one helives Col Mont y
'omery proiitad by THAT stealage, but
e ariminally neglected the duties he