The Jones County news. (Ellisville, Miss.) 1909-1924, 1913-09-18

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A heavy snow fell last Saturday a
Tucson, Arizona.
Eleven iRches of rain fell this week
in Mobile in As hours.
Wayne county win issue 500, 600 Of
bonds for road building.
a Tennesseean slept for thirteen
days and awoke sound and we'll
Bryan made $500 from his first ex-
hibi.ion in that tent show.
Three new counterfeit notes are in
circulation, one being 50 bill
A Wisconsin woman of IS ask for a
divorce from her husband Of 3d.
A New Jersey boy met his death by
eating poisoned biscuit left for rats
A Macon, Ga, specialist says the
red-bug is responsible for pellagra.
The white wife of Chinaman is in
Jail charged with killing her husband
A 7-year-old girl this week died in
New Orleans from acute alcoholism.
A Cuthbert, Ga, 6-year-old negro
boy shot and killed its baby brother
An aged Pennsylvania refused to
eat, and died after fasting for 80
days.
A 9-year-old son of w. B. Crosby,
OF Newton county, died from car
buncle.
Forest, Miss, is TO connect with
Simpson by a model highway, when
completed
A Massachusetts boys heart shifted
back to the left side, and doctors are
amazed.
Ground squirrels are said to be the
cause for the bubonic plague in Cali
fornia.
At Cure, Pa, woman aged rs.
4 has been found guilty of manslaugh-
ter.
\ Mexicans murdered an American
mining engineer and nearly killed
another.
David w. Ruflin, formerly assist
y ant police chief of Jackson, Miss,
died Sunday.
a A Michigan farmer, who lives in a
swamp, bosts of having killed over
B, 0C0 snakes.
@ A clean bin of health is given by
the committee to the Mississippi
CHI srity hospital.
A prize fighter in Texas went a
dozen rounds after one of his arms
had been broken.
An Ohio woman died from squeez-
ing black-head from her lip. Blood
poison ensned.
An alligator was captured near the
center OF Shreveport, La, while it was
trying to enter house.
A California man has been asleep
for forty days without taking a parti-
Gle of nourishment.
The day before her marriage,
Mamie Muckelroy, of Logansport,
La, committed suicide.
The Government states that eggs
can be successfully kept for an indie
finite time by canning.
A man came from California TO
Connecticut to pay a debt he had
owed for fifty years.
A house last week burned at
Bridgeport, H., and a family of six
persisted in the flames.
Clarence Temple, of Brookhaven,
Miss, was acquitted after two trials
for killing George Oliver.
AT Vicksburg, Sol L. johnson is to
be tried for Draining Elston Brewer
while asleep with an axe.
A farmer near Spartanburg, S. c.,
becomes a dad at the age of So, his
eldest son being 66 years old.
Two men we're killed and six wound
ed in collision between two freight
trains near Parrish, Ala.
Last Saturday the streets of Gold
field, New, we're flooded by a cloud
burst, and three women drowned.
At Popularville, Miss, Lemuel A
Smith sues w. w. Mitchell, a local
merchant, for $1,000 for Islander.
A New Orleans boy is in danger
Gus condition from running a splinter
in its foot. Tetanus followed.
The first pecans of the season last
week reached New Orleans, and the
largest crop in years is predicted.
A man in Italy served 80 years in
the galleys for crime 1t has been
found another committed.
A Michigan farmer in digging a
well tapped two kinds of water, one a
sulpher and the other pure fluid.
A bill has been introduced in Con-
gress prohibiting the use of any cars
unless made of steel after 1918.
There was an overflow of students
when the Mississippi Normal School