The Jones County news., 1913-09-25
State and General News~
>Reduced to PARAGRAPHS
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last week De gan lis GIN year,
November 9Th is to be negro day at
the Mississippi Fair.
An ice war is on in New Orlea ms
and it is selling for 81 per ton.
An Oregon farmer has produced
hybrid wheat that grows s feet tall.
z The Picayune Item will be moved to
Carrierre, Miss.
A Pennsylvania man ate 10 Scent
cones of ice cream in 10 minutes.
a new comet has been located, the
second this month.
Mrs Martha Il. Temman, aged SO
years, died last week at Guliport.
Several railroad in our State have
been fined for not marking up trains.
Negro COW thieves near Starkville,
Miss, killed two bloodhounds sent to
chase them.
A North Dakota man broke 2x4
beam with his head in tumbling over
a hay-staek.
A Memphis negro was badly bitten
by bear while working in a zoo
cage.
Even London, is drawing the color
line, and refused to make negro
district medical officer
A young man at Shreveport, La,
evidently insane, desesrated twenty
graves in the cemetery.
Four deaths of Union veterans oc
cured during the @. A, II. encamp-
ment at Chattanooga last week.
Gov. Brewer has promised Miss
Susie Y. Powell to address the Girls
Tomato Club.
At Glenwood, Ark, man, wife
and friend all suicided They left
word that were tired of living.
Mr. N. A. Mott, of Yazoo City, is
urged to head the Farmers Union in
Mississippi
The Treasury of Mississippi is now
in good shape and the pensioners will
be paid on time.
An indianapolis man shot and kill
ed guest whom he caught kissing his
wife.
Two convict guards in North Caro-
fully whipping prisoners.
Last Friday, at Poughkeepsie, N.
Y, a platform with 73l children col
A man in Canada bought at auction
for 60 cents picture painted by Ru-
bens, worth 100000
There is an attendance of over /, 300
students at the State A. & M, Stark
vile, Miss.
The Black Root is seriously injur-
ing cotton in Georgia and will cut the
crop short.
Secretary Bryan has partially
promised to attend the fair at
Shreveport La.
Miss NorAeet, daughter of the late
DR.. }. A. Harper, of Hattiesburg,
and Mr.. Ben Dever were married.
Broken hearted by the death of her
baby, mother in New Orleans last
Friday attempted suicide.
1000 bales of hay were last week
burned in warehouse at Shreveport
La, entailing loss of $4,000
A negro boy in New Orleans held
up 6-year-old white girl and escaped
with her 20 cents.
A Government investigation shows
that slave girls can be purchased in
Uncle Sans realms in the Philippines. |
A train last Saturday left the track
near Manhattan, Kan, and 20 were
hart and one killed.
Cotton spinners are short of raw
ial
high price for cotton.
A negro near Yazoo City, Miss.
killed his wife by cutting her throat |
when he found her with another man.
The Louisiana Woman's Suffrage
party has established headquarters !
in New Orleans.
The Negro State Fair, to be held at
New Orleans, promises to be big
success.
Through the influence of President
Wilson bananas have been placed on
the free list.
Kerosene oil applied to the wound
is said to be a sovereign remedy for
bite of the most yenomous snake.
An insane man at Bloomington.
ILL.,. blew up his home with dynamite.
that cost the life OF himself and dauQh- |
ter. His wife escaped.
The smallpox germ hasi been run
to earth by German doctor, and
pure vaccine virus will probably be
the result.
The parcel post has caused the Ex- !
press companies to lose 81 per cent !
of small packages since first of the
year.