The Jones County news., 1913-07-31

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The oil trust paid a half million for
The privilege Of staying in Texas.
The cotton crop this month nov
shows slight improvement.
One girl near Valdesta, Ga this
season has put up 1900 cans OF fruit.
An Oklahoma farmer Is held for
numbering a woman and her two
children.
President Wilson will oppose any
adjournment Of Congress until the
currency bill Is enacted.
A beautiful I1-year-old girl 10 New
Orleans was last Sunday run over and
killed by moter car,
At Louisville, Miss, Daniel Nc
Mlllin, n negro preacher, must serve
n life sentence for poisoning his wife
DR.. J. w. MacGruder, professor
IN the Mississippi A. & M. College,
died from old age.
In Huntsville, Tenn, Elliott Cook
Is dead and his wife dying from a
strange poison caused from milk.
Grenada county, Miss, proposed to
build watts and resume the fight on the
cattle tick.
The Kinds county grand jury com
pared the management of the insane
hospital TO a grabbing.
In Louisiana, a train hit the crow
bar on the shoulder of negro,
breaking his neck.
Near New Albany, Miss, freight
train vent into the Tallahatchie
river The crew was saved.
Gatum Lake rises three inches each
day, and the canal will have attained
50 feet above sea levil by Dec. l.
Chas. Hayne, q negro, was killed
on the wagon OF w. r. Best, near
Richton, while loading logs.
rhe moanest man lives in New
York State. He tried to sell his wife's
grave, but the court restrained him.
A Greek In Savannah, Ga, died
from the effects OF a wound made by
the hat pin OF woman. Blood
poison ensued.
The negro who killed Mr.. and Mrs
Newell, OF Brandon, Miss, in their
potatoe patch, about three weeks ago,
has been sentenced to be hanged.
An Italian claims the discovery Of
perpetual motion; the basic principle
is the contraction and expansion Of
gas. ss
A four year-old boy In Pennsylvania
built fire under his baby sisters
carriage and burned the child TO
death. ~
2 KacTeT wTS1re-- wyTffavtawsrury, sues
the NORTHEASTERN rail road for $50,
900 on account of the death of her
minor son Dudley.
At New Albany, Miss, a boy named
Milton Guthrie, tripped on vine In
trying TO board a train and was |
billed.
At Dunbar, Ca, a negro was swung
up and his body riddled with bullets. |
lie was suspected of robbing a store
md shooting the owner.
An enraged wife in Smithneld, Pa,
severely dashed her husband and u |
ioung girl whom she found in the
bark together.
Leon Pounds and Eugene Rankin,
wo farmers, were killed by a bolt of |
lightning in the road near Columbia,
Miss.
AT Aberdeen, Miss, p. Cooper shot
and killed u negro who assaulted him
while the white man was going through |
/ disreputable negro report.
Mrs. A. f. leigel, of New Orleans,
/ bride of three weeks, is in prison
ellis. Her husband, n police officer,
tent her there for threatening him
With carbolic acid.
At Fort Smith Ark, two prominent
business men, aged 90 and 10 years,
10Th married, are charged with as
aulting girl of IA years. Such
rimes arc getting too common.
The boarding house in Hattiesburg
.ept by Mrs. Beaumont was raided
his week by the police as an immoral
lace, and Mrs. Beaumont landed In
all,
Mrs. August Evans, of New Orleans
hot and killed George w. Riehl,
married man, She said she killed
ar. Riehl because he ruined and tried
D desert her.
IA murderer and three other
prisoners sawed their way free from
he jail at Fayette, Miss, and es-
aped from the second story by . rope
lade from sheets.
In Pennsylvania, bolt of lightning
llteu UP ana uufieu through the
in a rock weighing 200 pounds. II !
lso tore down u house and killed
sveral persons.
Robbers near Bessemer, Ala, !
obbed a negro, alter brutally beat !
* him, and then burned their victim
live by heaping cross ties around 1
i'm and setting them on fire. The
have not been arrested.
The two negroes charged with rap !
IL "a white woman near Waynesboro, )
iss., have been carried to Meridian :
save them from lynohing. The !
dow assaulted by the negroes is As !
,ars of age.
vardeman and Williams are to- L