The Jones County news., 1913-09-11

Richard Brcedlove was killed by a
og-skidder at Lumberton, Miss.
Frank Hail, a 17-year-old boy OF
/ Dothan, Ala, suicided fol love.
He shot himself through the heart.
Japan says She will not mobolize
her army, but deal with the Chinese
situation with a firm hand.
National Commander Daley saws
there shall be no co Tor line drawn in
the army or navy.
Two negroes broke jail, or were
rather helped to gel out, Monday
night, al Meridian.
Last month was so hot in Kansas
that four eggs hatched that we stored
IN a refrigerator.
/ chicago's new directory gives the
I city 2,SoS, 500 people, gain OF 81, 600
in year.
dehorned bull in Ohio killed a
farmer after desperate struggle OF
an hour with the animal
/ A Missouri girl cried herself to
death because her mother went on a
trip without her.
A bullet passed clear through the
head OF a Tennessee man andibe viii
! recover. He must have been a sun
porter of Patterson.
An Oregon Sheriff says he viii re.
sign his office rather than execute a
youth OF Is years, who is sentenced
to death for murder,
At Salem, o., $40, 900 was raised as
fund to endow a hospital by vouny
| girls OF the town selling kisses to any
one who would buy at 81 each.
lightning struck and spoiled the
lal worn by a man ia Arkansas,
slnged his hair and, shaved a spot on
ms mead but the man escaped harm.
The women of Trenton N. j., are
working for the pardon of their aged
| pastor who has been sentenced for
10 years for assault upon his Is year
old ward
a Kansas farmer has produced an
| eyeless Irish potatoe, and which Is
Immune from frost and insect pests
| lhey produce as many as the old
| style tuber
| Government reports show that the
drought aid hot weather have played
havoc with the crop IN. corn-T rowing
! States, and y corn famine IL threaten
ed.
Oscar Tut, of Hattiesburg, gained
| possession Of his first cousin. a girl
of thirteen, who threatened To kill
herself If she had il she had to leave
her aunt.
The InterS State Commerce Commits
sion decides that steamship companies
lnesst give thirty days grace before
putting in effect the ruling about uni
form size for cotton bales.
Georgians are in Mississippi study
ling the boil weeyil situation They
say the pest Will soon be upon them,
having crossed from Mississippi into
Alabama and is now within sixty
miles OF Dawson, Ga.
-Four Mississippi Judges and one
Chancellor are to be investigated be-
fore the legislative committee, to ex-
plain charges of misconduct. 1t is
said one OF the offenders is well
known in Jones county.
William j. Bryan Secretary of
state, on his September lecture tour
will share the "big tent with Jug
giers, magicians, yodlers, brass
bands, character impersonators and
other vaudeville attractions.
| The Duchess OF Roxburg this week
gave birth to boy. The mother
claims that she controlled the sex Of
her child by following the advice OF
her ply stefan, and ate nothing con-
tanning sugar TOR months before the
birth of the infant.
Miss Iva May Terry, of Huntyille,
Ala. after posing for 20 years as a
girl, underwent an oper alton in a
Chicago hospital and is now a per-
feet man, and has been rechristened
Ira M.
Last week eight young negro con
victs were smothered TO death in a
dark cell, built to accommodate four
prisoners, at Houston, Texas. The
negroes yelled all the evening until
death came to their release. II was
veritable Black Hole Of Calcutta.
A destructive storm ragged around
Purvis last Friday, and hail at
large as hen eggs beat down corn
peas and cotton. Several house.
were wrecked and others unroofed
The negro Baptist church was Lifted
on it's pillars and wrecked.
A disastrous fire occurred at Ho
Springs, Ark, Friday night destroy
ing thirty squares OF buildings anC
the loss is estimated at from six to tel
million dollars. The FIRE started In I
l.. 4 II
Among the dwellings destroyed wer'
the water and power plants, cour
: house, two hotels, city high school
, railway station and shons and hun.