The Jones County news., 1913-08-07
State and General News~
~Reduced to Paragraphs
New. Interest Taken From Telegraph D.pahe. and New. Paper.

Last saturday 10 We're kliibu IN |
mine explosion near Town City, Pa.
Russia may declare the Baptists a
specially harmful set TO the State
Last Friday the first bale OF new
Alabama cotton sold for IS cents.
A woman In New York took scis-
sors and cut of her tongue and nose.
Al Springfield, H., druggist was
killed by having tooth pulled.
A grandson OF Gen Grant seeks
divorce from his wife.
A man in st Louis died from blood
poison after having a tooth pulled.
$4,000, 900 worth OF germs were
worn at a Newport, Il. l., ball,
In Pennsylvania, lightning killed
man 1900 feet underground in a mine.
The Southern sweet potatoe crop
last year was worth thirty-four MILF
on dollars.
Meridian has gone back on its
blue laws. The ministers asked they
not be'enforced.
A colony OF Belgian farmers will
settle tract Of |, 100 acres in Jack
son and Harrison counties, Miss.
The Democrats won victory last
week In the election OF a Congressman
In New Jersey.
The dipping vat at Collins was
finished Saturday and farmers be-
gan TO dip their cattle.
In Ottsville, Pa, house had TO be
torn down to get the coffin of 300
pound corpse out
An armless girl in Chicago used
her foot cast ballot in the cleo
tion last week.
In Illinois "a woman was tried by
Jury OF women and promptly con
victed.
A pair OF heeting lovers in New |
York, pursued by an irate wife suici- |
ed In the Park.
The committee asks for $40 600 TO |
complete the probe OF corruption Nv
Mississippi puplic institutions.
An effort is being made to have
President Wilson present at the last
day ef the Mississippi fair
The latest penitentiary disclosure
is that car load OF hogs were sold
and the State never received a penny.
In Prairie county, Ark, 9. 2.
Davis and son in-law were killed out
right and his daughter severely in
jured by lightning flash.
Four persons we're killed Sunday in
a row that grew out of primary |
election held Saturday in Owens |
county, KY.
The bill to separate whites and |
blacks In the streets cars in Washing
ton City will be favorabIy reported
by the committee.
w. Il. Jones, proprietor of a pool
room at Hattiesburg, was taken ~ |
the hospital because of a knife |
wound inflicted by RED" Everett.
The demonstration agent in Forrest |
county, Miss, says the cotton yield |
will be Increased 500 bales on account /
of the fight against the boil weevil. |
Mrs. Sylvia Hawkins, near Gaines |
Vile, Ga. charged with instig ating |
the killing of her husband, was |
sentenced to life imprisonment.
Mrs. G. G. Beaumont of Hatties- |
burg, was found guilty of keeping u |
The woman was sentenced thirty days |
in jail.
Last Friday night negro attacked
the sleeping household of George
Redheld, near Carlo, Ca, with an
axe. Two members are expected 10
die and six are seriously wounded.
A little child in Poukghkeepsie,
N. Y, was found playing with q
large rattlesnake, which it pulled ont
OF a hole IN the rocks. The snake
coiled around the child's arm but did
not attempt to bite heN
Neighbors OF Col. BRYAN In Ne
hraska says he Is big rich, and his
plea that he cannot live on Sl2 900 a
year has seriously injured his popu-
iarity.
Hardy Rawles was killed and two
other men wounded near Cairo, Ga.
The men we're hunting negro MUIR
derer and mistook each other in the
dark. After the shooting the two
two parties found their mistake.
At Dothan, Ala, a young man at
tended a negro church and smoked
One of the members politely APP
preached him and asked that he not
smoke during religious service The
young man waited until after preach
ing when he shot and killed the negro
who had approached him. The murd-
er made his escape.
England, Germany and Russia
decline TO make exhibits at the San
Francisco Exposition, Ii looks like
that show will be q stupendous
failure England don't relish our
reputation of the treaty about the
Panama Canal Ambassador HAYES