The Jones County news. (Ellisville, Miss.) 1909-1924, 1913-10-02

stop a runaway horse to save 800
children.
A Baptist preacher at Bentonville,
Ark, Is jailed for pa ssing worthless
checks.
A l0-year-old boy near Loekharb
Texas, picked 403 pounds of cotton in
one day.
A l5-pound cat was caught in Iowa,
and leather p cket-book found IN
the fish,
Eleven families in Asbury, n. G.,
boats l69 children, an average oil 10
Al TO a family.
A Boston couple will spend their
HONEYMOON by taking an airship
voyage around the world.
A French engineer declares the
Panama canal too narrow, and says
it will have to he changed.
fireman ia Kansas was killed in
his locomotive cab while the train
was running at full speed
A Judge in New Mexico sentenced
man who killed his sweetheart TO the
penitentiary for $50 years.
A Pole in Minnesota, charged with
assaulting four-year- child, mar
rowly escaped being ynehed
Two conviets in New Jersey killed
their guard, but we're wounded and
recaptured after an attempt to escape
An English lady died within twenty
minutes after being stung by wasp
on her jugular vein.
Connecticut man was stripped
and thrown into patch of poison
ivy and died from his injuries.
A New York farmer is in serious
condition from being stung In the
stomach by bee he had swallowed.
An Ohio baby was found to have
six fingers on each hand, out the
extra digits we're cut off by doctor a
few hours after birth.
The Tennessee lie legislature has pass
ed a bill which will truly dry up thae
State and put an end to the open sale
of liquor.
In moving an old log cabin IN
Colorado, some workmen found d
rusty coffee pot containing Sl,Ooo IN
gold nuggets
A legless man in Virginia climbed
n tree 10 escape mad-bull. lie uses
lai ge shoes strapped to the stump OF
his limbs. '---- -'--r---
A woman IS years old is held at
Laporte, Ind, for arson, it being
charged that she set her sons barn
on fire.
st. Mary's Parish and iberia, La.
we're hit last Friday by cyclone
that overturned houses and did great
damage.
A pond was cut near Townsville,
Ca, and 10000 pounds of fish taken
from it. Trout weighing Is pounds
were caught.
In South Dakota, little child was
picked up by a corn binder elevator
and tied up in a bundle of fodder, all
without being hurt at all.
fSAt the court just adjourned at Gulf
port, Miss, twelve we're sentenced to
the penitentiary, and the county re-
ceived 81, 200 as a result of fines.
An ex-slave aged lis years, is lv-
ing in a little cabin near b angor,
sleep and soup, For 80 years he has
worn the same suit.
A wedding ring that young couple
lost five years ago, while boating on
a lake in Massachusetts, was last
week recovered, being found around
frog boy had killed.
The late Governor Gaynor, of New
York, left an estate of $1,000, 900, but
left his two daughters only 81, 900
each, and who had married men
against his protest
A Biloxi man has invent ed a hay |
drying machine that works to per-
fiction and supplies long felt want
among farmers. The government is
investigating same.
The London Standard hints that
English capitalists will back the
government OF Columbia to build
rival canal to the Panama, and which
can be done by utilizing two rivers.
Gabe f. Parker, Choctaw Indian
of Oklahoma, has been sworn in as
Register of the Treasury, and his
name will appear on currency. This
is the Job Senator Gore tried to give
to one of his negro pets.
A long-standing dispute at Hatties-
burg between McInnis Lumber Co.
and certain landowners, eliminated
last week by an obstruction being
placed across the railroad tracks, and
which came near wrecking train.
A race war is on in the city OF
Baltimore over the action of its coun-
Gil passing an ordinance segregating /
the races-that is, requiring negroes
to remain in section of the city set I
aside for them. Several parties have {
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