The Jones County news. (Ellisville, Miss.) 1909-1924, 1913-10-30

rbitV w tuiN NAlblu0iS.
A New York man lived for more
than a year.with broken neck.
Pixies Peak is said to be thirty
five feet lower than formerly.
A turtle weighing 2s5 pounds was
caught near Pass Christian, Miss.
1t was stated that a woman may be
elected chief OF tide Chicago police.
President Wilson designated Thurs
day, Nov. 20, as Thanksgiving Day.
A Green county farmer killed
rattlesnake six feet long and with ID
rattles-
A lo-year-old girl in Chicago cried
herself to death over her sisters
marriage.
Mrs. A. l.. Wordsworth, Of Hatties-
burg, was badly injured by falling
sign.
A New Orleans negro fell IA TO-
foot chimney and was but slightly
hurt.
A Missouri boy drank quart OF
whiskey on bet aud will probably
die.
Nine persons were killed by the
tornado that swept over Louis ana
last week.
A caddy in New Orleans sues for
Sll eco damage because a golf bali
put out his eve.
Last week fire destroyed the girls
dormitory of the Lamar A. b. 5. at
Puryis, Miss.
The Meridian Fair was great
success. The attendance of the week
was near 100000
a lad near Biloxi, Miss, killed an
eagle measuring feet inches from
tip to tip of wing.
A Chicago preacher confesses that
he is the husbaRdspf four living wives,
and was never divorced.
Fright caused Minnesota man to
GO into trace from which he did not
recover in twelve days.
A California man, on wager, ate
four large pumpkin pies in nine
minutes, but still lives.
An Ohio preacher is sueing his wife
for divorce because she corrected
him with rolling Lin.
MaIcosn Bounds. he mail carrier Of
Newton, Miss, who was snot BY a
negro, died from his wounds.
Plans for a bloody anti-Jewish
outbreak were said to haue been
laid in many parts of Russia.
At Hartford, Conn, one woman
died from eating chestnuts and
several persons are seriously sick.
Near Homer, La, r. ID. Kirkpat-
rick, u young man, was mistaken for
duck and seriously shot Ia the head.
A Delaware man opened an oyster
and found on the inside OF the bivalve
a live hsh that measured 4 IL inches.
The Southern Rice Growers Assoc
citation estimated the damage to the
crop in Louisian ana Texas at 80
per cent
The skeleton Of a negro was found
in the swamp near Gulfport, and the
sheriff is hunting negroes suspected !
of the murder.
BY big majority, Kinds county, |
Miss, voted against issuing bonds to
build an Agricultural high school at
Raymond.
All indications point to high prices
for corn this winter 1t would not be
at all surprising if the price reached
SI.25 per bushel.
1t was learned bills for permanent
investigating body are to be placed /
before the Mississippi Legislature at
it regular session.
A magistrate in New Orleans took /
the word Of a negro accused Of crime
in preference to white men, and the
people are indignant.
The Federal government will aid
Mississippi ia the movement foi q
highway from Corinth to the Gulf and |
from Meridian to Vicksburg.
At York, New, $l3, OC0 school
the women donating all the eggs their
hens laid on Sundays.
A little child ia Chicago was drown
ed in wash bowl. The mother left
the infant beside the basin while she /
went to answer a door bell.
The Episcopal convention in New
York concluded its sessions without
recommending the use OF grape /
juice in the communion chalice.
Sixty OF the 10 counties in Missis
sippi have appropriated money,
through the boards of supervisors, to
help defray expenses of health cam
paigns.
Statistics show that the average
income of farmers in this country is
S79I and the average wealth Is 50, 1888.
The average yield of crops is So, $780,