The Jones County news., 1913-09-25

A SIS, 600 suit has been died by Luz
cius Martin against the Hattieshurg
Foundry and Machine Works for the
loss Of a leg which Was caught aud
crushed in machinery, necessitating
umputation.
A Californian has invented a wire
less photographic instrument which
works only at night and reflects on "A
mirror, il is said, a picture OF every
thing within radius OF several
miles.
The Chicago attorney for the negro
Jack johnson, the black prize fighter
convicted of white slavery, says he
will return 10 America and stand his
trial This black brute met q frigid
reception in France and England.
Gen. Nelson A. Miles is no longer
a Democrat, but announces himself a
candidate for the Republican nomina-
tion for Congress Ia Massachusetts
district. Miles will be remembered
as the military satrap who put Jetier-
son Davis in irons.
Two men are dead at Munroe, La,
as the result of quarrel. They are
Jack W Smith and G w. McCot-
mick Mccormick killed Smith and
was himself killed when he resisted
arrest. Their burials we're made in
the same cemetery.
Col Montgomery says that the
canceliing of the damage suit entered
by the penitentiary Trustees against
Gov. Brewer, aud marking it it's
fed, has not done with his consent,
for he is not satisfied and will enter
another suit, probably for a larger
amount In the near future.
Twenty-four Republicans voted for
the new currency bill and three Demo-
Gratis against it, one being Elder, of
Louisiana. We depend on the Demo
Gratis Of Louisiana to straighten out
their Senators and certain Congress
men at the next election.
The truckers around Newton, Miss.
have promised to plant 400 acres in
cabbage, and even more will be put
in. And yet the farmer around Ellis
Vile will not agree to put in 100 acre S
of strawberries as an experiment.
Those Newton farmers are all pros
pering growing truck.
In passage of the currently bin la st
Saturday, four of our Mississippi
Congressman voted with the Bull
Moosers, viz. Sission, Stephens,
Chandler and Quinn. The entire
Mississippi deleg alton, except Hum
phereys, voted against the clause
promising not TO depart from the
gold standard.
w cd Lanier and his son, u years
old, went out hunting near Vicksburg.
The boy separated from his father
and climbed tree for some muscadi-
mes. The father mistook his son for
a squirrel and fred. The boy fell 20
feet to the ground. His hand was
shot off and he was wounded in the
side, but will recover.
The Attorney General has enioined
physician from demolishing a sana
| torium at Brandon, Miss. that he
has built on sixteenth section. The
lease expiring in 20 years The Al
torney General decides that the sana
torium is in the nature of perma.
nent improvement and belongs to the
State of Mississippi.
In the Diggs and Caminette white
slavery case in San Francisco, Digs
was sentenced to two years in the pen
itentiary and fine of So 900, and Ca
minetti sentenced to Is months and 4
fine of 81, 500. These are the cases
Attorney General McReynods tried
to smoother but President Wilson in
listed on its immediate trial.
One Of the most outrageous crimes
in the history Of Livingston parish,
La, was brought TO light with the
finding Friday morning of the multi
ated body of DR.. August Willis,
former resident of Algiers. The body
was found in swamp three-quarters
of mile from his home, French Set
Element. He was the victim of assas-
sins, who fred no less than three
loads OF buckahOt into his body.