The Jones County news. (Ellisville, Miss.) 1909-1924, 1913-09-18

There has been one death from bu-
bonic plague at Martinez, Cal, but
the disease is not spreading The
Government has appropriated $40, coo
to keep the plague in cneck
This years cotton crop will bring
millions 10 the South, as the demand
is greater than the supply. Every
thing points to very high price for
the staple.
The Grand Army of the Republic
held a reunion this week atChatianoo-
ga, and the ola boys had royal
time. The old Confeds treated them
to the best they had.
c. L. Pringle Newton, Miss.
was badly hurt by oeing struck with
a large piece of lumber, that had
caught In the saw and was hurled 20
feet, striking him on the breast
In Minnesota, little 3-year-old
child that had been lost for four days,
was found under brush pile. 1t had
lived on dirt and grass, and when
found was crying for its mother.
The conferees are getting along
fine on the tariff bill. The demo
Gratis are solid on he currency bill,
and all amendments proposed by
Republicans meet a chorus of "Noes".
Two men are dead and four serious
ly injured as result of boiler ex-
plosion at Forrest, Miss. The ex-
plosion was caused 10y a high pres
sure OF steam and low stage Of
water.
Congressman Witherspoon, of
Mississippi, is against asset currency,
He says it is a return TO the age of
barbarism. Mr.. Witherspoou took
the lead to give farmers square
deal.
That postal employees counvied
at the theft of the 1926, 600 pearl
necklace which mysteriously disap.
peared July l6 between Paris and
London was established by evidence
presented at hearing.
young girl at Shreveport, La.
saw a black head at the foot of her
bed and screamed, when a Big black
negro, sitting there, fec. The police
followed the tracks through the mud
dy streets and arrested the scoundrel.
Thousands of children employees I'M
der l6 years in manufacturing estab-
lishments in Massachusetts have been
thrown out of work by the operation
of a new State law which prohibits
the employment of any child in a
workshop.
A farmer near Meridian has sued
the M. & M. Railroad for $3.50,
chargi. < that he sold the company a
right-of-way through his land, that
the cattle guards were not build ac-
cording to agreement and as a result
his crops we're damaged.
On Monday, at Memphis, ID. Il.
Baxter murdered his wife, her father
and brother He went To the dooi
and demanded to see his wife who
had left him, when he shot down the
three. Baxter made his escape after
the shooting.
A Birmingham, Ala, negro, re-
leased last week from the penitenti-
airy, found himself rich. Before be-
ing tried he had invested couple Of
hundred dollars in real estate in that
city. and which is now worth between
twenty and thirty thousand dollars.
Federal officers arrested at Blue
Ridge, Ga, John Wright, who killed
man for reporting his moonshine
still, aud when the assissain tried to
beat the wife of he struck and killed
with his gun one-year-old child the
woman held in her arms.
Seven prominent residents, veal
thy woman and an aged Methodist
preacher, are held in Jail at Summer
vile, Ca, without bond, because of
their efforts to settle out OF court ugly
charges of rape and seduction against
two OF their number.
A Southern Express ear was rob
bed OF 81, 900 while in transit from
New York to Savannah, Ca, banks.
The safe was found intact, but the
packages had been riIled when safe
reached its destination. The Ex-
press company is the loser.
Around Huntsville and Scottsboro,
Ala, violence = is still practiced
against the tick law. A mob remov-
ed a quantity OF arsenic from a vat
and put it into the well OF ore OF the
promoters of the dipping law. The
presence Of the poison was found be-
fore any one drank the water.
J. w. Fox has recently sold from
his farm near Starkyille, Miss, so
registered Herefords for SIS, 5000.
These cattle were grown under Mis-
sissippi farm conditions without
extra forcing. or the number 80 were
yearlings. The average price was
SAP
The wife of moonshiner, whose
husband had been run of by the re-
venue officers, walked with a baby
in her arms and 3-year-old daught-
er beside her, from Knoxville, Tenn,
to find her old father, who she went
to for help, also in trouble for moon
shining.