The Jones County news. (Ellisville, Miss.) 1909-1924, 1913-10-30
State and General News~
>Reduced to PARAGRAPHS
News of Interest Taken From Telegraph Dispatches and News Papers

AocSActdA VI luC treasury w AilAd u
6 McAdoo has issued fat denial TO
reports that he is going to resign
from his position.
An Oklahoma boy was bitten by a
RATHER, when he made tournique of
a pocket handkerchief, walked home
and experienced no bad effects.
Last Saturday, Gov. Brewer made q
speech at the Wessen fair, and stated
that he was not candidate for any
office within the gift of his people.
Mrs. Pankhurst, the female suifra-
gist leader. last Sunday addressed
crowd OF 1900 in New York, and was
enthusiastically applauded.
The Episcopal convention III sessi-
on last week in New York failed TO
agree in its split over allowing
negro Bishop, and adjourned.
Gov. Brewer last Saturday had
narrow escape when thrown by
horse, as he was riding oetwee
cotton rows on the Parchman farm.
Several carloads of whiskey and
beer are awaiting in Nashville, Tenn.
decision from the Federal court on
the new anti-shipping bill passed by
the Tennessee legislature.
VIM. Cook, of Mufreesboro, Tenn,
is in Jail. The bodies OF his wife
and niece were found by him murder
ed in his home, and Cook is suspect
ed of killing them.
Near Macon, Ca, an auto was
driven into wagon, when the wagon
tong ue pierced the radiator and went
through skull of the driver, KILN z
him 1t isn't oten that country
vehicle gets the better of moter car.
Two young white men near Biloxi,
Miss, have been aquitted OF going to
church meeting and Offering the
congregation whiskey, cutting up
clothing ana shearing the tails OF
horses.
Last Friday the Rebels captured
the city of Monterey Mexico, after
terrible battle, in which 1000 men
we're killed, many wounded and
millions of dollars of damage done
by machine guns.
The express companies will revise
and reduce their rates in December,
so as to compete with the parcel
post. On long distances they will
send packages cheaper than Uncle
Sam.
Some $1,000 worth of convict
made bagRing is to be admitted free
inVo this country 1T was made in
England. Anything to defeat the
Ubiquitous baRcing trust, say our
farmers.
] G. King, who says he Is @ mini
ster of Pickens, Miss, is ia Jail at
Jackson, charged with drunkenness.
King says he was arrested to keep
him from delivering sermon in
Collins last Sunday, but admits that
he took several drinks,
Last Saturday near Garyvitle, a.,
train carrying umbermen was
wrecked by a COW and thrown into
ditch. Wagons and heavy vehicles
toppled on them, and six negroes were
teen Others slightly hurt, and eight
white men sprained and bruised.
Dawson, N. M, Oct 24.-Fifty four
bodies had been reco vered to-nigh6
from the chambers OF Stag Canon
mine No. 2, Two deaths had been
added u the mines total, and gov
experts now in charge of the
rescue work concede that 1909 bodies /
still are within the gas filled cham
bers.
Warron Eaton, a negro who made
an insulting remark to a white wo- /
man at Monroe, La, was taken from
the Jail by unidentified parties and :
hanged to a nearby telegraph pole J
Two masked men held up the jailer |
with pistols, but other members OF the |
crowd made no attempt to conceal |
their identity.
Judge Emory Speer lies danger I,
Ously i'll at his summer home at Mt. !
Airy, Ga. His illness was enhanced |
by worry over the impeachment F,
charges pending over him in Con-
gress. Speer is renegade dem
Republicans for Federal Judgship. |
Congressman Clayton's resignation
as the senatorial nominee of Cover |
nor O'Neal of Alabama is likely 10 |
leave unsettled a question of wide |
interest Has governor the right |
under the new amendment to the |
Federal Constitution to fill a sena- |
torial vacancy before the Legisl AZURE |
has specifically authorized him to do
SOP
AT Grays, La, Nick Wilburn, a
farm boy, was convicted |
and sentenced to death for murder |
-ng his employer, James A. King, a |
prominent farmer. From The evidence |
Wilbnrn was intimate with Mrs. |
King, a woman old enough to be his |
mother, and nthe two conspi red to |
murder the husband. She had Will
burn assassinate Gray while be wa
squirrel hunting.