The Jones County news. (Ellisville, Miss.) 1909-1924, 1913-09-18
State and General News~
>Reduced to PARAGRAPHS
New. Interest Taken From Telegraph and News Paper.

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A yellow Jackets nest was found in
/ Georgia 10 feet in diameter
/ A German air ship cut through a
crowd OF spectators and decapitated
4 four persons.
/ A Wisconsin boy OF Is years is s.
ieet2 inches tall. He suddenly went
insane.
An Atlanta policeman has been
suspended for kissing young girl in
the park.
Nersie Benjamin, negro youth of
! Brookhaven, Miss, was given life
sentence for numbering negro wo-
man.
An Illinois man was locked in
! hot box for 1870 hours without food
or water and was nearly dead when
taken out.
The experts of the Department of
/ Agriculture in Washington say that
bats are a benefit rather than a
plague.
Hundreds of gallons of whiskey,
seized from blind tigers, were poured
out in the streets of Jackson, Miss,
last week.
A bill has been introduced in Con-
gress to increase the meat supply by
making it against the law to kill .
calf.
At Lexington, Ohio, troops had to
be called out to prevent assault on
preacher who attacked the Catholic
church.
The Oregon boy, who was sentenced
to death for killing his sweetheart,
had his sentence committed to life inn
prisopment.
A Michigan man makes 81 200
year by breeding worms for fish-bait
in pots and pans. An Indian gave
him the idea.
A woman welded a Titanic survivor
who came off in the same boat with
her while her husband stayed with the
ship ard went down.
A tunnel is to be built under the
Channel between France and England,
and engineers predict that it will be
completed in five years
Delaware undertaken was em-
balming a corpse, when said CORPSE
sat up and asked what they we're try
ing 20 do with him.
Breeding pure poultry is a money
making business. Last week a For
rest county farmer sold 1S Bar red
Rock pullets for Si8.
An Oklahoma fair manager barred
from contest all babies not raised
on the farm, as he says farm-raised
| babies are better
The Priest in New York who mur-
dered and aforementioned that young
girl may be insane His church de
nounees him as monster.
The graves of those heroes In New
Orleans who gave their lives to crush
carpet beggers and put down negro
rule, were decorated Monday.
Attorney General Collins, of Missis
sippi, brands the Gospel Army" as
a fraud, and 1t was gotten up for the
benefit of its members.
A blind beggar in Chicago was ar
rest I'd and it was found that he had
saved up 1886, 0C0, besides the hand
some home he lived in.
Samuel Yearbrough, a prominent
farmer near Greensburg, La, was
instantly killed by the accidental dis
charge of his nephew's gun.
The currency bill may be passed
this week. The members are fatigued,
and the House may vote vacation
after passage of the currency bill.
At Washington, La, tombstone
toppled over and seriously injured
little girl, whose mother was placing
flowers on the grave OF a relative.
! An Arkansas negro went to the
electric chair smiling, and boosted
that he was proud to be the first per-
son to meet death in that manner in
his State.
Two missing boys 10 Nevada were
found dead in field, locked in each
others arms. One gave his life try
ing TO save the other.
Mayor Gaynor, of New York, died
suddenly last Thursday, on board OF
ship, yhile en- route to Europe. His
death is attributed to the old wound
made by that would-be assassin.
One negro was killed and another
mortally wounded by a Cairo. III.
mob, because they fred on a merchant
who would not accept raised bill. We
thought lynch law was confined to the
"barbarous South .
The Mississippi Woman's COLLEGE.
of Hattiesburg, with an enrolment
largely in excess of last year held its
opening exercises in the Emmanuel
Baptist Church, September II.
In q fight between United States
soldiers and Mexican smugglers at
Carrie Springs, one Mexican was
killed, six Mexicans wounded and