The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1914-07-17
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STATE BRIEFS


Ackerman.-A good rain fell here,
and it will result in thousand Of dol
to the farmers in this vicinity.
MISUNDERSTANDING showers fell in
this city and vicinity, which will be
helpful to vegetation of all kinds, as
well as cooling the atmosphere.
Clarksdale.-Hanp Cheek, the negro
desperate who shot and wounded
Deputy Sheriff eagle of Dublin, is still
at large, no definite clew having yet
been obtained as to his whereabouts.
Aberdeen.-Judge Claude Clayton
has ordered a special term Of court
and set the date for Monday, Aug. 3,
to try Ezell Heard, the negro who shot
and killed w. o. Cox, near Gibson
Miss.
Kosciusko.-Prof. G.. F. Boyd, for
the past 20 years superintendent Of
the Kosciusko High School, has ton
dered his resignation to the board Of
trustees, which was reluctantly ac-
cepted.
Enterprise.-This county is suffering
the longest drouth in the history Of
the county. There will scarcely he
49,. Ia $50, r,,1, .rl r.-1C-. tho
farmers have a rain within a few days
very little corn at all will be made.
Marks.-The trestle approach to the
Y. x NJ. v. railroad bridge which
crosses Coldwater river, two miles
north Of this city, was badly damaged.
as were several cars loaded with heavy
timbers, in a wreck which occurred
there.
Iuka.-Rev. j. W. Hiett, Il leading
minister and business man If luka,
suffered a serious accident. He owns
and operates a blacksmith and pillow
factory here. and while engaged about
his machinery was caught in a belt
and nearly killed.
Natchez. 49, Chancellor Cutrer, has
suggested that the matter Of accepting
the compromise offered by Sim +.
Lowenburg, vice-president and mem
Der Of the loan committee Of the de-
funct First Natchez bank, be submit
teo to the depositors.
Meridian.-The new officers of the
Meridian board Of trade having been
publicly installed at a magnificent ban
ouet of the organization, assumed con
troll of the destin-es and work with the
exception of President X. Threefoot,
who Is travelling in Germany.
Wesson.-A large number Of people
gathered at the Reeves Chapel GENE
terry. some 20 miles northwest Of here,
, to attend the funeral and interment OF
g. Miss Sarah Holiday, aged is, and her
first cousin, Miss Maud Beaufait, aged
IA, who were drowned near the Holli
I day home.
| Ripley.-Circuit court, which is II
session here, has had a busy week
The court was convened by Judge II
X. Mahon, who delivered an ablt
charge to the grand jury, Of which
+ A. n. Clayton was made foreman. Dis
trict Attorney Rush Knox was at hi!
( post of duty and dispatching bushes.
S in his usual prompt and businesslik'
way.
Jackson. - Among other propose
constitutional amendments to be sui
l. mitted to the qualified electors of Mis-
n sissippi on November election day, t
Il add to the oyerlong strins of thes
o measures to accompany it, is the Mot
II resolution. which was adopted, Pre-
posing to adopt the system OF initi'
n tive and referendum in the p~olitlea
and legislative economy Of the state
Jackson.-Sheriff Jones, Of Jaspe
e County, with an armed guard OF
e. deputies, reached here, having in Gu
n tody Nose Johnson. the negro higl
/ wayman who killed Reese Fitzpatric
g and wounded two others Sheri
Jones slipped out of Bay Springs wit
d his prisoner after outstanding an al
s. night siege by a mob bent on lynchin
Vt the prisoner. Johnson was placed
f. the Kinds County Jail for safe kee
% ing.
Hazlehurst.-One negro is dead al