The Jones County news., 1915-02-18
General News.

] Michigan republicans denounced
the recent tariff law.
) There wasan awful hurricane in the
! Samoan Islands last week.
Mems coats this spring viii be
longer and troqsers a tride shorter.
A Waycross, Ga, woman poured oil
into an open fire and was fatally
burned.
Teacher-mothers in New York, dis
missed by the Board, are to get their
Jobs back,
c. C. Penn, of Columbia, La, mis-
took bottle of poison tor whiskey
and died
Many moving picture performers
are killed by falls from balloons,
moter cars and cliffs.
A love affair caused Margaret
Bard well, an IS year old New Orleans
girl to take her own life.
The French Chamber has prohibited
the sale OF absinthe, INDUCED in by
reprobates in New Orleans.
A Quinn Club has been organized
at Lucedale, with L. G. Sellers presi-
dent and p. P Bailey, secretary.
Three comely girls near Hazelhurst.
Ca, declare that man named H
Houston married and deserted them
/ N T. Al.
Mrs. Irma Thomas, of Atlanta, in a
6t of jealous rage, kissed her mother
and sister and then went into her
bedroom and killed herself.
Good middling cotton was selling
on February in Hamburg and Bre-
men at l6 LAC pound, Ambassador
Gerard cabled today from Berlin.
Ordered to vacate the farm on
which he was living, Michigan
farmer killed two brothers, his land
lords, set fire to the house and shot
| himself.
Hunter Raines, the Memphis Bank
President when stole q million dol
lars, was last week carried to At
lanta to serve ten years. term in
the Federal prison.
Types of bread containing bran are
being experimental with in Italy, and
ii Is expected Parliament will be
asked to make use of these ingre-
dlents compulsory should necessity
arise.
A Bill has been introduced in the
Kansas Legislature forbidding wo-
men over As years of age to wear
earrings, or treat their faces with
cosmetics for the purpose of creating
false impression.
The Alabama Supreme Court de-
cides that Lacey, the penitentiarY
CRATER, must serve his ten years in
the penitentiary, If left alone, Gov.
Brewer will add several recruits 10
the Mississippi charm string.
: A horrible story is told about eight
| aged and infirm inmates of the Old
Fellows Home at Yonkers, N. Y. be-
: ing put to death because they were
} old and a nuisance. Several mana.
gers of the Institution smre under ar
= rest.
' When the coroner went to investi.
gate the death of r. A. Hicks, near
: Munroe, La, who was shot and killed
t the dead mans faithful dog would
3 not let any one approach the body,
and it was necessary to get rope
and pull the little animal away.
e The death OF young woman il
r Chicago this week revealed the fac
g that one girl had married another
| girl and they lived together as mar
: and wife for many year. The ''widow'
stated that one of them agreed to pas:
t as a man so as to secure better pa,
: for work.
) All the able-bodie male convicts Of
I, Georgia are at work on the public
a roads. According to the latest re.
: ports received by the National Com
mittee on Prisons and Prison Labor,
. over 5000 prisoners, including both
short and long-term men were worked
I by l24 counties in 1914.
The Alabama Legislature passed
] over the Governors veto, bill pro-
: hibiting the sale of liquor in that
State after June 30, and permitting a
t person to buy and keep only one
quart at time. Newspapers are not
| permitted to publish liquor advertis-
ments, or papers Sold in that State
/ and published elsewhere carrying
j.. such notices.