The Jones County news., 1915-02-11
NEWS OF WEEK IN BRIEF


a little girl near Albany, Ca, dieC
from swallowing whistle.
The House voted to adopt the two
battle-ship plan for the navy.
Russia will try the captured Ger,
man bomb-throwers as pirates.
A Cleveland, O., baker killed boy
he caught stealing loaf Of bread.
New Orleans banks will loan money
70 the parishes TO build dipping vass.
A Japanese cruiser was last week
wrecked, but the crew was saved by
American vessels.
Champ Clark was unanimously nom
mated by the Democrats for Speaker
OF the cath Congress.
An Atlanta woman mistook can oi
gasoline for kerosine, and she climb
ed the golden stair.
Total shipments OF cotton from New
Orleans last week broke all records,
amounting to 5S5, ,o32 bales.
1t is now general prediction that
the European war will end this year,
and perhaps the coming summer.
A young girl at Shreveport, La,
was attacked in her room, choked and
chloroformed. Her assailsnt made
good his escape.
Col Bryan has come out strong for
female suffrang and says votes for
women il sure TO come. He also raps
the liquor question.
German influence, IL ia belived, may
keep Italy from joining the allies; but
Greece and Bulgaria are getting arm
cd, to fight Austria.
Owing 10 the lswless condition of
OF Mexico, foreign dipolmats theaten
TO get out Of that God-forsaken and
hell-begotten country.
The immigration bill with illiteracy
test, failed to pass over the Presi-
dents veto, the vote being 239 to lao,
II reqniring a two-thirds vote.
The body of man who last week
died in New Orleans was recognized
a. Philadelphia lawyer who stole
his clients money and ran off.
Fifty-two indictments have been re-
turned at Brunswick, N ], charging
murder, against the deputies who fired
on and shot, dpwn the strikers.
The GoveSYbr OF Alabama has stop
ped the ptHof the Legislators until
they strafghten out the States busi-
ness. They are down to work.
In Buffalo, N Y. the skulls of three
sleepiye women were crushed with a
A former boarder is
believed 70 have done the killing.
Owing to his Ill health, DR. Len G
Broughton, famous Baptist minis
ter, will resign pastorate oihis church
in London and return to Atlanta.
Near Augusta, Ga, DR. A N Culber-
son, prominent young physician,
was shot and killed by posse. He
had assaulted farmers daughter.
Our shipping is exercised over a |
notice from Germany that after Feb.
10th, vessels will be imperiled to ap-
proach the English or French coasts.
One French family has lost seven
sons In the war. 1t is said that one
fourth the entire fighting force of the
French has already been killed, woun-
ded or captured.
Many Belgians are starving rather
than accept aid from the Germans.
Their only food is that sent from the
yntted States and what the soldiers
share with them.
! The whipping Of a pupil at Melrose,
Vla., resulted in a fight in which VIM
Yates, the teacher, was shot and kill
I'd Claude Holtzendorf, father of the
pupil, was fatally wounded.
At Brunswick, Ca, Virgil Fl Davis
yas acquitted on last Thursday of
lis wife. Last October the woman
ras found with her skull crushed and
or husband was arrested in New Or
cans and brought back.
In Augusta, Ca, last week, there
as a desperate fight between seven
ons and three leopards, and one of
leopards was killed before the an
lals could be got back in the cages
ON which they had broken out.
In one little skirmish in strip OF
pods in Russia 10000 men we're kill
The Russians kept feeding men
10 a dense thicket until they drove
Austrians into the open, when the
ssian guns exterminated them.
N employe of candy factory in
" Orleans has sued the company
the loss of his finger. He charges
girls at work in the room make
goo eyes at the men, and as the
hit has helper was inattentive to
duties.
Marshall, Tex, a ledturer on
Event Iife.n in which he attacked (