The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1915-07-15

combustion.
Politics in old MARSHALL are on In
earnest. The first "gun' for the local
candidates was fired July at Alvis'
Grove, near Potts Camp, where big
picnic was was held and where the
candidates for the Legislature made
speeches.
Jeems Holloway, a badly wanted
negro, has been captured and is now
held at Meridian on numerous and
sundry petit larceny charges, growing
out of the alleged theft of 224i tons of
coal from Kaye Brothers, at various
times.
In the special election recently helt
to fill the unexpired term OF A. e.
Greene, late superintendent Of educa-
tion Of Oktibbeha county, Prof C. E.
Scroggin won over his three competi-
tors with majority of 46. He is now
making the race for the full term.
Andrew Lowe, prosperous farmer
living nine miles north of Water Val
ley, dropped dead in his field July 8.
He was about 60 years old and leaves
a wife and five children. At about the
same hour r. M. Ritter, farmer,
three miles west, dropped dead at his
home Ritter was SO years old and
leaves a wife and grown som
Suit was filed in the federal court
In Vicksburg by counsel for the Coca
Cola company Of Atlanta against the
Southern Bottling company of'.Vicks-
burg, Miss. setting forth the alleged
bottling company is infringing upon
the rights of the Coca-Cola company
by using the name "Coca-Cola" with
out permission.
The Lamb-Fish Lumber company of
Charleston, which Is said to be the lar
gest hardwood mill in the world, is
loading 200 cars of hardwood, consist
ing of oak and gum, for shipment to
Gulfport, Miss, there to be loaded for
Great Britain. This company estab-
lished a record when 1t shipped in.
April. 1914, 80 cars of redl gum In.
one lot to Alexandria, Egypt, via PEN
sacola, Fla, which up to that time was,
the largest single shipment of red gum
ever sent to foreign country. In.
April, 1915, they established new
record, by exporting to Ganoa, Italy,
via Gulfport, Miss, a solid cargo Of
red gum, which consisted OF sixty cars.
Riddled: with shot and bullets re,
ceived when he had pursued and
caught up, with two men fleeing with
his 144year-old wife, J. c. Davis, %, "a
farmer residing near Shaw, is dead,
and Homer Wilson, so, and his son,
John Wilson, 25. OF Greenwood, Miss,
are being held in the Cleveland county
Jail charged with the shooting. Davis
death is said to be the result of feud9
between the two men which began a,
year ago, when Davis married the TS-
year-old daughter Of Homer Wilson. Att
that time 1t Is said Wilson swore he
would get fhe man who took his baby
girl from him. After being pursued.
more than 35 miles by an armed posse
with broodhounds, headed by Mayor
M. B. Brister, the two men, with their.
captive, the 14-year-old child wife of
Davis, were captured near Holly Ridge
A feature of the late summer sea-
SON at Laurel will be Homecoming
celebration, which will probably be ar
ranged under the auspices of the Lau--
rel Commercial club. 1t is planned to,
have a regular homecoming" week
and to invite all those who have at
any time in the past been residents. OF
Laurel or Jones county to- return and
be the guests of the town.
Dit Seals and Peter Bolen, negroes,
will be publicly executed at Stark
Vile on Aug. 6, under the order passed
by the board of supervisors of Oktib-
beha county. The sheriff has been In
structed to make all necessary ar
rangements for the affair. The negroes
murdered a young negro who was in
the employ of the M. & 0. railroad at
the A. and NJ. College about mile
from the institution, and after MUIR
dering him robbed his person OF $35.
Both were sentenced to hang last De-
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