The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1916-03-16

OrS at a recent UlocIiu6 pioFAuCu LUZ
the working of the county convicts on
the public roads, and large number
are now out at work.
Natchez.-John DUNCAN, charged
with the killing of James Bigman, near
Red Lick, has been acquitted, He was
given preliminary hearing before Jus.
tice of the Peace ID. r. Dult0n at Fay.
cite.
Meridian. white men, koslyn
Lynch, S. K Owen and Tom Childress,
are in the county JAIL charged with
whipping or beating Sarah Taylor,
negro woman, to such an extent tnat
she died from the inurjies.
acknowledgements is under way to
build new Methodist Church in Bel.
zoni. Rev T. M. Brownlee is heading
the movement. At the first meeting of
the finance committee over $4,000 was
subscribed toward the fund.
Aberdeen.-The Beauford Wilson
case, charging him with the murder
Of Lock L. Lam, was called March 9
in the circuit court and was continued
until the next term, which will con-
vene the first Monday in October.
Greenwood-One of the largest cot
ton sales Of many seasons was consum-
mated here when the head office OF
the Humphreys Cotton Company in
Greenwood purchased from M. p Stur-
divant of Glendora 1,Of4 bales of cot
ton, paying II cents a pound for the
entire lot, the aggregate purchase price
being over $4,000.
Greenwood.--Six people were slight
ly injured when the Yazoo & Missis
sippi Valley train, leaving here at
o'clock for Grenada, was derailei
about two miles north Of Greenwood
on March s. The engine and baggage
car remained on the track, but the
coaches of the train, after rolling down
a 15-foot embankment, were destroyed
by fire.
Boyle.-The board Of aldermen OF
the town of Boyle has adopted the
plans Of the engineer and are now
calling for bids from contractors and
from dealers in water pipes and ny
drants. The town has recently issued
and sold at slightly above par bonds
amounting to the sum of $500, the
money to be used in putting down
six-inch well and about $500 feet OF
pipe. The contracts will be awarded
to the lowest bidders on March 81.
Hattiesburg.-Ge Eubanks, held
as an express and mail pouch rObber.
one Of two men sent here from earl
River county for safekeeping, has es-
capped from the Forrest county jail
here and thus far has eluded his pur-
suers. He had been given the privi-
leges of the third floor OF the Jail
along with other prisoners He made
his way to the attic, where he picked
lock, opened the door to the attic and
by cutting four quilts into strips and
plating them into a rope, he let him
self down 80 feet and fell 10 feet. He
was jailed here Feb. Z charged with
robbing depots of the Gulf & Ship
Island at Lumberton and the North
eastern, at Orvisburg and Hillsdale
Tupelo.-W. B. Threlkald, mer-
chant of SaItillo, has been brought here
and placed in the Lee county Jail to
await preliminary hearing on charges
of numbering J. D. Witt, principal OF
the Saltillo High School. The shoot
ing, according to the officers, took
place as Prof. Witt, who is young and
unmarried, was returning to the school
from luncheon. 1t is said that trouble
resulting from an argument over the
separate school district at Saltillo had
been brewing for some time between
the two men, This was further helped
along when Prof. Witt, the officers de-
clare, administered q whipping to
Threlalds son. Threlkald gave him
self up to the officers, who brought
him here. He would make no state
ment other than that Prof. Witt hao
insulted him.
W;nnna President J. r. Thomas