Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1918-08-30
FROM ALL PARTS
OF MISSISSIPPI
Reports of Interesting
Events Boiled Down
for Hasty Perusal

have occurred between Joe WnIIseA
and E. L. Marshall. Whitsel was
stabbed to death. .
Meridian.-Marion ". Kelley OF this
city, formerly of Natchez and a CAM
didate for governor at the last ele"
ton, announced his decision to again
enter the gubernatorial contest.
Chalybeate.-John Smith, a farmer
residing south Of here, was accidental
iy killed when the charge from a shot-
gun entered his body as he stumbled
and fell while endeavoring to kill an
owl.
Durant.--The executive committees
Of Durant Chapter, American Red
Cross met and planned to wage an IN.
tensive campaign at once for war
work. The Junior Red Cross is to boz
revived when school opens Sept 2.
Eupora.-Miss Utel Grow was killed
almost instantly near here when a.
spirited team Of young mules being
driven by her brother took fright,
throwing Miss Crow to the grounds
Her skull was crushed and her shoul4
der bone broken BY the impact. !;
Amory.-Three or four boys were,
playing around an old gasoline tank
here which had not been used for four
years, and dropped a lighted match In
the pipe at the top, causing an explo-
sion which alarmed the town. One Of
the boys, Ben Cowley, was thrown sew
eral feet in the air and received PAIN
ful bruises.
Meridian.-Mattie Burlington, the
6-yearold daughter of W. E. Buffing-
ton, was RUIZ over and instantly killed
by an automobile. The motor car was
driven by Frank Hall, a negro taxi
driver. It Is said that the child tried
to cross the street in front of the car,
which did not have time to stop. Hall
was arrested.
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Meridian.-H. L. J. Barnes, state d.
rector of the United States employ!
ment service, was arrested on a grand
fury indictment charging embezzle.
ment Of funds Of the Citizens National
Bank, where he was employed prior
to hts appointment to his present po-'
sition- The amount charged in the in1
dictment aggregates 5000. Mr.. Barnes
was Immediately released under 81, 900
bond.
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Meridian.-Will Curry and Harry
Tew were instantly killed and DR.. j.
N. Tucker seriously wounded and bud.
ley McNair slightly injured here when
DR.. fuckers car. in which they wereI
riding and which was being driven byi
the latter, was wrecked when 1t struck
q concrete abutment Of the overhead
bridge Of the Meridian & Memphis
Railroad crossing the Arundel Springs
road west of the city limits. The party
was returning with DR.. Tucker from
a Fde on the Arundel Springs road. In
rounding a sharp curve where the
road ran underneath the railroad,
bridge, Dr.. Tucker, who was driving
appears to have misjudged the dis
lance in attempting to clear the abut-
ment, and the car crashed into IT,
smashing It.
Columbus.-Frank D. Ellis, who
commands the First brigade Of the,
Mississippi Division, Sons of Confed.
crate Veterans, has named the brigade
and sponsorial staffs for the annual
reunion of the United Confederate Vet
Grams and Sons of Veterans which Isl
to be held at Tulsa, Okla, Sept. 24-27:r
Brigade Staff-Adjutant general and
chief Of staff, T. w. Lewis, Jr., Colum-i
bus; bridage commisariat, James
Mitchell, Bonneville; brigade quarter
master, DR.. P. I. Berry, Columbus;
brigade Judge advocate, James A. Gun
bingham. Bonneville: brigade chap
lain, Rev. E. Lucien Malone, Column
bus; brigade surgeon. DR.. T. H. Hen
dy, Columbus. Sponsorial Staff
Sponsor, Miss Louise Evans, Column
bus; maid of honor, Miss Pauline Wal.
ton, Bonneville; matron of honor, Mrs.
Thomas McHenry, Macon; matron OF
honor, Mrs. Frank D. Ellis, Columbus.
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Jackson.-There was paid into the
Merchants Bank and Trust COMPANY.
vaults In jackson last week $37, 500 be-
ing the amount Of settlement with tho
attorney general Of Mississippi on &C.
count Of the Refuge Cotton OH Conn.,
pany, being It's share In the antitrust
litigation harvest which Is being reap
ed gradually. The money wal brought
from Vtcksburg by Attorneys Dent ana
Landau, representing the Refuge co.,
ton OIL Company, in an automobile
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Wcksburg.-As a result OF an auts-
mobile accident which occurred seven
miles east Of this city on the state
highway, G. H. Vaughan, a prominent
citizen Of jackson, and VIII Trippett
and Robert Henry, both negroes, we're
seriously injured when the large tour
Ing car IN which they were riding top
pied ov r an emhankment vo,L.-