Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1922-07-20
Domestic

Two men were shot and killed, and
six other persons, including a girl
were injured in shooting affair al
Bear Swamp, Pa, near the New York
state line recently. The dead are
Charles Wakeman, of Little Mead
ows, Pa, and Fred Tydoni, a foreign
speaking farmer, at whose house the
shooting occurred.
Justice must be done in the cases
of those responsible for the recent
massacre of coal miners at Herrin
ILL.,, regardless of affiliations" If the
United States is to continue as a ma
ton, Assistant Secretary Roosevelt, oil
the navy department, declared in an
address to the Elks' national conven
ton at Atlantic City, N. J.
A dispatch from Saluda, N. c., SAYS
for the first time since 1918 a runa.
way freight train has gone over the
head of the safety track on Saluda
mountain and the engine and several
cars plunged down the mountain side.
c. E. Pennington assistant cashier
of the First National bank of States
vile, N. c., fired bullet through his
head in his home and died As minutes
later. The tragedy followed announ-
cement OF shortage of approximate
ly $4,000 in the accounts Of Cashier
John w. Guy, Sr.
A careful check of the victims of
the cent Missouri Pacific wreck near
Kansas City, reduced the number of
dead from six to four.
Learning that a bevy of merimaids,
headed by Ethelda Bleibtrey and Ada
Taylor champion swimmers, had vol
unteered to go into the life saving
business at Ocean City, N. j., sin the
interest Of humanity" male beach
guards have called off their strike for
more pay.
Two stills in full operation and ten
gallons of beer mash we're captured at
Rome, Ca, when the keen sense of
smell of Jailer Paul Freeman led him
to the prisoners ward on the first
floor of the Floyd county Jail.
Charles l. Stewart publisher of The
Lexington (Ky) Herald, retiring vice
president of the Southern Newspaper
Publishers association at its business
session recently at Asheville, N. c.
Eight children, ranging in age from
IL to Is years, were blown to pieces
at Watertown, N. Y, by the explosion
of a 75-millimeter she'll on the back
porch of house occupied by Edward
G. Workman and William L. Salisbury.
With state troops and United States
deputy marshals on guard in half a
dozen states to avert violence and pre-
vent interference with the movement
Of the mails or interstate commerce,
leaders of the "big four" railroad bro
therhoods and railway executive are
on their way to Chicago to confer on
isues growing out of the shopmen's
strike.
1t is stated in Bloomington, H., that
an effort viii be made to call strike
of the big four hrotherhoods. The
conductors and trainmen have called
meeting, and the engineers and fire
men are planning to meet. A commit
tee is to be sent to Chicago to tell.
President w G. Bierd that the brother
hood men will not work under the pro-
lection Of guardsmen.
The Chicago and Alton railroad
clerks announce that they. will refuse
to work under the protection Of state
troops. Clerks on duty at the Union
station 'and shops at Bloomington, Ill,
say they win quit unless the soldiers
are withdrawn.
Four persons were instantly killed
and~a fifth was probably fatally in
jured when, while returning from q
picnic, they were struck bv an inter
urban car and knocked from a trestle
on which they we're walking, into a
gulley forty feet below at BayyiIlage.
near Cleveland. o