Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1922-07-06
Domestic


which was reported burning off Ven
tura, Cal, was being made by the
steamer Humboldt.
Nine dead and ten injured was the
toll of dynamite explosion that
wrecked the Holston Quarry COM
pany's quarries at Strawberry Plains,
sixteen miles from Knoxville, Tenne.
The cost Of breakfasting on dining
cars, operated on trains of the South
ern Pacific company has dropped five
cents, according to the new bill of fare
the company has issued clipping the
tariff on ham and eggs from 65 to 60
cents.
Several hundred passengers en-
route on the steamer Providence from
New York to New England points
werearoused from sleep as the ship
crashed upon the rocks at Dumplings
on the jamestown shore, crushing in
| her bow. No one was injured.
Herbert R. Rothery, So, who, police
say, is known as the "dean of diamond
and jewelry thieves" in the United
States and England, is under arrest
at st. Louis, Mo-, and has admitted
his identity, according to the police.
conservative jazz" will the popu.
lar motif in mems clothing for next
year,-this is the edict of the Inter
national Association of Clothes De-
sgners, in convention at Philadelphia
io1- Af fho
executive committee of the Interna-
tional Harvester company, announces
his intention to suie for libel every
newspaper which published the report
nat he purchased gland of another
man to be grated into his own body
Louisville, KY, authorities were at
tempting to pick up the trail of band
of liquor bandits which made prison
er four guards at the Rugsby distillery
and carried away lat cases of whiskey
from the Free Warehouse of the plant.
A child's quarrel ended fatally at
Kansas City, Mo-, when Frank Cara
musa, 9 years old, was shot with a
rifle by George Hurlbert, also Q.
German marks are quoted in New
York at the lowest level in their his
tory-.027 or the equivalent of 100
marks for less than q cents
The North Carolina Bar association
held it's annual convention at Wrights-
vile.
Important changes in the state quar-
antine order to safeguard cotton and
alfalfa fields in California from infes-
tation by the cotton boil weevil, the
pink boil worm and the alfalfa wee
vii is being planned by the California
horticultural commissioners.
A large pile of lumber toppled over
G. w. Parker, IS, at Tampa, Fla. and
killed him.
Morris Shinderman, Chicago dia-
mond broker recently reported to the
police that he had been robbed of $685.
600 in diamonds and jewelry while en-
Louis,
The formation of legislative conn
ellis, centralizing thep over of the
various women's organizations of ev.
cry state, was discussed at the biennial
convention of the general Federation
of Women's clubs at Chautauqua, N. Y.
County authorities continued their
effort to unravel the mystery of the
death of Benjamin Chambless, Sam.
son, Ala, planter whose bullet-riddled
body was found in Pea river recently
Governor Hyde, of Missouri, has tel
egraphed President Harding urging
him to accept the invitation of the
Jefferson City, Mo-, chamber of com.
merce to inspect the Mississippi river
from Jefferson City, Mo-, to New Or.
leans and study its transportation and
flood control
Mrs. Ben G. Hopper, of Oshkosh
president of the Wisconsin League Of
Women Voters, as the democratic nom
inee will lead the Democrats of Wis
sonsin into the state elections.
A special grand jury on July 10 will
begin investigating the massacre OF
non-union men by union striking min
ers near Herrin, H., has been announ
ced.
The supreme court dismissed Mrs
Marie Karkness Cowan's suit to es-
tablish herself as sole heir Of the $780,.
100000 estate of the late Harry Steph.
ems Hardness. Standard Oil magnate.
!. For nearly two hours fire burned
fiercely In the shops Of the Atlantic
Coast Line railroad at Montgomery,
Ala, causing an estimated loss Of $2O,.
600.
Frank E. Mohrer, who was taken In
to custody at Hamilton, Ohio, together
with Theodore Garrison. charged with
having attempted to blacl1mail Mrs. F.
H. Berk. escaped from postoffice in
spectors.
Complaints that the vocational train
ing school established by the United
Veterans Bureau at Camp sherman,
near Chillicothe. Ohio. is inadequately
Equipped, poorly administered and does
not fit former service men for useful