Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1922-06-01
Domestic

The road from st. Louis to within
ten miles of Princeton is concrete
The road from Peoria, H., to Prince
ton, ILL.,, follows the Illinois river, and
is perfectly beautiful.
E. w. Driscoll station agent at Nor
ganville, Ca, was found dead in his
office recently The verdict o. the
coroner's jury was that death was due
to hemorrhage Nothing was missing
from the office.
A third bullet, said to have been
found embedded in the automobile
owned by Miles G. Buckingham, for
| mer Memphis banker, and in which
he and Mrs. Buckingham were riding
near Canton, Miss, when Mrs. Buck
ingham was fatally shot, was produc-
ed in court by states attorneys, when
the second days hearing of habeas
corpus proceedings to release Bucking-
ham was opened.
Eleven coal miners, five white and
six negroes, were killed by an explo-
sion in mine No. of the Alabama
Fuel and Iron company at Acmar.
Ala.
Reports at Emporium, Pa. says that
the powder mill packing house at Sim
mentioning, Pa, were blowing up. But
three men are permitted to work in
each building.
The plea Of William E. Donovan's
17-year-old daughter will probably
block all effort of Donovon's friends to
save him from the electric chair. Dono-
van is sentenced to die June for the
murder of his wife recently. Governor
McCray, Michigan City, Ind, after re-
ceiving the daughters letter said he
would take no further action.
District Attorney recently told the
Lions club at luncheon meeting that
he had averted financial panic in
Wall Street recently, by cleaning out
more than score Of Fly by night"
brokerage houses and bucket shops.
Three city firemen and two tunnel
workers were killed by gas and cleo
tricity at the bottom Of a 50-foot shaft
Of sewer system at Milwaukee, Wis,
and nearly score Of firemen over
come.
The Southern Presbyterian Assem-.
bly,, In session at Charleston, w. Va,
adopted the report of the committee
on stewardship, which, in substance,
is that "a man is his brothers. keep
err"
A man of mystery giving the name
Of Frank Doran of Chicago, placed
himself in the hands of the PoGghkeep-
sic, N. Y, police recently, telling them
he murdered William Desmond Tay-
lor, movie director. at Hollywood, Calf.
He refuses to give any further infor-
nation.
For the first time since he admitted
that he shot and killed Clarence Pc.
tiers, ex-marine, and left his body in
a lonely roadway near the Kensico res
ervoir, White Plains, N. Y, where it
was found six days later, Walter s.
Ward, son Of the multi-millionair ba-
ker. is in a jail cell.
Thomas ]. Thompson, who started
his career with the Standard Oil com.
pany Of Indiana, thirty-seven years ago
as a day laborer, and Edward ]. Bull.
lock, whose first employment with the
company was as an office boy, were
elected to the board Of directors at
annual salaries Of over $4,000 each.
Bishop John c. Kilgo. Methodist bish-
op, at Memphis, Tenn, who has been
critically Ill, is reported convalescing.
The Supreme court Of North Caro-
lima has decided that the Cannon Man
ufacturing company must pay to the
county Of Cabarrus $22,342.17 Of taxes
for the year 1920, which had been pro.
tested by tho company.
hundreds OF tents have been order
ed by the committee in charge Of the
cotton plill strike at Manchester, N
H., to shelter workers evicted from
company tenements through inability
] to pay rents