Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1922-04-20
Domestic

One and one-half ton of T. N. T.
exploded near Helper. Utah, and three
hundred tons of rock fell upon the
town. No fatalities were reported.
The explosion occurred during blast
ing operations and damaged the bust.
ness district heavily
Mrs Ella Douglass Of Oakland, Calf,
by securing final decree OF divorce,
won final title to nearly two million
acres of land in Brazil which had been
given her husband, Hugh M. Newell,
alias Douglass.
Fatty Arbuclle was acquitted OF the
manslaughter of Miss Virginia Rape,
motion picture actress. The jury re-
turned the verdict in six minutes from
the delivery of the judges charge.
J. Hill, white foreman for the Co
lumbia Salvage corporation, was
blown to bits by an explosion Of 10000
pounds of black powder in an ammu-
milton salvage magazine near the or
dinance depot, North Charleston, s
c. More than so boxcars were dam
aged and trackage wrecked. 1t has
not been determined what caused the
blast.
Jim Eslinger, who has been asleep
continuously for three years, died at
the county hospital, Fort Smith, Ark.
Eslinger, for eight years county
charge, would have been SO years old
June 7. Physicians says he was not
suffering from sleeping sickness, but
from mental paralysis. He apparA
emily was insentient to pain, was im-
mobile and his eyes were closed.
: Berkeley, a. suburb of Norfolk, was
swept by fire recently, which destroy
ed more than one hundred houses Gov
ering an area one mile in length and
averaging from two to four blocks in
width. Five hundred families are es-
timated to have been made homeless,
and the damage will run to nearly a
million dollars. The firemen were I'M
able to make headway due to lack Of
water pressure.
BY exploiting the jury recommen.
dations which accompanied the YER
dict acQuitting Fatty Arbuckle OF man
slaughter, the Famous-Players' Lasky
corporation, producers Of Arbuckle's
comedies, will make strong effort
to re-establish Arbuckle as one Of the
most popular movie comedians. This
intention was evinced in statement
issued at New York by Adolph Zuckor.
president of Famous Players.
Noah Winston Cation. %, veteran
football and track star OF the Ala
bama Polytechnic institute, died In
Birmingham hospital following an OPP
GRAFTON for acute appendicitis. He
had been in an unconscious condition
for forty-eight hours.
Returns from the S7th New York
congressional district indicate the cleo.
ton Of Lewis Henry, Republican. by
majority Of $500.
George zabriskie, member Of the COM
mittee ON the revision Of the Book
Of Common Prayer Of the Protestant
Episcopal Church, says that women in
the United States are, in nearly all re-
spects, equal OF men, and, therefore,
the promises and VOWS of the man and
woman and marriage should be recipro-
cal.
Hanford MacNider, national com
mander Of the American Legion, asks
all newspapers to appeal to ex-sertice
men TO return to their native heaths
and seek employment, where they are,
better known and most likely TO SO:
cure jobs.
Charles H. Fletcher, whose name
appears on billboards the country over
advertising Castoria. died recently at
his home in Orange, N. ].
Capt. Road Amundsen, Arctic explo.
rer. and four Tying companions, mar.
rowiE escaped death at Miola, Pa.
when the monoplane In which they
were going from New York to Cleve.
land. the first lap Of q continental
journey. turned over when II was fore
cd down in field.
Because he couldn't give sufficient.
" detailed description Of he'll, Charles
@. Mckenzie. graduate Of Union Theo-
logical seminary, was refused the
right to preach by the Jersey City
Atlanta's annual grand opera sea
son opens Monday April "a. and runs
through the week. the final perform.
anco being on Saturday night. De.
spite the general business depression
the seat sale TO date Il wen up %
thar Of previous ysarl. and here q
every indication that the season WIN
30 3 successful ons