Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1922-01-11
Domestic

and killed his wife and their three
children and then committed suicide,
police officials of Muncie, Ind, said.
Two engineers and two firemen were
instantly killed when two Chicago,
Burlington and Quincy railroad
freight trains met in a head-on col
lision near Aaclede, Mo.
The South Carolina railroad COM
mission will go to Spartanburg at an
early date to determine what action,
if any, shall be taken by it in connec-
ton with the street railway tie-up in
that city.
Following his Indictment by Hen
rico county grand jury on charge Of
murder in connection with the killing
Of his former stenographer, Mrs.
Thelma Ham Richards at Richmond,
Va, Thomas Pollard was permitted to
renew his bond of $4,000.
Rumors that Geraldine Farrar, for
mer Metropolitan opera star, and Lou
Tellegen, her actor husband, were to
settle their marital differences with
out resort to court were spiked when
Supreme Court Justice Cohalan set
down for trial at an early date her
suit for divorce.
Emile Coue, smiling, active little
man, with white hair and beard and
sparkling blue eyes, once an obscure
pharmacist who toyed with the mys-
teries of hypnotism in his tiny shop in
Nancy, France, arrived in America on
the Majestic an internationally ia
nous figure, the apostle of the doc
trine of self-mastery through con-
scious auto-suggestion.
Three persons were killed and two
others severely injured when a motor
car left the road and plunged into a
creek near Liberal, Mo.
The steamer Santa Rosa, Of the
Grace line, which had been aground
two miles south Of the entrance to
Charleston, s. G., harbor for several
days has been floated by the salvage
tug I. ]. Merritt, Of New York, aud
has reached her pier.
Frank Carman, an artist, was placed
under arrest in New York City, charg-
ed with grand larceny 'in having act
ed in concert with two others not yet
apprehended" in the theft Of $150,0OO
in jewels and cash from Mrs. Charles
P. Hugo Schoelkopf, wife of wealthy
Buffalo broker, during a new years
party in Carma1's apartment on Fifth
7 avenue.
A feeling that important develop
ments are impending in Mer Rouge,
La, was intensified when 1t became
known that troop of cavalry had been
ordered there by Governor Parker, in
connection with the hooded kidnapping
outrages near that place several months
agone.
His dog is responsible for George E.
Patterson, a contractor of Los Angeles,
Calf, being in jail on a chareg of vio-
lating the Volstead act
Chief Justice Taft became "a grand
father twice in two days. A son was
born to Mr. and Mrs. Robert A. Taft
Of Cincinnati, following which Charles
p. Taft, II, another son Of the former
president, announced the birth Of son.
Police rushed to the home Of State
Senator Sweet at Waterloo, N, Y,
the other day when the honking Of a
big automobile horn on the roof gave
notice that a burglar was attempting
to enter the house. The burglar got
away before the arrival Of the police.
-Four men were killed and five others
were injured at the Petroleum Iron
works at Masur, Ohio, when they were
! caught under 60Q-ton hydraulic press.
The men were working under the press
when 1t collapsed.
American standards Of civilization
are inferior to those Of 1880, James
M. Beck, solicitor general Of the Unit.
ed States, said in lecture at New
York.
Bandits recently held up the pay.
master Of the Ferry Cap and Screw
company, Cleveland, Ohio, and escap-
ed with the 100000 weekly pay roll
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, Trio Held On counterfeltInu Charge
Meridian, Miss. - Bruce Butler, Ray.
mond Reed and Willie Parker, the lat.
ter woman, we're arrested in Merid.
ian recently on charge Of attempting
to make counterfeit $40 gold pieces.
: The crude outfit Of the trio. plaster
paris cast and all, was seized. They
J were at work when the police burst in
on them in Buffers home, the latter
! at the time. according to the arresting
OFFICERS, being engaged In melting the
gold castings Of several watches they
, had bought from local ieweler Fed
leral authorities took the men In hand