Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1922-04-06
Domestic

While his wife was lying in bed
asleey, Ambrose Watts, 80, Middleton,
Ohio, who claims to have been dream.
ing, shot her through the head.
Fred L. Trombly, who had served q
term for grand larceny, escaped from
the state reformatory of Washington,
served six months sentence for petty
larceny and sentenced to six to fifteen
years in the penitentiary for theft of
diamonds, after having been sought
by Seattle police and detectives for
more than six months, was found on
the police force. He is now in jail.
Tex Rickard, who has been on trial
on the charge of criminally assaulting
15-year-old girl, was found not guilty
by New York City jury.
It is announced in Lawrence, Mass,
that the cotton mill strike is spread.
ing, and the strike is assuming the
proportion of general protest against
reduction in wages.
AS fascinating as a tale by Jules
Verne is the plan for aerial explora-
ton of the roof Of the world" recent
ly sketched in New York City by Capt.
Roald Adumsen, discoverer of the
South Pole. The next expedition that
sails for the North Pole, he says, will
not be like those which have preceded
1t. Its vision will not be confined
to few miles on either side of the
ship, but from the air it will be able
to take in at glance objects 200 miles
away. 1t will talk by radio with
Washington four times a day, and
when it returns, in three years, it will
know what the civilized world has
been doing during it's absence.
Clyde Richey, taxi driver of Ba.
kersfield, Calf, was attacked by two
masked and robed men, who were an.
pretended by officers and have been
indicted by the grand jury.
In an effort to rescue a woman
trapped by fire in rooming house
in New Orleans, Fireman Oscar Vidal.
"a, lost his life. The body was found
in bath room after the flames had
been put out. Fifteen persons in the
building escape, but one man sui.
fered a broken limb and several WON.
en- were slightly burned. Property
damage was insignificant.
Oil, said to be of an unusually high
grade, has been brought in with a nat.
ural flow Of more than 100 barrels a
day, from a we'll located on a 1OO-hun.
dred acre tract in the heart Of the
twenty-eighth ward Of .Pittsburg.
After being convicted Of burglary
and sentenced in open courtroom at
Fayetteville. Ca, Genus Cofield sprang
suddenly upon Weyman Cofield his
nephew, whose sensational confession
had convicted him. plunging degger
deep into his chest. Physicians de.
clare he can not recover.
The New England cotton mill strike
has taken on new phase by extend
ing to the important cotton and wool.
en- mill center of Lawrence, and set.
Element of the controversy is reported
TO be not in sight.
Harry Leon Wilson. nationally
known author and playwright, and
Theodore Criley, artist, fought duel
recently, according to story. printed
in The San Francisco Examiner.
An investigation of the deaths Of
Mrs. Josefa Black and her sister
Rosa, known as the "Siamese twins"
was started recently. Following con.
ference with the doctors connected
with the case, however, the coroner
abandoned his plans for post morton
examination and authorized the issu.
ance Of a death certificate.
Olivia M. P. Stona. graduate nurse.
collapsed on the witness stand at her
trial on q charge Of numbering ElIio
Guy Kinkead, former Cincinnati cor
pofation counsel, IN front Of HIS Brook
an home recently