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Show RUMORS DENIED BY PRISON OFFICIALS JACKSON, MlcU.. Sept. 2. Stalo prison officials were kept busy denying sensational rumors today and it was announced that there wore no new developments de-velopments in the prison Insurrection. The convicts locked in their cells" were still kooplnp up their racket by yelling and kicking' and pounding on the cell doors, but that has boon tho most serious seri-ous trouble today, according to Warden Simpson. Tho warden denied that he had flogged many of the trouble makers, but it was admitted that several prisoners were suffering suf-fering solitary confinement, while others have been strapped by tholr wrists to cell doors. The prison was in darkness last night. The cause, as officially given out today, was an accident to the machinery ma-chinery In the lighting plant Warden Simpson denied a report that convicts had tampered with the boilers a3 well as the mnchlnci-y. |