The Brookhaven leader., 1890-09-04
Sensational Kidnapping.


TUPELo, Aug. 2s.-Last night at
o'clock this city was the scene of con-
siderable sensation in the way of kid
| mapping, On the 18th of last May j. T,
| Mettauer and his little 5-year-old
daughter, Charlcie, arrived in Tupelo
from Cisco, Tex. Since then they have
been boarding with Isaiah Barnett,
prominent citizen.
Mettauer has been employed as night
| watchman at Benefits Lumber Yard,
near town, for about two months, and
while at his post of duty last night was
notified that Willie Hardemen, claiming
| to be his divorced wife, and Mr.. Har-
ris, of Melrose, Tex, had called at Bar
nett's house and taken his little daugh-
ter, whom they said had been awarded
the mother by the court in Nacog-
| doches County, Tex, in 1889. On re-
ceiving this news Mettauer Immediately
| went to the station to rescue the child
| from it's mother, who was ready to re-
turn to her home in the Lone Star
State.
When he reached the station he was
surrounded by officers and arrested, and
while thus surrounded the train rolled
up and carried away his daughter.
Mettauer seems determined to insti-
tute suit against the officers for arrest
ing him without authority. He claims
that his wife has never secured di-
vorce, and that the child has not been
awarded to her by the courts. The
woman is handsome and very intelligent
and is 21 years old.
Mettauer is 80 years old, and won
Miss Willie's hand in 1888, and sepa-
rated from his wife in 1887.
Miscellaneous.
THE Grand Lodge Knights of Honor
of Mississippi assembled last week at
Jackson in it's thirteenth annual ses-
sion. Nearly all of the 116 lodges in
the State were represented. The re-
ports of the grand officers show the
order to be in highly satisfactory con-
dition in Mississippi. The net gain in
membership for the year ending June
| 80, 1890, was 2s6, the total beneficiary
membership on that day being 5653.
Il
reinstated, 20; admissions by card, 81.
| The total losses by Withdrawals, suspen-
| sions and death, were 249. There was
paid into the Widows and Orphan Boys
Fund during the year ending December
81, 1880, the large sum of S144, ,972. 40.
The deaths for the same period, II; and
| benefits received, $141, ,000-so that the
L 90 n11 an A,,o TN1t ,Hrn
| than was paid in. The average cost to
| each member was S13.O2 ON each $1,000,
and the amount paid for each dollar in
benefits received, S1,02s. The next
session will be held in jackson on the
fourth Thursday in August, 1891. The
sum of S1OO was appropriated to each of
the orphan asylums in Natchez and 500
to the family of c. p. Lewis at Martin,
whose lodge suspended about the time
of his death. The sum of S1,5O0 was
placed in the hands of trustees for in
vestment as reserve fund, to be used
only in case of epidemic or other emer-
gency. The Grand Lodge offers prize
of 500 to any deputy organizing five
lodges during next year. in addition to
the commission of so per cent. allowed
by regulations, and $3.50 for organizing
ten or more lodges.
THE defeated Democratic contestants
for two Republican seats in the Consti-
tutional Convention were allowed their
mileage and their per diem down to the
day their case was decided.
CHARLES EAsToN has on exhibition
at Jackson a finely developed stock Of
cotton which came up from the seed
planted last year. The winter was 50
mild the seed was not destroyed. He
saws that he has several acres just like
1t that is now from one to two feet high
and pretty we'll filed with grown bolls
and that not q foot of it was prepared,
the growth being spontaneous from seed
planted last year.
THE running expenses Of the consti
tutional Convention are $500 a day.
DacEY FLEMING, eolored, was buried
near Garner last week. at the age ol
I25 years.