The leader., 1899-02-22
OFFICE: u West Cherokee St.
MISSISSIPPI NEWS.
A Shorthand Chronicle of Cur
rent Happenings.

Jim oidthDuIu, COlOre0. was frozen
to death near Port Gibson.
George Reeves fell and fatally in
jured himself at Mississippi City.
Centerville has organized vigilance
committee to make the idler work or
move on.
Kinds county and Leflore have can
didates enough to fill nearly all of the
State offices.
J. L. Gillespie, editor of the Green
wood Enterprise, is candidate for
State Treasurer.
Gov. McLaurin has sufficiently re-
covered from his late illness to resume
his official duties.
Mrs. II. F. Won Kohn, formerly Mrs.
Mary Becker, of Wesson, died at
Kosciusko last week.
The dead body of Jake Morris,
young negro, was found floating in
Town creek in Jackson.
Hon. Frank Burkitt advises Missis-
sippi Populists to "stand still" for the
present and watch developments.
VIM. l.. Wellman, of Wesson, has
filed an assignment in bankruptcy.
Liabilities, 81 ,O49; assets, s23,5Os.
The floating ice in the Mississippi
gorged the harbor at Vicksburg last
week, seriously abstructing travel.
Miss Love Cowan, aged 10, daughter
of the late Judge Warren Cowan, of
Vicksburg, died at Decatur, Ga, last
week.
j. j. Lacky, one of the oldest and
most respected citizens of. Copiah
county, died at Crystal Springs Sun
day, aged 83.
Ex-Gov. Lowry was acquitted by the
Rankin Board of Supervisors of the
charge of violating the quarantine
laws last fall.
Greenwood has three candidates for
State off1ces-Vardaman for governor,
McClurg for attorney general and
Gillespie for treasurer.
The Herald is the name of a new
weekly just started at Greenville by
Messrs. Brawner & Adams. 1t will
support Longino for governor.
A monument has been erected at
Biloxi in honor of Emile Tremmell, a
private in the First Mississippi regi-
ment who died at Chickamauga.
The convict Payne, who escaped
from the penitentiary Friday night,
was captured Sunday near Robertson
Springs, and returned to the walls.
A considerable number of cattle
were frozen to death by the late cold.
Little wonder. A good many droves
had no shelter for them but a barbed
wire fence.
The total amount of cotton gathered
by the State on it's several penitentiary
convict farms was 1000. 400 bales of
this sold in Greenville few days ago
for $50 cents.
The news of the death of Hon. Fl. A.
Barr, the distinguished and venerable
lawyer of Oxford, is announced. He
was the father-in- law of Hon. r. N.
Miller, of Hazlehurst.
Joe Williams, respectable farmer
of Montgomery county, was found
dead short distance from his house
in his night clothes, his body COM
pletely riddled with bullets.
The three cotton seed oil mills at
jackson all helped out the people of
the Capital city during the
blizzard by selling them coal at cost.
All corporations are not "soulless" by
a good deal.
U. S. District Attorney Lee has been
directed by the War Department to
take the necessary steps to prevent
the erection of the bridges across
Il o& III
port respectively.
The railroads responded promptly
in furnishing fuel to Jackson during
the blizzard and consequent coal
famine. Supt. Dunn, of the l. c.,
turned over to Acting Mayor Morrison
five car loads of the railroads coal.
State Superintendent of Education
Whitfield, who was appointed by the
governor to succeed Hon. A. A. Kincan-
he will be candidate to succeed him
self. THE LEADER hopes he will win.
Judge S. S. Calhoun, of Jackson, has
granted the Picayune's jackson cor
respondent an interview on questions
of State Importance, on the distinct
condition that he (the Judge) shall
not be jumbled up in the bag of Office
hunters.
"John Allen" clubs are being formed
all over North Mississippi for the pur
pose of furthering the canvass of thai
| gentleman for the United States Sen
ate. With the exception of a few
that all of North Mississippi will go fol
Allen.
A water famine was caused at Vicks
burg during the late freeze by ths
breaking of the main pipe of the
Waterworks Co. of that city. The av
erage Vicksburger is as Indifferent to
water famine as duck is to an Apri
shower. A cutoff of the whisky sup
ply over there is what would maxi
Rome howl.
Winona is preparing for grand po
litical rally on March 16. Hon. JohI
M. Allen has already accepted an in
and Governor McLaurin has been in
have grand political rally there a
to grant reduced rates.
At Hazlehurst during the blizzard
the citizens of that town forcibly cor
fiscated a car of coal belonging to tn
/. G. Railroad As an additional incer
tive to that furnished by the col
weather and prevailing fuel-famine, tn
Courier says the railroad had previou:
ly confiscated, for its own suse, cars {
coal assigned to private parties.
The McComb City Specials Marc
Gras edition, which was gotten up uI
der the management of Mr.. A. v
Clemens, was credit to its entel
Uprising publishers and McComb.
was handsomely illustrated, neatl
printed on book paper, and filed wit
biographical sketches, attractive az
| vertising and other interesting matte
Il John e. Searles, president Of tt
, American Cotton CO., the giant tru
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