The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1899-12-13
MISSISSIPPI NEWS.
\ SHORTHAND Chronicle of Cur
rent happenings.

Inc SIaIe peHlJeHlldry 10 ho" q"
habited by 922 convicts.
A furniture factory will be estab-
lished in jackson at an early date.
The safe in the sheriff's office at De
Kalb was blown open and robbed on
the night of the 9TH.
| Three white prisoners escaped from
the Brandon Jail on the night of the
10th by filing the bars from a window.
Bishop Galloway will preach the
opening sermon before the Ecumenical
conference which meets in London i'll
1901.
J. F. Hogan, of Duck Hill, lost his
residence by fire ON the night of the
7th inst The loss of 81 800 was cover
ed by insurance.
Mrs. Ida Jacks, of Yazoo county, who
recently received five-year term for
manslaughter, was pardoned by the
governor this week.
jeff Sims, negro convict, who was
sent up from Sharkey county to serve
a life term for murder was pardoned
by the governor last week.
Last Sunday, near the depot in
Grenada, Chas. Tracy, an itinerant
cripple, was waylaid and robbed of his
little stock of money by two footpads.
Mississippi College at Clinton will
suspend in honor of Hon. \. II. Lon
ginos Inauguration and will send two
companies to participate in the pa
rade
In South Vicksburg. last week, the
large stables of Contractor Gonna
CHAN and residence were burned.
Several mules were burned in the
stables.
Much damage was done in Vicks-
burg on the 10th inst by heavy rain
Street car lines were tied up, culverts
wrecked and bridges and streets wash
ed out.
\ negro by the name of Fred Wiki
erson, who was shot by another negro
during the quarantine, died at Jackson
on Saturday. The murderer has made
good his escape.
\ man by the name of H. B. Wicker
of Winston county, was shot from
ambush and killed last week. This
killing is continuation of the John
ston feud in that county.
At Estabuchie, last week Eugene
George fell while coupling some cars
and was painfully injured by three
cars passing over his right leg which
has since been amputated.
John Slater, the negro boy who was
tried, last week, in Terry, for the kill
ing, recently, of Will Malone, a negro
porter at the Terry depot, was acquit-
ted on the plea of self defense.
Near Duckhill, last week, shooting
affair occurred in which Thomas Tay-
lor and Robert w. Sullivan, both white,
exchanged nine or ten shots with the
result that both men were wounded, but
not seriously.
John Young, negro, made his es-
cape, last week, from the court room
at Vicksburg where he was on trial for
shooting another negro. When last
heard from he was in the vicinity of
Rolling Fork.
The rains of Saturday night caused
big landslide on the track of the Hi
nOis Central Railroad about a mile and
a half below the union depot at Jack
son. The rain at Jackson was very
heavy and lasted fifteen hours
At Bolton, last Saturday, negro by
the name of Lewis Jackson shot and
MORALLY wounded his wife and Wash
Jones, another negro. The man who
did the shooting was angry because
his wife refused to live with him.
Rev r. A. Venable, of the First
Baptist Church of Meridian, has ad-
dressed an open letter to Governor
elect LOngino, urging the necessity of
the establishment of a State institu-
ton for the care and treatment of vic
tins of alchohOl and opiates.
Becker, prOprietors of the Gulf Coast
Ice Manufacturing Company, have been
awarded the contract to light the city
with given number of incandescent
thirty-two candle power lights, distrib-
uted through through the city as di-
rected by the city authorities.
The Gulf 4 Ship Island Railroad Co.
have been given the right of way
through the city of Jackson by an emf
nent domain jury on the condition
that S2,075 damages is paid to Mrs.
Muh. Suit was brought against the
company because of minor heirs who
could not cede the right of way.
A white woman by the name of Mrs.
Leggette was burned to death at Bay
st. Louis last Friday. In passing too
near an open fireplace her dress be-
came ignited and in her fright she ran
out of doors where the wind famed the
flames to such an extent that when
help reached her she was fatally burn
ed and died in few hours.
The stockholders of the Mississippi
Mills met last week and elected
Messrs. w. p. Richardson and r. NJ.
Wamsley of New Orleans, directors,