The leader., 1899-10-04
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MISSISSIPPI NEWS.
A Shorthand Chronicle of Cur
rent Happenings.

A Short-Hand Chronicle of Cur
rent Happenings.
The Jackson Republicans are en-
gagged in a family row.
Enterprise has organized an s. s.
Prentiss literary club.
Several of the johnson family of
Winston county have been murdered.
w. r. Farrell, had his right arm
torn off at the cotton press in Grena-
da.
The Jackson papers deny that there
has been a great exodus from that
city.
An entire block of residences in
Poplarville was destroyed by fire, Oct.
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Greenwood's Business League will
give an old-fashioned barbecue Oct.
10th.
Attendants at the Jackson Lunatic
Asylum are required to wear uni
forms.
The Yazoo Association contributed
neat sum to the Baptist orphanage
in Jackson.
Hon. Oliver Clifton has been elected
clerk of the city of Jackson, vice Maj
D. p. Porter, deceased.
Emma Morgan, colored woman
near Fernwood, was murdered by her
husband last Wednesday. He escaped
Tom Clarke, white, killed Henry Nc
Daniel colored, in Attala county.
The killing was done in self-defense.
An unknown man died in Scranton
on the 1st. He was found lying on the
railroad track in semi-conscious con-
dition.
Mr.. J. S. Ray, of Union county, had
to kill his entire herd of hogs on ac-
count of their having been bitten by a
mad dog
Mr.. Joseph B. Leger, editor and
founder of the Gulfport Southwark,
died at his mothers residence in
Handsboro.
The iron ore around Enterprise is
again attracting attention. There
was considerable excitement on this
subject in 1891.
Clinton Atkins, an old and respected
merchant of Summit, died last week
He leaves three married daughters
and five sons.
The Clarion Ledger has been tenn
porarily reduced from an eight to a
four-page daily, on account of the
fever in jackson.
Mrs. o. j. Waite, wife of the cash
ier of the first national bank of Jack
son, was among the yellow fever vic
Tins of last week.
report is current that Mrs. Jeffer-
son Davis is now offering her Beau,
voir Miss property for sale, and that
she will take $4,000 for it.
Col. J. L. Power, of Jackson is, gath
ering material for history of Missis-
sippi, to be published as soon as the
matter can be put in proper shape.
The biennial report of Superintend-
ent Sims, of the Blind Institute, will
contain recommendation in favor of
establishing colored department.
There is said to be a cave in Jasper
county that may some day equal the
} world-renowned Mammoth Cave of
Kentucky. 1t has been explored for
!. about quarter of mile and it grad
ually increases in magnitude.
Henry Williams, colored, was legally
hung in Greenville Friday for the
murder of Eliza Brown in 1896. Will
liams had tried all the courts up to
the Supreme Court of the United
States, but his lawyer could not save
his neck.
John Henry Stearns, negro con-
vict, was brought into Meridian so
critically i'll that in a short time he
was corpse. The grand jury will in
vestigate the mans death in order to
ascertain whether or not it was caused
by negligence in his treatment as D.
convict.
A fire damaging property to the
amount of $4,000 occurred in Jackson
} on State street near the Capitol, Sat
urday evening, Sept. 30th. Engine
house No. l in the Capitol yard and
three residences owned respectively
; by d. w. Wilkinson, Mrs. e. A. Terry
and Mrs. Stedman were totally de-
stroyed.
A fire at Madison destroyed the
stores of A. Smith, j. B. Mckay and J.
A. Binns, office and library of r. G.
Lee, meat market, barber shop, tailor
shop and an empty store building. A.
Smith carried $500 insurance and Nc
Kay $1,000. The stock of Mr.. Binns
was saved. The fire was probably
started by crap shooters.
Some men with good pedal extremi-
ties are eternally running for Office
and never get there, while others less
favored get there the very first pull.
Zack Morehead, Democratic nominee
for treasurer of Leake county, has
neither hands nor feet, yet he is a fine
rider, can load and fire gun, thread
needle and write rapidly with pen.
He is 5S years old, and has the unlimit-
ed confidence of his fellow citizens.
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