The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1900-09-05

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ance on his life.
Bishop Galloway will lecture at
Summit tonight for the benefit of the
Methodist parsonage.
T.G. Wilson, of Pelahatchie, claims
the credit of catching the first red fox
taken in that section.
Wiley Fields, aged 90, while return
ing from church in Scott county, was
killed by falling limb from dead
tree.
AGO pound pipe fell on the head of
negro who was working in sewerage
trench at Jackson. His skull was
fractured.
The Clarion Ledger states that DR..
Carter, osteopath, has performed some
extraordinary cures since his location
in Jackson.
Will Dennis, a policeman, shot and
killed Tom Reed, colored, at Jackson,
who denied the officers right to in
spect his premises.
Asevere wind and rain storm struck
McComb last Wednesday evening.
Trees, fences and corn and cotton sue
cumbed to the blow.
Archie Deer and Charlie Bell charg-
ed with the assassination of an old ne
gro at Byram last Sunday, are Ian
gushing in Jail at Jackson.
Willie Hill, colored, stole a pear
from a "dago' stand in Summit and
before he got through with it, it cost
him Slime and cost of trial
Many of SUBMITS cooks are desert
ing their posts of duty to attend pro-
tracted meeting, where "the preaching
is vociferous" the Sentinel says.
j. NJ. Artman, who skipped from
Yazoo year ago, under Indictment
for unlawful retailing, was captured in
Northwestern Arkansas and brought
back
The Brandon News editor says what
bothers him is "howa fellow is going
to get along who has neither coat nor
shirtwaist. He'll have to take to the
brush"
Pearson Stations business has won
derfully fallen off since the compile
ton of the G. & S. l. railroad. Nearly
all the business at Pearson came from
Stems Creek.
Jackson has new mercantile empo.
rum capitalized at 100000. The
style of the firm is johnson, Tay-
lor q Company. Both the gentlemen
named are from Ellisville.
Three cars of juniper poles, forty to
fifty feet long, were shipped from Moss
Point to the indianapolis Street Rail
way Company, to be used to support
the railways big power circular fed
cables.
Capt. j. Ed Taylor, of Jefferson
county, died at the age of 80. He was
the organizer of Company d, 9Th U. S
Volunteers and saw actual service al
Santiago during the Spanish war. He
never fully recovered from fever con
tracted while there.
Hon. ]. F. McCool says the crop out
look in the northern part of the State
from Jackson to the Tennessee line
will not exceed twenty five per cent OF
the average. In many places there is
no crop of cotton at all and corn is
practically failure.
Mrs. John w. Robinson, the fourth
daughter of DR.. Il. J. Mitchell, of Jack
son, died last Thursday after months
of suffering. The was a beautiful and
accomplished woman of 30 years of
age and leaves husband and four lit
tie boys, beside other relatives to
mourn their loss.
Abe Cooper, coon of Is, forged an
order for 81 at Wesson, in the name of
George Douglass, and presented it to
Becker, Lyell, McGrath & Co., who
discovered the Negroes duplicity, and
he was placed in Jail. He had just
creased his face, but was not as slick
as he thought he was.
Charley Wilson, negro from Green
vile, came within an inch of paying
with his life for the murder of Tom
Mike, levee contractor He was
caught by mob and only after the
rope had been swung over limb, was
the discovery made that he had a scar
on his face, which was absent in the
physiognomy of the real murderer he
so closely resembled.
At Koseiusko a conductor, Ross
Rhyme, ordered Joe Campbell, brake
man, to unload and remove to the de-
pot heavy drummer's trunk. On ac-
count of the weight and distance the
brakeman refused the order, and duel
with lanterns followed, succeeded by
the use of knife in the hands of
Campbell. The conductor was severe
ly wounded and the brakeman is laid
up for repairs.