The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1900-04-25
MISSISSIPPI NEWS.
A Short-Hand Chronicle Of Cur
rent Happenings.

DIR. j. w. Barksdale and Miss Emily
Meade Hawkins we're married at Val
den on the 10Th inst.
Additional machinery, to the amount
of 5000, will be ordered by the Sum
NIT cotton seed oil mill.
Leonard Herndon, prominent bus
mess man of Boyle, Miss, died at Hot
Springs, Ark, on the Goth inst.
Rising waters freed the section boss
at Chatawa and compelled him to re
main on his perch forty eight hours.
The penitentiary walls are being torn
down and removed. Convicts brought
in from the Rankin county farm are
doing the work.
Robert p NARROW, tried at Hazlehurst
last week for the murder of James X.
Stewart in Crystal Springs last October,
was acquitted.
Greenville is the only town in the
State making an effort to secure the
summer encampment of the Misssis-
sippi National Guards.
Mrs. Jane Hines, the aged wife of
Rev. VIM. B. Hines, a venerable Meth
odist minister of Summit, died from
paralysis last Thursday.
Okolona Republicans held mass
meeting last week, endorsed the Nc
Kinley administration and elected del
egates to the State convention.
Judge Pat Henry, of Vicksburg, has
announced that he will make the race
for congress in the Third district to
succeed Congressman Catchings.
Last week, near McComb City,
dead tree fell on a little five-year-
child named Sallie Reeves, crushing
her head and killing her instantly
Prof. J. c. Hardy's resignation as
superintendent of the Jackson public
schools has been formally accepted.
His successor will not be elected until
June.
W. p. Massey, of Kosciusko, convict
ed in three charges of the unlawful re-
failing of liquor, was fined $3.50 and
given three months Imprisonment on
each charge.
In Kinds county quite number of
bridges, perhaps fifty or sixty, were
washed away or badly damaged by the
recent heavy rains. The bill of dam
ages will probably reach $1,000.
The remains of Mrs. Mary Med.
Clark, widow of VIM H. Clark, brigadier
general in the Confederate army, were
brought from Texas last week and in
tered at Brandon ON the Goth.
The city of jackson, will sell, May l.,
$4,000 worth of per cent twenty year
bridge and street improvement bonds,
one bond of 500 to mature each year.
Bids to be opened at 1870 p. m, May
l, 1900.
The Brandon News says that Hon.
Thos. H. Norrell, who recently died in
Rankin county, hauled from Vicksburg
in an oX-wagon part of the finishing
material for the present capitol build
ing at jackson.
The Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity
of the University of Mississippi gave a
banquet and ball last week in celebra-
ton of their. fifteenth anniversary.
Distinguished visitors from all parts
of the State were in attendance
Near Pontotoc, last week, a young
lady, the daughter of VIM. Stepp, was
struck by lightning and instantly kill
ed. Other members of the family re-
ceived severe shocks, while a part of
the house and some of the furniture
was demolished.
At the late term of the Franklin Cir
cult Court, Pearly Wallace was con-
victed of murder and received life
sentence. Horace Wallace was con
victed of manslaughter and sentenced
for 20 years. John j. Harrington,
charged with the murder of Duke
MUM, was dCIuliIcu.
Mai. Gen. w. d. Cameron, of Merid-
dian, commanding the Mississippi Di-
vision of the United Confederate Vet
Grams, states that he expects large at
tendance of the old Confederates at
the re-union to be held in Vicksburg
beginning on the End of May, as assur
ances have been given that nearly
every camp in the State will send large
delegations.
The notorious Green Case, who was
convicted of manslaughter and SEN
fenced to the penitentiary for five
years at the last term of the Jefferson
county circuit court, escaped with four
other prisoners recently from the Ran
kin county farm, but was soon recap
tured. If Green serves out his term
without killing some one or getting
killed, it will be a wonder.
The Easter edition of the Canton
Times, edited by the women of Canton,
is large, we'll printed, newsy and pos
sesses marked literary features. While
the utter absence of whiskey adver-
tisements makes it a truly nota-
BILE edition of that paper The
men of Canton should step down and
out, hereafter leaving the editing of
their papers to their brave and bril-
liant women.
The suit for the recovery of back
taxes from the railroads will not come
up in the Supreme Court of the United
States until next October. 1t was
reached in its regular order last week
and was to have been heard at once,