The leader., 1900-01-10
MISSISSIPPI NEWS.
A Short-Haud Chronicle of Cur
rent Happenings.

Jackson's depot is now lighted by
electricity.
The Hattiesburg Cotton Mills Com
pany was organized on the night OF
December 18th.
Mingo Coleman, negro, was run
over by a train and instantly killed at
Vicksburg last week.
The residence of r. Jones, colored,
was destroyed by fire at Ellisville last
week. No insurance.
1t is proposed to extend the corpor-
ate limits of Canton so that they shall
be one and half miles square.
Last week, near Terry, Perry Chan
dler, negro, was thrown by rope
from the ferry boat and drowned.
The gin, mill and blacksmith shop of
Moore & Webb and the residence of c.
C. Boyd were burned at Water Valley
last week.
The Meridian Cotton Mills have
declared dividend of per cent. and
increased the wages of all mill en-
ployes per cent.
Three prisoners, two white men and
negro, escaped from the Winston
county Jail last week, and have not
yet been recaptured.
At Poplarville, on the evening of the
9Th inst, the clothes of little child
named Weider Strahan caught fire
and she was severely burned.
The firm of Earns d Dale, of Wesson.
bankrupted last week; liabilities $780,
600; assets, including real estate, mer-
chandise and book accounts, $4,000.
w. w. Walker, of the firm of Walker
Il Burgess, at Lynnwood, became in
sane short time ago and was placed
in the asylum at Meridian last week.
The Levi furniture store at Meridian
was burglarized last week by parties in
search of cash, but, as the cash draw
ers were empty, their search was not
successful.
A white man named Peter H. Richart
was arrested at Scranton ON the 18th
inst. for peddling jewelry without a
license. He is soldier and from
Mobile, Ala.
A Methodist church, schoolhouse and
dwelling next to the church were burn
ed on the night of the 4th inst at Scran-
ton. Loss about $1,000 partly, covered
by insurance.
Mrs. Valerie Simmons, wife of a very
prominent planter, was burned to death
at home at Bonneville on the morning
of the 4th inst. Her clothing caught
fire from an open CRATE.
A meeting of the newly-elected
sheriffs of the State has been called to
meet in Jackson on the day of the
Inauguration for the purpose of form
ing State Association.
The summer residences of A. G. lobe
and Mrs. John Maginnis at Ocean
Springs, were burglarized last week
and quantity of valuable silverware
and other articles stolen.
A Chicago firm has the contract for
the annex to the Government building
at jackson. The amount to be expend-
ed is S31 600 1t will be used by the
Postoffice and the U. S. Land Office.
State Revenue Agent Adams has
filed suit in the Kinds county circuit
court against the Yazoo and Mississippi
Valley and Little J. railroad companies
for taxes due. The suit against the
Little j. is for $4,000
The creation of new county, com
posed of the first district of Kinds and
portions of Rankin and Madison, is be
ing considered and it is probable that
a bill will be offered providing there
for. 1t is to be named George"
A call has been issued for meeting
of the executive committee of the State
Teachers Association in Jackson on
the 18th inst. for the purpose Of decid-
ing on the place and time for holding
the annual meeting of the association.
A negro woman named Floran John
ston was murdered in northwest
Choctaw last Thursday. The crime is
very shocking as the body was horribly
mutilated. Three negroes, two women
and a man, are suspected of the
murder.
Attorneys for the creditors of the
Vicksburg Book and Stationery Com
pany have filed petition to place the
company in involuntary bankruptcy
The claims represented amount tc
s17 800, of which the stock will inven
tory about Is per cent.
Four large stores in Merchants
block, at Columbus, were destroyed
and quite number of other buildings
damaged by fire on the night of the 18th
inst. The total loss ON buildings and
merchandise is somewhere near $780, 600
while the total insurance is about one
half that amount.
Governor-elect Longino will be in
stalled on Tuesday, January Is. There
has been some uncertainty as to wheth
er Gov. McLaurin would retire on the
10th or Goth, but he has decided that
the 18th is the proper date. The other
State officers elect will enter on duty
ON Monday, the 18th.