The leader., 1900-01-24

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In the Federal court at Jackson last
week Ed. Mooney, of Covington coun-
ty. was convicted of robbing the mails
and given a fine of s25 and thirty days
in Jail
Capt. Chas. Potter, United States
engineer assigned to the Greenville
district, accompanied by other promi-
nent levee men, is on tour of levee
inspection.
Mr.. Harry G.. Hoskins was found
dead in his room at the home of his
sister, Mrs. Hilliard Thornton, i'll Meri-
dian, on the morning of the 10Th inst.
He died of heart disease brought on
by cigarette smoking.
At Martin last week a negro named
Collins johnson was shot and killed
by the accidental discharge of rifle
in the hands of Mr. Brent of the firm
of CRANBERRY & Brent.
w. J. Hassett, of Hattiesburg was
arrested at Mobile, Ala, last week, on
the charge of forgery. He was trying
to collect from Mobile banks checks
forged on bank at Hattiesburg.
J. w. Slay and r. H. Allen, neigh
bors, living in Simpson county near
Georgetown, quarrelled one day last
week and Allen struck Slay over the
head with a club, fatally injuring him.
The johnson feud in Winston coun-
ty has not yet terminated. Three ne
groes who had, in some way, become
involved in the feud, were shot from
ambush last week. The assasins es-
capped.
In the second Democratic primary
election for Sheriff held in Carroll
county on the 1lth inst. w. J. Woodell
was nominated by large majority
over B. p. Chatham who led in the first
primary.
Arthur Mills, an engineer on switch
engine, was shot and seriously wounded
at Water Valley, on the Goth inst, by
the accidental discharge of a pistol in
the lunch basket of Lee Morrow, the
night yardmaster.
City bonds to the amount of $4,000
were sold at Tupelo last week, the First
National Bank of Tupelo buying them
at a premium of s475. The amount
realized from the sale will be used to
erect an electric plant.
At Natchez, on the night of the 18th
a young white boy named Will Cox, in
a fit of jealous rage, shot and seriously
wounded Ely Green, young white
man aged q. Cox thought that Green
was winning his sweetheart away from
him.
At Hattiesburg, on the morning of
the 18th inst, while John Keegan, a
young white man in the employ of the
j. J. Newman Lumber Co., was at work
in the woods, he was struck violently
on the head by limb and his skull
crushed. His recovery is doubtful
In Jackson, one day last week, Joe
Asher sold to D. w. Reed 1000 bales of
cotton at ia cents, the amount of cash
represented in the transfer being be-
tween $4,000 and $4,000. This is the
largest single cotton transaction made
in Jackson during the present season.
A man by the name of c. e. Burke
came to Hattiesburg last week and got
forged check for S35 cashed by Con-
ner Bros of that place. He left imme-
diately for Meridian, but an order to
arrest him was telegraphed to that
place and he was brought back to Hat
tiesburg and lodged in Jail.
That snakes can bite in winter was
learned to his sorrow by negro at
Bovina last week when he put his hand
in hollow log to pull out "treed''
rabbit, and brought forth, instead, a
large cotton -mouthed mocassin. A
dangerous bite that required vigorous
treatment to prevent its being fatal
was the result of the "haul"
Kirby Fox, Ben Bright and William
Norman, the young men accused of
hanging negro in Lawrence county
some few months ago, were tried be-
fore Chancellor Conn at Monticello on
writ of habeas corpus on Jan. 9, and
granted bail in the sum of 5000 each,
which, at last accounts they had not
succeeded in making. They were rep
resented by r. N. Miller, of Hazlehurst,
and G. W. Magee, of Monticello.
Last week, Johnson Jackson, crazy
negro confined in Jail at Westville
pulled lot of brickbats from the side
of his cell and proceeded to amuse
himself by throwing them. When the
sheriff, his deputy and the jailer went
into the cell to quiet the man the brick
bats came thick and fast in their direc-
tion. Jailer Grubbs was struck in the
face and seriously injured; and Deputy
Kelly was knocked down. The negro
was finally shot in the arm and disa-
bled for further brick practice.
Last week, at Martins Creek bridge
just north of Anding, while two bridge
gangs were making excavations pre-
paratory toputting in stone piers for a
new bridge, there was landslide of the
earth that had been removed, and eight
of the workmen were buried beneath
the falling earth and bridge timbers.
The work of rescue was at once begun
and seven of the men were removed un-
hurt with the exception of bruises, but
one, a negro named John Peoples, was
deeply buried and when reached was