The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1900-01-31
MISSISSIPPI NEWS.
A Short-Hand Chronicle of Cur
rent Happenings.

rent Happenings.
L. d. Greenlaw has been appointed
by Gov. Longino, notary public at
Hazlehurst.
Mr.. T. III. Webb, formerly of Frank
lin county, was killed last week at
Yoakum, Texas.
There was freight wreck, serious as
regarded the smash-up of cars, but
without casualties, at Tugaloo, on the
18th inst.
The Aberdeen Examiner, recently
destroyed by fire, has secured new
plant and will appear again at an
early date.
Work ON the extension of the Can
ton, Aberdeen and Nashville Railroad
from West Point to Winfield, Ala, will
soon begin.
Captain Olsen, of the Norwegian
bark Enterprise, committed suicide at
Biloxi on the 18th inst, by taking
carbolic acid.
At Alderman, last week, the three
year old daughter of Mr.. J. Hink Ray
was accidentally shot and instantly
killed by her six-year-old brother who
was playing with a pistol.
A reward of $50 each has been
offered by Governor Longino for the
two unknown negro men who shot and
killed William Tucker, in Tunica
county, on the night of the 10Th inst.
The January distribution of the
public school fund will begin as soon
as the bill appropriating million
dollars to the support of the public
schools receives the executive ap
prevail.
At Brandon last week burglars en-
tered the house of Stephen Stevenson,
rd-working and thrifty farmer of
s. years, and stole trunk containing
about $500 and deeds and other valua-
BILE papers.
A young man by the name of Leon
ard was found dead in his bed on the
morning of the oath inst, at the Pop
larville Lumber Company's logging
camp. His death was natural and from
appearances easy.
New postmasters have been ap-
pointed in Mississippi as follows :
Binford, W. S. Lloyd Bunker Hill, A.
D. Sullivan Fort Stephen, ]. w. Nc
Craw; Rees Store, w. A. Stewart !;
Sebastopol, VIM. Andrews
Mr.. Walter Kimball, the junior part
ner of the firm of Kimball & Son, at
Oxford, while out hunting on the 18th
inst, fell from fence and struck his
back against a stump. Paralysis of
the lower extremities ensued.
The Pullman Palace Car Company
in its report filed with the Railroad
Commission shows total receipts for
the quarter ending JAN LIST, S1S,131.19
expenses s2539O47, net loss from
operations in Mississippi s725S.5S.
A prize-fight in Vicksburg last week
between Kid Richie, of ST. Louis, and
Tom Hurley, of Cincinnati, was pre-
vented by the Intervention of the
sheriff, who threatened to arrest all
parties concerned. Verify, Vicksburg
is reforming.
Near Water Valley ON the Goth inst,
an attempt was made to assassinate
Mr. Jerry Echols, prosperous farmer,
by shooting him while he was sick in
bed. The ball entered his head and
inflicted wound from which he can
not recover. There is no clue as to
who did the shooting.
Mrs. Anna Camp, of Winder, Ga,
was found fatally injured by the side
of the railroad track near Vossburg
on the oath inst. She was travelling
by rail to Lumberton to visit relatives
there. AS she never regained con-
seriousness the cause and manner of
the accident will never be known.
Prof. j. T. Scott, Superintendent of
Education of Franklin county, died
!. last Thursday, after brief illness from
pneumonia. He had served s or 10
years as superintendent of education
in that county and was well and favor
ably known by large circle of friends
in South Mississippi who will lament
his death.
A peculiar accident happened at
Moss Point last week. A negro named
Angus McSwain tied his raft up to a
tree for the night and the tree, which
was badly decayed, fell during the
night, striking the negro on the head,
breaking the skull and injuring the
head to such an extent that recovery
is doubtful.
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