The leader., 1900-11-28
MISSISSIPPI NEWS.
A SHORTHAND Chronicle of Cur
reut Happenings.

| Meridian Is ln1esteu wiz"
W.T.. Carsley killed negro al hu
wards in self defense.
Ground has been broken Tor Jach-
sons new opera house.
At Richburg, Holy Howerin fatally
shot Charles King and hsd.
Hines Colbert and Miss Leslie
Richardson we're married at Jackson
Millsaps bore the honors from 'he
lGreeuville team by a 81, re OF 80 To u
The Kings daughters of jackson
will feed the poor of that city tomor-
row.
Emile Feibelman and Miss Hettle
Meyer we're married in Jackson's syn
agogue.
J.B. Allen, of Port Gibson, sold his
entire crop of long staple cotton al
II cents.
Miss Bessie Eastland and Hon. Jeif
Kent, of Forest, were married by Pres
| w. L. Bowrey.
Bank clearings at Jackson show
daily volume of business of from sou,
900 to 100000.
Simpsonites have petitioned the
Board of Supervisors that the hang
ing of Harveston on Dec 18th be made
public.
For the largest and best exhibit of
poultry and pet stock, at the Meridian
fair, VIM. Abbot, of Natchez, took
first prize.
Miss Florence Wright, daughter of
the editor of the Vicksburg Dispatch,
was married to Charles o. Lonely. of
Pomeroy, Ohio.
Henry Kernaghan, the present in
cumbent, E. Yellowly, r. 0. Edwards
and B. Lemly are all candidates for
Jackson's postoffice.
At Pass Christian, Mrs. W. 7. Cay
ton, while unlacing her shoes, fell
from the chair in which she sat and
sustained a painful fracture of the
hip.
The Southern Industrial Conven-
ton at New Orleans, next Tuesday
Mississippi is interested and large
representative delegation will attend
from this State.
The joint committee appointed to
secure the right of way for line OF
track between Woodville and Natchez
made favorable report to the Bust
ness League of Natchez.
Mrs. Fanny j. Kicks is in New York
consulting with an architect with
view to the early construction of the
$4,000 Kicks Memorial Library she
has donated to Yazoo City.
An order has been issued on the Hi
nois Central that in the future all
trains must carry canvas stretchers
for use in case of accident. An .extrs
supply will be kept on hand at Jack
son, Memphis, Canton, McComb and
New Orleans.
The south bound New Orleans anC
Northeastern cannon ball collideC
with a north bound freight train Oh
the 22nd, at Errata. Three negroes
were seriously injured, and Engineer
Jack Tew.was carried to.Meridian il
an unconscious condition.
A tornado through north Mississip
pi and West Tennessee on the Goth re-
suited in not less than fifty deaths anc
the destruction of considerable prop
erty. 1t was the awful work of five
minutes only, the cyclones patti
measuring one thousand feet wide.
) J. B. S. Miley, fireman of the Ala
bama Great Southern, was killed il
the yards at Jackson by train run
ming over him by reason of an acct
dent which threw him directly il
front of the engine. He leaves 1
widow and two children in Birming
ham, Ala.
} Gov. Longino has offered a reward
of 800 for each of the Gamble family
who were killed and cremated il
Leake county, about year ago. A de
tective is in the county working OF
the case and the discovery of all tn
; criminals is still prime object will
the people in those parts.
N. B. Eldridge, of Pass Christian
committed suicide by shooting hiI
self through the head. He was one O
the best known men of Harrison coun
ty; for years had served as deput
sheriff and also as ballot commission
er from 1890 to 1900. No cause j
known for the act. He leaves wifi
and two children, besides number @
relatives.
The first fatal accident on the G.
S. l. railroad occurred Saturday nigh
II inst, when one of Eastman Gard
ner & Cos engines ran into som
freight cars. Fireman Charlie Daugt
drill, who was highly connected a
Laurel and Mobile, was pinioned bt
tween the tender and engine, an
scalded to death by the escaping steal
from the broken engine.
Citizens of Greenville have filed
claim for $1,000 to reimburse them fo
their expenses amounting to that sun
r in preparing for the encampment c
the Mississippi National Guard tina
Z was to have taken place last Angus
] but that was postponed almost at tn
4 last moment. Gov. L0ngino b IS tn