The leader., 1900-03-07
MISSISSIPPI NEWS.
A Shorthand Chronicle of Cur
rent Happenings.

A SHORTHAND Chronicle of Cur
rent Happenings.
Gloster aspires to electric lights.
Scranton is shipping white holly to
Boston.
The Legislature thinks it will adjourn
March 18th.
w. A. Diers, late of the Natchez
Evening Bulletin, will edit the Biloxi
Herald.
Judge H. Murray Quin died at his
home in Holmesville on the LIST inst,
aged 80 years.
The home of Peter Washington at
Pass Christian was totally destroyed
by fire on the night of Thursday last.
Mr.. Fucker, of New York, proposes
to erect in jackson an up-to-date hotel
and opera house at cost of s25O,OOO
Hon. w. F. Gray has leased the Me-
ridian News for term of years and
proposes making some improvement in
the paper.
Cotton to the amount of 1900 bales
was sold in Vicksburg, on the 3rd inst,
the sum of $4,000 being received in
payment.
The Mississippi Mills now close
down at o'clock on Saturday after
moons, thus allowing the operatives a
half holiday.
Judge Grant, notorious negro, was
shot and killed while resisting arrest
by Policemen Ruckam and White, at
jackson on the 3rd inst.
The old penitentiary grounds, upon
which the new capitol will be located,
comprise square of about nine acres,
with street on every side.
The recent valuation of the peniten-
tiary property shows it to be worth
300, $780, 6, of which sl43, 13S.5O is realty
and s79, 443.2S personality.
Prof. w. s. Huddleston and Miss
Rosa Huff, two of Smith countys most
prominent young people, were married
at Ellisville on the 4th inst.
An old negro man named Williams
was found dead in the woods about
nine miles from Utica last week. He
had been murdered and hidden.
The sum of $4,000 has been donated
to the Yazoo Library Association for
the erection of a building, by Mrs.
Fannie J. Kicks, widow of Gen. B. F.
Kicks.
At Pass Christian, on the LIST inst,
the big base ball game between the
Bloomer Girls and the Pass nine re
suited in score of 5 to 4 in favor OF
the boys.
Mr.. Owen Charles, superintendent
of the Newman mill at Hattiesburg
received severe cut on the head last
week, by a lever, while adjusting some
machinery.
Mr.. w. j. Brown, Jr., of Jackson, re
ceived severe bruises on the 2Sth inst.
by losing his footing as he boarded 6
street car, being dragged for sew
eral feet.
Summit has lost one of it's oldes
and most respected citizens in thu
person of Mr.. John Kirchner, who dice
at his home there, on Thursday last
aged IA years.
Scranton was visited, on the morn
ing of the 2Sth inst, by a very destruc
tive cyclone which demolished or dam
aged several residences and caused 1
total loss of $4,000.
The body of the lamented Gen. T
S. Ford which has been buried fol
over two years near Scranton, on the
coast, was re-interred in the cemeter.
at Columbia last Saturday.
Last week, at Poplarville, the cree
ton of the new Baptist church, which
will cost over $1,000, and the new build
ing wherein the Bank of Poplarvill'
will be domiciled was begun.
At Tuscanola, on the evening of the
2Sth inst, Mrs. Porter, wife of DR.. j
r. Porter, of Tuscanola, was struck by
a train and received injuries from
which she died in few hours.
H. j. McConnico, salesman residin,
at Hattiesburg, fell from the platform
of the southbound train as it entered
New Orleans on the 2Sth inst. and frac
tured his skull. His condition is crit
ical.
The National Editorial Association
visited Gulfport, Pass Christian, Bi
loxi and Hattiesburg, this week, return
ing north via Meridian. At Hattiesbur
the editors were given an old fashioned
barbecue.
Mr.. Peter James, member of thu
firm of Peter James & Co., of Yazo'
City, large cotton planter and pres
ident of the bank of Pickens, died a
the Denechaud Hotel in New Orlean
on the evening of the 18th inst.
Three fishermen, named Will Ermi
Itch, Henry Williams and Joe Mitche
all white, came into Vicksburg las
week, sold their fish and got DRUM
They then began quarreling and Mitche
was shot and killed by Ermilich.
The Grenada Sentinel of the 24t
inst. publishes letter from Governo
Sayers, of Texas, which gives the in
formation that that distinguished gen
tleman was born in the town of Gre
NADIA, Miss, on the 23rd of Septcmbel