The leader., 1900-04-11

The county Jail of Madison county IS
empty for the first time in the memory
of the oldest inhabitant of that county.
jackson has lost one of her worthy
young business men in Mr.. John Hea-
phey, who died there last Wednesday
night.
Mr.. Bernard Kullman, a prominent
merchant of Natchez, and Miss Bertha
Moore, of that place, were married re-
Gently.
The residence of Mr. H. 4. Pany-
baker, of Oxford, was burned on the 9th
inst. Value of building $500, insur-
ance S140O.
Jack Hammond, resident of Me
Comb and brakeman ON the ]. c. road
was instantly killed last week by a
| freight train.
J. c. White, of Memphis, has recent
ly purchased about 600 acres of the
old Miller place, near Brandon, and is
making a stock farm of it.
The governor has appointed Capt. O.
j. Waite, cashier of the First National
Bank, trustee of the blind institute
vice Prof. J. C. Hardy, resigned.
st. Stanislaus cadets recently re
ceived a handsome and costly sword,
which was presented by Mr. Auguste
Quintim, warm friend of the young
soldiers.
Pike county's board of supervisors
refused to allow bills incurred by the
presence of smallpox at Osyka, and
much bitter feeling against the board
is the result.
Mrs. S. J. York, formerly Miss Mary
Belle Lawrence, of Meridian and Vicks
burg, and niece of Mrs r. H. Henry, of
Jackson died at her home in Memphis
on the 9TH inst.
Brandon boys made Ex-Governor
McLaurin the victim of an April Fool
joke by enticing his COW upstairs and
leaving her on the second floor of a
front store gallery.
A fire at Woodville on the 9th inst.
destroyed the stores of G.. A. Wettlin
and L. Jacoby and damaged the stocks
of three neighboring firms All stocks
except that of L. Jacoby was insured
At Gulfport last week, Walter Wal
thall, brakeman, fell between two
cars, breaking leg, and five cars pass
ed over him before the train could be
stopped. Amputation was neces
sary.
Attorney General McClurg received
last week sample of building marble
from some unknown person in New
Bedford, Indiana. 1t is supposed that
it was submitted for the inspection OF
the capitol commission.
The residences of Mrs. Fanny LuSt
and Messrs. j. c. Statham and Alton
Deck were burned at Ricksville, neal
YaZoo City, last week. Very little
household furniture was saved. There
was 5000 insurance on each house.
At Picayune on the It'll inst, there
was free fight in which seventeen
men, ten of whom were named Mitch
ell and seven Woodcock, participated
handles and clubs were used pro
miscuously, but no one was killed.
Gabe johnson, a negro murderer OF
Madison county, for whom the gallows
had been three times prepared, the
governor each time granting a respite
of thirty days, had his death sentence
committed to life Imprisonment last
week.
Prof. j. G. Hardy has been elected
president of the A. Il NJ College. His
position as capitol commissioner will
be filled by Hon. r. H. Thompson
whom the governor appointed imme
diately upon the resignation of Prof
Hardy.
An unfinished line of railroad, run
ming west towards Meridian, has been
purchased by eastern capitalists. Capt
F. M. Abbot, acting as their agent, will
complete the road to the Tombigbee
river and, very probably, will ultimate
ly extend it to Meridian.
The Canton Times will be edited by
the ladies for one week. They are to
edit it according to their conception OF
the manner in which a newspaper
should be edited, and no doubt, their
issue will be as novel as was Sheldon's
editorial work on the Kansas paper.
Mr.. Samuel Rowan, of Wesson, and
Mr.. Lowrey Powell, of Toccopola, have
been appointed by the faculty of the
University of Mississippi as represen.
tatives of that institution in the State
oratorical contest, to take place at the
Chatauqua at Crystal Springs in July
A guard on the Rankin State farm
was handed a drink of water by con.
vict last week. While he was drinking
the convict secured his gun and in
company with four other convicts
marched him six miles where they left
him and went their way rejoicing. By