The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1901-12-27
MISSISSIPPI MATTERS
NOTES OF PAST AND CURRENT EVENTS.
BY KATE MARKHAM POWER

wiIl Lanier erstWhlle Famous as
.,sorer but from henceforth to bt
saanized as the great Jail-breaker
~ once more asked his keepers(?)
~ aovcuse the liberty he has taken,
Nv means of files and saws and
,,anret ladders, has fled for parts un
,nown This Aberdeen desperado's
s;s,orv is too well known to need repe
.itiOn here, but our readers may be
turtber interested to learn that on the
.iobt of the 14th he made his escape
Nv saving through five steel bars in
me top of his cell, making a hole
about a foot square, and then digging
through a brick wall two feet thick
and letting himself down from the
second story to the ground, eight feet
holow by means of four blankets tied
|togetner at the corners.
THE "escaper" occupied steel cage
n tne second story, the only cell on
|tbat floor, and his feet were manacled
and secured by chain locked to the
|hors of the cage. The manacles were
|olso sawed from his feet and left in
1.-The cage.
He asked for extra covering at 8
o'clock Saturday night, and got two
heavy blankets. The jails stock Of
|hed.clothes is thus decreased by four.
II amer was sentenced to hang Jan. Is,
ESO2 But, then, he was sentenced
|once before to hang. And he may be
|sentenced again. AS to the hanging,
I've think we have cause to doubt 1t.
Mississippi entertained last week an
Unexpected guest in the person of gen.
hine, hoary old Winter, and she had
Rll his attendants of sleet, snow, ice
Ind wind along with him. 1t was
something of novelty to "Old Mis-"
10 begin a game of "freeze-out" thus
early in the season, but she managed
10 hold her own fairly well, and re-
Hired from her duties as hostess only
little the worse for the visit. 1t was
feared at first that the icy touch of
winter had injured all vegetation, but
later it was found that only the tender
blants were killed. During the freeze
bf 1899 all the cape jasmines as far
|outh as Rodney were killed to the
ground But last weeks ice seems not
% have injured them in the least,
Even as far up as Central Mississippi.
/, is hoped by the lovers of our beauti-
|ul forests that no harm was done to
Pie Spanish moss" the long, graceful
|estoons of which, reaching from limb
d limb and tree to tree, gave to our
Iouthern woods" and swamps so Pc
Euliar beauty. The freeze of '99, it |
pill be recalled, killed this moss, and |
De have had none since until this fall, |
fhen it seemed to have found new |
Pfe and was rapidly replacing the an
Fent decoration of the monarchs of |
Pc forest with most exquisite tufts
|nd ribbons of pale, gray, feathery
|oung moss more beautiful than any
9e had ever seen before.
Columbus has a United Charities
ssociation which has done noble
FORK for several years, and which ac-
Pmpllshed great things for the relief
the poor during last weeks ex-
|eme cold. Every town of any con-
deraDle size should have one of these
fsociatlons, to which the business
en- should belong as well as the good
Omen' In this way the towns may
/ Systematically organized and much
pOo accomplished. The worthy poor
u In this way stand better chance
oeing helped and professional beg
rs Will get less of the peoples aims
~ is the rule when charity is in
Peliminately dispensed. Memphis,
Fan, has an ASSOCIATION of United
'afiues and its system is SO COM
enensiye and SO effective as to be
pf'ny OF imitation by ali cities WISH
70 do the greatest good to the
'a'est number with the least means.
''porS from Washington state
representative Patrick Henry of
lnird Mississippi District, after
s,"ews with those who know"
N ,'ns the report that Mississippi
SCI an army post. There are to
~. ~, Oh these permanent army posts
eu ana every State in the South
= determined to get one. Texas
,w, anxious that she is sending
. aa armies" of her best takers
49, 'eAest politicians on to WASH
NJ !" capture a. post, whether or