The leader., 1902-03-19
MISSISSIPPI NEWS.
A Short-iIaud Chronicle OF Cur
rent Happenings.

roads meeting Monday.
Straw berries are backward and will
not be shipped before April LIST
Proctor & Gamble are building
100000 soap factory at Jackson.
1t is a general complaint that no
oats are being sown in the STATE.
Tie roundhouse of tie | C. at JacL-
son is expected to he completed by
April LIST.
The Mississippi Inter Collegiate Or
atorical contest will take / lace at
Natchez in May.
Hon. A. NJ. Byrd, of Neshoba, has
formally announced his candidacy for
Congress from the Fifth district.
The death of Hon. J. \. Redhead,
President of the Mississippi Cotton
Growers Association, is greatly la
mented,
The Sons of Confederate Veterans,
who last week held their first conyen-
ton at Meridian, will meet in Jackson
next year.
Had he only known it was loaded,
Frank Matthews, aged IA, perhaps
would have missed being shot at Scran-
ton last week.
DR.. julius Crisler is at the head of
movement to establish an infrmary at
Jackson. 1t will be capitalized at
about $4,000.
| DIR. J. w. Harmon, one OF the most
distinguished Methodist diyines of the
South, died at Paulding last week and
was buried at Jackson on the 18th.
Alexander Stevenson. citizen of
Kinds, of the Tinnin neighborhood,
near Jackson, blew his head off with a
shotgun last Thursday. He was over
10 years of age.
Harrison Taylor, long time resi-
dent of Jackson, has just passed his
10Th birthday. He is hale and hearty
and keeps busily engaged in labor in
his blacksmith shop.
A. C. Webb and Miss Jennie But Ter,
of KNOXVILLE, Franklin county, were
married at the Mayer Hotel in Baton
Rouge, La, last Wednesday. Judge
Bauer performed the ceremony.
On March %, Miss May Bailey.
daughter of Rev. T. j. Bailey, editor of
The Baptist, will be married in the
First Baptist church of Jackson to
James Porter Tull, of Pike county.
An clipping couple from Amte coun-
F, ty, Mr.. Sullivan and Miss Stubbs
were married at Meadville on the 9th
Wherever they 'went or came from, the
Advocate says, they we're rejoicing.
With Sol. ". a. Montgomery, Hon.
John Sharp Williams, congressman
Pat Henry and Charles E. Hooker, in
the coming Congressional race, the
Eighth district will have hot cam-
paign.
Miss Kate Markham Power was the
recipient of handsome gold watch
from the Penitentiary Investigating
] Committee as a testimonial to the
fidelity and fairness of her reports for
the press. - I.,..,
The first contribution to the $4,000
! fdnd for the purchase of Beauvoir was
given by the Meridian Typographical
Union. The Mississippi Sons Of Con
federate Veterans have undertaken the
raising Of the amoppI
'''n @aeRbam. steG Csrapher.
was married last Thursday to Horace
Cameron, nephew of Col W. ID. Cam
eron who, for thirty years, served as
circuit clerk of Landerdale. The GER
emony took place in Meridian.
Prof. Geo. G. Hurst, principal of the
Florence public school and Prof. B. E.
Jarrett, principal of the public school
at Hazlehurst, have both become ed
itors of late as well. The first Is nov
at the masthead of the Stems Creek
Times, the latter editor of the Halle
hurst Courier.
Ten pickanninies, arrested on a
charge of stealing coal from the |. c.
yards at Jackson, had all fines and
punishment RENTED, with the under
standing that each mother would give
each degenerate son a good thrashing
They made the welkin ring for half
hour within the Jail yard enclosure.
The jailer at last had to make the Wig
orous women desist.
John Thomson, an Indian, recently
arrived at Lexington from the Terri
tory, assaulted the wife of DIR. Rain
bow, resident Indian. The doctor
pursued Thomson, camping on his
trail, until he came up with him and
then there was a duel to the death,
ending in the killing of the offender
DIR. Rainbow is chief of the Choctaw
nation and the sympathy of the people
is with him.
The steamer Providence WAS caught
in the terrible storm of last Wednes-
day morning, near Vicksburg, at Da-
Wis Bend, and TIVE nty-one live S were
lost. The whites who were drowned
were the captain; Will Cassidy, who
leaves wife and three year old son. re-
siding in Vicksburg; Clyde Scott,
representing the Vicksburg Oil Mills:
DIR. N. A. Lancaster, a we'll known
physician of Davis Bend, and May
Roup, the chief engineer of the boat.
The disaster was the worst of it's kind
for years.
The distinguished Chief Justice of
MiSSiSSipDi 10 in dauan1 nc On a...o.