Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1902-12-26
MISSISSIPPI
NEWS NOTES
Transpiracies Of Moment in The
Magnolia State.
MORE WHITE CAPS
Col. Bobo dead--Fatller Driven
Insane by Death Of Son--FiI-
tered Water for Vicksburg.

IGTEu WdICI IUT FIbkcUuiS &.
The wtiaecap. movement that - :
been carried on through Amite,
Franklin, Pike and the western por-
ton of Lincoln county, reached
Bogue Chitto Friday night. In the
neighborhood of 2 o'clock Sunday
morning. about fifty men, it is said.
visited several negro houses in this
vicinity and left notices to the effect
that the negroes must leave the
saw mills and other public work,
and return, to the farms OF some
good and honest white man, who
was himself a farmer, prior to Jan.
/. Among those served with notices
were two negroes who had, during
November, been Notified to leave
farms in the western portion OF tbs
connty, and are now ordered to re-
turn to the vocation from which
they had been ordered only short
time ago. The co.ored people are
very much wrought up over the sit
uation, as they do not understand
what is expected of them, a dis
patch dated at Gloster, intimate.
that the situation in Amite county,
has been relieved, but Friday
nights proceedings seem to indicate
that peace does not as yet prevail in
toto. .NEl f3e Ste
The Board. of ofSupersisors of Simp
son county, is being urged to order
a new registration of voters on the
ground that the old one has become
outworn and is full of terrors. Un'
der the present law, although the
books are open every year for the
registration of new voters who have
come of age, and through the elec'
ton commissioners are required to
examine and purge the registration
rolls previous to every general cleo
tion an entirely new registration Of
the voters cannot take place except
on the order of the Board of Super
visors. In view of the Importance o
the elections to be held next syeai
it is probable that there will be
new registrations in number o
counties where the roll has re-
mained unchanged for good many
years until it has become generally
unsatisfactory.
It was with general, regret that II
was learned that Colonel Robert e.
Bobe, of Bobo, Miss, had died in
the Hahnemann Hospital, in Mem
phis of blood poisoning, superin-
duced by liver troubles. The de-
ceased was about 55 years of age,
and most successful bear hunter OF
the Yazoo bottoms. Even in the
days of General Wade Hampton be
was looked upon as a brave and
skilled bear hunter and he owned
one OF the finest packs of dogs in the
United States. He owned large
cotton plantation near Bobo, in Goa
homa county, Mississippi.
40. Pearce, who has filled the
position of city passenger and ticket
agent for the Yazoo and Mississippi
Valley Railroad at Viekbsurg for
the past FIVE years, has been pro
NOTED to the position of travelling
passenger agent of the Illinois Cen
trail Railroad with headquarters at
Memphis. He fills the position made
vacant by the resignation of John
r. Hollis last month. Mr.. Pearce
will enter on his new duties Jan. l,
1903.
The New York Filter Company
now has force of men at the pump
ing house at Vicksburg preparing
to put in tiltering plant which is
promised to furnish water as clear
and pure as rain water. 1t is ex-
pected to be in operation by Jan.
IS. 1t will have capacity of g.
200, 900 gallons every twenty -four
hours. The cost Of the plant will be
$50, 900.
Mrs. NJ. e. Hughes Of Vicksburg,
has entered suit against the United
States government for cutting / 900
cords of wood from her property on
the island opposite that city. The
trees and saplings were cut by or
der of Capt. Thomas. United States
engineer stationed there, for the
purpose of making way for the gov
ernment work being done where the
timber was located The amount OF
damage claimedis $400.
A number of whitecap notices
were posted about three miles above
Summit Friday night, and terror is
prevailing among tn colored per.
sons in that locality. It is quits
probable that a number Of negroes
will leave their homes unless their