The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1902-09-03

married last week.
All of Jackson's principal business
streets have been torn up and paving
brick are being laid.
In the Circuit Court last week Col
Coleman, of Holly Springs, was fined
$3.50 for crap shooting.
Joe Mccall, painter, fell from g
smokestack in Clark's brick yard al
Clarksdale and was killed.
NJ. B. Armer, one of Meridian's best
known men, died on the 9th, leaving
widow and several children.
Mary Williams, negress, was fined
Sc and costs for moving into house
without permission at Jackson.
Mrs. H. G. Kavanaugh, of Magnolia
died on the 28th, leaving an aged hus
band and several grandchildren.
H. M. Wilkinson, father of D. W
and Guy Wilkinson, wholesale mer
chants of Jackson, died last Thursday
The country residence of G. E. Kiln
ker, in Rankin county, was burned
down last week. Loss $1,000, with ne
insurance.
Lands in the Delta to the value Of
S1,500,000 have changed hands since
January. Most of the purchasers are
from the North,
Hon. E. j. Bowers graciously &C
cepted the compliment of banquet
from his personal friends at Bay ST.
Louis on the 9th.
Hon. T. B. Franklin has been elected
President of the Columbus Insurance
and Banking Company, vice Major J.
M. Billups, deceased.
At Collins, the other day, a boy ten
years old was arrested for murder, and
another, fourteen years old, was in
dicted for running "blind tiger"
At the meeting of the State Sunday
School Convention at Winona :, last
week, ]. T. Buck was elected president;
Isaac Walters, of Vicksburg, secretary,
and T. L. Trawick, of Crystal Springs,
treasurer.
For the fourth time in succession
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Pettigrew, OF
Yazoo City, have been called upon to
relinquish to the arms of death their
only child Ruth, aged three, died
last week.
In a runaway last week at Winona,
Mrs. Gid. Montjoy, ST., jumped from
the buggy and caught one of her feet
in the wheel of the vehicle, which re.
suited in the breaking of leg. The
limb had to be amputated.
Mrs. Van Leer Kirkman, of Nash
vile, has offered to donate to the State
department of Archives and History
magnificent painting of her father
the late Jacob Thompson, who was 6
leading Mississippian of his time.
James M. Flood. formerly CHIEF
clerk of the Natchez Hotel, was sand
bagged in st. Louis last Thursday and
his body laid across a car track. His
skull was crushed. His body was
brought to Natchez and inferred.
Three youths ran away from the
Natchez orphan asylum last week, and
tramped all the way to Vicksburg,
One was returned, one went to his for.
mer home at Eagle Lake, and one
found employment in the Hill City.
Emmett Simmons, the young son OF
Mr.. and Mrs. M. M. Simmons, of Mag
nolia, bathed in his fathers gin and
was resting on the mill sheeting direct
ly under the waste pipe of the en-
gineer. When the machinery started
he was scalded from head to foot and
died after several days of suffering.
At Dover, Yazoo county, when Floyd
Mccormick awoke on Sunday morn
ing and looked into his wife's room,
where she and their infant were sleep
ing, he saw lying asleep on the floor a
negro man. He struck him with g
piece of buggy spring and broke his
neck. The negro proved to be half
witted man.
The west bound A. & V. train col
lided with fallen tree near jackson
last Thursday and one man, negro,
killed, and John Jones, the engineer,
seriously hurt, was the result. The
oak tree, three feet in diameter, was
broken in two by force of the collision,
the roots being thrown to one side
and the top and branches to the other
side of the road.
Messrs. j. A. IL. G. Biedenharn, the
we'll known candy manufacturers of
Vicksburg, have put up large factory
on Elysian Fields street, New Or
leans, that will turn out 10000 pounds
of candy day in 400 different va
rieties. Fifteen thousand pounds of
stick candy are made daily and thirty
employees are now in the factory. It
is the largest plant of the kind in the
South
Miss Sarah NJ. Mccormack, a noble
Mississippi girl, died at her post of
duty as a faithful, conscientious nurse
at Touro Tnfirmary last week. While
nursing typhoid fever patient she
contracted the disease, but wo;ild not
give up until her patient was pro-
nounced out of danger, when her