The leader., 1902-12-31
MISSISSIPPI NEWS.
A Shorthand Chronicle of Cur
rent Happenings.

oV,ooo DdIISlS VI OySbeE Su6llS
will improve the principal thor
oughfares of Gulfport.
A colored woman was burned
to death, together with her home
at Starkville last Friday.
The Oldest resident of Clair
borne county died on the Goth
DIR. j. l.. Torrey, aged SO.
Glen Allan, in Washington
county, was almost totally de
stroyed by fire on the Goth.
The Natchez Democrat distrib
uted toys and candies among 35(
poor children of the Bluff City.
Fl. H. Rogers was convicted Of
the murder of Thomas Byrd. Al
appeal will be taken to the Su
preme Court.
A young lady accidentally shot
and killed Jimmie Matthew neal
Scranton last week. MATTHEW
was 20 years of age.
William Boyd, one of Summit's
oldest and best known citizens
was found dead in his bed on the
morning of the 22nd.
The Woodmen of the World at
Hattiesburg distributed $20C
worth of goods among the poor
of that city on Christmas day.
Wiley White killed his brother.
in-law near Forest. The dead
mans name was Pope and they
had trouble over a business tran
sactiOn.
$3.50 loss and the additional
damage of Is bales of cotton was
the result of fire last week,
caused by friction in the McComb
Cotton factory.
A young countryman became
involved in a quarrel with a show
man at Poplarville and stabbed
him in the back, the blade pene-
trating the lungs.
Jos. Bailey was shot in the
abdomen by the city marshal of
Fayette on Christmas day and
died the following day from the
effects of the wounds. Bailey
was % years old and leaves a
mother and sister.
Because he was voted to be the
most popular railroad man, S. I.
Downs, yard master for the
Northeastern Railroad, received
a 5000 diamond ring, offered by
the Evening Star, of Meridian.
A. j. Teter, was next in the race.
Thirty men of Enterprise were
celebrating Christmas on a float
drawn by four mules, when it
suddenly capsized and J. B. Nc
Dade and Mart Thompson we're
seriously injured. The float
weighed $500 pounds and fell
upon the latter.
A cold blooded attempt to as
sassinate VIM. M. Jones was
made at Summit on Christmas
night. A negro, unknown, fired
upon him from behind a tree.
Mr.. Jones had had some trouble
with Tom Arnold, who had threat
ened to get even with him.
An appeal to the Supreme
Court has been taken in the case
of Lloyd Began, negro convict
ed in Lawrence county for MUIR
der, and sentenced to hang. The
execution was to have taken place
last Friday, but the appeal was
taken, and the case will be re-
viewed by the Supreme Court
after the record arrives.
The Department of Archives
and History has received an Oil
portrait of Alexander M. Clayton,
who was on the Supreme Bench
of Mississipsi before the war,
contributed by his daughters,
Mrs. w. L. Hall and Mrs. J. w.
Ross. Mr.. A. G. Paxton, of Hol-
landale, also contributes a por-
trait of the late Governor McNutt.
A family of Finlanders arrived
in jackson last week. No one
could understand their language
and their country's exchange
could not be cashed at the banks.
An interpreter was sent up from
New Orleans by Mr.. Dunn of the
I. c., with the result that the
family had it's needs supplied and
continued their way to the Ores
cent City.
The youngest horse thieves on
record in the State we're captur
ed in Pike County last week. One
was Is, the other II, and they had
stolen a pair of horses from a
plantation near Hillsdale, La.
After one had been killed in cross
ing the railroad by a train, they
offered the other for S.. Sus-
picion was aroused and the ar
rest followed.
The Pearl and Leaf Rivers
Railroad has made application to
the Railroad Commission for per-
mission to change it's terminal
from Monticello. in Lawrence
County, to Natchez, in Adams
County. The road now runs
from Hattiesburg to Blountyille.
and is being built beyond Blount-
vile in the direction of Monticello,
and the application made means
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