The leader., 1902-03-12

editor.
Land sold we'll at Franklin's tax
sale last week. Every piece brought an
amount largely in excess of taxes and
damages.
The forge and foundry shops of the
A. & NJ. College were partially burned
last Thursday. The loss was covered
by insurance.
Miss Hattie Walker, of Canton, and
c. L. Smith, formerly of Jackson, but
now of Havana, Cuba, were married
last Thursday
In its haste the Legislature failed to
provide any pay for the judge and dis
trict attorney of the new 18th judicial
district it created.
Will Berry, a merchant of Hebron,
committed suicide by shooting himself
in the head on the LIST. He leaves a
wife and two children.
The Board of Supervisors of Frank
lin county have ordered the court
house painted. 1t was finished with a
fine grade of yellow pine.
DR.. Holmes, a lady of Baltimore,
Md, has been elected to the position
of assistant physician and instructor
of chemistry, at the l. l. & c.
Eighteen students from Lawrence
county have matriculated at the Geor-
gia-Alabama Business College at Ma
con, Ga, in the past twelve months.
A summer normal for. undergrad
yates in the ministry will be held at
Millsaps College. 1t is proposed to
make the normal permanent insitu-
ton.
Three young ladies, Geraldine An
derson, Myrtle and Halle Richards,
employees of the Yazoo Cotton Mills,
died from the effects of drinking spring
water.
James Hamilton, a prominent plan
ter, was found dead in his bed at Ray
mond on the 9th. He was so years of
age, but had been in apparently good
health.
The people of Columbus are consid-
ering the removal of the city fences, to
improve the appearance of the place.
The stock law would have to be rigidly
enforced.
John S. Hoover, of Summit, has been
elected major of the First Regiment
Infantry, Texas National Guards. Maj
Hoover has been a citizen of Texas for
several years.
For the third time Percy Ware, a
noted negro prisoner, has made his es-
cape from the tolls of the law If he
is caught again, the officers think they
can hold him fast.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Mcfarland, of
Vicksburg, have been bereaved lately
in the death of two of their children
from scarlet fever. Their nine year
old son was buried on the 9th.
Jim Frye went to his death on the
gallows at Jackson last Friday, craving
bananas. Death by hanging is grue-
some and awful, but it is poor recon-
pense' for a life like that of officer
James Redmond.
George Causey, a roOfer, in the
freight repair department of the |. c.,
at McComb, was so seriously crushed
by the collision of two switching cars,
between which he was caught, that he
died in forty minutes last Thursday.
A paralyZed negro, John Pettijohn,
has been sent to the pen from Tunica.
Both legs are paralyzed and both arms
are crippled by rheumatism. He is a
life prisoner, sent up for murder.
Being unable to work, he might be
said to be we'll fixed.
Just before adjourning the Senate
adopted a resolution affirming its
confidence in the integrity of State
Treasurer Carlisle and declaring that
the committees report on the land bill
forgery was not intended as reflection
on the integrity of that gentleman.
Blind tiger" whisky made a MUIR
derer of one man, a dead man of an
other and wounded man of third at
Hattiesburg last Thursday. Sheriff
Moody, of Pearl River, shot and killed
Alb. Miller, aged 10, and wounded Earl
Wright, aged q. All had been drink
ing.
E. 7. Sykes, Jr, of Columbus, has en-
tered suit for $4,000 against the Mis-
sissippi Cotton Oil Company on the
grounds of libel. The plaintiff de-
clares he can show receipt for the
81, 200 which President Lewis declared
he was short in his accounts. Mr..
Sykes is member of one of the Oldest
and most prominent families of the
State.
The rivers and harbors bill carries
in its appre priations for Mississippi
streams the following items: Pasca-
goula river and its tributaries, Chicka-
saw and Leaf rivers. IS, 800; Pearl river,
below Rockport. $1,000; Pearl river, be-
tween Jackson and Edinburg. $1,000;
Yazoo river and is tributaries, ITALIA
hatchie and the Big Sunfiower, s55, 600;
Homochitto, $1,000; total for the State.
s755OO.