The leader., 1903-01-07
MISSISSIPPI NEWS.
y Short-iIand Chronicle OF Cur
rent Happenings.

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son on New Years day.
Robert Buck Hamilton and Miss
Elizabeth Miller, of Jackson,
were married on the 31st.
Prof. j. T. Hood, of Gallman,
is candidate for superintendent
of education from Copiah.
Railroad news agent Corner had
his right foot cut off by the cars
at Crystal Springs last Friday.
Vandalism is nuisance in Ha-
zlehurst. Globes of arc lights are
a special object of destruction.
Miss Mignonne Howell, of
Crystal Springs, and John A.
Caldwell, of Jackson, will be mar
ried Jan. 14th. =.
1t is reported from Jackson that
the Illinois Central Railroad will
build handsome union depot at
Jackson at cost of over 5000, 900.
The knights of Joy" held a
banquet at Canton on the End.
Among toasts drank was one by
James McGrath-"The Ladies. Z"
The German steamship,
Hersile, is being loaded at
Gulfport with 100000 feet of
lumber bound for a port in Hol-
land.
Indianola objects to the negress,
Minnie M. Cox, who has been
made their postmistress against
the wholesale protests of the citi-
zens.
Newt Collins, of Copiah, fell
from a passenger train nearing
Hazlehurst, thinking it was about
to stop, and is injured beyond re-
covery.
The Y. NJ. C. A., of Laurel, has
inaugurated agymnasium and edu-
cational work. A night school for
boys is also a branch of their
splendid enterprise.
The death of Judge Frank E.
Larkin is lamented throughout
the State. He died at Green
vile last Saturday. He was a ma
tive of Lawrence county.
Col. Yancey D. Lott, of Jack
son, married Miss Nettie Heintz,
at Huntsville, Texas, last week.
Miss Heintz was formerly one
of Jackson's prominent mil1iners.
Hon. j. J. Conan has retired
as private secretary to the Cover
nor and is succeeded by James
Mcdowell, of Holly Springs. Mr..
Conan will engage in the insur-
ance business
While returning from the mar
riage of his niece in Pike county,
John D. Simmons was stricken
with apoplexy and died in a few
moments. His health was ap-
parently good.
Gov. Longino pardoned Hugh
Payne, aged IA, the youngest CON
vict in the penitentiary last week.
He was sent up from Lauderdale
for burglary; but circumstances
were mitigating.
Ellisville had two deaths on the
9Th. Will Sellers, aged 25, died
after a long illness, leaving a
young wife, and Mrs. o. L.
Brown departed this life, leaving
a husband and babe.
Major L. O. Bridewell, of Beau
reagrd, has written a book, ''The
Negro, a Man With a Soul to
Save" 1t is refutation of "The
Merge, a Beast" and is consid-
cred an able publication.
Last Saturday night five white
convicts escaped from a temper
airy building in which they were
confined during the grading. of
the new capitol grounds at jack
son. One was captured at Ridge
land.
j. Q. Martin is the champion
swine raiser of South Mississippi.
He made a shipment recently of
so head to New Orleans for which
be received $3.50. These hogs
were fattened on peanuts and po-
tatoes. Crystal Springs Meteor.
Miss Grace Neal, school teach
er from Louisiana, who had spent
the holidays with her mother at
Phoenix, returned to her duties
on the 2Sth. At six the following
morning she was taken with con-
gestion and died an hour later.
George Thompson, of Co
lumbia, was very seriously
hurt. by the premature explosion
of a cannon on Christmas day.
The discharge burned his eyes
so seriously that blood flowed
from them and it will be twelve
month before he will be able to
use them.
Henry Wagner had both his
legs crushed off on Jan. 9Th, while
attempting to board moving
train on the L. & N. railroad at
Gulfport. He was so intoxicated
he could hardly stand at the time
of the accident He is 80 years of
age and unmarried,
Weary of being a fugitive from
justice, Walter Farley, an es-
capped convict, walked into the
State penitentiary on the LIST and