The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1906-02-17
STATE HAPPENINGS.

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a light criminal docket.
A ten-tcn ice plant has been
started at Silver Creek.
Hon. E. f. Noel is doing some
quiet gubernatorial campaigning.
Actual work on the Mississippi
Central has begun at Hattiesburg.
The Magnolia Ice Manufactur-
ing Go. was sold under mortgage
foreclosure.
Gulfport society will give a
tplay for the benefit of the battle
ship Mississippi =
The ladies Of Jackson's Second
Baptist church had phenomenal
success with a rummage sale and
have inaugurated a repetition of
the same.
G. M. Williamson, one of the
largest stockholders in and an or
ganizer of the Merchants Bank at
jackson, has been elected presi-
dent of that institution, succeed
I ing the late Richard Griffith.
A fine gin and cane mill, wagon
and a lot of bagging and ties be-
longing to j. G. Yawn, seven
miles northwest of Summit, was
destroyed by FIRE. Evidence goes
to prove that the fire was of in
eendiary origin. Loss, approx
mately $1,000; insurance, $500.
Dan Moore, the seventeen year
old white boy who attempted sui
eide at Meridian Sunday after
noon, is still alive, but is not
expected to live. He is said to
have shot himself to escape the
jeers and gibes Of his fellow work
men in the Northeastern yards
because of his alleged implication
in box car robbery.
1t has been found that the de-
feet in the Cumberland telephone
cable between Natchez and Vida
liza, La, cannot be repaired, and a
new cable will have to be install
ed. The old cable is buried un-
der deposit of mud and garbage
to depth of thirty feet. It is
1000 feet in length and carries
twenty wires. The defect in the
wires is 300 feet from the Louisi-
ana shore. 1t cost $4,000.
At Port Gibson Tom Barket,
said to be from Chicago, employ
ed as laborer on bridge gang,
was fined total of $125 10 Mayor
Brashear's court. He was assess
ed 500 for unlawfully retailing
and $25 for carrying a concealed
weapon. The accused was unable
to produce the amount of the fines
and was placed in Jail, booked for
the county farm, unless friends,
which be claims to have in Mem
phis, come to bis assistance.
Application has been made to
the Governor to issue proclama-
tion incorporating the Birming-
ham and Mississippi Southern
Railroad Company, capitalized at
$4,000, 900, with domicile at Hat
tiesburg. and which proposes to
build a line from Birmingham to
Baton Rouge, passing through the
counties of Wayne, Jones, Perry,
Lamar, Marion and Pike, in this
State, making its eastern exit
from the Commonwealth at the
Wayne county line, and its south.
ern exit at either the Marion or
Pike county border.
Sheriff G. S. Magee made an in
vestigation of the steel cage in
which j. Ed Regan, sentenced to
hang at Port Gibson for murder
ing Jason Moody, is confined to
see if everything was right. The
sheriff found razor in box un-
der the prisoners mattress and on
turning the mattress over, also
found a 3S calibre Smith & Wes-
son revolver and fifty cartridges
to fit. The prisoner positively
refused to state how he came into
possession of these weapons and
the sheriff is totally in the dark as
to how they were smuggled IN.
The pistol and cartridges were
sewed up in a towel and placed
inside the mattress which was
lalso sewed up afterwards. As to
how they got there remains a
mystery.