The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1889-09-26
THE STATE.
NEWS ITEMS GATHERED
AND CONDENSED FROM
ALL QUARTERS.

OughIy Organizing.
Worms have done good deal of
damage in the Delta.
The Summit Sentinel will issue
daily during fair week.
Mr.. George Hackley, an old citizen
of jackson, died few days ago.
Chancellor Warren Cowan has
moved from Clinton to jackson.
The farmers burnt lot of trust
bagging at "A gin in Smith county.
The Grenada Oil Mill has suspend
ed on account of legal complications.
DR.. Joseph A. Newman, one of the
oldest citizeus of Warren county, died
last week.
j. ID. Bryant, cOlored, has been ar
rested and placed under bond for
passing counterfeit money in Jack
son.
SAM Jones has handed Bishop Gal
lOway 4 check for one thousand dol
lars for the proposed Methodist Col
lege.
The Deer Creek Pilot complains of
Rolling Fork as a lawless town. made
so by saloons and worthless local
officials.
The Columbus Rifles is the oldest
military organization in the State 1t
was organized in 1887 and has never
been disbanded.
Lindsey Cornelius, a 12-year-old
boy, was caught in the machinery of
a steam mill near COrinth Oh the 21st
and was instantly killed.
"There are wars and rumors of
vars between the races, but so far
there has generally been a great
deal more smoke than fire.
State Commissioner of Immigration
G. w. Carlisle has gone to Sioux
City to Superiptend the Mississippi
exhibit at the Corn Palace.
A son of Capt. Chas. E. Wright,
editor of the Commercial Herald, aged
four years, died suddenly of heart dis
ease in Vicksburg Sunday.
Col. j. l.. McCaskill, late Consul to
Dublin, returned to his home in
Brandon last week and was rendered
an ovation by his old friends and
neighbOrs.
Sidney Langford, editor of the
Deer Creek Pilot has been removed
from the Rolling Fork postOffice to
make room for James ii. Cartright, a
Republican.
1t is proposed by Adjutant Gen.
Henry and others to use the So, 900
appropriated by the Government to
the use of the State Militia, to the
equipment of new companies with
arms.
The Gordon property, consisting
of $4,000 acres, adjacent to Yazoo
City, was purchased last week for
$50, 900 by syndicate of local CAPT
talists. 1t will be divided into small
farms and resold.
Ras Wheeler, the celebrated Copiah
county bulldozer, was sentenced to
the county convict farm for four
months and fined 500 by Judge
Chrisman at the late term of Court,
for unlawful retailing.
T. w. Brabston, a member of the
Board of Supervisors, of Warren
county, and a cousin and oppo-
nent of W. II. BrabstOn who was kill
ed in the primary election row few
weeks ago, died on the 10th.
Bob and Ike Carr, bOthers, were kill
ed by Lon Connerly with a bowie
knife in Pontotoc county last week.
The Cars attacked COnnerly with
pistols, but strange to say, he success
fully defended himself with the above
result.
Earnest Wilson, aged about seven
years, residing on the Goodwin place,
near Russum Station, while playing
in pile of seed cotton, burrOwed un-
der the cotton, when a quantity of it
fell on him and smOthered him to
DEATH
Bill Hollingsworth, twenty three
years old, now living in Sunfiower
county, was recently married to his
seventh wife, having buried six
wives within a period of six years.
He was first married at the age of if
teen to maiden of only ten.
Rev. H. Walter Featherston, Presi-
dent of Kavanaugh College, has pre-
pared for publication "The Life of
Preston Cooper: The Prophet Preach
er of Mississippi" The celebrated
mineral well that bears his name is
one OF Mr.. COoper's prophecies.
The large two-story barn belong
ing to the A. & NJ. College was burm-
ed Sunday evening. The shed and
creamery, which are in close prox-
unity, were saved by hard work of
275 students. The estimated loss of
farm implements, forage, building
and machinery is $4,000.
The case of Frank Lanier, who was
indicted in the Warren Circuit Court
over two years ago for a criminal as
sault on white woman, has been mol
pressed. Lanier came near being
lynched at the time, and a negro ac-
cused of being implicated with him,
was lynched, but it now turns out
that the charge was grouhdless as to
both.
A man whose wife had just given
birth to boy triplets, recently wrote
to Governor Lowry, stating that he
was II poor man and already had a
large family before the last three
little strangers came, and wanted to
know if the State made any provis-