The leader., 1897-10-06
MISSISSIPPI NEWS.

s,.,c Happenings Since The
Leaders Last issue.
Magnolia has burglars
Meridian is full of "widowers.'
boon has quarantine" dinners.
,.h,rst has a curfew ordinance.
n-.,or is coming in freely to Sum-
nit. -, n
ridian.
,.o,ber telephone system is starting
at Hazlehurst'
A cotton gin and three houses were
burned at Tupelo.
Summit is putting up some hand-
some residences
y.-;dian has contributed nearly
.,oonD to afflicted Edwards.
4, Hebron, Mr.. l. Myers and Miss
oretus Myers we're married.
!, Port Gibson, Mr.. Tilla, farmer,
lost his arm in running gin.
cummit has contributed 5000 to
Dr. Clay's waits, of New Orleans
, negro at Hazlehurst lost his arm
:. ,bo m machinery of the Lumber Com
pany.
Dr. G. W. Robertson, of Hazlehurst,
is the quarantine inspector on the
A.&V.
Nsridian's railroad shops employees
contributed $500 to the Edwards
sufferers.
Tsrrv's Graded School has Temporal
rily suspended by order of the Board
of Health.
MANY Mississippi towns have con-
tributed to those in the tolls of the
pestilence.
Rev. f. H. Mounger is recorded by
tbe Port Gibson Reveille, one of the
heroes of rs.
Grenada issued $4,000 more of
bonds to finish her water works and
sewerage system.
Hill Byrd shot and killed his broth
er.in.law, Theodore Parker, at Plea
yune. Both coons.
Earle Humphreys public steam gin
was burned at Oaklawn. Only one
bale was consumed.
Robert Winfield, the last of three
children of Mr.. and Mrs. w. II. Day,
of Wesson, has died.
A fire department has been organ
lied at Grenada composed of two white
and one colored company.
Rev. T. B. Graves, assisted by his
sister, Mrs. Sophia Foxworth, will run
aprivate school at Wesson.
Centreville says it's round bale of
cotton brings net gain of from sl.75
tos3OOover the square bale.
One of the Grenadian's enterprising
advertisers ordered a hundred extra
copies sent to his customers.
Editor Frank Burkitt has offered
his elegant and commodious residence
in Okolona for sale at bargain.
The Meridian Herald issued spe-
cial edition and gave the entire pro-
ceeds to Edwards yellow fever suf-
ferers.
The Ladies Cemetery Association, of
Summit, is spending s24O on a wire
fence with steel posts around the city
Of the dead.
Mayor Dial, of Meridian, fined each
OF eight persons 800 and costs for
being out after the ringing of the
curfew at Sp. NJ.
An escaped convict had picked cot
ton three weeks near Port Gibson
before being suspected. His left ankle
bears marks of shackles.
Jake Higginbotham, the negro who
assaulted a quarantine guard at
Natchez, was convicted and sentenced
TO SIX months Imprisonment and to
pay fine of $500.
Five young ladies of Jackson, "who
remain" have offered te serve on the
special police. The daily Bulletin said
1ney were in dead earnest and we're
the bravest young ladies in the State.
Dr. V. Simmons was by quarantine
prevented leaving Summit to claim his
haziehurst bride, Miss SaIlie Sumrall,
80 the young lady went to Summit by
Encouragement and the knot was tied
just as satisfactorily to all concerned.
Grenada has three artesian wells at
varying depths of $40, 4s4 and 700 feet.
remarkable feature is that although
.ne wells are but twenty five feet apart,
,ne geological formations are widely
different in each we'll.
mr. 5. p. Walker, principal of Ha-
Aenurst High School, was the first to
''and the required examination for
PROFESSIONAL license in the State, and
WI n. ). Wilson, Brookhaven's worthy
principal, ,ledthe first class in pedagogy
the State University, and was the
Oaiy member who completed the course
"''n honor, as is shown by the cata-
iogue of 95-9s.