The leader., 1897-11-24
r. HOBBS, Editor and Proprietor.
MISSISSIPPI NEWS.
state Happenings Since The
Leaders Last Issue.

I.eA0eT hUSb ISSoCs
Craps are shot at Meridian.
Jackson now has Board of trade.
Supreme Court at Jackson, Dec. 9th
No new cases at Edwards in two
weeks.
Uattiesburg has three all home print
newspapers.
Judoe VIM. G. Henderson is Biloxi''
postmaster.
Nineteen pairs of ducks we're bagged
st Scranton.
Millsaps College opened with 15t
matriculates.
Bay st. Louis fever sufferers were
entirely relieved.
The skeleton Of a woman was found
south of Newton.
The scissors grinder has emerged
from New Orleans.
Millsaps has "Millsaps Collegt
Historical Society.
The State press is unanimously in
favor of new capitol.
Congressman Henry will move his
family to Washington.
Rev J. P. Hemby has moved from
t,allman to Hazlehurst.
Fifty one white convicts are picking
cotton in Yazoo county.
Mississippi farmers are seriously con
sidering crops of wheat.
Patrick Henry and Miss Lily Hicks
Of vicksburg, will wed today.
Mr.. Arch Peteet and Miss Mollie
Bunch, of Yazoo, were married.
Jackson's bakers contributed 15C
hounds of bread to Clinton sufferers.
Seven prisoners have escaped from
the county farm near Holly Springs
The De Kalb Press is now the South
eru Star and will hurrah for Populism
= W.R. Jackson, an old resident OF
Macon, dropped dead Of heart disease
Rev. w. F. Marlborough is assisting
In a meeting with Columbia Baptist
church.
LF. Barbour & Son, dry goods mer
chants of Meridian, moved to Tusca
lOosa, Ala.
Hattiesburg made its first shipment
800 bales of cotton) direct to Liverpool
last week.
Miss Elizabeth S. Yerger and Mr.
Andrew B. Learned were married al
Vicksburg.
The officials and inspectors Of the l
C. Railroad have made their annua
inspection.
The Meridian Commercial, VIM. F
Gray, editor and manager, has appeared
for public favor.
Chas. Reeves, an employe of J. J
Whites saw mill at McComb, tool
morphine and died.
Holly Springs pottery recently filled
an order for 6.Oo0 gallon jugs for
Memphis liquor house.
Gov. McLaurin has issued procla
nation making Greenwood a city. 1t
population is more, than 1000.
The Natchez Cotton Company lost
gin by fire. 150 bales we're consumed
Loss greatly exceeds insurance.
Yazoo's business will suspend, mer
chants close their doors and all attent
Thanksgiving services Thursday.
Hon. E. II. Green, Of Green's Cross
Ing, near Jackson, lost $500 when hi
gin and cotton went up in flames.
Besides SCOT contributed to Clinton'
relief fund by Jackson and Flora
Vicksburg and Meridian have also Civ
en- aid.
The Woman's Foreign Missionar.
Society of Jackson First Meth odis
church observe this, the Week o
Prayer.
Capt T. B. Kendall, aged 80, of Crys
tai Springs died suddenly in New Or
leans For 20 years he had been
drummer.
Miss Miller, the II year-old daughte
Of Dr.. R. D. Miller, died at Clinton o
yellow fever. His. sister died severa
weeks ago.
The Star Grocery Company, of Me
fldian, publishes every day in the Her
cid, bill of fare ,fon the oonvenienc
Of housewives.
Mr.. Walter James, Of Yazoo City
was run into at jackson By runawa
dog cart. His collar bone was broke
and severe bruises vera. sustained.
Mrs. Josephine Schillig,. the wealth.
est woman in Port Gibson, inherite
her husbands fortune three years agt
and has just married his private set
eetary.
One ofths government doctors. say
an immune Of 1878 is down with q, ger
aine case Of yellow fever at Scrant6r
Dro. T. X. wAFblas, villwOn ders neve
oease?n
Sergeant J. w. Nay has been SUI
pended blythe penits nsiary Board {
control, six prisoners having slippe
through his fingers in ~ many week
N Rankinl county.
d.. B. 4 Lss+ Csrig. and; Miss BeaI
rice McWtllie, Of Jackson. we're. maj
ned last Thursday. IL vas . Rres
surprise to evsn Intimate fIends IN
caused a.sensation..
Following ara. the delegates. to tl
nsneries congress-. which meets
Tampa, Fla, Ian. .l9th.:, r. w. Bank
sas. d. Neville. F. Seal. n. A. Deea,