The leader., 1897-09-08
MISSISSIPPI NEWS.

s.,,. Happenings Since The
Leaders, Last Issue.
yccomb runs skating rink
,,aiapola will have a cotton oil mill.
w.,;dian is paving her business
streets.
dancing school.
negro small pox patient was muir
dersd at Columbus.
Blight, rust and worms are in'urins
.otton in Yalobusha.
wesson has the largest single room
u,,e house in the State.
rhos l. Keys has been made post
..s,er at Ocean Springs.
cortember 2s is Mississippi day at
A.. Tennessee Centennial.
II. Henry, Jr., represents the
,,sat lithographing house OF Aug.
Cast.
The nude body of a negro man was
,.,na floating in the river near Green
vile.
Ar Sullivan, Meadville's new post
u.ster is erecting a new postoffice
building.
Arthur J. Goodwin lost his life in
irving to swim Wolf river near Pass
Christian.
The Lee Lumber Co., of Redwood,
Warren county, has assigned. Assets,
n,OO: liabilities about the same.
Nv. Buchanan, who has been con-
nected with the Greenville Times for
% years, is now no longer editor.
Greenwood's Methodist choir has
given an entertainment for their
church which was great success.
Hon. S. S. Champion, of Edwards,
has died. A few months ago he was
married to Miss Ollie Montgomery, of
Edwards.
Hotel Simon, of Jackson, has passed
into the hands of r. L. Jones and d.
T, Evans and resumed it's former name,
Spengler House.
Two men assaulted Evangelist Kelly
at Scranton in the night as he was was
passing to one of his meetings. They
have been arrested.
The Grand Lodge Knights of Honor
contributed $50 to the Natchez Orphan
Asylum and s25 each to the Methodist
and Baptist orphanages.
Greenwood has organized a grocery
company with an authorized capital of
$4,000: W. T. Burns, manager; H. H.
Nabors, secretary and treasurer.
At the special election for sheriff in
Franklin county, Jones, Democrat, re-
ceived 343 votes, and Newman, Popu-
list, 8l-a majority of IL for the Dem
ocrat.
A Demorest Medal Contest was held
in Yazoo City by pupils of Miss Rebec-
ca Blundell and the medals were won
BY Masters Robt. Bennett and Will
Henry.
A Atelephone line from Fayette to
Rodney, via Melton Station, Hays and
Alcorn College is now certainty. Fol
lowing this will be line from Fayette
to Natchez.
Rev. J. P. Kelly, a latter day saint,
was told to fold his tent at Scranton
and not stop within 25 miles of that
place. He intends to take the matter
into the courts.
Rev. 7. D. Mitchell, colored preach
er OF jackson, was held up on the
streets Of Meridian at night by three
negro highwaymen and robbed of $21
In cash and silver watch.
Gus Catchings, of Rankin, was call,
90 out into his yard at night and fired
upon by negro named Jim Miles. He
was shot painfully in the jaw. The
negro is in the penitentiary.
Jno. B. Puckette, of Monroe, La,
was found dead in Vicksburg in a va
can't lot He had been stabbed, and as
sNo was found ON his person, robbery
was not the motive of the criminal.
@'oo,OOO feet of lumber we're ship
ped through the port of Ship Island
uuring the last fiscal year, and the
saipment from the entire Pearl River
district amounted to 100000 feet.
= Sam B. Childress, postoffice clerk at
Sar'artia, Yazoo county, has been
o0und over in the sum of $500, to ap-
pear at the Federal court in November
LOT opening the letters of his sweet
heart to rival.
John Hunt, the old negro shot re-
V,u'ly oy Joel johnson, of Jackson,
'"en discovered stealing corn from
uls Darn, after long delay, had his leg
.~pa1ated and died within an hour
from exhaustion.
VIII ID. Cook, Of Copiah, was held up
~ negroes Saturday night. Being or
ue'ed TO dismount, he did so on the off
sue drew his knife in the act and jab-