The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1898-08-17
MISSISSIPPI NEWS.
A Shorthand Chronicle of Cur.
rent Happenings.

oaO' s-Aahu SnTOilcle Oh Cur-
rent Happenings.
Yazoo City has had a $4,000 fire.
Jackson's band concerts attract
thousands nightly.
Gov. McLaurin made a free silver
speech at Chester Monday.
The Copiah Signal favors Judge H.
c. Conn for Attorney General.
The U. s. Court is in session at Mis-
sissippi City, Judge Niles presiding.
Four new brick store buildings will
be erected in West jackson by Oct. lst.
The Woman's Foreign Missionary
Society Of the Methodist Church, met
in Jackson last week.
Col. ]. L. Power, it is said, will write
a history Of Mississippi embracing q
period Of 100 years from 1898.
Prof. j. c. Hardy is impressively
urged from all quarters as Superin-
tendent Kincannon's successor.
Capt. E. A. Ford, a prominent citi.
zen of Canton and we'll known travel
ing man, died Sunday of paralysis.
Mulloch Walker, colored, was lynch
ed at Corinth on the 11th for assault.
ing Chas. Dalzelle with sand bag.
Mr.. and Mrs. Reynolds Clarke, of
Vicksburg, on the 18th inst. celebrated
the Goth anniversary of their wedding
DR.. H. E. Mckay, the strawberry
king" of Madison Station, is market
ing apples of the Buckingham variety.
Hon. Robt. Showers, of the Oxford
Globe, is first lieutenant of Capt. Raj
ford's company, Third Mississippi reg
iment.
Dr. T. G.. Birchett is a candidate for
Mayor of Vicksburg, as is also the
present incumbent, Hon. w. N. Trow-
bridge.
The Institute for the Deaf and
Dumb, located at Jackson, will open
its next session the first Wednesday in
October.
Private John Allen has been renom-
mated for Congress. He carried ev-
cry county in his district except his
opponents.
Mississippi is now quarantined
against all Louisiana, on account of
the reported outbreak of yellow fever
at Franklin.
The Courier says rough estimate
shows that during the past 3 years
$4,000 has been put in public improve
ments in Hazlehurst.
Jackson's city council has passed an
ordinance requiring property owners
to keep the weeds and grass off the
sidewalks adjoining their premises.
Fred. Copies, aged 10, arrived at Hat
tiesburg from Tuscaloosa, Ala, where
he was held till his father came for
him. He had run away from home to
see the world for himself.
Maj. w. H. Gibbs has been made
inspector by the State Board of Health
and assigned to duty on the Nicks-
burg, Shreveport and Pacific trains be-
tween Vicksburg and Shreveport.
Rev. Eugene A. Taylor, an eloquent
minister of Memphis, Tenn, has &C
cepted the call to the First Baptist
Church at Vicksburg. Mr.. Taylor was
reared in this State and is graduate
of Mississippi College.
Meridian's water has been analyzed
by Prof. r. w. Jones, of the State
University, and pronounced impure.
A legal fight will take place, as the
city is determined to annul the con-
tract with the water company.
Ed Granderson, an eX-convict, kill
ed VIM. Everett and Jim Stonestreet
in Yazoo county. A third deputy was
wounded in the leg. Hounds and a
lynching party will doubtless furnish
the closing scene to the tragedy.
Two young men, Walter Polk and
John Daughdrill, of Lawrence county,
became involved in a difficulty while
returning home with their wagons
from shopping trip to Summit, and
Daughdrill probably fatally shot Polk.
Col. Govan says that if the Govern
ment wants an immune regiment the
First Mississippi has more immunes
than any other regiment of the serv-
ice. Over 500 in the regiment, includ-
ing the colonel, one major and five
captains, out of II, have had the vel
low fever.
The Brandon News says Capt. j. j.
Coulson has little black COW
that has given an average OF IL
gallons of milk day for four years,
with only 10 days intermission. This
milk at % cents gallon would be
worth $547.6O, showing that the COW
has netted over 800 a year over her
feed and keeping.
Col. Geo. NJ. Govan is at home on
short furlough. When will the First
Regiment be ordered out?" he was
asked by a reporter. Don't know"
was the reply. Nobody does, for that
matter. Even the people up in Wash
ington have no idea. The boys are
anxious to be sent somewhere before
being mustered out. They would glad
" assume garrison duty"
The Rank of Rosedale has closed.