The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1898-08-24
MISSISSIPPI NEWS.
A Shorthand Chronicle of Cur
rent Happenjnys.

A ShOrt-Hand Chronicle of Cur
rent Happenings.
T. L. Dobbs, aged "a, died at Laurel
on the Goth.
The Crystal Springs camp meeting
opens today.
Hattiesburg is to have sash and
blind factory.
A great many towns have received
their first bale"
Edwin Burnley, of Hazlehurst, was
with Dewey at Manila.
Sunfower county holds a stock law
election on the 26th.
County Election Commissioners will
be appointed Aug. 81.
Prof. d. w. Jones, Superintendent
of Education of Copiah, has resigned.
Albert Howard was killed in Holmes
county by his younger brother Clyde.
The Fayette Chronicle wants Col. J.
L. Power to be Mississippi's next Gov
ernor.
Mrs. Abiza Davis, of China Grove,
gave birth on the 18th to two boys and
girl.
d. G.. Kersh and Mrs. Sarah A. Har-
per, two old citizens of Rankin, are
dead.
Prof. Chas. Parks was elected by the
State Board County Superintendent of
Yazoo.
The Biloxi Daily Herald has made
its appearance. 1t is decidedly cred
table six-column quarto.
Mrs. j. H. Lewis, formerly Miss Mary
Phelps, of Cleveland, o., died at her
home in Kosciusko on the Goth.
Judge A. H. Longino and family are
sojourning for a few weeks with a
brother of the Judge in Missouri.
The Mississippi University Institute,
conducted by Rev. z. B. Graves, is to
be moved from Wesson to Summit.
A. M. Dahlgren has been succeeded
as the collector of customs of the Pearl
river district by John P Walworth.
The Third Regiment has sent a
strong petition to the War Depart
ment, requesting to be retained in the
service.
Prof. E. L. Ragland, the popular life
insurance agent, has been attending a
big meeting of insurance men in Phil
adelphia.
The first cargo of lumber from Pas
cagoula to Cuba since the war began
was shipped to Havana on the Schooner
Edwards Monday.
The Farmers Institute which met at
Centreville was grand success both
in regard to attendance and the carry
ing out of the program.
The Hoo -Hoos had lively concati-
nation at Hazlehurst recently. Capt.
John Mason, of Brookhaven, presided
as Vice Grand Shark.
Viola White, colored, was sentenced
to the penitentiary for one year by the
U. S. court at Mississippi City, for
forgery and opening letters bearing the
U. S. stamps.
There will be but one change in the
Mississippi congressional delegation.
In place of Senator w. V. Sullivan,
Hon. Thos. Spight will respond to the
Second district.
W.. NJ. Dukate, of Biloxi, has ac
cepted the plans for his $4,000 opera
house, which will be erected on Lam
muse street, Biloxi. The work will be
begun Immediately.
On the 18th inst. shooting occurred
at Gallman between Chas. Bass and
Ben Greenhill, which resulted in the
instant death of Bass and the seriou S
wounding of Greenhill.
The Governor has appointed the fol-
lowing officers for the town of Gulf
port, viz S. S. Bulls, mayor; w. d.
Cooper, marshal; J. f. Mahoney,
treasurer T. p. Gary, alderman.
J. M. williamson, ormerly deputy U.
S. Marshal for Southern Mississippi,
has purchased the restaurant and
leased the building on the corner of
st. Emanuel and Cont streets, Mobile,
Ala. He has fitted it up for first
class restaurant and named it the Mis-
sissippi House.
According to Secretary of State
Power, the wet counties in Mississippi
are: Adams, Hancock, Harrison, Issa-
auena, Jackson, jefferson, Madison,
Monroe, Tallahatchie, Tunica, Warren,
Washington, Wilkinson-13 wet, 62 dry.
The wet counties paid Sl01 400 into the
State Treasury.
Candidates are already being dis
cussed in some of the counties for an
election that does not take place until
next November year The candidates
had better go slow and give the people
rest. 1t is entirely too early to be
worrying the public with a campaign
that will not end for over II months.
| A committee of citizens and business
men representing Crystal Springs, Ha-
zlehurst and Wesson, are urging the