The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1898-09-07
MISSISSIPPI NEWS.
A Shorthand Chronicle Of Cur
rent Happenings.

q rent Happenings.
q Yazoo's grand jury found IL indict-
- ments.
- jackson is to have Republican
. newspaper.
& George Hays, negro brakeman, was
IS killed at Bentonia.
81 Mrs. Henrietta Kearney, of Canton,
8 died of heart trouble.
81 Jesse Montgomery was acquitted of
q arson in the Magnolia court
q Mrs. S. G. Enochs, widow of the late
y J. +. Enochs, of Copiah, died last week.
8 The population of Centreville has in
~ creased from lS6 in 1894 to 53l at pres
eDt.
81 Tom Garner's trial for the murder
s. of Scott Causey and wife began Mon
81 day.
= DR.. j. II. S. Pitts is the Republican
g candidate for Congress in the 5th dis
q trict.
= Capt. j. J. Cowan, of Vicksburg, fell
- from a train and received serious in
= juries.
'& w. H. Harris. one of Edwards best
- known residents, was found dead in
G his bed.
s Miss Ella Sturgess and Mr.. W. F..
q Shamburger, we're married at Crystal
8 Springs.
q The Columbus Industrial Institute
G will open it's 14th annual session on
"a Sept. %.
81 Albert Holmes was brutally murder
n ed by VIM. Smith at Canton. Both
s. colored
IS Mrs. Minnie Mcdowell, wife of Hon.
g E. A. Mcdowell, of Magnolia, died
y Aug. 25th.
y Rev. DR.. J. X. Pace has served 5
q years as pastor of the Baptist Church
|$ at Hazlehurst.
u Yellow fever alarms are not as Sc
n rious as formerly The latest is from
8 Orwood, Lafayette County.
Is Florence and Edith Fox, orphan
S children of McComb, have been placed
q in Jackson's Orphans Home.
q Mr.. w. A. Hodges and Miss Callie
q Stanfill were married at McComb.
a& They are located at Auburn.
Us Dr. George B. Reaben, a son of the
~ we'll known dentist, is now established
~, ho %
rs A Christian Missionary Convention
IS was held at McComb last week. State
g Evangelist John A. Stevens was pres
'e ent.
s& The Confederate Veterans Reunion
Us at Gloster on the 2nd was success.
~ Private John Allen was the orator of
,Ss the day.
. The Southern Railway last Sunday
* put on a double daily passenger SER
vice with Pullman sleepers on the
nc Greenville division.
w DR.. ]. B. Searcey of Corinth, will be
~ the editor of the new Baptist State pa
per, instead of DR.. J. B. Gambrell as
III enormously announced.
IL The Free State is the name of a new
ut paper just launched at Brandon. 1t is
en- published in the interest of the negro
of race and is edited by E. H. johnson.
~ The Greenwood Enterprise says that
of Messrs. C. L. and H. B. Rice of that
place will soon go to Hattiesburg and
establish an extensive sash and door
~ factory.
Guy Jack writes to inform the pub
lie that he is not the president of a
Sunday School association, but is still
ed doing business at the same old court
all house stand
ter George May succeeds VIM. Williams
ug. as cashier in the State treasury. Miss
Scott, of Crystal Springs, has been in
stalled as bookkeeper, the place made
n vacant by Mr.. May.
j. w. johnson, foreman of Whites
Nv Lumber Mill, states there is more
10 building going on in the State than he
ever knew of, and that most of his
~ lumber is sold in Mississippi.
ar At Newton a colored man offered to
marry Bette Brassfield if she would
dispose of her 3-year-old child. To-
he gether they beat it to death. The man,
ot Rios Williams, made his escape.
es Four cases of fever, diagnosed as
tn yellow fever by DR.. Cant of the State
Id Board of Health, were discovered four
H. miles in the country back of Taylor's
IT. Station, Lafayette county. 1t is not
tn known how the disease originated
OF the twelve young men who left
Mississippi City early in May to join
- the First Mississippi Regiment, two
- have been sent back corpses and two
! are at home on sick furlough. Compa-
I ny L, to which these young men be-
I longed, has had deaths since their ar
I rival at Chickamauga.
! Supt. of Education Kincannon has
I given notice to every county superin-
I ltendent that the fall examination for
! teachers must be held on the 10th and
I 18th and on the 23rd and oath of Sep.
Z tember. White applicants will be ex-