The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1898-11-09
MISSISSIPPI NEWS.

MISSISSIPPI NEWS.
S,ort-Hand Chronicle Of Cur
rent Happenings.
Thanksgiving Day-Nov. Mth'
Mccomb wants a poultry show.
Millssps enjoyed its opening with lou
students.
Webster county farmers are plant
ing wheat.
THE Supreme Court will convene
Nov 2lst
Tom Knapp, of Meridian, lost his
residence by fire.
s,orkville is pronounced entirely
free of yellow fever.
State Auditor Holder is now danger
ously ill at Memphis.
Mrs. Meadow, of Ellisville, dropped
dead at her supper table.
The governor appointed c. T. Bled-
soe marshal of Harriston.
Bay st. Louis is taking steps to
abate the tramp nuisance.
Work has commenced on Vicksburg's
new electric street railroad.
Capt. T. ]. George, of Hattiesburg,
lost his handsome home by fire.
Mrs. Geo. E. Moore, of Wesson, was
seriously injured in a runaway.
Hazlehurst will hold its chrysanthe-
mum show on the 18th and 10th.
Jackson seems determined on sewer
age since the late unpleasantness.
Gov. McLaurin is billed for a free
silver speech at Biloxi next Monday.
McGinty has gone down again. His
saloon was robbed of $500 at Fayette.
W. W. Holiday, of Hazlehurst, and
Miss Edna Herring, of Veto, have
married.
"Three frosts and rain is rele-
gated to the rear. We had ten frosts
and no rain.
The Greenwood Commonwealth pro-
poses Mississippi Agricultural Expo
sition in 1900.
State Superintendent of Education
Whitfield took formal possession of his
Office Monday.
F. L. Bellenger retains his place on
the editorial tripod of the jackson
Evening News.
Vicksburg wants the troops mustered
out there. The time has been extend
ed to Nov. 2Sth.
Thos. Henry, of Bolton, is now chief
clerk of the Illinois Central freight
office at Jackson.
Editor SETTLER says the actual death
rate from fever in Hat tiesburg was two
or three per cent.
Frank Wilson, a young man of Me-
ridian, accident ally killed himself
Monday, while hunting.
Hon. W. W. Kirsh, of Brandon, all
but died from blowing out the gas :"
in Hotel Piazza, at Vicksburg.
Col. W. F. Lancy, of Oklahoma, who
purchased the American Citizen six
months ago, died at Hattiesburg.
Gid. D, Harris of Columbus, was &C,
cldentally shot by his brother, George,
while hunting. The wound was slight.
Mrs. Moles, wife of Conductor Willie
Moles and daughter of Mrs. w. E. Eas-
ley' OF McComb, has died, aged %
years.
One thousand head of cattle have
been shipped from Brandon to Okla
homa, S3 cars being required to handle
the lot.
A syndicate of Northern men have
bought 34OO acres of land in Union
county, which will be used as game
reserve for quail and pheasants.
A. M. McAllister, of New Albany,
mas Invented a field gun which, if it
VIII accomplish half of what is claimed
Tor 1t, will revolutionize warfare.
on the recommendation of the State
board OF Education, the governor ap-
pointed j. L. Wilson, superintendent
OF education of Copiah, vice Jones, re-
signed.
Colored citizens of Columbus have
'u'i' a Two story building and opened
new school with P. s. Bowles, of
Na'cnez' principal. lI5 pupils were
enrolled the first day.
Boyd 4 Buckley, of jackson, will
continue business under the same
name' the interest of the deceased
n'emoer of the firm, Mack Buckley,
having fallen to his widow.
Mo oand, adjutant or quartermaster
n''i oe allowed the Third Mississippi.
~ n: henry, jr., Of jackson, had been
appointed to the latter position and is
.nus deoarred from serving his coun,
"esson has a Doctors Dinner Party.
on each recurring birthday of Wes-
.Vn L doctors dinner is given by
,ne ceiebrant, to which all the other
uoo'ors are invited. AS each birthday
O0ours In different month the NJ. DIS
a'e assured of one good dinner a
month, the year round.