The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1898-01-19
MISSISSIPPI NEWS.
state Happenings Since The
Leaders, Last Issue.

Meridian needs shoe factory
rho Kosciusko Star has suspended.
Summit has no residences for rent.
yazoo will have a new opera house
,o- rabbits and 60 quails were killed
Dapiel Sullivan, aged 70, died near
Union Church.
nr w. N. Ames died at Starkville,
Of pneumonia.
starkyille talks of organizing a dairy
mans association.
Natrimony, like time and eternity,
keeps marching on.
From Hattiesburg to Columbia a
rsilroad will be built.
The press favors the appointment Of
Judges and Chancellors.
At Laurel, E. B. Welborn and Mrs.
Annie Long we're married.
Greenwood is losing physicians on
account of her good health.
vniscopalian members gave "Pisca-
torisl Party" in Yazoo City.
Mississippi ranks third in the list
for its number of lynchings.
Will r. Easterling and Miss Lila
Iea were married at Summit.
The first building is going up on the
Jackson Baptist Orphanage property
Scranton has received its first cargo
Of West Indian ffait, lot of coaco-
nuts.
7 w. Flemming was sent to the
pepitentiary from Waynesboro, for
bgamy.
W J. Ferguson, of Utica, and Mrs.
Bsssie C. Kirby, of Louisville, KY,
we're married.
Dr. C. L. Catchings, of Terry, raised
turnip weighing 314 pounds and
measuring 241s inches in circumfer-
ence.
The Vicksburg Daily Dispatch is all
Wright, and in some respects is all
wronQ-on mob law and prohibition,
for instance.
Armor & Co., one of Jacksons' prom
ipent clothing firms, has made an
assignment. Liabilities, $4,000; as
sets $4,000.
By a majority of 10, Issaquena voted
in favor of prohibition. The districts
having the saloons gave the majority
against the sale.
The celebrated suit Of the Esta-
buchie Lumber Company against Fl. H.
Overstreet and j. H. Williams, has
been compromised.
Crystal Springs is planning to petit
ton Congress for the establishment OF
a vegetable experimental station at
that progressive town.
The Port Gibson Reveille says: 1t is
doubtful if lynch law can ever be justi-.
fed in any country, having laws and
an organized government.
The Legislature adjourned one day
to pay tribute to the memory OF Mrs.
Luther Manship, wife Of Kinds dis
tinguished Representative.
McComb is prospering schools,
churches, colleges, local administra-
ton and society all on the up grade
so says the Enterprise.
jeff Williams, who killed r. j. How
arl at Kosciusko, in 1896, has been
made life prisoner In the penitentia-
ry, the Supreme Court sustaining the
lower court
W. C. George, son Of Hon. j. u.
George, has founded a scholarship in
honor of his father in the A. & M.
College. There will be three beneficial
rles, yearly.
Mrs. DR.. Hays Swayze, of Yazoo City
died. She had been married only three
months and the sad occurrence evoked
much sympathy for the bereaved
young husband.
Bishop Derrick, of the African Meth
odist church, and a resident of Greater
New York, will preside. over Confer
ences at Summit, Yazoo City and
Clarksdale.
In Meridian, Circuit Court oc cupied
whole day trying M b, Armor
charged with selling "a drink, which
II taken to excess, will intoxicate.'
Ills total fines amounted to $3.50 and
SIX months imprisonment,
Hon. A. G. Kimbrough, vice presi
cent OF the Greenwood Bank, has pur
chased $4,000 plantation neal
ohepardstown. Mr.. X. is a prominent
candidate for the Chanceliorship, nov
held by Hon, A. II. Longino.
Referring to Judge Powell, the Crys
al Springs Meteor says: "Mississip
p's Judiciary should be composed en-
urey OF Ien of his force Of ,characte
'nd determination and the lawlessnes
saa crime which have stigmatized th'
Hate would soon cease"
Death like an untimely frost" ha
'uched and blighted one of the State
~ nost beautiful flowers. Mrs. Belmon,
ue'ps Manship died last week, la
lea'ea by many, many friends. He
husband, the Hon. Luther Manship i
!" TO mourn his loss with six littl
rom nent, .citizsns of jackson an,
large number Of the members of tn
Ms'siature NJ, have requested Judge T.
"narton to deliver q lecture at Jack
~ On his 81 years at the bar, the pro
moceeds to. be used in raising tn
mortgage and preventing the sale n