The leader., 1898-03-16
MISSISSIPPI NEWS.
s,,,e Happenings Since The
Leaders, Last Issue.

II I,R0UcE - 1ss~'~
,,.,asep will have cotton mill.
CO.. at Meadville sell for 8 cents.
s r'ss.oo wants Sam Jones In April.
r.;d.v is Bryan day at the Capital.
n-, Grove has a negro postmaster.
o..sDville has circulating library.
bean boasts Of her show window
decorators.
R. Frazer has been appointed
Mayor of Tupelo.
simpson county had ~ criminal
..ssl on her docket 2ra zsas{5
Tho Jackson Cigar Factory has
u'rsd to Shreveport.
Tho vicksburg Post issued q big
ssv York Supplement-"
IN. Boston Ideal Banjo and Mando-
IN Club is touring the State. ~"
p;loxi's business men are great sd'
,.-tisers They mean business.
Tho Wesson public school raised
sMO1 for the starving Cubans.
Grand spectacular reproduction OF
Dan Hur was given at jackson.
col Peyton H. Skipwith, q promi-
..u, resident of Oxford, is dead. a
Fred Hartshorn, a prominent bust
moss man of Grenada, died suddenly.
There are $50 to 175 acres planted In
,,uck around Wesson and Beauregard.
Rev. II. r. Tucker, presiding elder
n the Corinth district, died In Boone
| Vile.
Miss Sallie Stanton, an attractive
Young lady of Selma, near Matches,
died.
Mississippians are daily offering SER
vices as volunteers in case of war with
Spain.
May 10th is the date for Mississippi's
Inter Collegiate Oratorical contest at
Jackson.
Mrs. s. A. Dunn died at McComb,
leaving a husband and four small
children.
The Biloxi street railroad has been
purchased by capitalist Of Vandalia,
Missouri.
At W. C. T. U. medal contest in
Jackson, Miss Byrd, Of Yazoo county,
won the prize. .
The Natchez & Gulf r. r. Co., Is
capitalized at 100000 and has W. H.
Hardy as president.
Miss Belle Kearney has been lectur-
ing on her visit to Alaska in Oxford
and other Mississippi towns.
young man giving his name as
Will Adcock, has been playing the con-
Adence game at Greenwood.
A. Sartorious, a prominent business
man of vicksburg, suicided by shoot
ing himself through the head.
Judged by the advertising patronage
itgives its local papers, YazooC City is the
best newspaper town In Mississippi.
Burgess Institute, q floarishing
school Il miles from Oxford, was
burned, fire starting from q defective
fae.
May Briggs, the little 4-year-old
daughter of Jas. Briggs, of Holly
Springs, was choked to death by q
button.
Vivian Memo, the l2-year-old daugh-
ter of Engineer Memo, broke her arm
at Gulfport, while gathering wild
viOlets.
The big two-story steam gin and mill
olM. s. Cobb, of Madison county, was
destroyed by fire /; loss 5000 without
Insurance.
Rev. r. M. Cook, a Georgia evangel-
st, will conduct an undenominational
TENT meeting in Hazlehurst, beginning
April lst.
Mrs. Quinn, relict Of engineer Quinn,
VINO was killed last June In freight
wreck, near Tougaloo, sued the /. G.
for $4,000. .....-
A plan for a bridge over Town
ureek at jackson has been drawn, and
'ue Old iron one on Capital street will
be removed.
while A. I. Blakely and family, of
'aitn county, were absent from home
oil 'he houses on his place were de-
sroyed by fire.
ine ceremony of laying the corner
an s'vae OF the Methodist church at Mag
cOi'a was conducted by the Masonic
Srand Lodge, Grand Master ]. NJ.
S'One officiating.
~ Anderson Sellars was killed by Alex
w w%sa,nerly in crap shooting rookus at
p'auVllle. Weatherly surrendered.
DO'n colored and both regarded as
pea'saole' Industrious negroes.
III the 80 years of Mississippi's Press
as asssOclatlon, this is the first time its
s, sue,al ranks have been broken by
sa'n.President Ballard, who died
a. t1I.ea'ly, was the first officer to receive
'ne dread summons. 800
o frank Gordon, son Of Gen. J. B.
s svraon' Of Georgia, posed as a aIec-
,a e' .or pay" at Kosciusko and was
ns ,sas'ed t BY the editor of the Farmer,
sais! saO thought he was better adapted to
'4lpplns melons.
=. The Baptist church, Of Ha.lehurst,
Al sI' oSa Just finished paying the sum Of
e,a' 0o Tor its building. At the con-
aas. 1siOn Of protracted meeting CON
se,, aae'ed BY DR.. Potts, Of Memphis, !
S6O ~ S@Aen up amounting 70