The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1898-09-21
MISSISSIPPI NEWS.
"A Shorthand Chronicle of Cur
rent Happenings.

Ill
SUBMITS water works are now as
sured.
Most Mississippi towns have rigid
quarantines.
Durant's Commercial Hotel burned
. down last week.
Teachers examinations have been in
definitely postponed.
The death of Mrs. A. II. Miller at the
capitol city is deplored.
Miss Adine Gordon and Mr.. j. Fl.
Douglass, of Jackson, have married.
Miss Ruby Hosmer and Mr.. James
Lea, OF Summit, were married on the
14th.
! George Coker, aged 20, was found
dead in his bed at Orange, Clarke
county.
The first appearance of the new Bap-
tist paper has been postponed until
Dec. 1st.
Mrs. ID. p. Howard, mother of the
rector of Jackson's Episcopal church,
has died
Near Greenville, skiff loaded with
II sons of Ham capsized and were
drowned.
Jackson's mule cars can't pay ex-
penses In these quarantine times and
have quit
Wesson's public school, with Prof
1dJ. d: >. Wilson as principal, opened with
500 pupils.
Mrs. Bender Miller, of Bolivar Coun-
W, was fatally poisoned by eating can
ned sardines.
:. The store and residence of Tom Will
liams OF Meridian, we're DESTROYED by
fire. Loss $4,000.
Biloxi claims population of 5000,
ana wants recogn ition as the metropo-
lis of the seacoast.
Alcorn county has S34,OO5 worth of
manufactures and total personality
valuation of s4O7,301.
Extra messengers have been emplov-
ed at Jackson's telegraph offices dur.
ing these panicky times.
Mrs. Fletcher B. Enochs died at
ternwood. Her infant child preceded
her to the grave two days.
Rev. V. V. Boone of Summit. has
oeen conducting meeting in Month
cello's Methodist Church.
A comparison of the total personal
valuation for '97 and '9S will show a de-
cided increase for this year.
Newton county reports 5000 worth
! of manufactures and total personal
property valuation of $6O9,147.
The 10year-o son of Henry Thomp-
son was smothered to death while play
ing in seed cotton near Meridian.
Mrs Lille Moore Watson. widow of
the late Hon. Edward Minor Watson,
of Holly Springs, died at Columbus.
1t is stated that few unredeemed
! shirts at the laundries is all that is
left of the gallant Third at jackson.
The Biloxi Daily Herald compares
favorably with some of its more pre-
tentious daily contemporaries in Mis-
sissippi.
The four most prominent candidates
for senator are A. j. McLaurin, John
M. Allen, John Sharp Williams and
VIM. G. Yerger.
Monticello Academy opened Monday
with Prof. Leon Tyrone as principal,
and Miss Hettie Gardner, of Blue
: Mountain, music teacher.
The grand jury of Simpson found no
indictment against the murderers of
VIM. Patterson, who it will be remem-
bered, was recently mobbed.
The case of Guy Jack has been post
poned until next term of Kemper's
circuit court on account of illness of
one of defendants attorneys.
The stores of j. d. Coleman, w. C.
Watkins and w. II. Buckley, at Clin-
ton, were destroyed by fire on the 15.
The fire was of incendiary origin.
The management of the Richardson
House at Wesson has passed into the
hands of Mr.. C. l.. Ford, proprietor of
the Palace Hotel. which latter will now
be run by Mr.. Print Ford.
} Thos. V. Garner was convicted in the
Pike circuit court for the murder of
Mrs. Maggie Causey and sentenced to
hang Oct. Goth. An appeal will be
taken to the supreme court.
Mississippi is progressing in the mat
ter of steamboat lines and water trans
portation. Three charters for naviga-
tion companies have been recently
, filed with the State Secretary.
Hazlehurst's Baptist Church during
the past years, with DR.. j. *. Pace as
pastor, has contributed for all pur
poses of the denomination grand to-
tai of Sl5,601. .23. 1t has membership
of 232
nhon oIarE of
Kinds, was so alarmed by the quaran-
tine that he hurried up his wedding
day and claimed his bride, Miss Emma
Askew, of Vicksburg. He is now who'll
ly unconcerned about yellow jack.
Rev. w. +. Marlborough aided in a
protracted meeting with Monticello
Baptist Church Nine accessions and
unanimous invitation for the same
, preacher to return next year at long
meeting time, we're the immediate re-.
suits.
Hazlehurst's electric lights are fix
ed fact. Under a contract with the
Fort Wayne Electric Light Co., the
town will pay $40 per month for 10
electric arc lights-the town reserving
a right to buy at any time.
L. j. Jones, colOred, OF washington
county, has been nominated for Con-
gress by the Republicans of the Third
District. Jones is the negro who op-
posed Gen. Catchings two years ago.
and who contested the election, carry
ing the case to the Supreme Court.
Adjutant Gen. Henry will not put
into operation the organization of a
new National Guard until at least one
of the Mississippi companies is mus
tered out. He wishes to use the body
of the returned volunteers as nu-
cleus for the new guard. The total
number of soldiers allotted to the
State is 1900.
Gen. Joe Wheeler has added another
to the already long list of his admirers.
Some time ago the press dispatches