The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1898-03-02
MISSISSIPPI NEWS.
STATE Happenings Since The
Lenders Last Issue.

Afr1 LAWS, Wllc VI S'PS'
Lewis. died at Pass Christian.
rho residence of Geo. Clayton, near
,.te Como, was destroyed by fire.
Farmers around Wesson are en-
,..rinc in truck growing extensively.
vicksburg's City Council has called
,or Congress to pass National
ouarantine law.
prandon sold 5000 in school bonds
,..o71I cents on the dollar, and found
Il hard to get that.
Ross Calvert, sentenced to hang at
uost Point on the oath, was granted a
reprieve until today.
W C. Jones, of Jackson, will build a
mammoth brick store opposite the
government building.
Hons w. V. Sullivan and W. A,
Roane are opposing candidates for
Congress in the second district.
Mrs Lizzie Doerre has been aR
ronted postmistress at Seigens, Kinds
nountv. five miles south of jackson, a
new post-ofiice.
Work has begun ON Jackson's elec-
tric street railway, but many Of her citi-
zeps are still skeptical of its compile
ton.
Bonner Richardson, former editor of
the Delta Flag, has been appointed by
the Governor ]. P. of beat 3, Lefore
county.
The Fayette Chronicle contains three
whisky petitions-two praying for
saloons in Fayette and one in Rodney
Poor Jefferson
Bishop Galloway, who was invited to
open The Bryan meeting with prayer at
West Point, declined on account of a
previous engagement.
0. A. Carmine, express agent at
Elizabeth, was arrested for embezzle-
ment and placed in the Washington
county Jail in default of bond.
Oscar T. Turley was shot and in
stantly killed by Dennis Hossley at
Vicksburg The shooting affray took
place in bagnio at No. 507 Crawford
street.
McComb's papers, the Enterprise
and Special, last week issued credita-
BILE Mard Gras editions, giving ac-
counts of the Mardi Gras festivities in
that little city.
Iyo Miller, who killed Banker j. S.
Mcdonald at Greenwood, was dis
charged on the preliminary trial. The
charge that Mcdonald outraged Mil
lers sister seems to have been sus-
taned
During the progress of a funeral
Oration at colored church at jackson,
negro woman named Corrine Chiles
Jumped up in her seat, shouted a time
or two about going to glory and
dropped dead in her seat.
The lady teachers at the l. l. & G.
have notified Governor McLaurin,
President of the Board of Trustees,
that they will teach out the remainder
ofthe current term, appropriation or
no appropriation. Just like woman
They are always ready to sacrifice.
At Vicksburg on the oath, Bishop
Thompson, in reviewing his work in
this diocese, he said that he did not
Know how much longer his admins
tratlon would continue, and that per-
sonally he did not care when his bish-
oprlc came to end. He has served the
diocese fifteen years.
Secretary of State Power, who is also
grand secretary of the Masonic grand
bodies of this State, has forwarded:to
non. Walter Barker, our consul at
sagha la Grande, Cuba, $50, donated
oy the Grand Lodge, recently in ses-
sion at Water Valley, for the assist
ahce of Cubans who are in need of
same
In Justice Seals Court in Harrison
county Sidney johnson was fined
e-oo and sentenced to six months in
jail for striking Mary Dedo. He was
aiSo hned SO for swearing in public
piace' This is the second time within
a a week that Judge Seal has applied
.ue iull penalty of the law to man
iof striking woman.
Inc celebrated Lipscomb case from
Aemper county, was reversed and re-
mahded for a new trial last Saturday
~ .ne supreme Court. Judge Whit
neio dlssented from the opinion, which
wa was concurred in by special judges,
thompson and Magruder. This makes
'H'ee capital cases that have been re-
'e'sed for Judge Huddleston in the
past SIX Brandon Neacs.
speaking of the revival of prosperity
au growth at Hazlehurst, compared
~, "i'n TWO or three years ago, the Crys-
w. W. springs Meteor says the people OF
aziehurst regard their oil mill with
t 'ue and esteem it to be by far the
A.; '' paying industry, directly and in
;'ec'iy, that has ever been installed
!. - 'ne town. Equipped for operation
It cost about $4,000.
"a a charter of Incorporation of the
Natehez and Gulf Railroad COMPANY
e., euOai Natehez to Gulfport, has been
-; 'eu with the Secretary of State. The
,Iuoorporators are Louis Botto, J. w
ca camoert, w. II. Shields, j. A
ppnn'on' F. B. Postlethwaite, E. E.
o~n, Abe Moses, S. ii. Lowenburgh
osun - hawle, of Natchez, w. H. Hardy
meridian, E. H. Wentworth, OF
Sneaa;aville, w. G. McGehee, of Little
prlhgs, j. j. White q n Opinp al