The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1898-03-23
MISSISSIPPI NEWS.

s,ate Happeh"s'
Leaders, Last Issue.
r,rry has typhoid fever
r,ntoD has ''Push"-a new paper.
Nancy Hayes, aged 81, died In
Is5Oo .hrs;ast;c for
Bryan. ,ouo.rot Star Is "A
years old 90 -o., ovsrseers in
Copiah county ,or
vOratiOn limits ., :. .oro.in0
scripture" like the devil
',% ,,'.too has two telephones and q
Vu -.D.O Union Telegraph office.
's' y. yazoo Library Association is
,,,ina @ to raise an endowment fund'
= c.llman is shipping on an average
;, nine carloads of vegetables a day
NJ. Albert England, sister of Hon.
0,a I \, Wells, died at Rayville, La.
~. Biloxi News and the French
o,an .no News have suspended for lack OF
support ~
pov Beverly Warner, OF New or-
hans, ~ will deliver Belhaven Colleges
annual address.
The A. & NJ. College is sending out
.,ntblv bulletins containing valuable
i,formation for the farmer.
The second trial of DR.. Lipscomo' iu
v.mDer county, for the poisoning OF
c T. Stewart, is in progress.
Hon, Oliver Clifton, for many years
ssrk of the Supreme Court, has been
,nDoiuted claim agent Of the l. c. X. h.
.Ths Clarion. Ledger now gets out q
morning edition for sending abroad,
.n1,n evening edition for city distribu-
tOn
The gate receipts of the Bryan meet
inc at Jackson, at so cents. per head,
aggregated sl65l'
Miss burden, reputable servant
GIRL of Jackson, was criminally as
saulted last week by negro, who
escaped.
John Hardy shot and fatally wound
ed bis half brother W. E. Waters, at
Windham.
Rev. Hammer, of Memphis, is as
sisting Dr. DuBose in a protracted
meeting with Jackson's First Metho-
dist church.
Farmer Geo. Anderson's barn was
burned near Hazlehurst, with 200 BUSH
els of corn, head of horses and a lot
Of agricultural implements.
B. T. Raines discoved that his store
was being Systematically robbed at
Jackson. A watch was set and four
shop lifters have been discovered.
|, Willie Barnes died at McComb from
having sucked into his lung bit OF
bread. For ten days he suffered great
Eand ate absolutely nothing.
The trial of Moody Swain, who
killed Albert Sullivan, a nephew of
Congressman W. V. Sullivan, was
postponed until the next~term of the
Lafayette county court.
Gold in small quantities has been
discovered in the suburbs of West
Jackson. Capt. F. A. Wolfe, who
owns some land on which gold bearing
rock has been found, is firmly con-
Vlnced that it is there in paying guam
titles.
Chairman Prewett of the State ex-
ecutlve committee of the Populist
party, has issued a request that all
fOpullsts meet together in their re-
spectlve counties on April End, ito
take vote as to the expediency of the
fopulist party holding national con-
vention in lS9S."
benton B. Smith and Marion L.
smith, the two young white men who
were indicted for burning their store
AZ walkers Bridge with the intent to
uelraud the Phoenix Insurance Co., of
',O" insurance, plead guilty to the
'narge and were sentenced to seven
years each in the State penitentiary.
Judge Powell made a remarkable
record y In holding the Yazoo Court.
ine court adjourned after sitting for
'''S 'han week. The fines imposed
=. NV only paid the running expenses of
.ne term, but there were $500 to spare
nun such fines after paying the ex-
penses of the court.
'onn d. Crenshaw, aged 20, has con-
.eS'ed S 10 the authorities that the post
O'nce at Greenwood had not been
'O0oed, but that he himself was re-
'pOnSloie for the loss of near $500. He
' vas paced under $500 bond for his
rppearance y at the next term of the
:. vuerai Court. Crenshaw is a grand
W. W. u the late postmistress, Mrs. M. A.
@aaman, and was acting in the ca
'''i'y OF deputy postmaster.