The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1899-05-17
:, HOBBS, Editor and Proprietor
= scARsoRoudn,. Field Editor.
MISSISSIPPI NEWS.
, s,ort.Hand Chronicle Of Cur
rent Happenings.

s.ort.Hand Chronicle Oh o"r-
rent Happenings.
riooua is to have electric lights
c,rreme court will adjourn to-
w., v'.s.o,,s Auditorium Association
aosss 'as to build an opera house.
r m. Jackson Evening News has been
!. ,I aIsetsd city printer Of Jackson.
MN Connor, of Choctaw county Is
s;ao,e for State Revenue Agent
IN opposition to Writ Adams
The governor has appointed ). M.
r.,lor M : ssuperintendent of education OF
Claiborne rs' county, vice c. X. Reagan
resigned.
Tho Woodville Republican very
,.h doubts if Gov. McLaurin will
=, sfty votes for Senator in Wilkin-
son county.
NJ Jeferson Davis offers Beau
mir TO the Daughters Of the Confed-
,racv for $4,000. She has been offer
ID $4,000 for it by a Northern syndi-
cate.
A. Damascus, one mile north OF
u.zleburst. July 4, Hon. John Allen
and Gov. A. J. McLaurin, as well as all
The candidates for State offices will be
invited.
Ed. Grandson, the noted negro
murderer of Yazoo county, was cap
,ured last week in Madison county
noar Jackson and is now in the Jack
son Jail.
LH Gains, a prominent merchant
Of Brooksyille, suicided at Meridian by
shooting himself through the head at
the Southern Hotel. Business troubles
is the cause assigned.
After thoroughly revising the regis
tration books, the board of supervis-
ors found the big empire county OF
Kinds has only 2,144 legal voters. or
these 7l6 are in Jackson.
The Supreme Court decided the
county treasurers are entitled to
commissions on the common school
funds which pass through their hands
by the State distribution.
News from Ellisville is to the effect
that five hundred thousand dollar
cotton mill is to be erected at once,
the stock having all been taken and
none Of it being now for sale.
Jackson offers splendid site for the
location of the cotton factory to be
built by leading colored citizens of the
State, which offer has been accepted.
JAS Hill is at the head of the move
ment
A law and order league has been
organized in Jackson with Maj. R. w.
Millsaps, president of the Capital
State Bank, as president, John T.
Buck, secretary, and Dave Brown as
treasurer.
Active movements are now on foot
In the towns of Aberdeen, Greenwood,
Canton, Jackson, West Point, Kosci-
usko, Ellisville and others looking to
the establishment of cotton factories
with home capital. Why not Brook
haven also?
Four men were killed at Okolona
last week. Charles B. Clarke and
Walter Clarke, two brothers, and DR.. j.
b. Murfee and his son, Howard Muir
lee we're the persons killed. The fight
grew out of dispute over a medi-
cal bill The parties were next door
neighbors.
The rains seem to have been suffici-
ent to the north of Vicksburg, clear
across the state. The Delta region
mas been especially blessed throughout
"s extent, except in the extreme lower
part. Vicksburg and the most of
warren county have as yet been un-
visited by rain, and are in sore need.
-Vicksburg Herald.
Inc scrutiny of the registration lists
u Kinds, caused by the petition for a
,0cai option election, has been followed
oya big cut off of votes. The disquali-
NATION consists mainly in failure to
y pay taxes. The purgation of over a
'nira OF the names on the list is apt to
cauSe severe disturbance in the cal
'uiatlons of the various candidates
before the primary.