The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1899-03-29
MISSISSIPPI NEWS.
A Shorthand Chronicle of Cur
rent Happenings.

Small poX has broken out near Moss
Point.
A Sullivan club has been organized
at Oxford.
SUBMITS waterworks are now in
operation.
A lodge of Elks has been organized
at Yazoo City.
West Point and Canton are planning
for cotton factories.
A negro barber at Hattiesburg killed
himself by drinking bay rum.
Senator Money will deliver the an
nual address at the A. & NJ. College in
June.
Nearly every town in the State seems
to want visit from the Allen McLau-
rim menagerie.
2. D. Jennings has been appointed
mayor of Water Valley, vice I. T.
Blount, resigned.
Prof. J. c. FAINT, of Meridian, is the
third candidate for State Superinten-
dent of Education.
The Merchants and Farmers Bank,
with a capital of $4,000, has just been
at Macon.
The Methodist church at Woodsville
caught fire from the flue, but prompt
work saved the building.
Rev. w. T. Lowry is proving himself
the right man in the right place as
president of Mississippi College.
Whisky men are circulating a petit
tion in Kinds "a dry county-for call
ing another local option election.
Some of the Crystal Springs truckers
saved their young tomato plants
during the zero weather in February.
The State Convention of the Missis-
sippi Womans Suffrage Association
will meet in Clarksdale, April 5 and 6.
A negro woman at Hattiesburg
buried her infant alive. 1t was dis
covered by passer-by in time to save
its life.
Private John Allen has commenced
a very active canvass for the senator
ship, as though he intends to make up
for lost time.
John w. Robinson, F. A. Shingleur
and c. C. King have been appointed by
the Governor as commissioners to the
Paris Exposition.
The village of Crawford, in Lowndes
county, and the village of Lafayette
Springs, in Lafayette county, have
been Incorporated.
Mrs. Mary T. Ferguson, wife of Hon.
Jas. T. Ferguson, head clerk of the
United States Land office at Jackson,
died Monday morning.
jackson is to have new park loca
ted between the city and the lunatic
asylum. 1t was donated by Messrs.
Carlisle, Neil and Wells.
Jim Evans, colored, was shot to
death in Leake county, while in the
custody of constable, for attempting
to assassinate c. c. Canthen.
Leon Seymour Martin, alias A. M. N.
Martin, has been jailed in default of
$500 bond, for abstracting registered
letter from the postoffice at Purvis.
Lieut. Gov. Jones has published a
card withdrawing from the guber-
material race. Reasons of personal
and private nature are assigned for his
taking this step.
The Cumberland Telephone Co. is
having trouble in getting the necessary
franchises from the city council of
McComb. The local company is trying
to get the council to fence the Cum
berland out
The safe in the Sheriff's office at
Paulding was blown open on Thursday
night by burglars. Fortunately, too
much powder was used and the eXplo-
sion alarmed the people and frightened
off the burglars before they secured any
booty.
Ex-Gov. Stone has been appointed
President of the A. & M. College to
succeed Gen. S. ID. Lee, resigned.
Eight of the ten members of the Board
of Trustees voted for the old Roman.
All in all, no better selection could
have been made.
The Courier says movement is on
foot to have grand rally of Demo-
cratic candidates for both State and
county offices at Hazlehurst on or
about the 14th of April. Gov. Nc
Laurin and Hon. John Allen, as well
as the candidates for governor, will be
invited to speak.
The Supreme Court judges will not
give an official opinion to the Board of
Control with reference to the right of
the board to purchase the 12,OOO acres
of uncleared land in the delta for the
purpose of converting the same into a
State farm. The reason assigned is
that the question may come up later
in the shape of regular litigation.
We have received the initial number
of the McComb City Daily Special, a
bright 6-column folio. Its telegraph
news is furnished by the Union asso-
ciated press, and its local news is got
ten up in attractive style, together
making the paper credit to the enter
prising publisher and the flourishing
city of McComb. We admire Bro.
Henry's nerve and wish him success.
Evidently the most notorious in
stance of the miscarriage of justice in
Mississippi in long time was in the
Guy Jack case in Kemper county.
The State having failed to make out