The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1899-11-15
MISSISSIPPI NEWS.
A SHORTHAND Chronicle of Cur
rent Happenings.

bEttuNllIe.
Crystal Springs, at an early date, will
spend $4,000 for water works and cleo
trio lights.
Gloster is considering ways and
means in regard to the building of
$4,000 cotton mill
Ed. Grandson, the notorious Yazoo
county outlaw, will be hanged on the
10th inst. at Yazoo City.
Capt. J. ID. McInnis will very prob
ably be the next president of the Mis-
sissippi railroad commission.
A chrysanthemum show beginning
on the l4th inst. and continuing two
days, will be held at Crystal Springs.
The Baptist church at Gum Springs,
in Simpson county, with all the
church furniture was burned last week
In Magnolia, last week, negro, Otis
Smith, was fined $500 and sentenced to
three months in Jail for keeping a
blind tiger.
The Centreville Jeffersonian has
treated itself to new type dress. 1t
needed it and is greatly improved by
the change.
Starkville has decided to put $4,000
into complete system of water
works, to be followed in the near future
by electric lights.
The cases of Rob Smith and John
Oliver Gray, suspected of being ac-
cesories in the Gamble murder, will
be tried Nov. BIRD
The colored people of Grenada
county will hold their second annual
fair in Grenada on the 14th inst. Their
first fair was very successful.
Last Thursday, T. L. Daniels. a
brakeman, fell off a freight train at
Beauregard, and, though not seriously
injured, was badly bruised
In Vicksburg on the morning of the
9th, Ike White, a negro, was thrown
from his cart under the wheels of an
electric car and instantly killed.
The merchants of Hazlehurst grease.
gratis, the wagons of their farmer Gus.
toners when they come in town. This
custom is better than that of treating
to drink.
The Clarion Ledger and Jackson
Evening News have resumed their
regular size. We hope they may soon
recover all they lost by the late fever
troubles.
A pardon has been granted by the
Governor to John S. Phillips. of Jones
county, sent up last December on the
charge of assault and battery for
three years.
Dick Dickerson, an insane negro,
murdered l. n. K Graves and Arthur
Maxwell two white men, at Horse
Lake last Saturday. He escaped, but
is being pursued.
Professor Stephen Richey of Vino
ma attempted, one day last week, to in
tiict corporal punishment upon one of
his students and during the scuffie
that ensued, was stabbed and seriously
hurt by the boy.
The Evening News says the North
ern terminus of the Gulf & Ship Is
land Railroad will reach jackson in
January. 1t will strike the |. c.. at
Pearl Switch and enter the Capital
City on the tracks of the Central.
1t is reported that. while Hunter
johnson, a white citizen of Jackson.
was hunting in Pearl river swamp. he
found box containing nearly $4,000
in gold pieces. the greater portion of
which were of the $40 denomination.
As ASSET Boswell and Miss Morton.
of Mount Pleasant, were crossing the
railroad track in "a buggy, near Holly
Springs, on the afternoon of the Sth.
they were struck by IA freight train
Boswell was not seriously hurt but
Miss Morton's injuries are thought to
be fatal.
The titles of charters of corporations
established in the State during the
last two years are being listed by Sec
rotary of State Power who says they will
aggregate millions From July lst to
October Goth, 1899, forty five charters
representing an aggregate capital of
$l,373,000 were granted.
l. n. Hollingsworth, of Terry, shot
and mortally wounded Marshal Ben I
nett of Hattiesburg, one day last week
Hollingsworth charges that Bennett
robbed him of checks amounting to
and the trouble grew out of |
that. Hollinsworth was placed in Jail |
at Meridian, the feeling at Hatties- |
burg over the shooting being very
strong against him.
Near Goodwater, in Lauderdale
county, fatal runaway occurred Nov.
18th. The mules drawing a wagon in |
which were Frank Brown, farmer,
and his family, took fright and as they
were running away, collided with a
tree and overturned the vehicle. Mr..
Browns little daughter was instantly
killed and his wife, three other chill
dren and himself badly injured
The announcement of the marriage
Maggie Webb, of Gloster, which hap
Ply event took place Tuesday last, at
Liberty, was quite surprise to their
many friends in this place Mr.. Nc
Lain has been for long time an ac-
society leader of this sec
ton. He is the youngest son of Mr..
u, b. McIIain a leading merchant of