The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1899-09-06
MISSISSIPPI NEWS.
A Shorthand Chronicle of Cur
rent Happenings,

Dry weather is hurting the cotton
in northeast Mississippi.
Walter Walker, popular telegraph
operator at Corinth, is dead.
The Hancock County Bank will open
at Bay st. Louis, October 1st.
Dave Bordage was accidentally kill.
ed at Scranton by his cousin.
M. G. Hams racket store at Biloxi
has been closed by attachment.
Hillman College, Clinton, Miss, will
open next Wednesday, 18th inst.
The village of Seminary, Covington
county, wants to be incorporated.
The Oxford public school opened
Monday with an attendance of 800.
Two dry kilns at milford Parker's
saw mill near Ellisville, we're destroyed
by fire.
d. w. Rogers, member of the Board
of Supervisors of Alcorn county, died
on the 4th.
c. G. Lancaster has been re-nominat-
ed for County Superintendent in Har-
rison county.
Hon w. S. Hill was renominated for
district attorney in the 5th judicial dis
trict convention.
The tax levy in Harrison county, was
lowered l mill It is now ) mills for
county purposes.
Hon. Pat Henry was renominated for
district attorney by the democrats of
the ninth judicial district.
Canton's assessment shows an in
crease during the last IL months of
$4,000; Brookhaven's, 100000.
Tom Garner was acquitted on his
second trial in Pike county for the
murder of - Causey and wife.
The Meridian Bar Association has
endorsed Judge Thos. H. Woods for
reappointment to the Supreme bench.
100000 has been subscribed for a
cotton factory at McCOmb. Capt. j. j.
White is at the head of the movement.
The Walthall Guards, of Meridian,
will attend the Dewey celebration in
New York on the 18th and 10Th of this
month.
VIM. Lum, youth of 16, was drown
ed near Rocky Springs in Claiborne
county, while riding in a dug-out in
Big Black river.
Hon. Monroe McClurg, nominee for
Attorney General, was sick at Walden
several days ON his return from the
Democratic State Convention.
Complaint is made that the cocaine
habit is growing alarmingly among the
negroes of Vicksburg. And Vicksburg
is wide-open saloon town, too.
Walter Davis, a twelve-year-old boy,
was accidently poisoned by his little
sister, who is of still more immature
age, in Attala county few days ago.
DR.. John Mcclure, who killed VIM.
Bayliss 30 years ago, and was to be tried
at this term of the Marshall county
circuit court, secured a continuance.
The State convention of the Christian
Church will meet at West Point on
Sept. II. Arrangements are being
made for the entertainme ent of the del
egates.
A freight and gravel train collided
near Martinsville last Thursday night,
causing a frightful wreck. The train
men all jumped and escaped serious
injury.
The Advocate says the farmers OF
east Franklin complain of too much
rain. A great deal of cotton is open
and sprouting in the bolls from the ex-
treme moisture.
There is hitch in the appointment
of census supervisor in the Fifth Gen.
sus District. Senators Sullivan and
Money having recommended different
men for the place.
In Jackson county on Monday, a
white lady rs years of age applied to
the board for permission to enter the
poorhouse, her children, grown men
and women, refusing to support her.
Major Jas. X. Vardaman has resumed
editorial control of the Greenwood
Commonwealth. Bro. Vardaman is an
able and forcible writer, always pos
sessing the courage of his convictions,
and THE LEADER welcomes his return
to the tripod.
Four applicants are so far reported
for the Supreme Judgship held by
Chief Justice Thos. H. Woods. They
are Judge Woods himself, Judge s. s.
Calhoon, C. H. Alexander and Judge
Wynn. The vacancy occurs next May
and will be filed by Gov. LOngino.
Mrs. Lizzie George Henderson, pres
ident of the Daughters of the Confed-
eracy of Mississippi, has issued an ad-
dress to the members of the organiza-
ton bearing on the work of raising
funds to secure the erection of the an,
mex at Vicksburg for the care OF dis
} abled Confederate Veterans.
On Sept. 13 Water Valley will enter
tain the veterans of the Fifteenth Mis-
sissippi Regiment. The last annual
reunion of the regiment was to have
been held there, but the quarantine
prevented the plan from being carried
out. Preparations are now being
made by the citizens of the hospitable
little city to entertain the veterans In
fitting manner.
Governor Elect Longino," says tht