The leader., 1899-09-13
MISSISSIPPI NEWS.
n ShOrt-Hand Chronicle Of Cur
rent Happenings.

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Winona is figuring on water works
and electric lights.
jackson is again wrestling with the
auditorium question.
The Magnolia Graded public School
opened with 172 pupils.
negro burglar attempted to chloro-
form lady in Summit.
Durant has issued $40, 900 in bonds
for town improvements.
Franklin county has % new Confed-
crate pensioners, Lincoln %.
Summit young people are en- njoying
cake walks and lawn parties.
Mississippi has 9 cotton factories
with several others on paper
Mrs. M. M. Block, of West Point.
died at the advanced age of 90 years.
Major Maxey, of Brandon. has a
bottle of blackberry wine made in 1862.
The residence of John r. Stockman,
ia Lake Como, was destroyed by fire.
Monticello is getting in readiness for
the meeting of the Fair River Asso-
citation.
A double-daily mail service has been
put on between Meridian and Vicks-
burg.
Bud Sullivan, of Jones county, aged
%, was murdered by unknown par
ties.
The Pass Christian Packing factory
has commenced work with Is employ
ees.
DR.. d. A. Nash has been appointed
Mayor of Biloxi, vice H. T. Howard,
resigned.
Hon. A. H. Longino was rendered
a grand ovation on his return to Green
vile last week.
JIG. Posey, of Rankin county, has
been jailed for robbing the store of
G. M. Myers, at Mayton.
w. C. West, of Ocean Springs, sold
4440 acres of pine timber land to a
Michigan firm for s13,32O.
Congressman Williams is making
few speeches in his district, just to
keep in touch with the boys.
Two little daughters of Mr.. and Mrs.
S. T. Price, of Lawrence county, died
on the same day of congestion.
Rev. Walter E. Tynes, of Brennan,
Tex, is assisting Rev. l. H. Anding in
a meeting at the Baptist church in
Summit.
The death of Mrs. Nolan B. Mclean
and Mrs. Eliza Gardner, two well
known ladies of Amite county, occurred
last week.
Grandson, the notorious negro
murderer, of Yazoo county, has been
convicted and sentenced to hang Oc-
tober 18th.
Gov. McLaurin will resume the
practice of law during the interim
between his gubernatorial and sena-
torial term.
Indianola claims twin boys which
weighed and ~ pounds respectively
at birth, and the smaller one cut tooth
at four days old.
A. B. Parks, an ex-volunteer of the
first Mississippi regiment, killed s. o.
Brown in Tallahatchie county last
week. Parks fed.
Rev. s. l.. Rieves, pastor of the
Greenwood Presbyterian church, was
married on the 8th to Miss Kate
Young, of Grenada.
Judge Powell says he will instruct
the next grand jury in Kinds county
to proceed against the insurance trust,
with headquarters at Jackson.
Jackson's sewerage contract has
been awarded to Ford, Delahunt d
Yeates, of Cedar Rapids, Ia, for $780,
600, not including castings and man
holes.
Miss Ada Stillman, of LOwndes
county, was fatally burned last week.
Her clothing accidentally caught on
fire while she was doing the family
laundering.
J.J. McComb, rich New Yorker
has agreed to donate $4,000 to Cham
berlain- Hunt Academy, on condition
that the trustees increase the endow-
ment to s1OO,OOO.
The Gloster Light Infantry has been
mustered in by Gen. Henry, with G.
G. Butler, captain; w. o. Ligon, Jr..
first lieutenant: and Fl. b. Longmire,
second lieutenant.
The Board of Supervisors of Warren
county pardoned county convict
named John Strain, on condition that
he leave the State in five days. He
was a cattle thief.
District Attorney Greaves will in
stitute civil suits against the blind
tigers of Jackson for the collection of
$4,000 for which they are liable to the
city under the Statute.
In Washington county last week
while woman and two children we're
going i'm a wagon to buy a coffin for a
dead child, the mules became fright
ened aud ran the wagon off bridge,
killing all three. Four coffins were
then needed instead of one.
Editor Gillespie, of the Greenwood
Enterprise, and late candidate for
State Treasurer, denies current re
port that he is to accept deputyship
in that office. Bro. Gillespie says he
has a business in Greenwood which
really nets more money than all the
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