The leader., 1899-12-06
MISSISSIPPI NEWS.
4 SHORTHAND Chronicle of Cur.
rent Happenings.

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Mr.. ID. b. Noah, of Kosciusko, suicid-
ed at Fayette. Dec. LIST.
The North Mississippi Conference
will hold its next annual meeting at
West Point.
The sum of $4,000 has been recently
subscribed for a cotton mill by the cit
liens of Enterprise.
Three buildings. two cottages and
store were burned in South Nicksburg
on the morning of Nov. Goth.
At Corinth, last week, a young man
by the name of Doxey committed sui
eide by taking rough on rats.
\ ripe watermelon weighing ten
pounds and grown in the open air was
picked in Scranton last week.
DIR. j. b. Searcy, late editor of the
Baptist, has accepted the pastorate of
the First Baptist church at Biloxi.
The Laurel Cotton Mill Co. of Missis
sippi was organized at New Orleans,
last week with a capital of s2OOOOO.
\ man at Kosciusko by the name of
Edward Haughton, was shot by the
sheriff last week while resisting arrest.
\ large store belonging to II. d.
Stallsworth was destroyed by fire, at
Meridian, on the night of the 2nd inst.
On the 2nd inst. the -year-old
child of Peter Robinson, of Taylors
Vile. was kicked by mule and killed.
The Macon Ice. Power d Light Com
pany is capitalized at $4,000 and the
charter has been approved by the Gov
ernor.
The Resale Cotton Mill was sold at a
| trustee sale last week and bought by
the Natchez Cotton Mill Co. for $40
| 900 cash.
The Mississippi Conference will meet
at Vicksburg. Dec. 18th Particular at
tention will be given to the Twentieth
Century Fund.
The people of jackson have decided
| to devote their Thanksgiving offerings
to the poor of that city, in the way of
associated charity
! The lumber business at Scranton is ON
a boom. The large Blanchard mill
that has been idle for years will soon
be put i'll operation.
Mrs. Helen d. Bell in her biennial re
/ port states that there has been an in
crease of 5000 books in the State Lii
brary since her last report
Gov McLaurin has pardoned Bluke
| Steele. a white convict sent up from
| Lee county. for assault and battery
with intent to kill and murder
Last week in Pike county. near Oar
burn. at a negro gathering, a young
white man named Sam Stuart was shot
and killed by Lon Mass, negro.
The football game at New Orleans.
Nov. Both, between the University of
Mississippi and Tulane resulted in a
victory for the Mississippians of -
to O.
County taxes for 80 vary considera-
bly,. Hancock has a levy of 219 mills:
Jones and Neshoba 3D. mills. while
Lincoln has 6, Warren ILL., and Wins
ton H.
: M, nl
at Port Gibson, last week. for horse
stealing. The horse was identified by
Mr.. ]. D. Watts, of Redwood, as his
property.
The Young Mems Business League of
Jackson is trying to secure the loca-
ton in that city of the shops and gen
eral offices of the Gulf and Ship Is
land railroad.
On the night of the Bird inst the barn
of Mr. /. n. Bridges, near Eupora, was
burned. There was loss of six valu-
able horses. several hogs and COWS 30
bushels of corn and some hay No
insurance.
On the Doth ult. w. H. Richardson.
planter Of YaZoo county, filed a petit
ton in bankruptcy, liabilities s22;342,
assets 500. S. p. Simmons of Natchez
also filed a petition liabilities 526,SOO,
assets none.
Newt Reed, well known barber of
Jackson, shot himself with suicidal in
tent last Friday night 1t is supposed
that remorse over his drinking habits
was the cause. 1t is not probable that he
will recover.
An alleged counterfeiter by the name
of Guets, pal" of counterfeiter Hough-
ton, was arrested, arranged before
United Commissioner Brooke and
placed under bond of $1,000, at Koscus-
ko, last week.
I. n Hollinsgworth, who. some time
ago, shot and seriously wounded J. F.
Bennett, city marshal of Hattiesburg
has been admitted to bail in the sum of
81 900 and will be given a preliminary
trial some time TINS month.
Last week, at Natchez while climb
ing telephone pole, Tom Pitchford,
a young white man in the employ of
the Cumberland Telephone Company,
touched live wire and was thrown to
the ground distance of twenty feet.
His lower limbs were paralyzed from
the fall.
Charles d. Smith & Co., of Birming-
ham have been awarded the contract
for grading the last thirty five miles of
the Gulf and Ship Island railroad ex-
tension. Work will begin at once and
according to the contract will be COM
pleted by the first of April next.