The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1899-04-19
MISSISSIPPI NEWS.
A Shorthand Chronicle of Cur
rent Happenings.

rent happenings.
Kinds county will hold double
primary on Aug. and 8.
Track-laying is being pushed on
Jackson's new electric street railway.
100 convicts are wanted in Issaquena
county to prevent levees from caving
Vicksburg will celebrate the com
pletion of her new electric street rail
way on the Oath inst.
Winter Harper, the brilliant editor
of the Raymond Gazette, is announced
as candidate for the legislature.
The Retail Lumber Dealers Associa-
tion met in Jackson yesterday. The
Hoo-Hoos held big concatenation
last night.
The l. c. has large force of men at
work between Crystal Springs and
Terry cutting down the grade. More
hands are wanted.
Gov. McLaurin has pardoned B. B.
and M. l.. Smith, two brothers who
were sent to the penitentiary from
Pike county for arson.
Gov. McLaurin appointed Hon. A h..
McC. Kimbrough, of Greenwood, to
succeed Judge A. H. Longino, as
chancellor of the Seventh district.
Sam Washington, a negro convicted
at the last term of the Yazoo court of
the murder of plantation manager
named Coker, was hung last Friday.
Rev. T. w. Brown, of Woodville,
found $500 while spading in his gar
den. The money was evidently buried
during the war, as no coin bore later
date than 1861.
Ex-Gov. Lowry made a speech in
Meridian last Thursday night, during
which he formally announced him
self as candidate for the short term
of the U. S. Senate to succeed Senator
Sullivan.
A new monthly magazine will begin
publication at Gulfport this month, to
be called The South Mississippi Maya
zine 1t will be devoted to presenting
the advantages and advancing the in
terests of the gulf coast.
The people of Columbus will raise
funds for a memorial window to be
placed in the Industrial Institute and
College chapel and to endow scholar
ship in the institution to be known as
the Annie c. Peyton scholarship.
j. r. Showers, formerly editor of the
Oxford Globe, is announced as can
didate for State treasurer. This makes
two popular newspaper men who are
running for the place, Jas. Gillespie,
of the Greenwood Enterprise, being
the other.
Col. j. L. Powers interesting weekly
letters have attracted the attention of
the great Kellogg newspaper syndicate
and have been bought by the concern
to supply s5 Mississippi newspapers.
This compliment to the Colonel is
deserved.-Sea Coast Echo.
The twentieth annual convention of
the Mississippi State Sunday School
Association will be held in Green
wood May 9, 10 and IL. Every county
in the State, whether organized or not,
is requested to send five delegates, and
every Sunday school in the State two
delegates.
Governor McLaurin has commits
stoned the officers of the newly incor-
porated town of Handsboro. DR.. j. j.
Harry, Mayor; Hollis Taylor, DR. J. l..
Leger, A. G. Loposer, w. B. Def1nns,
and w. S. Seaman, Alderm en-; w. E.
Champlin, Marshal; E. B. Mayors,
Treasurer.
At Canton DIR. Passmore and P.
Trolio are endeavoring to organize
company for the erection of cotton
mill, cotton gin, oil mill and factory
for making cloth. Carroll Smith and
Isadore Gross have been appointed
committee to investigates; $4,000 has
been subscribed.
Colonel George M. Govan, of cComb,
died at one o'clock Friday, April IA,
1899, in the New Orleans Sanitarium,
after long and painful illness. All
the members of his family were at his
bedside when the end came, except
Mrs. Govan, who has been critically ill
for some time at the family home in
McComb.
Col John Calhoon, brother of Judge
| Calhoon, is the latest candidate an
nounced for State treasurer. His
home is in Holly Springs, Marshall
county. This makes total of four who
are after this particular plum: L. d.
Smith of Bolton, j. r. Showers of Ok
ford, S. L. Gillespie of Greenwood and
Col Calhoon.
The Mississippi State Board of Health
will meet on Saturday, April 22nd, for
the transaction of general business,
and all persons having communications
t6 present to the board are requested
to be present ON that day. The board
will meet again on May 9th for. the
purpose of examining applicants for
| license to pratice medicine.
Copiah county will hold a double
primary, the first taking place July 9Th
and the second July %. At the Sec
ond primary all names except the two
highest will be dropped, the second
race to occur between the two highest.
In the first primary the names of the
candidates for United States Senator
will be placed on the ticket, the one re-
ceiving majority of the votes cast to
be declared the choice of the county.