The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1899-03-15
MISSISSIPPI NEWS.
A Shorthand Chronicle of Cur.
rent happenings.

haZlehurst has nourlshlng floral
club.
Biloxi wants one of the State Nor
mails.
Sardis proposes to pay $4,000 for
water works.
Jackson will issue 100000 in bonds
for sewerage.
The death of James Ray is reported
at Carrollton.
Greenville has appropriated $4,000
for street paving.
The McComb City Special proposes
to publish daily.
The town Jail at Hazlehurst was
burned on the Sth.
Mrs. DR.. j. S. Featherstone, of Ma
con, died on the 9th.
C. w. Creal, tried at Magnolia for
murder, was acquitted.
Scott county will build another
court house to cost $4,000.
Moses Byrd was killed at Scranton
by the bursting of water tank.
The store of A. J. Grady, of Natchez,
was destroyed by fire on the 9th.
Lena Mcdaniel, tried at Magnolia
for manslaughter, was acquitted.
Congress appropriated s31 600 for an
annex to the government building at
jackson.
Mrs. w. H. Cassell, of Canton, the
beloved wife of the celebrated florist,
died last week.
Ex-Gov. Stone will probably succeed
Gen. S. D. Lee as President of the A.
and M. College.
Miss Blanche Taylor, daughter of
Col. Robt. H. Taylor, of Sardis, died on
the Sth, aged %.
Chas. johnson, convict who es-
capped from the penitentiary in 1895,
has been recaptured.
A negro man and two of his children
were burned to death on the Conaghan
place in Warren county.
VIM. Purnell, father of DR.. J. H.
Purnell, the yellow fever expert, died
in Vicksburg last week.
A tornado passed near Crystal
Springs and Utica Saturday, doing
great damage to property.
Gov. McLaurin has offered $4,000
reward for Walt Cairo, the negro who
killed Kiley Kelly in Bolivar county.
The Westville News learns that in a
great many instances seed cane and
seed potatoes have been badly injured.
The Board of Supervisors of Clai-
borne county propose to let out the
working of the public roads by con-
tract.
John Floyd, a county prisoner, dan
gerously shot himself at Monticello
last week while under the influence of
liquor.
The Supreme Court has decided that
a voter has the right to take his name
off of petition up to the time it is
acted on.
An agent of Eastman, Gardner & Co.
at Laurel, on the Northeastern rail
road, is buying timber land in Simp-
son county.
On April 1st McComb City will vote
to decide whether or not $4,000 in
bonds shall be issued for electric
lights and sewerage.
Memorial services were held at Mag
nolia last night in honor of Judge
Thos. R. Stockdale, Judge E. Stafford
and Chas. Williams.
Rev. w. E. M. Began, student of
Millsaps College, has been elected
chaplain of the penitentiary at sal
ary of s12O0 per month.
Rev. Chas. H. Otkin is candidate
for treasurer of Pike county. He has
five competitors, among them Capt.
John HI. Mills, of Summit.
DR.. T. G. Sellers, the venerable
president of Starkville Female College,
died Saturday. Also DR.. j. B. Perkins,
another old citizen of Starkville
The Daughters of the Confederacy
of Claiborne county are raising money
to erect headstones over the soldiers
graves in the Port Gibson cemetery.
The Pike county grand jury was in
session 10 days, examined PIG witnesses,
found % indictments, ignored 20 cases,
referred to the justice of the peace
and continued g.
| West Point had two fires last week
the burning of the Mary Holmes Col
lege and the compress. This is the
second time the Mary Holmes has
been destroyed by fire.
The governor has appointed Hon.
E. III. Moore, state senator from Boil
ivar, trustee of the Industrial Institute
and College from the State at large
vice Hon. c. b. Mitchell, deceased.
The railroad commission has granted
the petition of the citizens of Thayer.
Lincoln county, praying the abolish
ment of Soudan as flag station and
the removal of the depot to Thayer.
The Board of Supervisors of Harri-
son county have ordered that the
clerkship of both the Circuit and
Chancery courts shall be held by one
and the same person.
The Hazlehurst Courier says the
Copiah candidates have secret grip
that they claim is a great vote catcher
No candidate is allowed to use this
mystic hand shake unless he is an,
nounced in the newspapers.
Talk ahont 0hankarinp for office ,