The leader., 1899-10-18
MISSISSIPPI NEWS.
A ShOrt-Hand Chronicle of Cur
rent Happenings.

rent Happenings.
A large cotton seed oil mill is being
established at Summit
The citizens of Gloster contemplate
the building of cotton mill.
Last week, an immense number of
grasshoppers visited the cities of
Jackson and Meridian.
The DeKalb (Kemper county, bar
has endorsed Judge Woods for reap
pointment to the Supreme bench.
At the railroad shops in Water Val
ley, box cars are being painted at the
rate of one every twelve minutes.
Pat H. Coleman, contractor and
brick mason, was run over and killed
at Meridian, Oct. 9th, by an electric car.
There is hot senatorial fight on in
Yalobusha county between the sup
porters of Sullivan and Ex-Governor
Lowry.
Joseph Cont, an ITALIAN gardener
at Greenville shot and killed a negro,
Spencer Bolden, Oct. 18th, for tres
passing in his garden.
The business men of Jackson have
issued long address reviewing the
situation there and stating that the
fever is not epidemic.
The second day of the Lafayette
county fair opened on the morning OF
the 18th with an attendance of be-
tween 5000 and 5000 people.
AS the south bound Northeastern
was leaving Slidel last week, some one
fired into the train and little girl was
hit on the finger by the bullet.
The West Mississippi Agricultural,
Mechanical and Live Stock Exposition
will be held at Vicksburg, beginning
Oct 23rd and continuing six days.
Forest Johnson, another victim of
the Winston county feud, was shot
from ambush and killed, by unknown
parties, at Singleton, Miss, Oct 18th.
The numerous trolley parties held
in Jackson would seem to indicate a
cheerful, hopeful mood on the part of
the people of that fever stricken city.
new creamery building of brick
and costing S210O, with a room in it
illustration and practice of students is
to be added to the Agricultural College
and Station
In Jackson, last week, Mike Brantly,
colored. shot and painfully wounded
Fred Williams, colored. The two
negroes had quarreled over a small
amount of money.
Two little boys, Fred Rollins and
Harry Mckenzie, who had run away
from their home at Mobile, were stop
ped at Shubuta, Oct. 18th, on message
from their relatives.
Grandson, the notorious YaZoo
county murderer who was to have
been hung last Monday, was granted
respite of thirty days by Gov Nc
Laurin, on account of the quarantine.
Last week cotton buyer in Canton
paid 15 cents a pound for a bale of
long staple cotton. The fibre measur
ed an inch and three quarters and was
raised by o. B. Mobiles of Madison
county.
The new opera house at Port Gibson
opened on the evening of the 14th
with its first performance. A large
audience was present to witness the
excellent naval drama, Remember the
Maine"
The increased number of preferred
Confederate pensioners has cut the
amount for each unpreferred pension
er to a little more than 81, which is
about half that received by the latter
class last year.
In Hazlehurst, cotton seed are sell
ing at the rate of s14 per ton. This
unusually good price is the result of a
spirited fight which has been going on
between the Hazlehurst Oil Mill and
the American Cotton Oil Co.
The annual meeting of The Missis-
sippi Travelling Mems Association will
be held at Canton Oct. 25th. 1t is ex-
pected that fully one hundred drum
mers will be present. The annual ad-
dress will be delivered by Hon. John
Sharp Williams.
In Smith county, last week, a man
by the name of Sullivan was shot at
from ambush, but, fortunately, was
not hit. Two of the Sullivan men
have met their death in the past three
months by bullets in the hands of
cowardly assassins in ambush.
On the night of Oct. 14th, Mr.. L. e.
Cox of Scranton, who was returning
from Pascagoula on a railroad tri-
cycle, was accidently thrown from his
machine, and before he could regain
his feet, run over and seriously injured
by hand car coming down the track
behind him.
The doubts connected with the
abandoned Confederate graveyard near
Jackson are settled once for all by
correspondent of the Iuka Vidette.
He states that the graves discovered
are those of Is soldiers who died of
smallpox at the Jackson insane asylum
which was then being used as a hos