The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1899-08-02
MISSISSIPPI NEWS.
A ShOrt-HaBd Chronicle of Cur
rent Happenings.

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Pike county has an overproduction
of water-melons.
McCool won in the second primary
in Perry over Longino.
The Hazlehurst Courier records the
death of Capt. N. w. Slay.
John Hagan, negro burglar, has
been captured at Scranton.
| j. G. Kincannon is in the lead for
railroad commissioner in the 3rd dis
trict.
| Vardaman carried Claiborne by five
votes, and Critz carried Tippah by nine
votes.
Grasshoppers are playing havoc with
the cotton and corn crops in Boliver
county
H. Winter Harper, editor of the Ray
mond Gazette, will be candidate for
Secretary of the State Senate.
The death of Houston L. Tucker and
Mrs. 1. W. Burch, two old residents of
Jefferson county, is announced.
In the second primary in Lawrence
benson won for Representative, Fox
for sheriff and VIM. Maxwell for treas
urer.
A negro was lynched in Rankin last
week for alleged criminal assault on a
white girl and it has since been discov-
cred that he was innocent.
The Democratic State Convention
will meet in the Deaf and Dumb Insti-
tute Hall at Jackson, the old capitol
having been decided too dangerous.
On logging train near Hattiesburg
two negroes, Henry Startling and John
Nixon, we're killed, and white fireman
named Tom Wyatt was seriously in
jured.
J. c. Smylie, formerly citizen OF
Lincoln, was nominated for Represent
ative from Copiah in the second pri
mary. His colleagues will be L. L.
Britain and J. J. Ellis.
Land Commissioner Nall reports
that his sale of State lands during the
month of July are the largest in the
history of the office, amounting to be-
tween seven and eight thousand dol
lars
J. D. Dampeer was beaten for Chan
Gerry Clerk in Copiah by J. B. Mayes.
The rotation doctrine did it, as Dam
peer is very popular man and official
John S. Decell was nominated for
sheriff
B. M. Schmidt, German of noble
lineage and graduate of the Univer-
sity at Leipsic, died at the county farm
of Lowndes county on the 9th ult., to
which he had been sentenced for en-
bezzlement.
Dr. Hamilton, of Durant, who was
last year appointed surgeon of the
second Mississippi regiment and after
ward was assigned place in the regu-
lar army at MatanZas, Cuba, is reported
to have died of yellow fever.
A. NJ Dahlgren, the Palmer and
Buckner gold-bug bolter who ran for
Sheriff in Harrison county in the late
Democratic primary, has bolted again
and will run as an independent. He
didn't carry a precinct in the county
and charges the result to fraud.
The grading on the jackson exten,
sion of the Gulf g. Ship Island Railroad
is now reported to be opposite Will
liamsburg, which it misses by three
and half miles. The track is already
laid to Pickering and regular trains
run as far as Sanford, where it connects
with the branch from Eastabuchie.
Copiah's new Board of Supervisors
will be composed of w. M. Ainswortt
from beat l, M. o. Jones from beat 2
Watson G. Smith from Beat B. j. j
Sullivan from beat and j. w. Didlake
from beat 3. Messrs. Ainsworth and
Didlake are members of the present
board, and Mr.. Smith once before rep
resented his district.
In Monroe county Allen received
1870 votes to 474 for McLaurin, while
Lowry polled 1893 to 673 for Sullivan
The Aberdeen Examiner says that "or
election day there was not an outsider
at work in the county, so far as we can
learn, in the interest of either Allen OF
Lowry, while they were here from all
. the outlying provinces in the inter
est of their opponents"
Near Vicksburg truck farmer nam
ed Ithamer Yerkes shot four small
boys alleged to have been depredating
on his melon patch. They were War
rem Colly, white, aged years, shot il
head, shoulder and body; Frank Smith
white, years, twenty one small shot il
} head, face and body, seriously hurt
Murray Foster, colored, years, shot
in head and body: Richard Kendall
colored, 9 years, shot in body and head
wounds fatal Yerkes mounted horse
and fed.
The projectors of the proposed color
ed mems cotton factory at jackson
headed by Hon. James Hill, are push
ing that enterprise. The directors OF
this proposed cotton factory have sew
eral bonded canvassers travelling
around over the State now soliciting
subscriptions, and reports are thai
they are meeting with great success
, The shares, which are ten dollars each
; are within the reach of every negro
who has a steady job, and they are tax
ing hold with determination to buil(
the factory as soon as possible.
,l And now comes the splendid progres
sive town of McComb City with the an
nouncement that it will immediatel.
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