The leader., 1900-12-12
MISSISSIPPI NEWS.
A SHORTHAND Chronicle "i ""
rent Uappcnings.


Col. William Inge, Il weil,kno"h at
torney of Corinth, is dead.
The Laurel Electric Light q Power
Company is in working order.
The business of the |. c. railroad
has doubled in the past ten years.
The Peoples Bank has been opened
at Magnolia with $4,000 paid up capl'
tai.
The business of Jackson's postofhce
has increased 10 per cent. in three
years.
John B. Clark, of Yazoo City, was
wounded in an engagement win the
Fillipinos.
Sidney McLaurin, president OF the
Brandon Bank, and Miss Sudie Cooke
have married,
EFT. Sorsby, one of Clinton's larg
est merchants, lost his store and stock
by fire recently.
The Crystal Springs public school
will give Christmas tree for the ben
eft of the children.
Samples of building stone are being
received daily at Jackson, in the inter
est of the new capitol.
Private John Allen proposes to pup
lish shortly his life and twenty years
experience In Congress.
The Courier says more than s3,oUo
worth of fruit trees have been dellV-
cred from Hazlehurst this season,
LII. 90, the proceeds of 700 bales
of cotton raised on the delta farms, has
been paid into the State treasury
CHI. Nicholson, of Durant, is dead
For thirty years he had been a resi-
dent of that town and died at the age
of 81.
Albert G. Delmas, of Scranton, was
awarded a bronze medal by the Paris
Exposition for paper shell pecans ex-
hibited.
The Sentinel says Yazoo City has a
successful dairyman. He owns ~
thoroughbred Jerseys and his wares
are in demand.
Rev. VIM. Mercer Green, grandson
of the late Bishop Green, was ordained
to the Episcopal priesthood at Jack
son last Sabbath.
Mrs. Leggett, the young and devoted
wife of Rev. J. T. Leggett, Methodist
pastor at Hazlehurst, died, leaving a
babe of few days.
David R. Fox, who married Miss
Mamie Aaronson, at Summit, several
years ago died at Ell Paso, Texas, OF
galloping consumption.
w. \. Reynolds and Fred Marshall
two white men, we're arrested at Vicks-
burg, on charge Of blowing open and
robbing the railway safe at Martin.
The magnolia is the State flower OF
Mississippi. The next Legislature vii
be asked to ratify the selection
made by the States school children.
DR.. Crawford, a venerable Baptist
missionary from China, lectured il
Jackson last Sunday, He has been
laboring near Pekin for fifty years.
The Annex, of Crystal Springs, pub
10 lot III nf
to-be famous Brandywine Wall. The
mystery promises to be solved at an
early day.
The Natchez Daily Democrat is ,!
years old, and, as weekly, it date
back SO years. During all these year
it has been owned and directed b!
Hon. J. w. Lambert.
D. A. Scott, of Copiah, took min
bales of Allen long staple cotton t.
Vicksburg, sold it for 16 cents pc
pound and returned home with $106.Sl
the amount of the sale.
George P. Gordn, for many year,
agent for the Illinois Central at Jack
son, has resigned his position and viii
be succeeded by w. H. Helmick, pres
ent agent at McComb City.
The mangled body of Edward c
Jones was picked up by the railroa'
track at Biloxi. 1t is supposed he wa
killed by a freight train. Letter
showed him to be from Atlanta, Ga.
The Vicksburg Dispatch has bee
sold at public auction under deed O
trust, and was bid in by Mr.. B. "
Griffith, Vicksburg banker, at ST. 80
the amount sal to be due on the pa
per.
Prof. Il. l.. Trawick has been re
elected manager of the Mississippi
Chautaaqua Assembly. The Board o
Directors have voted him 81, 900 to Sc
cure the program for the coming year
Hon. James X. Vardaman advertise
for partner in the Commonwealth
He wants an up-to-date newspape
man to take charge of the mschani
cal department and purchase an inter
est in the paper.
w. w. Cockerhan, aged 81, died a
his home near Terry. When the fam
lily retired, they left him in his chat
by the fire and found him in the SAM
position next morning with the vita
spark extinguished.
For five consecutive years party o
hunters from Terry have returne
from Thanksgiving hunt with ven
ison. This year proved an exception
as no deer could be found and the par
ty were rewarded only with a will
turkey gobbler.
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