The leader., 1900-07-18
MISSISSIPPI NEWS.
\ Short-Iiaud Chronicle of CUR
rent Happenings.

The sea shore camp meeting is in
progress.
Summit will have a new Methodist
parsonage.
Belzona, Yazoo count. ps.,liHE in
an oil mill.
Mrs. Louisa b. Reid, aged -, died
in Yazoo City.
20. Osolnach has launched the
Gulfport Record.
$4,000 has been subscribed at Clos
ter for cotton factory.
SUBMITS dogs are being killed on
the streets. for running at large.
Judge G. b. Huddleston's term in
the tenth district expires Aug. }.
Tryus has scarlet fever which seems
to have originated at that place.
Eupora refused to vote a town tax
to support a separate school district.
John Allen, of Martinsvile, useful
and honorable citizen, died last week.
\ lodge of Odd Fellows has been or
ganized at Hazlehurst. with 10 mem
bers.
Mis- Sippie Davis died at Magnolia
after an illness of fifty days with ty-
phoid fever.
1t now looks as though Carmack
will be the winner in the senatorial
race in Tennessee.
DR.. X d. Collins, aged 80, died of
apoplexy at Natchez. He was native
of Whiteapple, Miss.
Capt. Peter Conrad, pioneer of the
steamboat business on the Mississippi.
died at the age of 50.
Laurel's new bank building will be
constructed Of pressed brick and
stone and will cost $1,000
The bar of the Vicksburg district
have endorsed Hon. II. c. McCabe as
the successor to Judge Henry.
Frank Shack, of Grenada, was killed
near Duck Hill by freight train. 1t
is supposed he was attempting to steal
a ride.
Brick from the penitentiary walls
are being used at Jackson in the con
struction of the colored Mississippi
Insane Hospital.
Meridian will hold a grand Demo
cratic rally tomorrow night, for the
purpose of ratifying the action of the
Kansas City convention.
Collin Campbell aged l.. was severe
ly bitten at Yazoo City by mad dog.
His parents at once took him to the
Pasteur Institute, i'll New York.
The municipal election at Columbus
last week turned on the pivotal point
of whether its citizens should use bored
well water or creek water. The creek
water Won.
Twice has the vote for the election
of major in the Second Regiment,
National Guard resulted in a tie be
tween Capt E. NJ. Martin and Capt.
Gabe Jacobson.
The Mississippi Railroad Commits
sion is considering the ACCESSIBILITY of
adopting a classification of its own, to
be known as the mississippi Freight
Classification.
\ crowd of negroes, while INDUCING
in a key of beer at Summit became in
toxicated. \ woman interfered and
was shot and killed by John Gordon,
who was subsequently arrested.
Near Vicksburg, George Strother
disemboweled Jim Ford while shoot
ing craps" Stroller then fled: and
in attempting to board a freight train,
fell under the wheels and was killed.
The Grenada Sentinel says, good
roads, manufactures, new settlers,
more business, more mills, more money
and less politics. are what will put
meat on the bones Of old Mississippi
and her people.
| Noel Richards, an aged and respect
able farmer of Ocean Springs, commit
ted suicide by hanging himself in his
barn. Ill health. the death of one son
and the serious illness of another
caused the fatality.
Neal Tolbert, of Kinds, has institu-
ted suit against the Gulf and Ship
Island Railroad Company for 5000 be
cause of injuries received by the over
turning of caboose on the freight
train he had boarded.
The Illinois Centrals freight depot
at Jackson will receive an annex in
order to afford room to handle the
Gulf and Ship Island freight business
The train dispatchers' office will also
be consolidated with that of the Hi
nois Central.
G. H. Appel, lately returned from
California to Crystal Springs, brought
with him some Belgian hares, from
which he proposes to raise hares for
food and for their pelts. The MeteCr
saws the experiment will be watched