The leader., 1900-09-12
MISSISSIPPI NEWS.

A Short-Hand Chronicle Of Cur
rent Happenings.
winoha is now lighted by electricity.
orangeviIIe is new postof8ce in
Kinds.
Hazlehurst High School will open on
the oath.
Five blind tigers we're caught at En-
terprise.
Pike county's real estate is valued at
q, 23s,4 Ara
jackson has fourishing Demo
cratic Club.
Oct. Sth the term of the Supreme
Court will open.
A bale of Allen hybrid sold at Green
wood for thirteen cents.
81 applications for pensions were
granted in Kinds county.
Public schools are opening with I'M
usually large attendance.
After IL o'clock at night Jackson's
street cars charge 10 cents for fare.
The first mail on the Gulf and Ship
Island was received at jackson Sept.
10th,
Newton county held special cleo
ton yesterday to fill the office Of
Sheriff.
| J. P. Walker, Jr., of Meridian has
been arrested on charge of attempt
ed arson.
A grand confederation of the order
of Hoo Hoos will be held in Vicksburg
on the 18th.
The Mississippi Coast was swept
by severe wind-storm last Friday
and Saturday.
"a gravel cars were completely de-
molished in wreck at Calhoun Sta
ton, near Canton.
| Gulfport has an artesian we'll, which
at the depth Of 800 feet, yields ninety
gallons per minute.
There were IS accessions to the Bap
fist Church at Wesson, during the re
cent meeting at that place.
John Brunson, colored, was run over
and killed by the train at Terry. HI
He was asleep on the track.
A tree sawed down by two men fell
on negro and killed him at Eastman
& GARDENERS camp at Laurel.
At Yazoo City, Dixie Field was sen
fenced to the penitentiary for life, fol
the murder of Ellison Nelson last fall
Rev. P. G. Sears, rector of st. An
drews' Church at Jackson, was pre-
scented by citizens with a horse ant
buggy.
The Mississippi Iron Foundry ant
Manufacturers Association has beef
organized at Jackson, with $4,000 cap
ital stock.
At Laurel, negro deliberately fire.
at George Barnes, a white boy, withou
provocation and dangerously wounded
him in the stomach.
J. j. Harper, workman employed
by the Jackson Crescent and Manu-
featuring Company, was injured by I
pile of lumber falling on him.
Prof R. Laron Miller, of Crysta
Springs, is principal of Monticello'
Academy, and Miss Alice Stewart, o
the same city, is first assistant,
While playing with target rife
John Graham, colored, shot Georg
Barnes, young white boy, at Laurel
He was taken to New Orleans, but |
not expected to recover.
John A. Redhead, president of tn
Mississippi Cotton Growers Associs
ton, has written an open letter advis
ing the farmers not to be too hasty il
t marketing their cotton.
Mrs. Doughty, of Natchez, accident
ally shot herself with pistol her hus
band had left under his pillow. She
% years of age and has babe of tw
months. She is dangerously wounded
Ned Fay, of Canton, is note
breeder and trainer of fine dogs, ha,
ing met and defeated the great Georg
P. Rose, of Tennessee, in the recen
field trial contests in North Carolin'
Prof. M. M. Jayne, of Bay St. Loui
has been elected honorary vice-pres
: dent of the National Association {
Anti Imperialistic Clubs and requisite
to form State association, with on
or more auxiliaries in each county.
Several negroes, seated on a baggag
truck at Jackson, were discussin
about the way in which the world wi
be destroyed, when one, wiser than tn
| t,~o lot die har