The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1900-05-09
MISSISSIPPI NEWS.
A SHORTHAND Chronicle of Cur
rent Happenings.

The /. /. & c. Is spending $685. on a
new dormitory and infirmary build
ings.
The Crystal Springs Meteor says the
strawberry crop this far is practical
failure.
The Kosciusko mills have increased
their capital stock from $4,000 to
$4,000.
j. A. Conway, assistant cashier of
the Vicksburg Merchants Bank, died
last week,
Opie Read showed no resentment,
while in this State, at being called "a
story teller"
Gov. Longino and wife entertained
in honor of Opie Read, on his recent
visit to Jackson.
The State medical association, which
was TO have met in Meridian last week,
will meet on May Is.
Greenwood will have a new bank
with Messrs. A. f. Gardner, \. G.. Nc
Lemore and others at its head.
A bapGuet will be given in honor of
Judge Calhoon, the new supreme court
judge, at the Edwards House, May 10.
| \ new bank at Laurel to be known
as the Peoples Bank has been formally
! organized with an authorized capital
of $4,000.
Three of the local ministers of
Natchez protested against the dance
given for the pupils of the public
schools on Friday, May 4.
Pres. j. G. Hardy of the A. Il NJ. Col
| lege, will attend the Southern Spin
ners' Association, which assemblies at
Charlotte, n. c., tomorrow.
Robert and William Chambers, two
prominent young men of Webb, were
shot and killed in an alteration with
7, B. Abbey of the same town.
1t will take fully twenty thousand
dollars to replace the bridges washed
away by the floods in Kinds county.
Most of the damage was in the Utica
district.
The Voice. which has been published
for years at the Deaf & Dumb In
stitute of Jackson, has suspended pub
LEGATION, its room being needed to in
crease dormitory facilities The In
stitute is in crowded condition.
At McComb City, Kosciusko. Winona,
West Point, Tupelo, Morehead City,
Laurel and the Agricultural College
companies have been organized and
the necessary buildings and machin-
cry for cotton mills have been con
tracted for.
Col. j. l.. Power says: Several news
papers in the State have taken a de
cided stand against the free publica-
ton of free obituary notices. Our OBJ
servation used to be that those who
demanded the most in this way were
delinquent or non subscribers
j. HI. Slade, printer ON the Pine
Bluff Ark. Graphic, died last Thurs
day after being sick with smallpox four
days. His remains were buried few
hours after death. He was a son of
Captain w. s. Slade, a prominent edi-
tor and eX-Confederate of fernando
Miss.
! Within a score of days two noble
young men, Vernon and Josea Davis,
of Oman, Pike County, departed this
life at the home of their father, Rev
\. F. Davis. They were model young
men and leave an aching void in the
hearts of those who loved them ten
derby.
Hon. J. F. McCool has been ap-
pointed trustee of the A. & NJ College
vice Hon. John r. Dinsmore. OF the
|. |. & c., Prof. Dabney Lipscombe has
been made trustee, vice DR.. Leo Viii
hanson. Vice Hon. John M. Stone,
| Hon. M. M. Evans has become trustee
| or the State University.
Dr. w. G. Kiger, State Senator from
| Warren county, is out in circular let
ter announcing himself as candidate
for the position of president pro TEN
of the State Senate to succeed Hon
John r. Dinsmore, deceased. Senator
Kiger was an aspirant for the position
in the last Legislature, but withdrew
in favor of Mr.. Dinsmore.
\ sturgeon, measuring seven feet aud
weighing 135 pounds, was left by Pearl
River as a souvenir of the recent floods
in cattle pen in the southern portion
of the Capital City. The huge fish
had evidently come up stream during
the high water and left the channel
for backwater. When the waters be
gan to recede he was caught in the
small cattle pen of VIM. Muh and could
not eXtricate himself.
The Hazlehurst Courier has figured
out the total expenditures of the State
board of health for the two years end
| ing September 80, 1899, at S10l 1868
The biennial report of the board con
tains an itemiZed statement of receipts
and expenses. The appropriations for
1900 and 1901 are $500 for general
expenses, and 5000 for emergency
fund for each year-the emergency to
be determined by the board of public
contracts, approved By the governor.
The State league of Kings Daugh-
tiers and Sons was formed at Green
vile on last Friday. Miss Mary Howe,
of the Capital, was elected president,
Miss Louise Hider, of Greenville, re-
cording secretary, Miss Lightcap, of
Yazoo City, treasurer. The executive