The leader., 1900-02-07

Nall for the month of January, shows
the amount of State lands sold during
that time to be SS02529
Col. w. J. Bryan, in a letter to Gov.
Longino, accepts the invitation to ad-
dress the Legislature, and says that he
will name the date later.
Measles is epidemic at Mico and sew
eral deaths are reported, including two
persons near seventy years of age
Mrs. Blackwell and Mrs. Lyons.
The directors of the Hazlehurst oil
mill at recent meeting decided to
add another press, thus increasing the
capacity of the plant 80 per cent.
Frank Hirsch's general merchandise
store at Largent, on the Sunfiower riv
er, was totally destroyed by fire early
Sunday morning. Loss 5000, with
$500 insurance.
A voluntary petition in bankruptcy
has recently been filed in the United
States court by F. G. Simmons 4 Co.,
of Magnolia. Liabilities about $4,000
and assets about $4,000.
r. E. Ainsworth, of HaZlehurst, has
filed avoluntary petitionin bankruptcy.
He is merchant at that place. His
liabilities are $3.50 and assets are listed
as fully equal to the liabilities.
The Bank of Wesson has declared a
dividend of IS per cent, which was
passed to the stockholders and surplus
fund. Capt. J. G.. Lyell has been elect
ed cashier to succeed w. M. Anderson.
| A man by the name of Frank Potts,
of Georgia, inspector for the Standard
| Oil Co., being in an intoxicated condi-
ton, fell from the train near Biloxi
on the night of the 2nd inst. and was
fatally injured.
A negro by the name of George
Smith, of Covington county, who had
been sentenced to a long term in the
penitentiary and was being conveyed
there by j. r. McCrory escaped from
his guard at Meridian on the 31st ult.
At Bonneville, on the night of the
31st ult., W. l.. Ethridge, railroad
man, was cremated in his boarding car.
One suppOsition is that Ethridge was
asleep when the car took fire and an
other that he was murdered and his
car fired
The annual meeting of the Mississip-
pi Historical Society was held at Jack
son in the hall of the House of Repre-
sentatives on the 2nd inst. Important
and interesting papers were read by
Gen. Lee, Mrs. Cappleman, Col. Power
and Bishop Galloway.
On last Saturday Gov Longino
moved into the Executive mansion,
where he will reside from now till the
expiration of his term as Governor. 1t
goes without the saying that the latch
string of the Governors door will al
ways hang on the outside.
The annual conference of the African
Methodist Episcopal church, held in
jackson last week with an attendance
of $50 delegates and ministers, adopted
resolutions endorsing Governor Lon
glno's inaugural recommendations in
regard to the suppression of lynching
Three men, John r. Youngblood. G..
f. Bell and VIII Rodgers, were ar
raigned at Greenwood last week for
the embezzlement of goods from the
| depot of the Southern Railway at that
place. About $1,000 worth of goods
had been taken by them from the
depot and sold.
A charter fixing the capital stock at
$4,000 was granted the Miller Smith
Co. last week. This company will en-
gage in cotton factorage and commits
sion business at Indianola. A charter
was also given the Leflore Hardware
Company, which with a capital stock
| of S2o0,OOO, is domiciled at Clarksdale.
Robinson's Opera House at jackson
was badly damaged by fire last week.
The total loss, including the damage by
water, to the stock of merchandise in
the stores under the opera house and
on each side of it will probably reach
$4,000. The fire was caused by red
hot stovepipe. All the property was
insured.
Cleveland Hawkins, the eight-year-
old son of Charles Hawkins, was killed
at jackson on the 1st inst. under pecu-
liar circumstances. He was playing on
cotton bale at the Crescent ware
house when he slipped from the bale
and as he fell it turned and tumbled
on top of him. Death from a broken
neck resulted instantly.
The Lexington Advertiser is to he
incorporated, with a capital stock of
$1,000, with r. A. Povall, C. Oltenburg,
j. E. Stanfield, w. H. Sutton, S. N.
Sample, X. H. Diggs, w. P. Lockett. E.
F. Noel, ]. B. Cunningham, r. E. vii,
burn and S. M. Smith as incorporators.
The Advertiser has been published go
years, and is the oldest newspaper in
Mississippi except the Woodville Re-
publican.
Last week, the entire planning mill
plant OF the Kingston Lumber Co. at
Laurel was destroyed by fire. The fire
originated in the boiler room of the
planning mill and it was only by the
most strenuous efforts on the part of
the mill crew aided by citizens that