The leader., 1900-05-02
MISSISSIPPI NEWS.
A SHORTHAND Chronicle OF Cur
rent Happenings.


rent Happenings.
Hattiesburg is in need of an opera
house.
A firm in Jackson lost GoO cords OF
wood i'm the overflow.
Mrs. Will Yoste, formerly Miss Hat
tie Hanley, died in Jackson last week.
Hailstones fell at Tupelo last week,
that were so large they killed hogs IN
the pen.
Capt. James W. Lambert has been re
elected president of the Natchez charl-
ty hospital.
&C. Bates, of Liberty, had two fine
mules stolen which he sent to Gloster
for a load of freight.
Rev. Sam Jones lectured for the Ep-
worth League at Okolona on Facts,
Fun and Philosophy.
w. ID. Mayes, furniture dealer OF
Water Valley, suicided on the BIRD ult.
by shooting himself.
G. a. Simpson, secretary of the Re
publican State Convention, died at
Pass Christian on the 9th ult.
Gov. Longino delivered the annual
address at the Confederate Memorial
Day exercises at Crystal Springs on the
26th.
One good thing the recent floods did
was to deprive, for a season, many OF
the blind tiger men of their supply OF
| liquor.
Within fortnight Gov. Longino
will appoint supreme court judge,
ten circuit judges and seven chan
cellors.
Decoration Day was appropriately
observed at Jackson with abundant flo
raj offerings and impressive memorial
services.
Bishop Galloway delivered his lee
ture in jackson last week on "Missis-
sippi, Her Yesterday, Today and To
morrow"
At Clinton, last Wednesday, in a base
ball game, the Mississippi College boys
defeated the Jefferson College team by
a score of to l.
At Braxton, last week, two negro
boys, aged about II years, while hunt
ing got into a fight which resulted in
one getting killed.
The May term of the United States
Court at Jackson has been pretermit
ted ON account of the torn up condi-
ton of the court room.
Col. w. d. Holder, eX-Auditor OF
Public Accounts. and a Southern gen
tleman of the old school, died at his
home in Jackson on the 10th inst.
A colored man in jackson has had
two new residences burned by incendi
aries since January. The last house
burned last week was valued and in
sured at $50.
The fruit crop will be the finest for a
great many years. Peach, plum and
healthy fruit and the blackberry vine
is in full bloom.
Blind tiger and gambling rooms were
raided at Meridian in the Commercial
Hotel. Nobody was found and no one
claimed the several drayloads of whis
ky, beer, etc, levied on.
About forty families in Rankin coun
ty were left entirely destitute by the
high waters of Pearl River \ relief
party found quite number who had
not tasted substantial food for two or
three days.
The Populist State Convention
which was to have been held in Jackson
on the 26th inst, was called in on ac
count of the state of the railroads anC
the fact that the Republicans had cho
sen the same date.
At the annual contest of the fresh
man members of the Hermeon Literary
Society of the State University, Jane:
B. Leavell, of Oxford, won the frs
medal and Lawrence Fulton, son oil
Chancellor r. B. Fulton, the second.
The Populist State Convention hav
ing been called in, Chairman Prewit
states that the Populist State executive
committee. upon the recommendation
of counties, will appoint delegates t.
the Cincinnati Populist convention
for May the 10th.
Probably the first legal case evel
heard over the telephone in this State
came up last week, the chancellor being
at one end of the line and the attorneys
of both sides at Jackson-neither side
being able to get to the other on &C
count of high water.
Mississippi's Confederate veterans