The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1900-12-05
MISSISSIPPI NEWS.
A Short-Hand Chronicle oil Cur
rent Happenings.

Jackson held two S r'''es
Thanksgiving day.
Thieves secured s75 and the opera
tors gold watch at Martin.
The corner stone of the new b p'lot
church at Biloxi has been laid.
Mississippi College will give ten
days during the Christmas holidays.
The proceedings from the Catholic
bazaar. held at Jackson, aggregated
$500.
The new Baptist church a. Utica
which cost $500, was burned down.
Insurance, 5000.
Mississippi has, all told, ll6 saloons.
They paid in privilege taxes during
the year, s13l, 900.
Commissioner Nall sold $1,000 worth
of tax lands in Washington county on
Thanksgiving day.
Mr.. Ed. Vance Cook, the famous pO-
ct. lectured at Mississippi and Hillm1n
Colleges at Clinton.
A Claiborne county fair to be held
at Port Gibson next fall, is being advo-
Gated by the Reveille.
NELSON'S municipal officers are now,
Capt. T. A. Garner, mayor; John w.
Booth, marshal; J. S. Rea, treasurer.
Two little daughters of B. F. Redus,
of Hattiesburg, were seriously injured
by a bank of dirt caving in upon them
Both will live.
Chas Cole, of Norfield, was shot
and killed by his father in law, h. W.
James at Fernwood, on account of do.
nestle trouble.
DR.. II. A. Cant has arisen to remark
that yellow fever at NatchcZ and
Brookhaven is now closed incident.
That settles it.
On Dec. II, the commission appoint
ed for the purpose will meet at Hat
tiesburg to enroll the Mississippi
Choctaw Indians
The Holmes County Progress is a
new candidate for public favor. 1t is
published at Lexington by the Prog.
ress Publishing Company.
NJ. A. Brown, of Yazoo county
writes the Sentinel that on one and
one fifteenth acres he raised 420 gal
Ions of Louisiana molasses.
In the increase of growth in bank
ing institutions, from 1890 to 1900, Mis-
sissippi stands second West Virgins
is first and Louisiana third
Miss Sole Rucker and Mr.. b. l.
johnson were married at Canton; also
Miss Irene Luckett and Mr. Jack Cow
an, popular engineer of the /. c.
The depot of the Louisville q Nash
vile railroad was robbed of S2Ot
at Laurel. Tramps are suspected OF
committing the deed
the deed.
Rev. II. H. Brownlee is meeting with
success in soliciting subscriptions foi
a new dormitory for Chamberlain
Hunt Academy. $4,000 is the amount
in demand
Robt. H. May, of Meridian, has beer
awarded judgment of S140,0Ot
against the government of Guatemala
His claim was the result of revolu
ton in that country in which the gov
eminent seized his railroad.
State Revenue Agent Writ Adams
has fight on his hands in the at
tempt to collect back taxes from tn,
citizens of Pass Christian, aggregat
ing about $4,000. The citizens hav,
organized to contest the matter.
Mr.. Frank Hutchins, living nea
Hebron, died recently after an illness
of three weeks with typhoid fever
He was a son-inl law of Mr.. and Mrs
d. p. Berry, of Monticello, and Leaves
a wife and several small children.
In the fight between those who de
sire the court house of Simpson a
Edna, and those who desire it to re
main at Westville, Senator McLauril
represents the Westyille people anC
Hon. c. H. Alexander, the removalists
T. B. Gaddis lost his gin by fire a
Moreton. Loss, $500, insurance 81 ,50(
Drs. 7. P. Street and II. H. Harral
son, of Vicksburg, will establish
sanitarium in that city. The proper
ty for its location has been purchased
Mr.. Jack Thompson, a thrifty youn
farmer from near Wesson, while ad
justing the harness on his horse, wa
kicked over the heart by young null
and fell dead. He leaves a wife am
two children, beside father, brother
and sisters.
The justice of the peace, Wilker5on
and his constable, Lod Gatewood, O
l. OIeol, nave ueeh dIICSltu, CHdISe'
with waylaying and dangerousl,
wounding man by the name of Aus
tin some time last summer. The,
each gave bond in the sum of $1,000.
DR.. w. G. Black, pastor of jackson
First Methodist church and for seve
years past, editor of the New Orlean
Christian Advocate, has resigned tn
tripod, preferring the pastoral work
DR.. J. w. Boswell, of the North Mis-
sissippi conference, has been chose
editor of the Advocate,
We noted the losing of foot by MI
Wallace Perry, of Yazoo, as he trird t
board moving train, and since, Jerr