The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1900-09-19
MISSISSIPPI NEWS.
A Shorthand Chronicle of cur
rent Happenings.

JdckSOu OblcOeS W ~ $780,
Cotton sold in wesson for l0li cents
asst week.
vicksburg gave s1,4Oo to the Calves
ton sufferers.
Gov. Longino is having continued
spell of fever.
Many towns are assisting the calves
ton flood sufferers.
McComb's public school matricula-
ted more than 400 pupils.
The town that gets the branch ex-
pertinent station will be fortunate.
40 bushels of pears we're gathered
from IL trees at King, Rankin county.
Rankin county sends up the names
of 60 pensioners-the same as last
year.
The Gulf & Ship Islond system will
probably build road between Laurel
and Ellisville.
AS to yellow fever, Mississippi is be-
ginning to feel it is out of the woods
for this year of our Lord.
Life sentences we're given Tom Mory
and Mich Mccullough in Yazoo. One
had murdered his wife; the other his
step-daughter.
Henry McLemore, at Morton, has
lost three children with typhoid fever
and three more members of his family
are ill with the disease.
Mr.. John D. Askew, who has return
ed from visit to the knitting mills of
the East, proposes to put $4,000 into a
like enterprise at Columbus.
Lumberton proposes to give half
section of land as inducement for the
location of the branch experiment sta
ton, of the A & M. College.
The thirteenth annual convention of
the Copiah County Sunday School AS
ISOLATION was held in Crystal Springs
last week. II was largely attended.
Edward Blair shot and killed ]. s.
McCrady at Water Valley. McCrady
was, at the time of his death, under
indictment for assault with intent to
kill.
Secretary L. P. Conner, of State Com
mittee fame, had an original poem in
last Sundays Times Democrat. Itwas
very beautiful and needs no explana-
ton.
j. A. Jones, for many years city ed
itor of the Clarion Ledger, has resign
ed his position and will travel for the
paper. Ill health is the cause of the
change.
James A. Ware died at Forest. At
the outbreak of the civil war he en-
listed in Co. A., 59th Mississippi Regi-
ment as lieutenant and was afterward
made major.
Fall examinations for teachers will
take place Sept. 81 and % for whites,
and Sept. % and 90 for negroes; also
on Oct. 5 and for whites, and Oct. II
and 13 for negroes.
The State press is suggesting that
some change in the pension laws be
made at the next session of the Legis-
lature. There has been large in
crease of applicants.
The Gulfport Southwark advocates
law making it penal offense for any
person in the State to wear an emblem
of any secret, fraternal or benevolent
order not a member of the order.
The State University held a fine
opening last Wednesday. Two new
chairs have been added to the faculty
since last June, civil and electrical en-
gineering. The opening ball was held
on Friday night.
&C. Morris jug house, of Vicksburg
had lot of liquor confiscated which
was shipped to an agent at Yazoo Cit!
addressed to fictitious names and In
tended to be distributed by an agent
in violation of the law.
There are 1877 licensed saloons il
Mississippi, from which the State gets
revenue of about $4,000, in add
ton to the county and town taxes
Then there are blind tigers in some o
the dry towns and some in the woods
The w. G. T. u, of Vicksburg hav
fitted up free public water fountain
at cost of 1912, which provides :"
cup of cold water" in His name. There
is no town in the State where goo'
water and plenty of it is more nee.ed
The Textile School at Starkville will
not be ready for operation before tn
beginning of the session of 1901. Tn
building necessary has not yet beef
begun and all the machinery to be pu
in after it's completion, will togethe
consume about ten months time.
The death of Capt. John S. Lewis
editor of the Woodville Republican i
lamented by the press fraternit
throughout the State. He was one o
the ablest and oldest editors of Mis-
sissippi, and served his country i'll thu
sixteenth Mississippi regiment during
the civil war.
Col. Power has prepared list of tn
speakers of the Mississippi house o
representatives from 1918 to 1900. Johl
w. King, of Rankin, was speaker il
1888. Two colored men, John Il
Lynch of Adams, and 1. d. Shadd, o
Warren, are on the list. Only on
speaker resigned H. M. Street
Jan. 2, 1894.
Will H. Hatcher was killed at Marion
Station by r. l.. Chisholm and his sor
The young man had been Forbidden