The leader., 1900-05-16
MISSISSIPPI NEWS.
\ ShOrt-Hand Chronicle of Cur
rent Happenings

Lawrence County.
Four prisoners oscar ID .hrcugI the
roof of the Meridian ..lil.
Jones Bros, of JAG kson. are erecting
5000 brick 'waref .ouse.
The State EpwUrth League held d
fine meeting at Vjcksburg.
The Pythian membership in this
State is 5000, with 112 lodges.
The Magee Herald is new paper on
the Gulf & Ship Island road
Hazlehurst elected new Board of
Control for it's Public School.
Hattiesburgs Catholic Church. val
ued at $1,000, burned on the 18th.
Booth Lowrey gave an clocutionary
evening at Stems Creek. Saturday.
The negro workmen of Scranton )
saw mills demand weekly pay day.
The stockholders of Fayette's oil
mill have organized with a capital of
$4,000
Canton has passed a dog ordinance,
taxing the CANNES 81 and -, accord
ing to sex.
40 of the lOl applicants for license
to practice medicine, successfully
passed the examination.
a 14-year-old Lexington school boy
shot at his teacher, who attempted to
punish him. The ball missed
or the % applicants before the
State Dental Board, for license, 81
passed the rigid examination given.
In Pike County, Mollie Allen was
fined 500 for retailing and imprisOn-
ment in the county Jail for three
months.
Garner, the murderer of the Causeys,
man and wife, near McComb, was given
a life sentence Another case of where
a man failed to get all he deserved.
The Mississippi ex- Slave Association,
which has for its object the securing
of pensions for ex-slaves, was attended
by large delegation ht jackson last
week.
1t is not often minister of the Cos
pei is made a bank president Rev.
G. NJ. Huber, who has been elected
president of the bank of Forest, is AN
exception
A branch road of the l. c. will be
built from Parsons, in the west of
Grenada County, to Grenada, The
road will be completed by Oct. lst, and
means much to the city
The estimated loss of disastrous
confiagration at Utica last Saturday, ID
$4,000, we'll covered by insurance.
The fire company of Jackson was tele-
phoned for and promptly responded.
The Mississippi Grand Lodge,
Knights of Pythias, at the late meeting
ut Columbus, subscribed $3.50 to the
Protestant Orphan Asylum at Natchez;
Sl0l.50 to the local Palmer Orphanase.
The members of the constitutional
convention who still survive are in
vited by the president, Judge Calhoun,
to hold re union in Jackson ON the
tenth anniversary of their convention
August 18th, 1890.
Chas. A. Crosby, highly respected
young farmer of kosciusko, fatally
shot himself on the eve of his marriage.
He had suffered from mental trouble
and this is supposed to have been the
cause of his suicide,
10 men were tried on habeas corpus
proceeding at Liberty for lynch
ing a negro. They were remand
ed to Jail without bail, until May
2Sth, when Judge Truly will convene a
special term of court to try them.
The Tupelo journal, Private John
Aliens home paper, says that if Mr.,
Allen is going to take to the lecture
field his intimate friends in that town
do not know it. SO this report must
have been joke sprung on the Private.
Among the 101 applicants, before the
State Board, for license to practice
medicine, there were six colored men
and one woman of color. The latter
was l.. E. Miller, of Canton, and fur
nishes the first instance of the kind in
the State.
John and Frank Rushing, one of
them being armed, entered the store
of Cowley Pettus at Forest and at
tackled him. Pettus secured a pistol
and wounded his two assailants, break
ing their pistol with the first shot,
Pettus was uninjured.
The attorney general has given an
opinion that fuel is necessary 70 the
transaction of public business in Court
Houses, and should be furnished by
the board of supervisors This is con
soling to officials who will need no
fuel during the summer,
The executive committee of the Sec
ond Congressional District has called
a majority primary to nominate a can
didate for Congress. Hon. Thomas
Spight, the present incumbent, and
Hon. W. A. Mcdonald, are the only
two announced candidates.
The State Board of Education has
passed resolution that no teacher or
conductor of normais shall be the
agent of any school book publishing
house. High prices of school books in
this State are probably due to the fact
that many teachers are agents for the
book trust.
Edwin Rucks Clifton, the 14-year-