The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1900-11-07
MISSISSIPPI NEWS.
A short-Hand Chronicle of Cur
rent Happenings.

Thanksgiving Day, November -''"'
Buffalo Bills Wild West Show visit
ed Vicksburg.
The population of Mississippi Is a."
nounced to be 1,551, 372
Laurels new Catholic church was
dedicated by Bishop II sin.
Hazlehurst will have chrysanthe-
mum exhibit November ID and IA.
Rankin's sugar cane and potato crop
is nothing like as good as expected
Jake Gilmore, a railroad laborer,
killed his wife with an ak at Ellisvilie'
Quail, doves, squirrels and wild tur-
KEYS are attracting hunters near sara
toga.
J. E. Watts has assumed editorial
control of The Fraternal Echo, OF Me-
ridian.
Sells & Gray's Show has not been
highly complimented by the State
press.
Port Gibson las more than doubled
her population in ten years, and now
has $3.50.
Rev. C.. NJ. Huber, of Crystal Springs,
mourns the death of his 5-year-old
daughter.
Lieut.. Hobson will be in Meridian
on the 10Th and will also attend the
Vicksburg Fair.
Vicksburg's lifting pump at the wa
terworks broke down and caused trou-
BILE all over town.
The Westville News has entered its
twenty ninth year, with renewed hope
founded on the new railroad.
Tom Scott, collector for the Cumber-
land Telephone Company, at Meridian,
dropped dead while doing business for
them.
Near Meridian seed house, contain
ing quantity of seed, was destroyed
by fire. The incendary, a negro, was
caught.
Col. Chas. Z. Hooker was summoned
last Wednesday to repair at once to
Indiana and to make three speeches in
that State.
Millsaps plays Tulane, Nov. 10. The
team will go from New Orleans to Bat
on Rouge, and play the University OF
Louisiana.
Mrs. NJ. E. Beauchamp, of Halle
hurst, married Mr.. J. c. Burt, of Nc
Comb, Rev. A. J. Fawcett performing
the ceremony.
w, r. Foster sampled" cotton for
his firm by abstracting several pounds
at time, which he sold for his own
benefit He was arrested.
Delegates from this State have been
appointed to attend the Southern In
dustrial Convention which meets in
New Orleans, Dec. 4th to 9th.
Mrs. Carrie Musgrove, daughter OF
Major and Mrs. VIM. Yerger, of Green
Vile, was buried at Greenville. She
was about thirty years of age.
Within a space of fifteen minutes,
six trains pulled out of Jackson's I'M
ion depot. Extraordinary business
and hustle pervade the Capital.
There are two applicants for the of
flee of postmaster at Hazlehurst, l.. ii
Matthews, husband of the late post.
mistress, and S. S. Matthews, her son
Miss Caroline Gordon, daughter OF
Gen. John B. Gordon, gave an elocu
ton recital at Meridian last week, fol
the benefit of the Central School libra
ry fund.
Mr.. Lee Smith, native of New AL
bany, Miss, who has been with the At
lanta Journal some eight or ten years
has recently been made editor of the
State department of that splendid pa
per.
Rev. Marion E. Melvin. the young
ly ordained and installed as pastor a
Forest and Brandon, will be married
today in Canton to Miss Susie Priestl,
Reid.
DR.. T. D. Isom, the oldest practicin!
physician in the State, has resigned
his position as surgeon for the |. G. r
r., which he has held since the roac
was established. DR.. James P. Viii
kins succeeds him.
The Illinois Central advertises TO
800 negro laborers, at one dollar day
Several months ago when similar ad
vertisement was published response
were so slow that labor had to be i'm
ported from the North.
A heavily armed man abo ut 80 year
of age entered the McKissit;k home a
Vossburg, made the lady of the hous'
who was alone with her little one
throw up her hands, while he searche
the place and secured S235.
The ruling monarch of the c,.rnivf
festivities of the Vicksburg Fair is
M. Moore, of that city. He is the e.
president of the Cotton Exchange an
received 919l votes, as against 1895 fo
his competitor. The contt st nette
the Fair Association $500.
A. G., Lewis, of Clinton, receiN