The leader., 1900-08-29
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

Magnolia's Graded School will open
Monday.
Eleven deaths from heat in New
York Monday.
King Humberts assassin has at
tempted suicide.
There are 1877 saloons in the IA wet
counties of the State.
j. H. Packwood, brother of Col. S.
E. Packwood, died in Pike county.
W. H. Showers, a long time resident
of Vicksburg, will remove to Houston,
Texas.
A pile driver at Grenada, working
on railroad construction, fell and kill
ed Paul Garner, aged II.
Blue Mountain College will not open
until Sept 10, owing to the new build
ings not being completed.
Lady Strafford, formerly Mrs Col
gate of New York, is to be made lady
in waiting to Queen Victoria.
Mr.. B. F. Mounger, of Monroe, La,
and Miss Mary Dampeer, of Wesson,
were married last Wednesday.
S. S. Stebbins, of McComb, lost an
arm and was otherwise seriously in
jured while serving as brakeman.
Cholera in India is the worst epi-
demic on record. People are dying
like flies at the rate of 5000 week.
At Biloxi, Ada Persons shot and kill
ed Jesse Harvey, who was trying to
break into her house The woman's
act was pronounced justifiable.
While riding horseback, Will
Hough's horse stumbled over a COW,
throwing the boy and crushing his
skull. He is in the Natchez hospital.
The Populists have placed the vice
Presidential nominee, Stevenson, on
their national ticket instead of Chas.
A. Towne Bryan expresses gratifica-
tion at the action.
At midday in Kansas City on Mon
day, the city was plunged in darkness,
and rain fell in torrents. At the union
depot, daylight signals could not be
seen and train service was stopped for
thirty minutes.
Chas. A. Boutelle. of Maine. has been
in hospital for the insane since last
December. His friends claim that if
he is not reelected to Congress on
Sept. 10, the shock will kill him, and he
is likely to get there.
The Wesson Enterprise says that
fully 1000 people are attending the re-
ligious services conducted at the Wes-
son Baptist Church by Rev. w. A. Nc
Comb of Crystal Springs. Some 60
have been added to the church roll.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Gould. who
have been visiting in Paris were be-
sieged by the creditors of their broth
erin law, the Count de Castellane, and
refused every appeal, 1t is said the
titled foreigner spent S6,O00,OOO the
first year of his marriage to Anna
Gould.
E. ID. Winter, prominent citizen of
Greenville, who had been visiting
Cooper's Well for his health, started
on his return home, but was stricken
with apoplexy at Vicksburg on Satur-
day, and has lain in an unconscious
condition ever since. Little hope is
entertained of his recovery.
Albert Charles Cloud, of Vicksburg,
took a bath in the lake on Sunday last
and on coming out complained of in
tense pain. A congestive chill follow
ed, and he died before physician
could reach his side. Within four
months the wife and two other mem
bers of Mr.. S. j. Cloud, the fathers
family, have died.
Mr.. Burns, farmer living miles
from Bogue Chitto, while enjoying the
comfort of hot summer day yawn
and gap, this morning, exaggerated
the incident to such an extent that he
dislocated his jaw, which required the
assistance of a physician, and caused
much pain before it was replaced
This should serve as warning 30 the
gaping crowd generally especially to
lazy folks.