The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1900-11-21
MISSISSIPPI NEWS.
. slort-Hand Chronicle of Cur
rent Happenings.

The first heavy frost came NOV lo'"'
Greenville has a foot ball team III
the field.
DIR. t. Fl. Butler has located al
Monticello.
The l4th was Hobson's Day at Tue
vicksburg Fair.
The Barlow Minstrels will DE al NC
Comb next Friday.
Aberdeen will unveil her Confeder-
ate monument on the 9th.
Hon. Aft Taylor appeared in Jack
son in Poetry and Pearls"
The Seacoast Echo has received power
machinery to operate its press.
Lieut.. Hobson spent one day In Port
Gibson with former schoolmate'
Thanksgiving Day should be rellg-
iously observed all over the State.
The Gem Fire Company, of Jackson
has received its 5000 fire engine.
Sheriff Decell demanded so license
from Robinsons circus at Wesson.
The w. C. r. U. in this State reports
gain of 60 per cent. in membership.
Jackson's summer cars are keeping
the public cool these November nights.
N.Y.
Gov. Longino was master of ceremo-
MES at the opening of the Vicksburg
Fair.
The fourth annual display of Halle
bursts floral club was decided sue
cess.
The Wesson Mills employ s1,lOO
hands. The mills work 66 hours per
week.
J. M. Parchman was reelected war
den of the penitentiary, over five APP
plicants.
5000 cases of canned shrimp were
shipped from Pass Christian to New
Orleans.
The Brotherhood of Locomotive En-
gineers will give their fist annual ball,
Nov. Ord.
The Hattiesburg Citizen says it will
take compass and good surveyor to
find Mcneil
Gov. Longino announced the reap
pointment of Judge Stevens, of the
fifth district.
Not enough colored teachers have
passed the examinations at Yazoo City
to fill all the positions.
A preliminary survey of the pro-
posed railroad from Jackson to Column
bus has been commenced.
The engagement of Miss Edith
Hirsch and Mr.. Moses Landau has
been announced at Vicksburg.
Mr.. Wallace Perry, of Iazoo, in
boarding train had his foot so badly
mashed it had to be amputated.
DR.. |. F. Scott, popular dentist Of
Copiah county and graduate of Van
derbilt University, has located at Sum
NIT.
Miss Eula Sexton, daughter of Mr.
Oliver Sexton, of Crystal Springs, ano
Mr.. r. A. Peacock, late of Tennessee
were married.
Marshall j. Woolfork, a prominen
young Washington county planter
accidentally shot himself in Vicksburl
and died soon afterward.
A ten year-old boy was seriously il
jured while playing on the railroad
track at Ocean Springs. The trail
struck him.
Lieut.. Hobson was dined and wine'
at Vicksburg and at Jackson. Oscula
tory observances were private ; at leas
there has been no public notice take
of them so far
J. B. Collins, who has been solicitin,
laborers in the vicinity of Hazlehurs
to go to the Hawaiian Islands, has lief
with a we'll known colored minister t
accom- pany him.
A countryman at Carthage, Miss
owns an old fiddle which, upon exam
nation, was found to be genuine Gre
MONA manufactured in 1880 by AtoI
MUS Stradivarius.
Buster Nelson, negro, has entere
suit against the Gulf and Ship Islam
road for $1,000. He says he was a.
saulted and thrown from the trail
although he had a ticket.
Supt. Frazer, of the Greenville d
vision of the Southern, has been pre-
noted to the position of superintenC
ent of the Alabama Great Southern
with headquarters at Birmingham.
Messrs. John G.. and w. B. Taylo
of Gallatin, have gone to Southea'
Mississippi, to establish saw an
planning mill on one of the railroad
running out of Mobile, on the Chicks
saw river.
The city council of Biloxi has passe
} an ordinance establishing fire lin
in that city. All buildings erecte
therein will have to be of brick. Ten
porary frame structures are permitte
for period of only four months.
Will A. Miller was shot and killed ;
Fairview, twenty five miles belo
Natchez, by Joseph Miller. The pa
ties are not related. The latter, abo'
four years ago, was charged with ha
ing killed fisherman; but was cleare