The leader., 1900-07-25
MISSISSIPPI NEWS.
4 Short-Hand Chronicle of Cur
rent Happenings.

rent happenings.
The Headblock has doubled its size.
Cato's postoffice was robbed of about
SO.
The vicksburg Post is ami Dr%an de
cidedly.
The Topisaw camp meeting opens up
on Aug. 10th.
Yazoo City has book bindery on
basis of $4,000 capital
Jerome Fords store at Magnolia was
robbed of $500 worth of goods.
State Senator Il. c. Lee, of Madison,
says Hooker will carry that county.
Hon. \. f. Fox has been indorsed
for Congress in the Fourth District.
The total cotton receipts at Jackson
for the season amount to 1000 bales.
Hunters sawmill near Enterprise
was a total loss by fire. No insurance
Lloyd Baddely, of Water Valley,
died from an operation for appendlcl-
tbs.
DIR. w. G.. Ford prominent physi-
clan of Wesson, aged IS, died last
week.
10000 pounds of wool were marketed
at Ocean Springs at 10 Is cents per
pound.
800 teachers of the different State
Normals have applied for State Ii
cenSe.
The Walthall Guards. of Meridian
have rendered their services for the
war in China.
Belzoni, Yazoo county, has been pro
claimed town by reason of increase
of population.
The dead body of an unknown man
with dozen knife wounds, was found
at Poplarville.
Hillman College will entertain Chau-
tauquan visitors on next Tuesday, at
Crystal Springs.
Secretary Webb reports that there
is gratifying increase in railroad val
uations for 1900
Prof. Homer NJ. Knowles, of Saun-
dersville, has been elected principal
of the Summit Public School
The Sam Jones camp meeting begins
on Aug. 3rd near Gloster, on the Iazoo
and Mississippi Valley Railroad.
Prof. Chas. Hillman Brough, of Mis-
sissippi College, is spending the sum
mer with his parents at Ogden, Utah.
Yazoo City's beautiful Methodist
Church is now clear of debt and
thanksgiving services were held last
Sunday.
Charters have been approved fol-
Fayette's Oil Mill and Centreville Cot
ton Oil Company, each capitalized at
$4,000
Frank w. Bowie, circuit clerk OF
Leake county, died last Friday. y
special election will be held to fill the
vacancy.
Mrs. Bacot. wife of Henry Bacot
who was killed by Henry Afford last
fall, died suddenly in McComb last
Thursday.
Frank Morgan, secretary and treas
urer of the Talors' Union at Vicks-
burg, has fled with the funds of the or
ganization.
Rev. Gilbert Dobbs, a son of DR.. C.
f. w. Dobbs, formerly of Columbus
will take charge of Coliseum Place
Church, New Orleans.
G.. A. Thomas, a white convict from
Amite, after serving one of three
years sentence for larceny, was par
doned by the governor.
Samuel James, son of the late Peter
James, the we'll known philanthropist
of Yazoo City, died of kidney trouble
at Atlanta, Ga, last week.
Meridian's brick masons who were
getting $500 per day, struck for one
dollar more and got it; and still brick
layers are in demand in that city.
O. L. Mckay, grand master, and w
S. p. Doty, grand secretary, are on the
annual tour of inspection of the lodges
of the Order of Odd Fellows of thu
State.
A man giving his name as Il. W
Britt, hired a horse and buggy at Wood
vile and all three disappeared to re
turn no more. The livery man is il
mourning
Biloxi has been filled with an idl
and vicious class of loafers who wer
forced to leave Moss Point. Biloxi
city council employed three extra pc
licemen who will help all out of tow
except those willing to work.
Dirt has been broken for Lumber
tons new National Bank building an
its erection will be rapidly pushed
Work will soon be begun, also, on tn
new school building, which like tn
bank, will be of brick and of large pro
portions.
At McNair, heavy rainfall on tn
18th overfowed all creek bottoms: an,
crops not washed off are WASHED dow
and covered with drift and mud. His
tory, as relates to weather conditions
seems to be repeating itself all owe
the State.
The |. G.. will establish gates to al
trains entering and leaving jackson
passenger depot. A train caller ant