The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1900-08-01


and Utica Volunteers have rendered
their services for duty in China.
\ company with $4,000 capital has
organized at Hattiesburg and will put
in sash, blind and door factory.
Sanders Mcknight, negro, was fined
$3.50 in Franklin county for cutting
cows tongue out and leaving her to
die
The handsomest block of buildings
in Greenville was destroyed by fire.
Loss, $4,000: partly covered by insur-
ance.
Some twenty odd suits for divorce
we're before the Chancery Court in
Hancock county. DEGREES were order
ed in each case.
Editor Richardson, of the Suntiower
Tocsin, has reached the Paris EXPOSE
ton and is writing interesting letters
to his paper.
Meridian is crying for more house
room. The Star says one hundred
houses, newly built, could be rented
within II hours.
Jacksons leading business men have
determined to build an opera house at
a cost of $4,000. $4,000 was sub
scribed on the spot.
Dr. Isham Harrison, aged 30, died at
Lauderdale Springs. \ throat trouble.
thought to be slight, suddenly devel-
oped and strangled him.
Chancellor Adam \. Byrd, of Ne
shoba county. married Miss Mary Giul-
ly, of Meridian. They are spending
their honeymoon in st. Louis.
Bruce Banks, the young son of E. B.
Banks, was drowned at Vicksburg.
Body unrecovered, although liberal
reward was offered by the father
A. NJ. Dahlgren, Biloxi attorney,
was severely injured by Louisville
and Nashville passenger train, and
was taken to the hospital at New Or
leans.
B. H. Hirsch. a Vicksburg boy, was
one of the successful sixty out of IA to-
tai of six hundred applicants who pass
ed the examination that will admit him
to Yale College.
The Vance printing company has
failed at jacksonville, Fla. This was
Mississippis State Printer, and the
contract will have to be re-let, it is
hoped to Mississippi establishment,
this time.
Sheriff Harding, who has been active
in enforcing the law of late, has now
captured seven casks of beer at the
Jackson depot, before it was delivered
to the assignee. Some question of law
may arise therefrom.
The Coahoma county Democratic
executive committee has been called
to meet today to investigate the out
rageous frauds perpetrated in that
county in connection with the State
primary of June DIST.
Mr.. l.. p. Conner, in retiring from
the State committee, takes care to re
mark that there has been no error in
the action of the committee, and that
his resignation is not induced by any
consciousness of mistake.
Jeff Pitts, who has been known as IA
trainer of dogs for Is years, died at
Waverly. He had turned out some of
the most famous hunters in this coun-
try and had a large number of fine an
imals at the time of his death.
The Florence Crittendon Rescue
Home at Meridian, the only institu-
ton of its kind in the State, desires
contributions in money, clothing or
food. The Kings Daughters of Yazoo
are furnishing a room of the Home.
Washington county's school board of
education asks the committee whose
duty it is to select school books not to
change them where the present ones
in use meet all necessary require
ments." This should apply all over
the State
Rev. j. NJ. Shumpert, of Columbus,
has been honored by an invitation to
attend the Ecumenical Conference, at
London, which convenes in September
of next year, and is composed of the
Methodist Church's mo st distinguished
men. Rev. Shumpert is colored
preacher.
The following item from the Jack
son bureau of the Picayune' should be
given careful reading by diceholders
who are prone to look on the wine
when it is red, for it voices the senti
ment of the people: Drunk enn ess in
public office State, county or muui-
cipal should not be tolerated. And
all indications point to the fact that
it will not be-"
Because of the impossibility of Sc
curing negro labor in the State, the IL
linois Central has imported a La zee
number of laborers, who are now Ell
ployed making track improvements o y
the Yazoo and Mississippi Valley
branch. The company has spent large
sums on this division, and at Anding
1t is estimated that the road has cost
100000 per mile.