The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1900-10-10
MISSISSIPPI NEWS.
A SHORTHAND Chronicle of Cur
rent Happenings.

A Shorthand Chronicle of Cur
rent Happenings.
Handsboro has a telephone system.
Mrs. Clark, aged 70, died at vicks
burg.
Col. John Heath, aged 70, died at
Shiloh.
West Points cotton factory is COM
pleted.
Mlllsaps College opened with III
students.
The State treasury now has 100000
cash in hand.
Chicago has an American Women's
Bryan League.
Scott county's new court house at
Forest cost $4,000.
Mrs. Julia Calm Bernhold, aged 26,
died at Port Gibson.
Bargain Days" are considered
success in Mississippi.
The Wesson Enterprise will enlarge
to six-page this week.
Christ Church, of vicksburg, has in
vested in Sock Social.
Covington and Choctaw show de-
crease of their pension lists.
c. H. Williams has been elected pres
ident of the Bank of Yazoo City.
Vicksburg has ordered 5000 tons of
rock for the Kemp bend revetment.
DR.. Murray Quin and Miss Myrtis
Terrell, Of Amite county, we're married
last week.
The Vicksburg Dispatch issued a
good fall edition on the ath, double its
usual size,
In jackson, during September, there
were eight burials in each of her three
cemeteries.
Gov. Longino is improving, after a
very serious and protracted spell of
malarial fever.
Addie Bridges, aged II, died at Ok.
ford from blood poisoning, resulting
from broken arm.
Finlay B. Hewes, a progressive and
prominent young man, has announced
for mayor of Gulfport.
The directors of Jackson's new opera
house will call it the Century Opera
House. 1t will be five stories high.
Maj. VIM. H. Vassar, who was State
treasurer during the reconstruction
period, died at Aberdeen at the age Of
Sc.
The Jewish New Year and accom-
panying days of sacred import, were OBJ
served by the faithful in Israel all ovel
the State.
The Hazlehurst Baptist Church il
publishing paper called The Visitor
in the interest of the church. 1t has
reached its second issue.
Il. B. Carson, the we'll known marble
yard man of Jackson, has filed petit
ton in bankruptcy. The assets and Ii
abilities are both small.
Conductor Dan Mcneil, of Gulfport
who was injured by some heavy tim
bers falling from car upon him, dice
as result of his injuries.
On the recent Merchants Excursion
to New Orleans, there went $50 labor
ers from Copiah county, bound for tn
Louisiana sugar plantations.
On account of few cases of scarle
fever at Summit, the board of health
has advised against opening of thu
public schools until Oct. 18th.
Oyster and shrimp factories have re
sumed operations at Biloxi and ar
giving employment to many who hav
been without work during the entir
summer.
The Columbus Dispatch advocates
the addition of men to the faculty o
the |. |. & G. The resignation of Mis-
Galloway affords an opportunity TO
the change.
In Copiah, hog valued at 81, whel
taken to court by two contestant
over his ownership, ran up to 500
costs of the disgruntling proceeding
over the swine.
|. p. Delmas, the mayor of Scranton
had horse Stung to death by bees
He was left tied to a post, when Who'll
swarm lit on his head and neck, wit
the result stated.
Another important sale Of schoC
lands is about to b. cJnsummateC
22,OOO acres in the coast counties bt
longing to the a. Il Nj. College ar
about to be sold at So per acre.
The total increase of assessment
for the State in round tigures is owe
22,OO0,0O0 ON both the real estate an
personal rolls. The average apprecia
ton of each county is about 100000.
Hazlehurst's handsome new Presby
terrain church will be ready for oocu
pancy by the third Sunday. Rev.
G. Caldwell, the pastor, is to be cor
graduated, as we'll as his congregation
John Bourgeois, merchant of Ba
st. Louis, was drowned in the ba!
Faintness overcame him as he wa
fishing alone in an open boat and h
fell overheard, is the theory of his sud
den taking off.
Albert Auter, aged 30, died at Vicks
burg. He had survived a severe at
tack of yellow fever in 1878 and late
came near deaths door from pneumC
mia. A sudden attack, thought to b