The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1900-11-14
MISSISSIPPI NEWS.
A sbort-Haud Chronicle of Cur
rent Happenings.

kansas.
Col J.. NJ. Stigler died at Lexington
aged 60.
The Shriners will hold forth in Me-
ridian on the 22nd.
Friday night, killing frosts aud bit
ing breezes prevailed.
A business and telegraph college Is
to be organized at Oxford.
Collins is up to date with busl-
ness League, just organized.
Williamsburg has ordered the issu-
ance of $500 of school bonds.
DIR. J c. Hough, the optican, will
make Crystal Springs his home.
Editor Josiah Allen, Of the Eupora
Progress, has sold out to W. y. Darden.
The next delegation to Congress
from this State will be wholly Demo
cratic.
Coffeevilles first bank has been or
gained, with paid up capital OF
$4,000.
A merchants excursion will be run
from Meridian to New Orleans,
Dec. u.
The Meadville Advocate urges the
adoption of stock law for Franklin
county.
Oapt. p. X. Mayors has resigned as a
member of the Mississippi Historical
Commission.
Sebe Smith, of Lauderdale county,
has been given life sentence for kill
ing his own son.
Miss Pearl Bennett, of Crystal
Springs, and Mr. James Morgan Will
be married Nov. 81.
ID. f. Burns, of Hattiesburg, has
been appointed trainmaster OF the
G. & S. |. railroad.
jackson is to have a 100000 acid
phosphate fertilizer factory. 1t will
employ lOO laborers.
DIR. Jesse Il. Jones' formerly of Co
piah county, has established Healing
Institute at jackson.
Van B. Boddie will succeed Judge
Larkin as one of the representatives
of Washington county.
Capt. and Mrs. John S. Lamkin en-
tertained the Ladies' Cemetery Associ
alton, at dinner, in Magnolia.
Another handsome Greenville resi-
dence, the property of Dr.. Holland
has been destroyed by fire. Loss
$4,000.
j. T. Butler, of Franklin county
died from an overdose of chloroform
in New Orleans. He leaves a wife ant
four children.
The Terry Headlight says r. l.
Cranberry presented the editor will
two sweet potatoes, which together
weighed 15l pounds.
The |. c. will this year give so t.
the section foreman having tn
neatest section on the line from Chi
cago to New Orleans.
John Burns, prominent planter, o
Water Valley, was shot by a negro
causing the subsequent amputatlon o
a leg The negro escaped.
Mississippi stands second anon
the States of the union in the enrol
ment of children in the public school:
the highest percentage being made b
Tennessee.
Enoch's Lumber Yard, at Natche1
went through the flames on the 9tl
Loss, between $4,000 and $4,000. |
is supposed to be the work of a.
incendiary.
While the family of Mrs. Jennie Til
son, living near Shangelo, Smith coun
ty, were attending church, their res
dence and contents were burned wit
$500 cash money.
Mrs. Geo. Govan and daughter, {
McComb, have returned from pro
tracted visit to Colorado. Mrs. G.
health was greatly improved by tn
change of climate.
Near Coahoma, Lit Nations, coloreC
shot and killed j. L. Holcombe, whit
Nations was arrested; but his bod
was found swinging to the limb OF
tree next morning.
Biloxi has suffered an awful deva
tation by fire. The property loss is e.
timated as high as $4,000; the insu
ance agents estimating the same ;
S345,000 with insurance aggregatir
$4,000.
Daniel James, of Yazoo, who presen
ed $1,000 telescope to Millsaps &c
lege, will build an observatory upc
the Campus, to be known as the Pet'
james Observatory, in memory
his father.
Upon one and one quarter acres
land A. H. Smith, of Free Run, IaZo
county, produced 400 gallons of mi
lasses. At fifty cents per gallon, II
sale of it netted $40. Long sweeteI
ing beats short cotton, here.
The First Baptist church, of Jacl
son, entertained the B. Y. p. U. del
gates as they passed through on the
way home from the convention
Clinton. Most of the Young peop
were bald and gray.
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