The leader., 1900-06-13
MISSISSIPPI NEW ;.
\ Short-Hand Chronicle of CUR
rent Happenings.

The Wesson Signal is for sale.
Lumberton will have a brick school
building.
jackson is now practic.'Iy free OF
small -pox.
The whole State seems % have gone
wet" again.
The \. & V. will erect a brick depot
at Forest, costing 5000.
4 planter wants 800 turkeys to eat
up the grasshoppers in the Delta.
Bishop Hugh Miller Thompson cele-
brated his list birthday last week.
Col. o. A. Luckett, deceased, was
member of Canton's bar for fifty years.
Yazoo County has adopted the con
tract plan of working the public roads.
Lawrence County lost much of her
oat crop on account of continuous
rains.
Miss Grace Augusta Cox, of Column
bus, is State organizer of youths, for
the W. c. T. L.
Miss Laura Archer and Mr.. Court
ney Cabell, of Clinton, ran away from
home and married.
Married women are debarred the
privilege of teaching in the public
school of Vicksburg.
\ stubborn mill strike is on at Moss
Point. Three weeks have elapsed, and
no change in the situation.
The Laurel Chronicle is kept busy
printing charters of the new indus
tries organized in the town.
Prof. f. L. Bailey, of Millsaps Col
lege, has been elected superintendent
of the Jackson city schools.
West Points ice factory was demol-
ished by the boiler exploding. The
fireman was fatally injured
Bolivar county has let the contract
for building her new court house and
Jail to Messrs F. B. and w. S. Hull, of
Jackson.
Lieut.. Gen. Stephen d. Lee was made
commander of the Trans Mississippi
Department of Veterans, at the late
re union in Louisville.
Miss Maggie Webb, an accomplished
graduate of Hillman College, has been
elected to the chair of music in the
Magnolia public school.
y wealthy planter, Mr.. Drury Dob
bins, of Neshoba County, was crushed
to death by a falling tree. He leaves a
wife and eleven children.
/ Mrs. Ada Delee, of McComb, who
keeps a boarding house. shot and kill
ed Jack McCarty at that place. Mys-
terry envelopes the affair
\ committee has been appointed to
consider the ACCESSIBILITY of establish
ing a medical school in connection
with the State University.
The Masons of Laurel expect to
entertain 1000 people at the celebra-
ton of st. Johns Day, June 23rd. Col.
J. L. Power will be present.
Upon Hon. c. II. Alexander, of
jackson, was conferred the degree of
doctor of laws by the Board of Trus-
tees of the State University.
The Board Of Supervisors of Perry
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of $4,000 of per cent bonds for the
purpose of building county bridges,
The meeting of the Mississippi Press
Association has been postponed one
week The Western eXcursionists will
take leave on the Dist instead of the
! 18th.
Mrs. Augustine PIERRE, of Bay St.
Louis, while burning trash in her yard,
caught fire and died few hours later.
She had resided in Bay St Louis over
% years.
The Fraternal Echo" now reverber-
atcs from Meridian: perhaps i'll re
Spouse to the dying wall of its pred
ecessors. May it enjoy long life and
prosper.
The Board of Trustees of the State
! University have established a depart
ment of civil and electrical engineer
ing and provided for the purchase OF
necessary apparatus.
Mr. W. f. Clark, while lying in bed
at his home in Oxford, was struck by
| lightning, a mirror and furniture be
ing shattered near by. 1t is thought
Mr. Clark will recover.
Judge Joseph Carthell, general sec
rotary of the Alabama Sunday School
Association, will spend the next two
months in the interest of Sunda!
School work in this State.
w. b. Cameron, Major General com
handing the Mississippi division o
Confederate Veterans, has announced
as a candidate for delegate from The
State-at Large to International conven
ton.
The men charged with lynching 4
negro, were discharged on account OF
lack of evidence to find a BILL sale
Antics grand jury. Which is an
other way of saying lynching leads t.
perjury.
Many of the teachers who were ap
pointed to conduct normals have re
signed, rather than give up agencle
] for. cnrtain hook concerns. Prof II