The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1901-12-11
MISSISSIPPI NEWS.
A SHORTHAND Chronicle of Cur
reut Hapueuiugs.

Joe GalVln WAS hcqulSteu o. NOi"
bus of the murder of Capt. Harris.
Winona is to have mattress factory
to supply both wholesale and retail
trade.
Jackson's First Methodist church
will be enlarged and otherwise i'm
proved.
The BARRIERS of Vicksburg have sign
ed agreements to close their shops on
Sunday.
All Woodmen are requested to send
contributions to the State orphanages
to T. P. Barr, at jackson.
Two illicit stills we're raided fifteen
miles east of Oxford last Thursday and
two men arrested and jailed.
w. A. Singletary, farmer near Gall
man, lost his residence and contents
b retWednesday night.
The Free Press editor says he ate
watermelon with Maj. W. D. Graham
on November 7, at Poplarville.
The remains of Mrs Sofia Kaufman
were shipped from Jackson to McComb,
for interment, last Wednesday.
Capt Geo. A. Bowlin, father of the
Bowlin' Bros, of Columbus, died at the
age of II, last week at Shannon.
II. N. Pillsbury, the famous chess
player of Philadelphia, passed through
Jackson, bound northward last week.
Osyka has laid the corner stone of
large glass front brick store house-the
first to be built in the burnt district.
During November, contributions to
the Palmer Orphanage, amounted to
500. Mr.. Caldwell has resigned the
superintendency.
The jackson Merchants Association
has received proposition from Mr.. j.
S. Shaw, of Bloomington, Ill, to estab-
lish Chautauqua season in that city.
The Tougaloo University, the noted
colored school, has some two hundred
boarders in attendance, and it is an
nounced that more are coming in con-
stantly.
The thirty-second session of the
North Mississippi conference convened
at Winona last Thursday, and adjourn
ed Monday, to meet next year at
Tupelo.
Miss Emmie M. Prentiss, daughter
of the lamented gifted orator. S. S.
Prentiss, died in New Orleans and was
buried beside her father, at NatcheZ,
on the 4th.
Mr.. P. F. Dodds died November 20,
at his home in Hamburg. He vas 40
years of age and his last illness was
brief. He leaves his wife and one son
well provided for.
Large orders for cotton seed meal
and bulls are being received from
Illinois by north Mississippi mills.
One mill alone received an order for
thirty -two carloads.
The Yazoo Herald says that the
steamboat men are having great diff
Guilty in securing labor to unload their
boats, notwithstanding rousters are
being paid .s45 a month.
The work on the double track be-
tween McComb City and Jackson is
progressing rapidly. 1t is now given
out that the G. & s. l. will put in a
double track at once.
w. A. G. Bullock, we'll known trav-
cling man, with headquarters at Me-
ridian, and Mrs. M. G. Holmes, of Jack
son, were married last Wednesday in
the latter city by Rev. W. P. Price.
The result of McComb's municipal
election last week is as follows: Mayor,
0. B. Quinn; Police Justice, j. B.
Webb; Selectmen, VIM. Wallace, w. r.
Harvey, J. D. Adcock and George VOL
brecht.
Franklin county's board of supervi-
sors will have to order special cleo
ton to settle the stock law matter.
The petitions filed were short of the
necessary twot thirds, which would de-
clare the district within the stock law.
An illustrated edition of the Poplar
vile Free Press was issued on the 28th
and 5000 copies were distributed
throughout the country. The paper
was credit to the town and to its edi-
tor and associate, Mr.. and Mrs. J. r.
Oliphant.
After drinking heavily with compan-
ions, w. G. Bevins, a machinist, was run
over and killed by an L. & N. passen-
ger train at Ocean Springs. His re-
mains were buried by the town author
tiles, expenses being paid by his two
companions.
"With charity hospital" says the
Dixie Press, "it would take a very
small additional appropriation to es-
tablish medical college, and it would
mean the annual retaining of about
100000 that goes out of old Mississippi
for the education of its aspiring young
physicians"
The Quaker evangelist, Rev. David
Tatum, gave his sermon on How to
Save the Boys" at Columbus last
Thursday. The Reverend gentlemen
comes to the State bearing high testi-
monials. He is quaint in the use of
"thee" and "thou," the distinctive
terms of the Quakers.
John T. Terry, one of the most prom
inent planters of Lefiore, died at
Greenwood on the 4th. He was
grandson Of Eli Waites, one of the