The leader., 1901-12-04
MISSISSIPPI NEWS.
A SHORTHAND Chronicle of Cur
rent Happeuings.

Jackson's cotton receipts have dou-
bled since last year. .
The good roads executive committee
meets in Jackson today.
Tulane defeated Mississippi on the
2Sth by score of IS to IL.
The Courier says Hazlehurst badly
needs first-class restaurant.
The Kings Daughters have taken up
the fight for State reformatory.
Edward P. Elliott appeared at Lum-
berton in David Harum last night.
Jackson defeated Meridian's football
team on Thanksgiving Day by to 0.
Sidney Davis, the 5-yearold son of
Mr.. and Mrs. c. G. Coffey, of Fayette,
died last Wednesday.
H.F. Tillman and Miss Charlie Sui
Ivan we're married at Gallman last
week, by Rev. J. L. Low.
Hon. Frank A. McLain left for
Washington last Thursday to be pres
rnt at the opening of Congress.
The ladies of the Presbyterian
church of Yazoo City held handker-
chief bazaar on Thanksgiving Day.
Mrs. Thos. j. Tatum died at Jackson
last Thursday, after brief illness,
leaving a husband and five little chill
dren.
Among Laurel's acquisitions of late
are certain counterfeit silver dollars
that are very similar to the genuine
coin.
Edgar S. Wilson says, "Mississip
plans should fill the places and draw
the salaries in the cotton mills being
built"
Convicts on the penitentiary farms
we're given a holiday in observance of
Thanksgiving Day, and an unusually
good dinner.
West Point has received 1000 steers
from Texas, to be fed during the win
ter and gotten in condition to go on
the market next spring.
At Biloxi it has been impossible to
fill all orders for oysters during the
past two weeks. Orders for the Christ
mas holidays are now pouring in.
Double daily train service went into
effect on the Y. & NJ. V. railroad last
Sabbath, Twenty four passenger trains
now stop at Jackson's union depot
daily.
N. F. Scales, son of wealthy Lown-
des county planter, was arrested for
stealing at Vanderbilt University. His
friends believe his mind was unbal-
anced.
The annual reunion of the Lamar
Rifles was held at Oxford on the 18th.
The negro who cooked for the company
during the war, aided in serving the
banquet.
At Chamberlain-Hunt Academy,
Louis Bauer accidently shot and killed
his room mate, Hone Dubroca last
Thursday. Both were from Port
Allen, La.
Miss Marie Taylor, the leading lady
in the Guilty Mother" company, is
the daughter of Governor "Bob" Tay
lor, of Tennessee. The rlay was given
in Jackson last Thursday night.
Vardeman vehemently criticised the
"Side Tracked" company which played
at Greenwood last week and the Clar
ion-Ledger roasts "a Night and A
Day. which appeared in jackson.
The next State election in Missis-
sippi will take place in November,
1903. At that election, state, county
and district officers, as we'll as legis
lature and ten prosecuting attorneys
will be elected.
The regular session of Hamasa Tenn
pie, Mystic Shrine, was held in Merid-
ian last Thursday night. There we're
fifty-one novices carried over the burn
ing sands. The shrine parade was
gorgeous and imposing
In attempting to arrest a negro, Gus
Bush, by name, on Thanksgiving day,
Ernest Dismukes, of Artesia, was shot
and killed at Brooksville. Having
killed Dismukes, the negro covered his
companion with his gun and escaped.
At it's recent meeting in Natchez, the
Synod of Mississippi adopted Cham
berlain- Hunt Academy as the Synodi-
cal college for boys and appointed
nine provisional trustees to transfer it
from the Mississippi Presbytery to the
Synod.
Mrs. Conerly, of Magnolia, gave
room to a man last Wednesday, who
said he was engaged at Vaughn's plan
ing mill, and wanted board. When his
room mate returned in the evening he
found the stranger gone and his trunk
rified of everything valuable in it.
On the 28th the contractors turned
over to the Illinois Central the first
section of the double track from Jack
son to Crystal Springs. The section
extends to Byram and was at once put
in use to relieve the congested freight
situation at the Capital. The whole
distance named is expected to be COM
pleted by January /.
A large number of friends assembled
at McColgan's Hotel in McConb last
Thursday and presented to Mr.. and
Mrs. R. Fl. Dryer magnificent silver
service, consisting of 1873 pieces. DR..
o. B. Quin made the presentation
speech, which was appropriately re-
sponded to by Mrs. Dwyer. Hon. d. G.
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