The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1901-06-05
MISSISSIPPI NEWS.
A SHORTHAND Chronicle of Cur
rent Happenings.

n SnOrt-Hanu SnTOnicle u Su'
rent Happenings.
Hattiesburg will have $4,000 opera
house.
State Good Roads Convention at
jackson, June 18th.
The county without a railroad can
not compete with one that has.
In the past four NOR tbs Jackson has
collected $3.50 in fines from blind tig-
ers.
Mayor Observation-Disclosures an old
time 4th of July celebration for Jack
son.
Pass Christian has declared nuis-
ance the only automobile within its
limits.
Work is progressing steadily on the
double track between Jackson and
Crystal Strings.
Bishop Galloway will sail on the
10Th for Rio de Janeiro to hold a
MtJuOulSJ SOlleIcuCc'
w. Q. Cole, the aged father of the
State auditor was buried at Lexington
last Tuesday He was SO.
"a manned Confederate soldiers
we're supplied with tickets to Memphis,
by z. T. Hoskins, of Brookhaven.
A lawn party closed the public
school at Biloxi, while barbecue din
ner terminated the one at Fayette.
The G.. & S. |. Railroad Company
have begun work on 1900 foot extern
sion of their pier out into the Gulf
T. j. Howell, the escaped convict
sent up for horse stealing in this coun-
ty, has been returned to the peniten-
tiary.
From $4,000 to $4,000 Mississippians
went to Memphis last week. This at
tendance surpassed the rosiest predic-
tions.
The old soldiers all over the State
are giving Memphis hail Columbia"
on account of the fleeing game play
ed ON the vets.
Mt. Olive has won it's way to the
highest round of estheticism and up-to-
dativeness it has had grand piano,
voice and dramatic art recital.
Col. Chas. E. Hooker delivered the
Grafton upon the occasion of the I'M
yelling of the monument to the Con-
federate dead at Macon on the B.
The Enochs- Hayis Lumber Compa
ny secured the $4,000 contract for
lumber for the Peoples Compress
Company. Competition was sharp.
\ man employed on his farm in
weighed the pretty daughter of Mr..
Goss from her home in Warren
county, The father is searching for
them.
July 18th will be Mississippi day at
the Pan American Exposition at Buff
falo. A great many of the newspaper
men of the State will be there on
that occasion.
The colored normals of the State
will be located at Alderman, Bran
don, Tupelo and Yazoo City on July
9th, and at Brookhaven and Green
willie on July 10Th.
From the top of Jackson's new OPP
era house, which is situated on State
street and is five stories high, can be
seen the historic town of Brandon,
10 miles distant.
Robt. Wright desperate negro con-
vict who knocked his guard down in
Coahoma county and shot him and then
ran off under the Winchesters of two
other guards, is still at large.
The most successful performance
ever given in Yazoo City was the re-
cent Fete Franchise which netted the
U. D. C.'s S34016. The proceeds go
toward the Confederate monument.
Q. j. Minton has filed bill against
the G. & S. l. railroad, claiming 5000
damages for injuries received on
handcar which jumped the track,
caused by defective flanges on the
wheels.
Hon. Chas. +. Buck, of New Orleans,
will deliver the address for Chamber
lain Hunt Academy, at Port Gibson,
June 18th, and Rev. VIM. Hayne Leav-
ell will preach the commencement
sermon.
n. Flanagan, farmer living near
Oakley, is the father of - living chill
dren. He has to rent land, owns none,
and of the Il children still dependent
upon him. only one can assist him in
making crop.
Before the end of another year a
dozen new court houses will be built
in the State of Mississippi. That num-
Der of counties have decided that
the buildings used by the county of
ticials are not up to date.
Mississippi was the first State in the
Union to raise a million bales of cot
ton in year, the first to send negro
to the United State Senate and the first
TO dipense with nego suffrage by con-
stitutional provisions.
For the apparent intention of sell
ing whisky at his place of business
where he kept same, ID. G.. Ferguson
of Utica, was fined $50. The late law
does not require positive evidence to
convict a man for selling whisky.
The Chronicle regrets the fashy re-.
ports that have been sent out from
laurel with regard to the oil siIua.