The leader., 1901-01-02
MISSISSIPPI NEWS.
A Short-Hand Chronicle of Cur
rent Happenings.

1aZ0o City mas large anu uP''
date new brick factory.
Judge T. A. Woods has purchased
six business lots at Gulfport.
Sol. Cohn, a cotton buyer of Green
vile, died suddenly last Friday night.
The Courier says Hazlehuist had
minimum of DRINKS during the hol-
idays.
&c. Morgan. Of Woodville, died of
pneumonia while on a Christmas visit
to Clinton. La.
Four cases of insanity were reported
to the Times Democrat from Hattles-
burg last Saturday.
Rev. II. B. Trevillion, Methodist
minister, died at Columbia, after
months of i'll health.
Vicksburg is growing apprehensive
over the probable spread of both scar
let fever and smallpox.
T. J. Peatross, formerly of Jackson,
and Miss LaDgford, of Nicksbnrg,
we're married on the Goth.
Excavations for the laying OF the
foundation to Jackson's new opera
house are Is feet in depth.
All of the Mississippi railroads re-
port an unusually heavy passenger
traffic during the Christmas holidays.
Miss Agatha Dabney and Mr.. Will
liam Byron Lockwood, of Crystal
Springs, were married on Thursday
last.
Miss Norma Fawcett, daughter of
Rev. DR.. A. J. Fawcett, of HaZlehurst,
was married last week to Walter l..
Covington, of the Bank of Hazlehurst.
w. B. Hendricks. a we'll known horse
man, aged 70, was found dead i'll the
Carter House at NatcheZ. He was a
victim of heart disease.
Prof. HALEY and his Dixie Quar-
tette," of Mississippi College, gave an
entertainment in the opera house OF
Hazlehurst last Tuesday.
The Enterprise, of McComb City,
issued four pages last week instead of
the usual eight. In ten years the edl-
tor says he has never missed an issue.
The Enterprise says Marshal Lee
dragged" tramps at McComb. They
are nuisance about the freight yards
and loaded cars in that city.
The Lexington Advertiser looked
festive last week in kind of pink
holiday dress attire. 1t contained gen
erous ads and much good reading
matter.
Sidney Whitehead, aged 16, was
killed by falling tree, at Water Val
lev he had cut to catch a coon. His
back was broken and he died in a few
moments.
The Bank of Biloxi declared semi
annual dividend of 10 per cent, pay
able to the stockholders on the lst,
and 5000 carried to the surplus fund.
A fine showing.
Steve Burton, a we'll known citizen of
Greenville, was stabbed by Mexican
riously wounding him in the head,
shoulder and hand.
DIR. c. McNair, of Fayette, and Miss
Anna Abbott, of Natchez, were mar
ried on the 10Th. This wedding united
two of the oldest families of Adams
and Jefferson counties.
Addison Harvey, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Geo Harvey, of Canton, let fall pis-
toll, in the presence of his parents, who
were Mortified at his death from the
explosion few moments later
Rev. DIR. j. E. Martin, we'll known
Episcopal clergyman, died suddenly at
Clarksdale, where he was visiting
his son. During the war he was chap
lain in the Stonewall Brigade.
The Merchants Association. of Jack
son, will file petitions for rural free
delivery. Congressman Henry has
promised to cooperate with the Asso-
citation in securing these routes.
January 1st was observed as enamel
patton day by our brothers in black.
They were requested to meet in
churches, schoolrooms, or halls to Gel
brate the 3Sth anniversary of Pres.
Lincoln's emancipation proclamation
''Private" John Allen says he will
probably build home at Coden. Ala.
that he will not enter the lecture
platform and that he is also out of pol
tiles. II am going to be gentleman
said Mr.. Allen, with smile.
In the police court at jackson, Wal
ter Collins was fined $50 and given %
days in Jail for breaking into box car
of the l. c. road, and two colored
youths were fined Sc aud costs for
stealing pair of shoes from a store
Governor Longino has incorporated
a new railroad to run from Meridian
to Decatur, Ala, distance of Ii
miles. The proclamation names l.. A
Ragland, of New York, and Messrs
w. w. George and W. S. Harris, OF
Meridian, as the incorporat ors.
Upon Kinds cCuity's ciIcuit court
which will convene the first Monday
in January, viii dev,Nc the fed NJ o
an indictment against Glib on, tie |
diana contractor, who S II w un Ter It
\ $1,000 md for bribery. 1t j. MT prob
able tn 1t thu case will b. trie ut hi
term of the court, tn docHe: hcinl
full.
Some people don't like their own
medicine. Because Governor Longin0
criticized the .laWlesSness of the State