The leader., 1901-12-18
MISSISSIPPI NEWS.
A Shorthand Chronicle of Cur.
rent HappeuiuCS.

rent Happenings.
Miss Bessie Owen, of Canton, and
W. r. McBroom we're married yester-
day.
Baptist ladies realized $3.50 from a
bazaar of fancy articles at Yazoo City
last week.
Mrs. Margaret Kausler and Thomas
Hall, of Jackson, we're married last
Wednesday.
Yazoo City paid $1,000 for one 1000
feet of the best hose made for their
fire department.
Sheriff F. C. Wilson lost his hand
some residence by fire in Yazoo City.
Insurance was s3,4O0.
The Vicksburg American vigorously
denounces the imputation that it IA
vors Senator Sullivan.
J. F. Robinson, a highly esteemed
and we'll known gentleman of Brandon,
was buried there last Tuesday.
The funeral of the late Rev. }. w.
Bradford, who was killed at Brookside,
Ala, took place at Meridian on the
18th.
At the age of SO, James W. Hanna, a
citizen Of Scott county, died at Hat
tiesburg. He had been an invalid for
twenty years.
The West Point Leader has COM
pleted its twentieth year, under the
management of Editor Carlisle. 1t
deserves the warmest support of its
town and county.
From Auditor Coles report, it is
learned that the banks of the State
have multiplied from 107 to III and
there has been wonderful business
growth during the past year.
w. L. Sproles, the only full brother
of DR.. H. F. Sproles, of Vicksburg,
died at Atkins, Ark, December l. He
left wife and nine children, only one
of whom is a boy. Mr.. Sproles was
SO years of age.
Pm. Dooley, one of the oldest and
most prominent citizens of Lafayette
county, was found dead in bed on the
morning of the 11th. He had been a
resident of the county for 56 years and
was prominent in politics.
Vicksburg is losing patience with its
waterworks. The plant broke down
one day last week and there were no
street cars all day and no electric
lights at night. 1t is owned and oper-
ated by a private corporation.
The chapters of the United Daugh-
tiers of the Confederacy over the State
are holding meetings and presenting
petitions to Governor Longino to re,
quest the Legislature to appropriate
sum of money toward a Veterans
Home.
On Sunday morning the lime storage
house on the new State capitol
grounds burned with its contents
There were about 200 barrels of lime
stored away there, which became ig
nited by some means. The total loss
is about $780,
The governor has approved the
charter of the Citizen Publishing Com
pany, of Hattiesburg; capital stock
$1,000. The incorporators are B. G
Hemphill, w. W. Massengale, G. V
Rich and others. The object of thu
corporation is to print daily pape
at Hattiesburg.
Rilla Countryman, little twelve
year old girl of jackson, was accidentl.
shot and killed by her father las
Wednesday. Mr.. Countryman, who
section foreman of the A. & V. road
was cleaning his pistol, when, in SOM
way unaccountable, it went off ant
pierced his little daughters brain
She died in one hour.
The killing of Rev. ]. w. Bradford
at Brookside, Ala, by Justice of tn
Peace who had 'oeen expelled from hi
Church, is regretfully noted. Mr.. Brad
ford was a son of Rev. ID. P. Bradford
who has been serving the pastorate a
Meridian for several years and who
well-known in the State.
After serving Greenville as its Mayo
for ten years, Hon. VIM. Yerger was de
feated Monday by Hon. Walton Shields
ex District Attorney and ex-captain il
the Spanish American war. Shields
vote was 253, while Yerger's was %:
Three councilmen ere elected; two Of
the Yerger, one on the Shields ticket
A rope max ing ma chine with ca
pacity of 1000 pounds of rope per da!
is one of the recent additions to tn
Laurel Cotton Mills. Sixteen car load
of looms have been ordered and thes
will be insta lied and put into opera
ton as soon as they arrive. The mill
are now operating 10000 spindles an
800 looms. With the new machiner!
the capacity of the mills will b
doubled.
VIII La ,ier, the noted Monro
county mu rderer, under sentence c
death and brought back few week
ago from Georgia, has again escape(
The oscar was effected by sawin
throuf ID five steel bars in the top @
his ell, making a hole about a foo
squaI e, ant, then digging thr ough