The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1901-05-01
MISSISSIPPI NEWS.
A Short-Hand Chronicle of Cur
rent Happenings.

her own ice.
Henry Gibson, colored, was killed by
the cars at Yazoo City.
There we're three MARI ses in Jack
son last Wednesday.
Gov. Longino will not attend Nicks-
burg's rece ption to the President.
The SIND anniversary of Odd Eel
lowship was celebrated at Jackson last
Thursday.
Pass Christian has new postoffice
situated in the center of town, with all
modern fixtures.
Yazoo City is not hard to please; 1T
wants buggy, wagon, furniture or
mattress factory.
Jacob johnson, colored, convicted
of killing his mistress, was hanged in
Natchez on the oath.
David Holt has severed his connec-
ton with the McComb Snap Shot and
Fred NJ. Tiff succeeds him.
Two negroes quarreled over game
of baseball in jefferson county and
one killed the other with bat.
The Meadville Advocate says DR.. J.
II. Mcdaniel, of Franklin county, Gel
ebrated his S7th birthday on April %.
The State Teachers Association
which meets at jackson Friday will be
banqueted at the Deaf and Dumb In
stitute.
Miss Addie Galloway, of jackson,
and Mr.. NJ. L. Thompson, of Bolton,
eloped to Raymond and were married
on the Goth.
Captain Edgar N. Coffee, of Fay
cite, has returned home to wife and
children after an absence of nearly
two years in the Philippines.
Miss Mollie Drane, of Winona, has
been made maid of honor to represent
the Mississippi Division, U. c. ", at
the Memphis reunion in May.
The State conference of Epworth
Leaguers will be held at Columbus
on June 1921. Bishops Galloway and
Gambler have been invited to speak.
Rev VIM. B. Hines, a we'll known
Methodist divine, died at the age of 30
at Summit at the house of his daugh
ter, Mrs. T. B. Read, last Wednesday.
Laurel has population of 1888
and by gubernatorial proclamation is
now city. The municipal machinery
of city government will soon be in-
stituted
For the second time within four
months, the Barrett Building at Jack
son, has been destroyed by fire. 1t
was occupied as meat market by j.
Ehrman.
In honor of their beloved leader,
who died some months ago, the Kings
Daughters, of Jackson, have named
their circle, the Ida Mitchell Robinson
Memorial.
Jackson merchants will close their
places of business from May LIST to
September LIST at 6 o'clock, allowing
the clerks thirty minutes to straighten
up their stock.
While returning to Mico from Lau-
rel, Levi Johniskin was stabbed to
death in his buggy. The jurors de-
cided that he was killed by an I'M
known assassin.
One of the largest sawmills on the
G.. 4 S. I. r. r., located at Collins, has
been purchased by the Easterling-
May Lumber Co., together with 10000
acres of pine timber.
Miss Ina May Quin, daughter of
Judge H. Murray Quin, of Holmesville,
was married on the oath to c. d. Prof
fit, general manager of the Louisiana
and Arkansas Railroad.
The Mississippi Dental Association
will hold it's annual convention at
YaZoo City, June l4th. The State
board of dental examiners will meet
in Jackson on the 18th Of June.
Rodgers Kern, a stranger who
would tell nothing of his history, nor
allow the attendance of a physician in
his last illness, died at Hattiesburg.
S1O6 was found upon his person.
VIM Bradford, young white man,
was caught between brick wall and a
moving engine at Water Valley on the
oath and fatally injured, his shoulder
and side having been mashed to pulp.
1t is announced that the Baptist
Chautauqua will open at Gulfport on
June 20, with religious meeting of ten
days, to be followed by series of lee
lures to continue through thirty days.
The Mississippi Federation of Wom-
ems Clubs convened at Natchez on the
oath, with Mrs. Daisy Williams
Weems, of Meridian, president, and
Mrs. Josie F. Cappleman, of Okolona,
secretary. There were fifty delegates
present.
The Gilruth cotton warehouse, which
contained AGO bales of cotton, was de-
stroyed by fire in Yazoo City. All
but 10 bales were burned; also, one
car load of corn and 10000 shingles
beside considerable farm machinery
The origin of the fire is a mystery.
At Ellard, Calhoun county, a negro
man attacked a little girl who was alone
in her fathers yard, the men all hav-
ing gone to the field to work. An ell
der sister who was in the house pick
ed up her brothers Winchester and
fired on the negro, who fled. She
thinks he is wounded.
A number of brick layers have