The leader., 1901-04-24
MISSISSIPPI NEWS.

| MISSISSIPPI NEWS.
A Shorthand Chronicle of Cur
rent Happenings.
Summit has skating rink.
Montgomery county now wants a
new court house.
A little boy in Vicksb urg died from
eating wild violets.
James II. Bozeman died of paralysis
at Durant, aged 81.
The anticipated frost failed to ar
rive last Friday night.
The ladies of Hazlehurst will have
Rose Exhibit next Friday.
Starkville is to have cotton factory
with capital stock Of $4,000.
Miss Adine Terrell and Francis Dick
inson Lee were married yesterday at
jackson.
The salaries of three clerks in the
Jackson post Office have increased
800 each.
R. T. Lambeth, wealthy planter OF
Yazoo county, died last week at the
age Of So.
A Mississippi Poultry and Pet Stock
Association has been organized at
Aberdeen.
The observance of April 26, as Dec
grafton day, will be quite general in
the State.
Miss Effizia Piazza and Louis Cas-
telli we're married at Hotel Piazza in
Vicksburg.
John M. Euochs and Ivan E. Bass,
of this State, will graduate from West
Point, June 7.
A robber took three rings from the
hand of young lady at Winona, while
she was asleep.
The Hattiesburg Citizen has changed
to a weekly. 1t has heretofore been
issued twice week.
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was welded last Thursday to Miss Lu-
cy Paxton, of Vicksburg.
Kosciusko has curfew law prohib-
iting boys under ID from being on the
streets after o'clock at night.
Brewton & Young, of Sardis, have
assigned for benefit Of their creditors
the largest of whom are home people.
The American Construction Compa-
ny, of Vicksburg, has made contract
to put in delinting cotton seed plant
at Centreville.
Elan T. Robertson, of Summit, and
Miss Cecile Reynolds, of New Orleans,
were married on the 18th, by Father
Lennon, of McComb.
At Vicksburg, while repairing the
shed of tow-boat, the support gave
way from under them and two negroes
negroes were drowned.
Bishop Galloway last week delivered
by invitation, an address to the Ala
bama Y. M. c. A., in convention as
sembled at Birmingham.
w. M. johnson, of Bear Greek, was
arrested in Wesson for selling blind
tiger whisky and was fined s25 and
costs. He paid up and left town.
Oliver Cade, gentleman we'll
known in Jackson, has gained wealth
in the Beaumont oil country. 1900
acres land of he owned brought $1,000
per acre.
Roy holland Gately, of Wesson, was
killed in the boiler explosion in one Of
the mills at Mt. Olive. He was buried
at Wesson. He leaves wife and two
little ones.
The Greenwood Enterprise publish
es the following: "Wanted-The &C.
quaintance of a middie-a aged lady or
widow. Object, matrimony. Address,
A. T. Miller, Greenwood, Miss.
A. j. Blailock died of hydrophohia
at Carthage. He had been bitten by
a dog 40 years ago. The symptoms
are said to be Enthusiastically, those Of
the direful malady mentioned.
August Griffin, young man from
near Raymond, shot himself through
the temple with A Smith & Wesson
revolver on the 18th. He had been ill
quite long time with scarlet fever.
Coma ,,pLnoun ,,,;oorao NJ otfar,nto1
to burn out r. Geddie 4 Sons, of Lau-
rel, on the 10th. The fire was dicov-
cred and squelched. This is the Sec
ond attempt made to burn buildings
at Laurel recently.
A mule belonging to Capt. ]. H.
Owen, postmaster at Forest, died an
awful death from hydrophobia. Those
who witnessed the death struggles Of
the animal were almost paralyzed with
fear and apprehension.
What resulted in a big fire at Nc
Comb began in a small frame building
fronting the depot and spread through
several similar structures until it
reached and destroyed Robinson slarge
livery stable and the magnificent Elks'
Home. All horses and vehicles were
saved, as were also the furnishings of
the Elks' Home. The latter was in
sured for 5000. An inferior quality
of hose pipe greatly handicapped all
effort at extinguishing the flames.
/ The Mississippi Park Commission
readily located the positions occupied