The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1901-03-27
MISSISSIPPI NEWS.
A Shorthand Chronicle of Cur
rent Happenings.

rent happenings
Robert Bradley, aged 81, died at
Ellisville on the Goth.
Blue Mountain College has just is
sued its first magazine.
The Laurel Brick " Tile Company
has capital stock of $4,000.
Summit had 1.-THE heaviest fall of
hail and the largest stones for years, ;"
last Tuesday.
Safe blowers secured several hun
bred dollars from two business houses
at Heidelburg.
One fourth of the Blind Institute
pupils at Jackson were down with la
grippe last week.
DR.. Hanchett, of Brooklyn, New
York, celebrated pianist, is giving
recitals in the State.
For brutally beating his child, Tom
Greaves was fined Sc and costs in the
Mayors court at jackson.
The j. A. Favre Lumber Company,
at Pennington, is capitalized at $780,
900 with the privilege of increasing it
to 100000.
Virgins, Harrison county, looms up
with timber and logging concern,
capitalized at $4,000. Kennedy X
| Co. is the firm name.
The Gulf d Ship Island railroad is
rapidly developing the turpentine in
dustry. Extensive shipments have
been made North over that line.
kosciusko is to have valuable i'm
provements made on her depot,
and Longview, on the Canton, Aber-
deem and Nashville road will have a
new station house.
Judge \. G. Norrell, of Rankin
county, who has been making his
home in Utah for twelve or fifteen
years, has returned to his native State
on account of i'll health.
The State Teachers Association,
which will convene at jackson. May 2,
3, and 4, will, probably, be attended by
500 teachers, who will be entertained
by the people of jackson.
An old-fashioned woman, resident
in Clay county, says she still wears the
old Stat sunbonnet: has platter that
she has used 81 years and a dish pan
that has been in constant use 81 years
Bolivar county will utilize about
$4,000 of the amount which it re-
ceived for back taxes from the Yazoo
a Mississippi Valley in the construc-
ton of the new courthouse at Cleve-
land.
j. II. Moore, president of the Ma
tional Good Roads Association, is
working up an interest in this State
and expects to hold a Good Roads
Convention, the latter part of April, at
Jackson.
The Columbus papers announce
that the city is now free of smallpox.
Out of total of 100 cases, p died.
The whites who had the disease rep
resented only third of the number
afflicted
| During the period embraced between
Nov II and Feb. ID, there was total
of 2O66 smallpox cases reported 10y the
county health officers of the State.
OF these, 4o6 died. During this period
there were, also, 1876 cases of scarlet
fever and 81 deaths.
Prof. Charles L. Wood, a young
school teacher of West Point, has
been appointed surveyor by the gov
eminent. He will be at the head of a
party whose duty it is to make maps
and surveys of new towns. He has
left for Indian Territory.
Mrs. S. A. Carver, of Flora, has en-
tered suit against the city of Jackson
for $4,000 damages. In attempting to
cross sewerage ditch, the plank
which was laid for passers by broke
with the inevitable result. The lady
claims it was ''unsnfe and rotten"
The benson Manufacturing Compa-
ny, of Laurel, has IA capital stock of
Sl50,000. 1t is to engage ia the manu-.
facture and sale of turpeutiue and
rosin and is considered the most i'm
portant corporation that has been
chartered for this purpose in that
section.
Mrs. Christian Schwartz, a wealthy
widow of Natchez, has announced her
intention of donating a $4,000 house
and lot to the Fisk Library Associa-
ton of Natchez, and a $4,000 endow-
ment, provided the association will
raise $4,000. Five thousand dollars of
this sum is now on hand.
In disinterring the bodies of Federal
soldiers at the jackson cemetery to be
transferred to the National Cemetery
st Vlcksburg, grewsome mistake
was made. 1t is charged that the
bodies of eight negroes were removed
instead of the heroes of war. The
sexton, Fitzpatrick, has charged Capt
Shea, the manager of the National
with drunkenness as the cause of the
blunder
A negro was lynched at Terry last
Wednesday, for having broken into
young lady's room with criminal in
tent He escaped to Byram, seven
miles distant, but was captured.
brought back to the scene of his crime
and hung. As usual, "the mob was
very quiet and orderly"-so is their
victim, Jody Bell. Holliugsworth, ad-
judged an accomplic e, was shot to